Establishment of BUSM and Affiliated Hospitals on the Medical Campus

1848 New England Female Medical College founded

1855 Mass. Homeopathic Hospital founded (1918 Mass. Memorial Hosp.; 1965 University Hosp.)

1866 Boston City Hospital founded

1873 NEFMC merges with BU to become Boston University School of Medicine

New England Female Medical College Becomes BUSM

1873 Group of 7 MD’s led by Israel Tisdale Talbot expulsed from Mass. Med. Soc. for practicing homeopathy

1873 Talbot negotiates transfer of NEFMC to Boston University

1873 Talbot appointed Dean, BUSM (tenure 1873-1897)

1886 BUSM students allowed to train at BCH under supervision of “regular” physicians

1918 BUSM drops association with homeopathy

1930 BU Medical Service is established at BCH

Robert Dawson Evans

The Bequest of Maria Antoinette Evans

1910 Original gift to fund first building (opened 3/6/1912)

1912 $60,000 for endowment

1913 $100,00 added to endowment

1918 Securities of unspecified value added

on Mrs. Evans’ death

Mrs. Evans’ Vision Regarding her Bequests

• The Evans Department of Clinical Research should combine clinical research, research training, and public education

• Clinical research, clinical care, and teaching should be closely interrelated

• Hospital beds for patient care should be directed by researchers

• Laboratories should be restricted to research activities

Directors of the Evans Memorial

Frank C. Richardson 1912 - 1919

Henry M. Pollock 1918 - 1930

Allan Rowe 1930 - 1934

Reginald Fitz 1934 - 1939

Chester S. Keefer 1939 - 1961

Robert W. Wilkins 1962 - 1972

Norman G. Levinsky 1972 - 1997

Joseph Loscalzo 1997 - 2005

Thomas Moore (ad interim) 2005 - 2006

David Coleman 2006 - present

Chester Keefer, M.D.

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Dr. Chester Keefer’s Core Faculty

Robert Wilkins, M.D. – Hypertension/Cardiology

Franz Ingelfinger, M.D. – Gastrointestinal Diseases

Charles Burnett, M.D. – Metabolic Diseases

Francis Lowell, M.D. – Pulmonary Diseases

Louis Weinstein, M.D. – Infectious Diseases

Joseph Ross, M.D. – Radioisotopes

Arnold Relman, M.D. – Renal Diseases

Charles Emerson, M.D. – Hematology

Hollander W, Wilkins RW. Chlorothiazide: a new type of drug for the treatment of arterial hypertension. Boston Medical Quarterly 1957; 8(3):69-75.

Wilkins RW, Hollander W, Chobanian AV. Chlorothiazide in hypertension. Studies on its mode of action. Annals NY Acad Sci 1958;71:473.

Freis ED, Wilson, IM. Potentiating effect of chlorothiazide (Diuril) in combination with antihypertensive agents. Preliminary report. Med Assoc District of Columbia 1957;26:468.

Freis ED. Chlorothiazide in hypertensive and normotensive patients. Ann NY Acad Sci 1958;71:450.

Selected Faculty Appointments during

the Wilkins Tenure

Norman G. Levinsky, M.D. Edward A. Alexander, M.D.

Jay D. Coffman, M.D. Edgar M. Cathcart, M.D.

Alan S. Cohen, M.D. Sidney Cooperband, M.D.

Thomas R. Dawber, M.D. Robert Levin, M.D.

Robert Donaldson, M.D. Roger Lester, M.D.

Jacob Lemman, Jr., M.D. Judith Vaitukaitis, M.D.

James Melby, M.D. Leah Lowenstein, M.D.

Thomas Ryan, M.D. Donald Small, M.D.

Gordon Snider, M.D. Louis Sullivan, M.D.

Herbert Teager, M.D. Aram V. Chobanian, M.D.

Special Article

Annual Discourse – The Boston City Hospital: A Tale of Three “Cities”

Ephraim Friedman, M.D.

New England Journal of Medicine 1973; 289:503-506

Boston VA and BU Medical Service

• Affiliation of VA with BUSM, HMS and TUSM in 1952

• Merger of VA facilities in 1998 to create Boston VA Health Care System.

