FACTS & FIGURES 2008–2009
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
HMS
FACULTY
Total Faculty 10,884
Faculty Based on Quad 668
Voting Faculty 4,391 assistant, associate, and full professors
Faculty Instructors 6,493 full- and part-time
Total Full-time Faculty 8,074
Trainees 8,040 resident physicians and postdoctoral fellows
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators 30
National Academy of Sciences Members 67
DEPARTMENTS
Ambulatory Care and Prevention
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
49 hospital-based clinical departments
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STUDENTS
165 entering MD students (includes 15 entering MD–PhD students)
95 entering PhD students, Fall 2008
FIRST-YEAR MD CLASS, entered fall 2008
Applicants: 5,139
Matriculants: 85 men, 80 women
First-year students from 34 states and 12 foreign
countries
Total Students Enrolled,
Fall 2008
MD Program 728
PhD Program in the Division of Medical Sciences 586
MD–PhD Program 133 (included in MD and 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 (with MD) 9,088 from
classes 1929–2008
MD FINANCIAL AID, fiscal year
2008
Average scholarship: $30,962
Annual unit loan: $24,500
Students receiving financial aid: 77% (excluding MD–PhD students)
Students graduating with loans: 132
Average loan debt on graduation: $115,546
Range of debt (Class of 2007): $2,950–$301,978
TUITION AND FEES 2008–2009
Tuition $39,900
Fees $3,323
Courses offered: 278 (including home-study courses)
New courses: 31
Attendees: 69,386
States represented: 50, D.C., and Puerto Rico
Countries represented: 110
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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
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 Infectious Diseases (NERCE/BEID)
Center for Biomedical
Informatics
Dana–Farber/Harvard Cancer
Center
Harvard Clinical Research
Institute
Harvard Catalyst:
The Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center
HMS Division for
Research and Education in Complementary and Integrative Medical Therapies
HMS Division of Emergency Medicine
HMS Center for Health
and the Global Environment
Harvard Division of Health Policy Research and Education
Harvard–MIT Division
of Health Sciences and Technology
HMS Center for Hereditary
Deafness
Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
HMS Center for Immunodeficiency
Center for Integration of Medicine
and Innovative Technology (CIMIT)
Juvenile
Diabetes Research Foundation Center on Immunological Tolerance in Type 1 Diabetes
at HMS
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
New England Primate
Research Center
Harvard Institute of Proteomics
ICCB-Longwood Screening
Facility
HMS
Division of Service Learning
HMS Skin Disease
Research Center
HMS Division of Sleep
Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Dubai Center
The Armenise–Harvard
Foundation
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 566
Electronic journals 2,373
Databases for online services 149
Electronic textbooks 690
Housed in the Countway Library Building
Volumes 678,520
Monographs 208,385
Journal volumes 470,135
Rare books 210,674
Special Collections
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 (ca. 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
Warren Anatomical Museum (15,000 items)
National Archives of Plastic Surgery
Medical prints, photographs and artwork (35,000)
Renowned collection of medical medals (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, Physiology or Medicine
Research on information-processing in the visual system (with Torsten Wiesel)
Torsten Wiesel, 1981, Physiology or 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, Physiology or Medicine
Developed procedures for organ and cell transplantation in humans (with E. Donnall Thomas, formerly
of the University of Washington)
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 and Carol Greider)
*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 2008: $544,158,873
ENDOWMENTS
June 2008: $4,188,737,549
Named professorships: 288
GIFTS, fiscal year 2008
Total gifts from individuals, corporations and foundations: $109,000,000 (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 2008
U.S. government direct and indirect: $192,033,090
Total Sponsored: $230,263,022
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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, 2003
Joseph B. Martin Conference Center (named 2007)
STAFF MEMBERS ON CAMPUS
1,463
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