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Massachusetts General Hospital (Mass General or MGH) is a teaching hospital located in the West End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. [4] It is the original and largest clinical education and research facility of Harvard Medical School/Harvard University, and houses the world's largest hospital-based research program with an annual research budget of more than $1.2 billion in 2021. [5]
2016: The Brigham performs the first bilateral arm transplant on a patient injured during military service. 2016: MGH was the first hospital in the country where a liver transplant was performed using what doctors loosely call "liver in a box", a portable device.
The hospital's main campus is located in Boston's West End, surrounded by various Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) buildings. MEEI and MGH are both Harvard Medical School teaching hospitals; the MGH departments of Otolaryngology and Ophthalmology are actually departments at MEEI, [4] [5] and both hospitals tend to refer patients to one another.
It was originally established as a "Hospital for the sick poor," and admitted its first patient in 1886. From 1901 to 1975, the facility turned out thousands of graduates from its Cooley Dickinson School of Nursing, [5] including hundreds trained through an accelerated program during World War II for the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps.
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).
Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, is an obesity medicine physician and associate professor of medicine and pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
The Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, usually referred to as just the "Martinos Center," is a major hub of biomedical imaging technology development and translational research. The Center is part of the Department of Radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital and is affiliated with both Harvard University and MIT.
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