College faculty and adminis trators host “Medicine at the Millennium,” a major confer ence that drew 600 partici pants who came to hear eminent speakers such as Judah Folkman, Mary-Claire King, Luc Montagnier, Sherwin Nuland, and others.
The Graduate School of Health Sciences opens in response to a growing regional and national need for public health professionals, and awards its first degrees three years later.
After several years of providing the seed stock for the annual flu vaccine, a College microbiology and immunology lab is tapped by the CDC to develop a fastergrowing H1N1 seed vaccine during a resurgence of the swine flu.
2010
1999 1980
After two years of construction, the College opens the four-story Medical Education Center, which expands library and research space and boasts a state-of-the-art gross anatomy laboratory on the top floor.
2009
2001
2001
Kathleen C. Morton, M.D., is recruited from Johns Hopkins University to become president of New York Medical College, the only woman ever to hold the institu tion’s highest office.
The Board of Trustees signs an agreement with Westchester County for the College to move to Grasslands alongside a new hospital, now known as Westchester Medical Center.
Jane Cooke Wright, M.D., a prominent cancer researcher, is named associate dean at the College, making her the highest ranked African American woman at a nation ally recognized medical institution.
College researchers announce their discovery that the heart can repair itself after a heart attack, an achievement hailed by The New York Times as “a landmark study.”
2001
1977
1972 1967
1970
1963
The Graduate School of Basic Medical Sciences is founded, offering study leading to Master of Science and Doctor of Phil osophy degrees in the basic medical sciences.
The Basic Sciences Building opens, allowing medical students to complete their first two years of study on the Valhalla campus.
New York Medical College graduates the largest class in its 150-year history, awarding 383 advanced degrees in the biomedical sciences.
Following the September 11 attacks, students and faculty in all three schools mobilize, treating patients at Saint Vincent’s Hospital, serving as paramedics, and administering grief and trauma counseling. (Special thanks to the Health Sciences Library.)