FACTS & FIGURES 2007-2008
HMS MISSION
To create and nurture a diverse community of the best people committed
to leadership in alleviating human suffering caused by disease.
Established September
19, 1782
LEADERSHIP
Jeffrey S. Flier, MD, Dean of Harvard Medical School
R. Bruce Donoff, DMD, MD, Dean of Harvard School of
Dental Medicine
Past Deans of
HMS
FACULTY
Total Faculty 10,458
Voting Faculty 4,241 assistant, associate, and full professors;
85% have full-time appointments
Faculty Instructors 6,217 full-time and part-time
Total Full-time Faculty 7,539
Trainees 7,619 resident physicians and postdoctoral fellows
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators 26
National Academy of Science Members 73
DEPARTMENTS
Ambulatory Care and Prevention
Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Cell Biology
Genetics
Health Care Policy
Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Neurobiology
Pathology
Social Medicine
Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology
Systems Biology
47 hospital-based clinical departments
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STUDENTS
165 entering MD students (includes 11 entering MD-PhD students)
35 entering dental students annually
90 entering PhD students, Fall 2007
FIRST-YEAR MD CLASS, entered fall 2007
Applicants: 5,482
Matriculants: 88 men, 77 women
First-year students from 30 states, Puerto Rico, and 8 countries
Total Students Enrolled in MD Program,
Fall 2007
MD Program 758
PhD Program in the Division of Medical Sciences 577
MD-PhD Program 131 (included in MD abd PhD totals above)
MD-PhD Program in Social Sciences Program 10
Additional Joint Degree Programs
MD-MBA
MD/Master of Public Health
MD/Master of Public Policy
Living Alumni 9,099 from classes 1929–2007
MD FINANCIAL AID, fiscal year
2007
Average scholarship: $22,883
Annual unit loan: $24,500
Percentage of students receiving financial aid: 80% (excluding
MD-PhD students)
Students graduating with loans: 151
Average loan debt on graduation: $106,344
Range of debt (Class of 2006): $8,500–$225,710
TUITION AND FEES 2007-2008
Tuition $38,600
Fees $3,047
Courses offered:
262 (including home-study courses)
New courses: 19
Attendees: 60,000
States represented: 50, DC, and Puerto Rico
Countries represented: 101
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AFFILIATED HOPSITALS AND RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Cambridge Health Alliance
Children's Hospital Boston
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
The Forsyth Institute
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
Hebrew SeniorLife
Immune Disease
Institute
Joslin Diabetes Center
Judge Baker Children's Center
McLean Hospital
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Massachusetts General Hospital
Mount Auburn Hospital
Schepens Eye Research Institute
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
VA Boston Healthcare System
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CENTERS, DIVISIONS, AND INSTITUTES
HMS Division of AIDS
New England Regional
Center of Excellence: Biodefense and Emerging Research (NERCE/BEID)
Center for Biomedical Informatics
Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center
Institute of Chemistry and Cell Biology and Initiative for Chemical Genetics
HMS Division for Research and Education in Complementary and Integrative Medical Therapies
HSDM and HMS Center for Craniofacial Tissue Engineering
HMS Division of Emergency Medicine
HMS-Partners Healthcare Center for Genetics and Genomics
Harvard Division of Health Care Policy Research and Education
HMS Center for Health and the Global Environment
Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
HMS Center for Hereditary Deafness
Harvard Humanitarian Institute
HMS Center for Immunodeficiency
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Center for Immunological Tolerance at HMS
Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT)
MIT/HMS Center for Magnetic Resonance
HMS Division of Medical Ethics
HMS Center for Mental Health and Media
Harvard NeuroDiscovery Center
HMS Center for Neurofibromatosis and Allied Disorders
Harvard Mahoney Neuroscience Institute
Harvard Division of Nutrition
HMS Center for Palliative Care
HMS Division on Primary Care
Harvard Institute of Proteomics
HMS Division of Service Learning
HMS Skin Disease Research Center
HMS Division of Sleep Medicine
New England Primate Research Center
50 programs running in 30 countries
Supports collaborations between
scientists at HMS and at foremost institutions in Italy.
