State of Missouri history

In 1822, W. H. Ashley (who later made a fortune in fur trading) led an expedition of the adventurous trappers who became known as mountain men up the Missouri River to explore the West for furs.

The boundaries of the state were formed after Native Americans gave up their claim to Platte co. in 1836; this strip of land in the northwest corner of Missouri was added to the state.

First located in Detroit, the University moved its campus to Ann Arbor in 1837.

It was one of the first buildings built for U-M in Ann Arbor, and had served as a university-owned house for professors since 1840.

The first classes were held in 1841.

Just a few years later in 1848, the Board of Regents established a three-member medical school (or the "medical" department as it was then called) and appointed Abram Sager, MD, as Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine.

In 1850, as the first students arrived in Ann Arbor, Doctor Sager became Professor of Obstetrics.

After he passed away in 1860, he was followed by a series of physicians, some of whom maintained private practices in Detroit.

In 1869, the University became the first American medical school to own and operate its own hospital, a key part of a robust clinical educational system.

In 1870, the University became the first major American medical school to admit women.

The first woman graduate, Amanda Sanford, received her U-M Medical School degree in 1871.

It is the first university-owned medical facility in the United States; in 1873 the University of Pennsylvania opened the first purpose-built hospital at a university.

In 1880, the U-M Medical School adopted a three-year curriculum, introduced laboratory instruction and assigned formal grades.

An operating room is built within the hospital, followed in 1881 by a ward for eye and ear patients.

Established in 1899, it was similar to one launched at Johns Hopkins four years earlier, giving students responsibility for patient care under faculty supervision.

He arrived with the Catherine Street hospital under construction, which by 1900, would give him access to the largest teaching hospital in the country.

The continued growth of Missouri in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was celebrated in the famous St Louis Exposition in 1904.

His contributions led to an invitation from British cardiologist Thomas Lewis to serve as one of six co-editors of his new journal Heart (later renamed Clinical Science), which debuted in 1909.

In fact, Hewlett acquired U-M’s first electrocardiograph in 1913, an instrument in which he saw great diagnostic potential.

The Missouri Chamber of Commerce and Industry was founded on April 6, 1923, when several prominent citizens met in the hall of the House of Representatives in the Missouri State Capitol.

Marjorie Franklin, who had enrolled in 1924 as the first African-American student at the U-M Hospital School for Nurses, is permitted to move in, after fighting for the right to receive university-provided housing that she was initially denied because of her race.

The building, located east of the 1925 University Hospital, is still in use today as offices.

Though Sturgis had no research record on the topic, he was the strongest candidate in every other respect and was brought on board in 1927 with the agreement that he would be appointed Chair of Internal Medicine the following year.

In 1928 he began to devote himself to the Department of Postgraduate Medicine, of which he was made head, and to the University Health Service, to which he was Medical Adviser for several years.

With the closure of the Homeopathic Hospital and Medical School, its former building is converted to the “South Department” hospital, and used until 1940.

Robinson joined the internal medicine faculty in 1944, where his interests shifted to arthritis.

Present constitution adopted: 1945

The institute’s work also impacted the educational mission: Isaacs developed a third-year elective on diseases of the blood, students participated in institute research, and Sturgis himself produced a hematology textbook in 1948.

The U-M School of Nursing (link is external) is fully established as a health science academic unit of the University, though it operates under the direction of a committee of hospital and Medical School leaders until the first dean is named in 1955.

It’s joined by the Turner Geriatric Clinic in 1976.

In a special article in the August 28, 1980 New England Journal of Medicine, Robert Petersdorf, outgoing chairman of medicine at the University of Washington, cited this structure as a possible solution to the growing demands on chairs of medicine for the decade ahead.

Five buildings near Briarwood Mall are purchased by U-M for outpatient facilities; more are added in 1996.

History of the Deans,(link is external) Medicine at Michigan magazine, 1999

In 2000, the University of Michigan Medical School celebrated 150 years of educating some of the best and brightest minds in medicine.

Pioneering the Pacemaker in Michigan/Michigan’s First Big names in Cardiology,(link is external) Medicine at Michigan magazine, 2005

The Center for Health and Research Transformation(link is external), a joint venture with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, is formed as a result of the 2006 M-CARE sale.

Largest county by population and area: St Louis, 991,830 (2008); Texas, 1,179 sq mi.

When John M. Carethers, MD (GI), was recruited to the chairmanship in 2009 by Dean James Woolliscroft, it felt a bit like “coming home,” he says.

Michigan’s First “University Hospital”,(link is external)Medicine at Michigan magazine, 2011

The Hospital(s) on Catherine Street,(link is external) Medicine at Michigan magazine, 2013

When he arrived, there were no departmental quality structures in place, so in 2014, Carethers named Scott Flanders, MD (Gen), as internal medicine’s first associate vice chair of quality and innovation.

He would do the same at U-M during his chairmanship — expanding the faculty from 585 to 760; securing seventh place among internal med¬icine departments in the 2015 United States News & World Report; and presiding over unprecedented levels of scholarship, research funding and patient care.

Telling Michigan’s Story,(link is external)By Joel Howell, M.D., Ph.D., Medicine at Michigan magazine, 2016