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1983

The College joined Medicine, Nursing, Health, Dentistry, and the Graduate Colleges in Oklahoma City, and moved into its newly completed facility, the Henry D. and Ida Mosier Pharmacy Building, in 1983.

1989

The Rogers Building was acquired from the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation in 1989.

1994

The Family Medicine Center was completed in 1994 at a total project cost of $7.6 million.

1997

The Stanton L. Young Biomedical Research Center (BRC North) was completed in 1997 at a total project cost of $21.5 million.

In 1997, the state legislature and the Governor, backed by the Supreme Court, approved the teaching hospitals and the University to affiliate with a corporate entity in the health sciences center.

1998

In February 1998, the University Hospitals (University Hospital and Children's Hospital of Oklahoma) entered into a groundbreaking joint operating agreement with Columbia/HCA to manage the University Hospitals and Presbyterian Hospital located on the campus.

1999

The George Nigh Rehabilitation Center, located in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, was transferred from the Department of Veterans' Affairs to the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in 1999.

2000

Mark A. Everett and Howard D. Everett, Medical Education in Oklahoma, Volume 3 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000).

2001

A new comprehensive ambulatory care facility for the medical faculty practice, the OU Physicians Building, was opened in November 2001.

2004

In 2004, the Student Center was renamed the David L. Boren Student Union.

Dianna Everett, History of the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Residency in Oklahoma (Oklahoma City: University of Oklahoma College of Dentistry, 2004).

2005

In 2005, the 62,000 gross square feet Hillcrest Family Medicine Center was constructed.

2007

In 2007, the OU Physicians‐Tulsa Research and Medical Clinic was completed on the Schusterman Center campus.

2009

Spicer said the patient tower was first talked about in 2009.

2018

In 2018, Stephenson was named as the only National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center in Oklahoma.

2019

By Molly Fleming / Development / September 12, 2019

2020

Development / September 10, 2020

After 2020 starts, another 100 full-time staff members will make it on the payroll.

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