Type | Public |
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Established | 1903 |
Dean | Jay L. Hess |
Academic staff
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1,994 full-time and 207 part-time (incl staff) |
Students | 2,059 |
Location | Indianapolis, Indiana, US |
Campus | Urban |
Website | medicine |
The Indiana University School of Medicine is a medical school and medical research center connected to Indiana University; its principal research and medical center is on the Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis campus in Indianapolis. The medical school awarded the Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) degree to its first class in 1907. With 1,404 M.D. students and 168 Ph.D. students in 2016, it is currently the largest allopathic medical school in the United States. The School offers several joint-degree programs, including an MD/MBA, MD/MA, MD/MPH, and an NIH-designated Medical Scientist Training Program, a highly competitive subset of MD-PhD programs.
The school is a pioneer in cancer, immunology, alcohol, neuroscience, and diabetes research (see section below). Notably, some of its recent research discoveries that have received international acclaim include a curative therapy in testicular cancer used to treat patient Lance Armstrong, the development of echocardiography, several genes linked to Alzheimer's, and creation of inner ear sensory cells from pluripotent stem cells. The IU School of Medicine is home to the Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center, an NCI—designated Clinical Cancer Center.
In the 2017 U.S. News & World Report, rankings, the school ranks 41st in the nation for primary care and 45th for research out of about 150 medical schools.
As of 2013, Indiana University School of Medicine and Indiana University Health is home to 21 nationally ranked clinical programs, including Pediatrics, Diabetes and Endocrinology, Geriatrics, Urology, Neurology and Neurosurgery, Pulmonology, Gastroenterology and Orthopedics. The James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health ranked nationally in all ten designated specialties in the U.S. News & World Report.
The current dean of the medical school is Jay L. Hess, M.D., Ph.D., who succeeded D. Craig Brater in 2013.