FACTS & FIGURES 2009–2010
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 the Harvard University Faculty of Medicine
Past Deans of the Faculty of Medicine
Academic and Administrative Deans
Heads of the Basic and Social Science Departments
DEPARTMENTS
Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Cell Biology
Genetics
Global Health and Social Medicine
Health Care Policy
Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Neurobiology
Pathology
Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology
Systems Biology
Number of hospital-based clinical departments 49
FACULTY
Total faculty 11,017
Tenure and tenure-track HMS faculty based on Quad 146
Voting faculty (assistant, associate and full professors) 4,519
Faculty instructors (full- and part-time) 6,498
Total full-time faculty 8,259
Trainees (resident physicians and postdoctoral fellows) 8,224
Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators 31
National Academy of Sciences members (living) 65
Institute of Medicine members (living) 123
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STUDENTS
Entering Class
MD (includes 15 MD–PhD students) 165
DMD 35
PhD 93
First-year MD Class
Applicants 5,031
Matriculants
men 85
women 80
First-year students from
states 32
foreign countries 11
Total Students enrolled in degree programs
MD 705
PhD (Division of Medical Sciences) 556
MD–PhD 135 (included in MD and PhD totals above)
MD–PhD in Social Sciences 10
DMD 147
Additional Joint Degree Programs
MD–MBA
MD–Master of Public Health
MD–Master of Public Policy
Living Alumni (with MD)
from classes 1929–2009 9,168
STAFF MEMBERS ON CAMPUS
1,458
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MD FINANCIAL AID (Fiscal Year 2009)
Average scholarship $33,430
Annual unit loan $24,500
Students receiving financial aid
(excluding MD–PhD students) 81%
Students graduating with loans 133
Average loan debt on graduation $103,663
Range of debt (Class of 2009) $1,547–$249,664
TUITION AND FEES (2009–2010)
Tuition $42,500
Fees $3,333
Courses offered (including home-study courses) 273
New courses 58
Attendees 59,367
States represented (plus D.C. and Puerto Rico) 50
Countries represented 110
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AFFILIATED HOSPITALS AND RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Cambridge Health Alliance
Children's Hospital Boston (whose Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine forms the Immune Disease Institute)
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
The Forsyth Institute
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
Hebrew SeniorLife
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
Armenise–Harvard
Foundation (which supports seven centers at HMS for collaborations between scientists
at the School and leading institutions in Italy)
Center for Integration of Medicine
and Innovative Technology (CIMIT)
Center of Excellence in Minority Health and Health Disparities at HMS
Dana–Farber/Harvard Cancer
Center
Harvard Catalyst:
The Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center
Harvard Center for Immunodeficiency
Harvard Clinical Research
Institute
Harvard Division of Health Policy Research and Education
Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Harvard Mahoney Neuroscience
Institute
Harvard Medical School
Dubai Center
Harvard–MIT Division
of Health Sciences and Technology
Harvard NeuroDiscovery
Center
Harvard Skin Disease
Research Center
HMS Center for Biomedical
Informatics
HMS Center for Health
and the Global Environment
HMS Center for Hereditary
Deafness
HMS Center for Neurofibromatosis
and Allied Disorders
HMS Center
for Palliative Care
HMS Division for
Research and Education in Complementary and Integrative Medical Therapies
HMS Division of AIDS
HMS Division of Emergency Medicine
HMS
Division of Medical Ethics
Harvard Division of Nutrition
HMS
Division of Service Learning
HMS Division of Sleep
Medicine
HMS Division on Primary Care
HSDM and HMS Center for Craniofacial Tissue Engineering
ICCB-Longwood Screening
Facility
Juvenile
Diabetes Research Foundation Center on Immunological Tolerance in Type 1 Diabetes
at HMS
MIT/HMS Center for Magnetic Resonance
New England Primate
Research Center
New England Regional
Center of Excellence: Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases (NERCE/BEID)
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LIBRARY
The Countway Library comprises the Harvard Medical School library and Boston
Medical Library
Users per day 615
Electronic journals (access) >10,000
Databases for online services 149
Electronic textbooks 1,114
Owned by the Countway Library
Volumes 695,749
Monographs 213,328
Journal volumes 482,421
Rare books 212,083
Total linear feet of manuscripts and archives 14,005
Total number of objects held by the Warren Anatomical Museum 9,030
Special Collections (available through Countway)
History of medicine (802 incunabula)
European books printed 16th–20th centuries
English books published 1475–20th century, American books 18th–20th
centuries, Bostoniana
Medical Hebraica and Judaica 14th–20th centuries
Manuscripts and archives, especially of New England origin (20 million items)
Medical library of Oliver Wendell Holmes (900 titles)
Warren Library of early works in surgery (2,000 volumes)
Friedrich Tiedemann collection of anatomy and physiology (4,000 items)
Historical Collection in Radiology
National Archives of Plastic Surgery
Medical prints, photographs and artwork (35,000)
Renowned collection of medical medals (6,000)
Archives of Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Dental Medicine and Harvard School of Public Health
The Archives for Women in Medicine
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NOBEL LAUREATES
Fifteen researchers have shared in nine Nobel prizes for work done while at HMS.
