Roy and Diana Vagelos Education Center

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News

  • Match Day Reveals Residencies for Medical Students

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    CUIMC Newsroom
    March 15, 2019

    On Match Day, 171 VP&S students learned where they will continue their medical training after graduation.

    Columbia University medical student shares her good news on Match Day.

  • Barbara Low: Pioneer in X-Ray Crystallography

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    CUIMC Newsroom
    March 14, 2019

    Some of the earliest pioneers in crystallography were women, including Columbia’s Barbara W. Low, whose early work with Nobel laureate Dorothy Hodgkin helped usher in the age of antibiotics.

    Campus News
    Barbara Low

  • Medical Student Research Leaves Mark on VP&S

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    CUIMC Newsroom
    February 4, 2019

    Since 2009, incoming medical students at VP&S have been required to complete a scholarly project, which allows students to immerse themselves into a specific area of medicine.

    Education
    Heather Lee is an MD-PhD student who conducts research at Columbia University.

  • “All of Us” Precision Medicine Program Opens Enrollment to All

    Source:

    CUIMC Newsroom
    May 8, 2018

    The program seeks to enroll 1 million Americans into one of the world’s largest and most diverse data sets for precision health research.

    Research
    All of Us Research Program
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Message from the Dean

Lee Goldman, MD

Welcome to the Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons, part of a unique collection of health sciences schools that make up the Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
Lee Goldman, MD, MPH, is the Harold and Margaret Hatch Professor, Executive Vice President and Dean of the Faculties of Health Sciences and Medicine, and Chief Executive of Columbia University Medical Center.

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The medical faculty at King's College was organized in 1767, it was the first institution in the North American Colonies to confer the degree of Doctor of Medicine.
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