| Columbia University Irving Medical Center | |
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| NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | Roughly bounded by: west:Riverside Drive north:West 169th Street east:Audubon Avenue south:West 165th Street, Washington Heights, Manhattan, New York City,New York, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 40°50′28.3″N73°56′26.9″W / 40.841194°N 73.940806°W /40.841194; -73.940806 |
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| Funding | Non-profit hospital |
| Type | Teaching |
| Affiliated university | Columbia University |
| History | |
| Opened | 1767 |
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| Website | cuimc |
| Lists | Hospitals in U.S. |
Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) is theacademic medical center ofColumbia University and the largest campus ofNewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. The center's academic wing consists of Columbia's colleges and schools ofPhysicians and Surgeons,Dental Medicine,Nursing, andPublic Health.
The center's healthcare wing includeMorgan Stanley Children's Hospital,New York State Psychiatric Institute, and the Audubon Biomedical Research Park. The center is located in theWashington Heights neighborhood ofUpper Manhattan,New York City.
The campus covers several blocks—primarily between West165th and169th Streets fromRiverside Drive toAudubon Avenue.
The medical center was built in the 1920s on the site ofHilltop Park, the one-time home stadium of theNew York Yankees. The land was donated byEdward Harkness, who also donated most of the financing for the original buildings. Built specifically to house amedical school andPresbyterian Hospital, it was the first academic medical center in the world. Formerly known as theColumbia-Presbyterian Medical Center (CPMC), the name change followed the 1997 formation ofNewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, a merger of two medical centers each affiliated with anIvy League university: Columbia-Presbyterian with Columbia University, andNew York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, withCornell University'sWeill Cornell Medical College.
The Medical and Graduate Education Building was designed by architectsDiller Scofidio + Renfro andGensler, and the structural engineer was Leslie E. Robertson Associates.[1]
In September 2016, the campus was renamed asColumbia University Irving Medical Center, for one of the hospital and the university's largest benefactors, Herbert and Florence Irving.[2]Herbert Irving was a co-founder and former vice-chairman ofSysco.
The hospital completed the first successfulheart transplant in a child,[3] the first use of the anti-seizure medication,dilantin, to treatepilepsy,[4] and the isolation of the first known odour receptors in the nose.[5]
The institution supported discoveries related to how memory is stored in the brain, and Nobel Prize-winning developments incardiac catheterization (1956) andcryo-electron microscopy (2017).[6]
In 2023, The Roy and Diana Vagelos Institute for Basic Biomedical Science was established with a $400 million donation fromP. Roy Vagelos.[7][8]
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