New York Medical College history

In February 1862 she and Bickerdyke helped transport wounded from Fort Donelson to Cairo, and in April that year, following the Battle of Shiloh (Pittsburg Landing) in southwestern Tennessee, she worked aboard the hospital ship Hazel Dell.

Chapter 123 An Act to incorporate the New York Medical College for Women Passed April 14, 1863

The statues are thought to have been modeled after characters in English author Lewis Carroll's novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). The statues live along the walkway that leads to Dana Road.

Doctor William Tod Helmuth President of the A.I.H. in 1867

In June, 1868, a building on the corner of Second Avenue and Twelfth Street was purchased for a college and hospital.

Three years later in 1870, Susan McKinney Steward graduated as the first African-American female physician in New York State.

In 1871, in order to meet licensing requirements, Emily and Jenny Trout became the first women to attend lectures at the Toronto School of Medicine.

In 1872 she opened a private practice in Chicago.

Biography of William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)

Due to the repercussion of her case, Brazilian higher education schools opened their doors to women in 1881.

Doctor Clemence Sophia Lozier - idealist, optimist and worker, died of angina pectoris April 26, 1888, at the age of 76 in her home, 103 West 48th Street, New York.

Built by New York Medical College in 1889, the Flower Free Surgical Hospital, was the first teaching hospital in the United States to be owned by a medical college.

30, West Fifty-first street, New York City, and there practiced from 1890 until her retirement.

Of his three sons and one daughter only one remains [at time of the writing of this article], Jessica Lozier Payne who married Stephen Henry Payne of Elmira, New York, in 1896.

In 1908 the college changed its name to New York Homeopathic Medical College and Flower Hospital.

New York Homeopathic Medical College and Flower Hospital (1917)

In 1918, for the first time, women were accepted in the city hospitals, and the women graduate physicians of the New York Medical College and Hospital for Women entered Bellevue, Cumberland Street, and Willard Parker Hospitals as interns.

In 1928 the college was the first medical school in the nation to establish a minority scholarship program.

By 1935, the college had transferred its outpatient activities to the Fifth Avenue Hospital at Fifth Avenue and 106th Street.

The college (including Flower Hospital) and Fifth Avenue Hospital merged in 1938 and became New York Medical College, Flower and Fifth Avenue Hospitals.

In 1963, the Graduate School of Medical Sciences was founded, establishing for the first time graduate education within a school separate from the medical curriculum.

The Board of Trustees renamed the school the Graduate School of Basic Medical Sciences in 1969.

Touro College was chartered in 1970 primarily to enrich the Jewish heritage, and to serve the larger American and global community.

The college became affiliated with the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York in 1978, which helped provide financial stability and also established a shared commitment for the public good in the area of health care and the health sciences.

When Flower and Fifth Avenue Hospital closed in 1979, the remaining operations of New York Medical College were transferred to the Valhalla campus.

The Graduate School of Health Sciences now known as the School of Health Sciences and Practice (SHSP) was founded in 1980 to respond to the growing regional and national need for healthcare professionals.

By the middle of the 1990's, the College had secured its first accreditation by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, concurrent with the School of Medicine’s re-accreditation by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education.

In 1992 the College launched a strategic planning initiative.

Subsequently, a master of science program in speech-language pathology began in 1999.

In 2001, the College completed construction of a new $24 million Medical Education Center and renovation of the Basic Sciences Building, the hub of campus research activity.

After engaging in extensive negotiations and due diligence, the Archdiocese of New York and Touro College reached an agreement in late December 2009 for Touro to replace the Archdiocese as the sponsor of New York Medical College.

In 2010, the NYMC community celebrated the 150th anniversary of the founding of NYMC with a year full of sesquicentennial celebration activities.

In a ceremony held at Bryant Park in New York City on May 25, 2011, New York Medical College officially joined the Touro College and University System creating one of the largest health sciences universities in the country.

The dental school took residence in the College’s 19 Skyline Drive building, acquired in 2013.

In fall 2016, the campus celebrated a major event: the opening of the Touro College of Dental Medicine at New York Medical College (TCDM). The import of this event was not lost on the attendees at the official opening of the school:

On June 8, 2017, New York Medical College opened the Center of Excellence in Precision Responses to Bioterrorism and Disasters.