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The museum is part of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia. The original purpose of the museum, founded with a gift from Dr. Thomas Dent Mütter on December 11, 1858, [2] was for the education of medical professionals, medical students, and invited guests of College Fellows, and did not become open to non-Fellows until the mid-1970s. [3]
John F. Regni (born January 19, 1952) is a retired United States Air Force lieutenant general who served as the 17th Superintendent of the United States Air Force Academy from 2005 to 2009. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
The Philadelphia Surgery Center was founded in 2013. [1] [2] The large facility was newly built and opened in December 2013, and was the first medical facility in the Eastern United States to offer ultra-small endoscopic spine surgery to treat spinal stenosis and herniated or fragmented discs.
Currently, Shields and her husband Dr. Jerry A. Shields head up the oncology department at the Wills Eye Hospital. [4] Located in Philadelphia, the Wills Eye Hospital sees at least 50% of the 300 children diagnosed with retinoblastoma each year and at least 1/3 of the adults diagnosed with ocular melanoma in the USA. She was voted by her peers ...
James A. Corea (September 25, 1937 – March 3, 2001), Ph.D., Dr. Science, ND, RPT, was a radio personality and specialist in nutrition, rehabilitation, and sports medicine. He founded Vita-Labs a brand of health food supplement .
The emergency room entrance at Pennsylvania Hospital at 9th and Spruce streets. Pennsylvania Hospital is a private, non-profit, 515-bed teaching hospital located at 800 Spruce Street in Center City Philadelphia, The hospital was founded on May 11, 1751 by Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Bond, and was the second established public hospital (first was Bellevue) but had the first surgical ...
Dr. Bartholomew Fussell (1794-1871) an abolitionist and uncle to Dr. Edwin Fussell (1813-1882), one of the earliest faculty members. [4] R.C. Smedley's History of the Underground Railroad cites Bartholomew Fussell as proposing, in 1846, the idea for a college that would train female doctors. It was a tribute to his departed sister, who ...
Hahnemann University Hospital was a tertiary care center in Center City Philadelphia.It was the teaching hospital of Drexel University College of Medicine. [2] Established in 1885, it was for most of its history the main teaching hospital associated with its namesake medical school, Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital, founded in 1848 and named for Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of ...