George Minot and William P. Murphy, 1934, Physiology or Medicine
Research on liver treatment of the anemias
Fritz A. Lipmann, 1953, Physiology or Medicine
Identified coenzyme A and discovered basic principles of the way cells generate energy
John F. Enders, Frederick C. Robbins* and Thomas H. Weller, 1954, Physiology or Medicine
Application of tissue-culture methods to the study of viral diseases, such as polio
Baruj Benacerraf, 1980, Physiology or Medicine
Discovered genetically determined structures on the surface of immune system cells that regulate immunological reactions
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel, 1981, Physiology or Medicine
Research on information processing in the visual system
Herbert Abrams, Eric Chivian and James Muller (with Bernard Lown of the Harvard School of Public Health), 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, Physiology or Medicine
Developed procedures for organ and cell transplantation in humans (with E. Donnall Thomas, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center)
Linda Buck**, 2004, Physiology or Medicine
Discovered odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system, explaining the sense of smell (with Richard Axel, Columbia University)
Jack Szostak, 2009, Physiology or Medicine
The discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the
enzyme telomerase (with Elizabeth Blackburn, University of California, San Francisco, and Carol Greider, Johns Hopkins 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 2009) $539,182,005
Endowments
June 2009 $2,982,771,915
Named professorships 282
Gifts (Fiscal Year 2009)
Total gifts from individuals, corporations and foundations $97,396,000
(includes gifts for Harvard NeuroDiscovery Center and Harvard Dubai Foundation)
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(Fiscal Year 2009)
U.S. government direct and indirect $212,445,691
Total Sponsored $227,404,0265
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BUILDINGS ON CAMPUS
South Quad
Main Quadrangle, opened 1906
Harvard School of Dental Medicine, 1867
Francis A. Countway Library, 1965 (re-dedicated 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, 2003
Joseph B. Martin Conference Center (named 2007)
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ENERGY USE AND EMISSIONS, 2006–2009
Harvard University President Drew Faust has set a
target of reducing University greenhouse gas emissions
by 30 percent over 10 years, from 2006 to 2016,
including all new growth.
The units of energy expenditure and emissions below
indicate the amount of energy used on the Medical
School’s main campus and the global-warming potential
that this expenditure represents. The first unit listed—MTCDE—is metric tons (1,000 kg) of carbon dioxide
equivalents, a measure of the global-warming potential
of emitted carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
The second—mmBtu—is one million British thermal
units, a standard measure of heat energy. Finally, kBtu/
GSF is thousands of British thermal units per gross
square foot.
Selected Buildings
with gross square feet (GSF)
|
Units of
Emissions and
Energy Expenditure
|
2006
|
2007
|
2008
|
2009
|
|
Countway Library
160,330 GSF |
MTCDE
mmBtu
kBtu/GSF |
2,555
36,330
227 |
2,480
35,313
220 |
2,580
36,635
228 |
2,396
33,637
210 |
Gordon Hall
72,877 GSF |
MTCDE
mmBtu
kBtu/GSF |
790
10,756
148 |
766
10,416
143 |
792
10,792
148 |
905
12,376
170 |
New Research Building
796,789 GSF |
MTCDE
mmBtu
kBtu/GSF |
22,889
252,627
317 |
24,111
270,715
340 |
22,602
255,546
321 |
19,886
225,110
283 |
Tosteson Medical Education Center
175,971 GSF |
MTCDE
mmBtu
kBtu/GSF |
2,382
33,485
190 |
2,251
31,482
179 |
2,322
32,476
185 |
2,231
30,782
175 |
Vanderbilt Hall
168,687 GSF |
MTCDE
mmBtu
kBtu/GSF |
1,217
16,670
99 |
1,228
16,747
99 |
1,127
15,372
91 |
1,162
15,733
93 |
Total for HMS On-campus Buildings*
2,706,807 |
MTCDE
mmBtu
kBtu/GSF |
64,938
809,060
299 |
64,320
797,106
294 |
63,568
797,075
294 |
59,156
750,352
277 |
* On-campus buildings are those on the main campus and do not
include buildings in Southborough, 1 Summer Street, 60 Oxford
Street, and the Low Level Waste building. Energy use figures do
not include those for the offices occupied by the Department of
Social Medicine (now Global Health and Social Medicine) at the
Prudential Center in 2008 during renovation of its on-campus
space at 641–643 Huntington Ave.
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SUSTAINABILITY SNAPSHOT
(Fiscal Year 2009)
CAMPUS*
Gross square feet (GSF)
FY06 2,706,807
FY09 2,706,807
* Includes buildings on the main campus only
Population
FY06 3,480
FY09 3,452
GREENHOUSE GAS (GHG) EMISSIONS
HMS overall emissions
| |
MTCDE* |
% Change |
FY06
FY09 |
64,938
59,156 |
N/A
-8.9% |
* Metric tons (1,000 kg) of carbon dioxide equivalents
ENERGY
kBTU*/GSF |
|
% Change |
FY06
FY09 |
299
277 |
N/A
-7.4% |
* Thousands of British thermal units
ENERGY INVESTMENTS
Investments
FY06 $845,886
FY09 $738,000*
* After rebates, projects funded by HMS Facilities
Estimated annual savings
FY06 N/A
FY09 $319,000
WASTE REDUCTION
Recycling rate
FY06 41%
FY09 43%
Solid waste total
FY06 2,349 tons
FY09 2,114 tons
LEED
# LEED* Projects
FY06 0
FY09 2 Registered/certified
* Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
Locations
DePace Lab—Systems Biology Department (certified)
641 Huntington Ave.—Global Health and Social
Medicine Department (registered)
PROCUREMENT
% of recycled content paper purchases*
FY08 53%
FY09 43%
* Based on total HMS paper purchases through OfficeMax
TRANSPORTATION
% Change (3-year trend)
Public transportation +6%
Single occupant vehicles (SOV) -10%
Carpooling -5%
Other (bike, walk, etc.) -2%
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NOTE: Unless otherwise specified, the figures presented above were determined as of September 2009.
The numbers for different groups of faculty members (unless otherwise
noted) refer to the Faculty of Medicine, which includes faculty at
Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the Harvard School of Dental
Medicine (HSDM). Some information on Dental School leadership
and student enrollment also appears.
Financial figures pertain only to Harvard Medical School.