• The VA is a key institution for the education of BUSM medical students and residents and helps support more than 100 BUSM faculty.

• Major BUSM research programs exist currently at the VA

Payor Mix for Boston Medical Center (1996 projected)

Payment Sources BCH BUMCH New BMC

Medicare 15% 44% 29%

Medicaid 27% 8% 18%

BC/BS 2% 13% 7%

HMO 9% 16% 12%

Other commercial 4% 9% 7%

Self-pay and others 43% 8% 27%

Growth of Faculty in the Evans Department of Medicine

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1940 1962 1987 2012

Professors, Department of Medicine

Edward Alexander, MD Deborah Cotton, MD Alice Jacobs, MD Richard Saitz, MD

Karen Antman, MD William Cruickshank, PhD Michael Klein, MD David Salant, MD

Caroline Apovian, MD Ravin Davidoff, MBBCh Bernard Kreger , MD Jeffrey Samet, MD

Gary Balady, MD R. Curtis Ellison, MD Nancy Kressin, PhD Vaishali Sanchorawala, MD

Clinton Baldwin, PhD Jerrold Ellner, MD Robert Lafyatis, MD Paul Schroy, MD

Emelia Benjamin, MD L. Jack Faling, MD Adam Lerner, MD John Schwartz, MD

Jeffrey Berman, MD Harrison Farber , MD Robert Levin, MD David Seldin, MD, PhD

John Bernardo , MD Francis Farraye, MD Robert Levine, MD Rebecca Silliman, MD, PhD

Shalender Bhasin, MD Lindsay Farrer, PhD Sharon Levine, MD Robert Simms, MD

Victoria Bolotina, PhD David Felson, MD Chang-seng Liang, MD, PhD Martha Skinner, MD

Lewis Braverman , MD Alan Fine, MD Joseph Mizgerd, ScD Avrum Spira, MD

Jerome Brody, MD Susan Fried, PhD Thomas Moore, MD Martin Steinberg, MD

Wellington Cardoso, MD, PhD Robert Friedman, MD John Murphy, PhD Maria Trojanowska, PhD

Phyllis Carr, MD Irene Gavras, MD George O‘Connor, MD Joseph Vita, MD

Joel Caslowitz, MD Haralambos Gavras, MD Jay Orlander, MD Kenneth Walsh, PhD

Tai Chen, PhD Caroline Genco, PhD Thomas Perls, MD Donald Weiner, MD

Aram Chobanian, MD Jianlin Gong, PhD Susan Perrine-Faller, MD Lewis Weintraub, MD

Hyon Choi, MD, DPH Kevan Hartshorn, MD Vasan Ramachandran, MD Lee Wetzler, MD

David Chui, MD Victora Herrera, MD Katya Ravid, PhD Robert Witzburg, MD

Richard Cohen, MD Warren Hershman, MD Rahul Ray, PhD Vassilis Zannis, PhD

David Coleman, MD Michael Holick, MD, PhD Sayon Roy, PhD Yuging Zhang, DSc

Wilson Colucci , MD Tien Hsu, PhD Neil Ruderman, MD, DPhil

Barbara Corkey, PhD Elaine Hylek, MD Nelson Ruiz-Opazo, PhD

Cardiovascular Medicine Hematology/Oncology

Wilson S. Colucci, MD David Seldin, MD, PhD

Clinical Epidemiology Research and Training Unit Hypertension

David Felson, MD, MPH Haralambos Gavras, MD

Computational Biomedicine Infectious Diseases

Avrum Spira, MD Jerrold J. Ellner, MD

Endocrinology, Diabetes, Nutrition, and Weight Nephrology

Alan Farwell, MD, Interim Section Chief David J. Salant, MD

Gastroenterology Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology

David Nunes, MD, Interim Section Chief Vasan S. Ramachandran, MD

General Internal Medicine Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine

Jeffrey H. Samet, MD, MPH, David M. Center, MD

Genetics Program Rheumatology

Lindsay A. Farrer, PhD Robert W. Simms, MD

Geriatrics Vascular Biology

Lisa B. Caruso, MD, MPH, Interim Section Chief Richard A. Cohen, MD

Molecular Medicine

Herbert T. Cohen, MD

Section Chiefs, Department of Medicine