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In 1906 David Starr Jordan, president of Stanford University, proposed that the university acquire Cooper Medical College on condition that the latter take a medical research focus. [20] In 1908 Cooper Medical College was deeded to the Board of Trustees of Stanford University as a gift, and was renamed as the Stanford University Department of ...
In 1855, Illinois physician Elias Samuel Cooper moved to San Francisco in the wake of the California Gold Rush.In cooperation with the University of the Pacific (also known as California Wesleyan College), Cooper established the Medical Department of the University of the Pacific, the first medical school on the West Coast, in 1858, on Mission Street near 3rd Street in San Francisco.
Cooper Medical College San Francisco 1858 1860 1912 1858–1864 Medical Department of University of the Pacific, 1864–1870 discontinued, 1870 revived, 1873–1882 Medical College of San Francisco (Medical College of the Pacific), 1882 became Cooper Medical College, 1908 merged with Leland Stanford Junior University [2] California
The Cooper Medical Education Building, a LEED Gold certified building, [2] is located on South Broadway on the Cooper Health Sciences campus. It opened in July 2012 and contains a 260-seat auditorium, a 140-seat multipurpose room, 25 active learning rooms, a clinical simulation center, and a satellite medical library.
Levi Cooper Lane (May 9, 1828 – February 9, 1902) was an American physician and surgeon. He established the Cooper Medical College, forerunner to the Stanford University School of Medicine, as well as laying the groundwork for Stanford's medical library and the Stanford School of Nursing.
Stanford University School of Medicine was established in 1908 when the university acquired Cooper Medical College in San Francisco; [50] it moved to the Stanford campus in 1959. [51] William Shockley, Stanford professor, Nobel laureate in physics, "Father of Silicon Valley"
In 1882, the Medical Department was transformed into a new institution, the Cooper Medical College; Dr. Dorr was appointed to its original faculty on November 2, 1882, as Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics. [4] This college was the direct predecessor to Stanford University's School of Medicine.
In 1858, the college opened the first medical school on the West Coast, the Medical Department of the University of the Pacific. The medical school was later affiliated with University College under the name Cooper Medical College, and in 1908 it was taken over by Stanford University and became the Stanford University School of Medicine. [10]