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Stanford Medicine traces its history back to 1858 when Elias Samuel Cooper, a physician in San Francisco, California, founded the first medical school in the Western United States. That school went through many changes, including a change of name to Cooper Medical College , a takeover by Stanford University in 1908, and a move from San ...
The hospital's history began with the foundation of the Stanford Home for Convalescent Children (the "Con Home") in 1911. When the Stanford Medical School moved south from San Francisco in 1959, the Stanford Hospital was established and was co-owned with the city of Palo Alto; it was then known as Palo Alto-Stanford Hospital Center. It was ...
The School of Medicine also has a long history of educating physician assistants (PAs). Stanford University partnered with Foothill College in 1971 to form the Primary Care Associate Program (PCAP) which has graduated more than 1,500 PAs. The last PCAP class graduated in 2018.
In addition the Stanford Historical Society has the mission "to foster and support the documentation, study, publication, dissemination, and preservation of the history of Stanford University." [ 96 ] Since 1978 its oral history program has interviewed over 800 people connected to Stanford. [ 97 ]
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Robert Neel Proctor (born 1954) is an American historian of science and Professor of the History of Science at Stanford University, where he is also Professor by courtesy of Pulmonary Medicine. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] While a professor of the history of science at Pennsylvania State University in 1999, he became the first historian to testify against the ...
The Stanford University Graduate School of Education grew out of the Department of the History and Art of Education, one of the original twenty-one departments at Stanford, and became a professional graduate school in 1917. [53] The Stanford Graduate School of Business was founded in 1925 at the urging of then-trustee Herbert Hoover. [54]
Lane Medical Library entrance. Lane Medical Library is the library of the Stanford University School of Medicine at Stanford University, near Palo Alto, California.Its mission is to "accelerate scientific discovery, clinical care, medical education and humanities through teaching, collaboration, and delivery of biomedical and historical resources". [1]