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LIBRARY
The Countway Library comprises the Harvard Medical School library and Boston Medical Library
Users per day 558
Electronic journals 2,333
Databases for on-line services 133
Electronic textbooks 536
www.countway.harvard.edu
Housed in the Countway Library Building
Volumes: 671,917
Monographs: 206,796
Journal volumes: 465,121
Rare books: 189,493
Special Collections
History of medicine (802 incunabula)
European books printed 16th-19th centuries
English books published 1475-1800
and Bostoniana
Medical Hebraica and Judaica 14-18th centuries
Manuscripts and archives, especially of New England
origin (20 million items)
Warren Library Collection of early books in the history of
medicine (5,000 volumes)
Warren Anatomical Museum (15,000 items)
National Archives of Plastic Surgery
Medical print and photographic collection (35,000)
World famous collection of medical medals and portraits (6,000)
HMS, HSDM, HSPH Archives
The Archives for Women in Medicine
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NOBEL LAUREATES
George Minot, 1934,
Physiology or Medicine
Research on liver treatment of the anemias (with William P. Murphy)
William P. Murphy, 1934, Physiology or Medicine
Research on liver treatment of the anemias (with George Minot)
Fritz A. Lipmann, 1953, Physiology or Medicine
Identified coenzyme A and discovered basic principles of how cells generate energy
John F. Enders, 1954, Physiology or Medicine
Application of tissue-culture methods to the study of viral diseases, such as polio (with Frederick C. Robbins and Thomas H. Weller)
Frederick C. Robbins,* 1954, Physiology or Medicine
Application of tissue-culture methods to the study of viral diseases, such as polio
(with John F. Enders and Thomas H. Weller)
Thomas H. Weller, 1954, Physiology or Medicine
Application of tissue-culture methods to the study of viral diseases, such as polio
(with John F. Enders and Frederick C. Robbins)
Baruj Benacerraf, 1980, Physiology or Medicine
Discovered genetically-determined structures on the surface of immune system cells that regulate immunological reactions
David Hubel, 1981, Medicine
Research on information-processing in the visual system (with Torsten Wiesel)
Torsten Wiesel, 1981, Medicine
Research on information-processing in the visual system (with David Hubel)
Bernard Lown, Herbert Abrams, Eric Chivian, and James Muller, 1985, Peace
Cofounders, with Evgueni Chazov, Leonid Ilyin, and Mikhail Kuzin from the Soviet Union, of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
Joseph E. Murray, 1990, Medicine
Developed procedures for organ and cell transplantation in humans (with E. Donnall Thomas, formerly
of the University of Washington)
Linda Buck,** 2004, Medicine
Discovered odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system, explaining the sense of smell (with Richard Axel, Columbia University)
*Robbins was awarded the Nobel Prize for work done while a
member of the Harvard Faculty. When the award was made, he was a member of
the faculty of Western Reserve University.
**Buck was awarded the Nobel Prize for work done, in part, while a member of
the Harvard faculty. When the award was made, she was a member of the faculty
of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
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FINANCES
Budget Fiscal Year 2007 $798,358,276
ENDOWMENTS
June 2007: $3,959,978,824
Professorships: 287
GIFTS, fiscal year 2007
Total gifts: $84,000,000
FIRST GIFT
In 1772, Ezekiel Hersey established two professorships in Anatomy and Physic (Medicine) at the yet-to-be established Medical School
RESEARCH AND TRAINING DOLLARS 2007
U.S. government direct and indirect: $194,083,206
Private funding direct and indirect: $28,554,110
Total Sponsored: $222,637,316
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BUILDINGS ON CAMPUS
South Quad
Main quadrangle, opened 1906
Harvard School of Dental Medicine, 1867
Francis A. Countway Library, 1965 (rededicated 2000)
Laboratory for Human Reproduction and Reproductive Biology, 1972
Seeley G. Mudd Building, 1977
Tosteson Medical Education Center, 1987 (named 1997)
Warren Alpert Building, 1992
Goldenson Building Renovations, 1994
Armenise Building (named 2000)
Gordon Hall of Medicine (named 2000)
Jeffrey Modell Immunology Center, 2007
North Quad
Harvard Institutes of Medicine, 1996
Vanderbilt Hall (Student Residence), 1927
New Research Building, 2004
Joseph B. Martin Conference Center (named 2007)
STAFF MEMBERS ON CAMPUS
1,434
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