David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

The University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine—known as the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA (DGSOM)—is an accredited medical school located in Los Angeles, California, United States. The school was renamed in 2001 in honor of media mogul David Geffen who donated $200 million in unrestricted funds. Founded in 1951, it is the second medical school in the UC system, after the UCSF School of Medicine.

David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
MottoFiat lux
Let there be light
TypePublic
Established1951
Parent institution
University of California, Los Angeles
DeanKelsey Martin[1]
Location
Los Angeles
,
California
,
United States

34.0662°N 118.4431°W / 34.0662; -118.4431
CampusUrban
WebsiteOfficial website

History
UCLA Medical Plaza is near the main entrance to the campus.
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Mattel Children's Hospital entrance

Founding

For many years, dating back to when it first affiliated with the University of California in 1873, the UCSF School of Medicine was the only public medical school in California. This made sense in the late 19th century when most of California's population lived in Northern California and Southern California was a lightly populated desert. It no longer made sense by the 1940s, after Los Angeles had overtaken San Francisco to become the leading metropolis on the West Coast of the United States.

Therefore, in 1945, the Board of Regents voted to establish a medical school at UCLA. In 1947, Stafford L. Warren was appointed as the first dean. Warren had served on the Manhattan Project while on leave from his post at University of Rochester School of Medicine. His choice of core faculty consisted of his former associates at Rochester in Andrew Dowdy as the first professor of radiology, John Lawrence as the first professor of medicine, and Charles Carpenter as the first professor of infectious diseases. Along with William Longmire Jr., a 34-year-old surgeon from Johns Hopkins, the group was called the Founding Five.

The building of the medical center and the School of Medicine began in 1949. The 1951 charter class consisted of 26 men and 2 women. Initially, there were 15 faculty members, although that number had increased to 43 by 1955 when the charter class graduated. The first classes were conducted in the reception lounge of the old Religious Conference Building on Le Conte Avenue. Clinical education was initially conducted on the wards of Harbor General Hospital, which today is Harbor-UCLA Medical Center.[2]

In July 1955, the UCLA Medical Center was opened.

Mellinkoff administration

Sherman Mellinkoff succeeded Stafford Warren as dean in 1962 and served for the next 24 years. Under Mellinkoff, the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, the UCLA Brain Research Institute, and the Marion Davies Children's Center were founded. The Jules Stein Eye Institute and the Reed Neurological Research Center were established. By decade's end, UCLA had doubled the size of the medical school and the hospital. The UCLA School of Dentistry, School of Public Health, and School of Nursing were formed as well. The medical school grew to nearly 400 medical students, more than 700 interns and residents, and almost 200 master's and doctorate candidates.

A partnership was formed with the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in 1966 to train medical students with the goal of meeting the needs of the underserved in South Los Angeles.

The school continued its growth in the 1970s, becoming affiliated with VA facilities as well as Olive View–UCLA Medical Center. In 1974, the school co-founded the Biomedical Sciences Program with UC Riverside, which offers 24 students each year the opportunity to earn both the B.S. and M.D. degrees in seven years instead of the traditional eight.

1981 saw the dedication of the Doris and Louis Factor Health Sciences Building which houses the School of Nursing and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. In 1987, construction began on UCLA Medical Plaza, an outpatient facility located across the street from the main hospital.

Post-Mellinkoff era

Kenneth I. Shine succeeded Sherman Mellinkoff as dean in 1986. In 1992 Shine left UCLA to become President of the Institute of Medicine in Washington, D.C. Gerald S. Levey was then appointed provost of medical sciences and dean of the medical school in 1994. Levey oversaw expansion of interdisciplinary research and the establishment of a Department of Human Genetics. The Gonda (Goldschmied) Neuroscience and Genetics Research Center, as well as the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, were constructed. In October 2008, Levey announced that he would be stepping down from the position of Dean in 2009.

Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center

Effective February 2010, A. Eugene Washington was appointed Dean of the UCLA School of Medicine and Vice-Chancellor of Health Sciences at UCLA. Washington, a clinician, academician, researcher, and university administrator, was recruited from UCSF, where he served as Vice-Chancellor and Provost, as well as Professor of gynecology, epidemiology, and health policy. Washington is the first African-American to hold these leadership posts at UCLA.[3]

UCLA constructed the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center across the street from the original facility to comply with the California earthquake law. The 1,050,000-square-foot (98,000 m2) hospital is named after the late President of the United States and Governor of California, Ronald Reagan. It was designed by architect I.M. Pei. Patients were transferred there from the existing hospital in June 2008.

In the rankings released for 2020, U.S. News & World Report ranked David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA at No. 6 in the U.S. in research and for 2019-2020 ranked UCLA Medical Center at No. 6.[4]

Summer programs

The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA accepts applications for summer academic enrichment programs. These programs include the Premedical/Predental Enrichment Program (PREP), Summer Medical Dental Education Program (SMDEP), and the Re-Application Post baccalaureate Program (RAP). Application deadlines are March 1 for the PREP and SMDEP programs, while the RAP program has a deadline of May 15.[5]

Notable faculty
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References
  1. "Neuroscientist named dean of David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA". UCLA. Retrieved August 12, 2016.
  2. "History of Harbor UCLA". www.harbor-ucla.org. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
  3. "Appointment of A. Eugene Washington as Dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine and Vice Chancellor of Health Sciences at UCLA". evc.ucla.edu. February 1, 2010. Retrieved December 26, 2011.
  4. "Best Medical Schools: Research;". U.S. News & World Report. Archived from the original on April 15, 2012. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
  5. "UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine Applications". begincollege.com. Retrieved January 15, 2012.
  6. "Dr. Arie Belldegrun - Board of Directors - Teva". tevapharm.com. Retrieved July 27, 2013.
  7. "Welcome to Kite Pharma, Inc". kitepharma.com. Archived from the original on July 28, 2013. Retrieved July 27, 2013.
  8. "Arie Belldegrun M.D. | David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA". people.healthsciences.ucla.edu. Retrieved July 27, 2013.
  9. "Arie Belldegrun, M.D". usrf.org. Retrieved July 27, 2013.
  10. "Selma Calmes". Changing the Face of Medicine. NIH. Retrieved November 24, 2013.
  11. "Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair". Sage Journals. Retrieved November 8, 2012.
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