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Brigham and Women's Hospital was established with the 1980 merger of three Harvard-affiliated hospitals: Peter Bent Brigham Hospital (established in 1913); Robert Breck Brigham Hospital (established in 1914); and Boston Hospital for Women (established in 1966 as a merger of Boston Lying-In Hospital, established in 1832, and Free Hospital for Women, established in 1875).
Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Anthony L. Komaroff (born June 7, 1941) is an American physician, clinical investigator, editor, and publisher. He serves as the Distinguished Simcox-Clifford-Higby Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Senior Physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
1976: Brigham and Women's Hospital researchers launch the Nurses' Health Study, enrolling 122,000 women in America's first and largest women's health study. 1978: MGH's Dr. Jeffrey B. Cooper, with colleagues at MGH and MIT, developed the "Boston Anesthesia System," the first anesthesia machine engineered by way of human-factors studies, and the ...
Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital (BWFH) is a 171-bed, non-profit community teaching hospital located in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1900, it is located in the neighborhood of Jamaica Plain across the street from the Arnold Arboretum and just 3.4 miles (5.5 km) from Longwood Medical and Academic Area .
Merrill's entire career was spent in Boston at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, now known as Brigham and Women's Hospital.His work as a medical researcher began in 1947. As a resident in medicine, he was assigned to head the team which developed an artificial kidney (the Brigham-Kolff dialyzers) for use in the treatment of acute and chronic kidney failure.
Joseph Edward Murray (April 1, 1919 – November 26, 2012) was an American plastic surgeon who is known as the "father of transplantation" for major milestones in the field of transplantation, including performing the first successful human kidney transplant, [1] [2] defining brain death, organizing the first international conference on human kidney transplants, and founding the National ...
Later, he became the Chief of Cardiology at the VA Boston Healthcare System and, subsequently, the Interventional Cardiovascular Programs executive director at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Additionally, he was a Senior Investigator in the TIMI Study Group and Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Heart Letter. [ 8 ]
In September 2002, Vacanti joined Brigham and Women's Hospital, succeeding Simon Gelman as department chair for Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine. [8] Following the STAP cells controversy, Vacanti stood down as department chair at Brigham and Women's Hospital and took a one-year sabbatical from September 1, 2014, [10] then retired ...