Cornell Medical College's Stimson Hall on the main campus inIthaca in 1910
The Cornell Medical College was founded on April 14, 1898, with an endowment by Col.Oliver H. Payne. The college was established inNew York City becauseIthaca, where the Cornell main campus is located, was deemed too small to offer adequate clinical training opportunities.James Ewing was the first professor of clinical pathology at the school, and for a while the only full-time professor.[6][7][8]
The college founded the medical fraternity,Phi Delta Epsilon, on October 13, 1904.[9]
A branch of the medical school operated in Stimson Hall on the main campus. The two-year Ithaca course paralleled the first two years of the New York school. The Ithaca location closed in 1938 due to declining enrollment.
The school became affiliated with New York Hospital, nowNewYork–Presbyterian Hospital, in 1913.[1] The institutions opened a joint hospital-educational campus inYorkville in 1932.[1]
In 1927,William Payne Whitney's $27 million donation led to the building of thePayne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic, which became the name for Cornell's large psychiatric effort. Its Training School for Nurses became affiliated with the university in 1942, operating as the Cornell Nursing School until it closed in 1979.[10]
In 1936, the Swiss professor and psychiatrist Oskar Diethelm[11] contributed a collection of more than 10,000 titles related to the history of psychiatry, helping to build up the Oskar Diethelm Historical Library.[12][13]
The Cornell University Medical College was renamed the "Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University" after then-Citigroup chairmanSanford I. Weill pledged a $100 million donation to Cornell University for its biomedical research in 1998.[5]
In 2015, the school was renamedWeill Cornell Medicine.[14]
On September 16, 2019, Augustine M.K. Choi announced Weill Cornell Medicine would make the cost of attendance free for all students who qualify for financial aid, made possible by a $160 million gift from The Starr Foundation, directed by Weill Cornell Medicine overseerMaurice R. Greenberg, in partnership with gifts from Joan and Board of Overseers Chairman Emeritus Sanford I. Weill.[15]
In March 2024, Augustine M.K. Choi, professor and former Dean of Weill Cornell Medicine, was accused of altering data for two decades in his research on animals.[16]
David P. Hajjar, dean emeritus, Professor and Professor of Pathology and Biochemistry, and the Frank Rhodes Distinguished Professor of Cardiovascular Biology and Genetics
Yoon Kang, Richard P. Cohen, M.D. Professor of Medical Education and the senior associate dean for education
Ben Kean, Professor of Medicine, founder of the Tropical Medicine Unit, chief of the Parasitology Laboratory atNew York Hospital, and personal physician to theShah of Iran, whose health and treatment was a factor in theIran Hostage Crisis[18]
David Kissane, Professor of Psychiatry and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and inaugural Jimmie C. Holland Chair in Psychiatric Oncology atMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Bruce Lerman, cardiologist, the Hilda Altschul Master Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, and Chief of the Division of Cardiology and Director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratory at Weill Cornell Medicine and theNew York Presbyterian Hospital
Fabrizio Michelassi, Lewis Atterbury Stimson Professor and Chairman of the Department of Surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine
John P. Moore, virologist and professor at Weill Cornell Medicine[19]
Gotto, Antonio M. et al. eds.Weill Cornell Medicine : A History of Cornell's Medical School (Cornell University Press, 2016)online; also seeonline book review
Gotto, Antonio M., and Jennifer Moon. "Walter Niles and the Cornell Pay Clinic."Transactions of the American Clinical and Climatological Association 128 (2017): 243+.online
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