Johns Hopkins Medicine history

Johns Hopkins University opened in 1876 with the inauguration of our first president, Daniel Coit Gilman.

Excavation of the property began in 1877, and another acre was added shortly after Hopkins' death.

As a Baltimore American headline put it on May 7, 1889, the hospital’s opening day, “Its aim is noble,” and its service would be “for the good of all who suffer.”

In 1901, surgeon-in-chief William Halsted, an early champion of the newly discovered antiseptic techniques, invited senior members of his surgical staff to participate in an “all-star operation” as a dedication of the newly erected building bearing his name.

A graduate of the school of medicine, Florence Sabin was the first woman appointed full professor in the school of medicine, in 1917.

The Welch Library opened on December 1, 1928, named after William H. Welch, a pathologist, the first dean of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and one of Hopkins' founding physicians.

1932: The Baltimore City Health Department and the School of Hygiene and Public Health established the Eastern Health District, a one-square-mile model research and training area in the neighborhood surrounding the Hopkins medical campus.

1944: The BCHD opens the Somerset Health Center at the corner of Orleans and Central avenues.

The City Health Department established a Medical Care Section in 1947.

After Harry Chant resigned as director of the EHD in 1948 to direct the Medical Care Clinic at Johns Hopkins Hospital, the position was vacant for years at a time.

1953-54 Report of the Director of the SHPH, JHU Circular 73 (Nov.

“Jesus came in through the north door," according to the hospital's first doorman, William Thomas, who remained with the hospital until he died in 1958.

25, 1967, Records of the Office of the JHU President, series 9, box 33, "Hygiene-Faculty Coffee 1967" folder.

1969: On July 1, 1969, the Maryland state departments of health and mental hygiene were combined into a single cabinet-level agency.

The United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare rejected the JHU Affirmative Action Program submitted in March 1970, resulting in a temporary withholding of federal funds from the university until a revised program was submitted in June.

1971: The School of Hygiene established a permanent affirmative action committee.

1973: The School of Hygiene Advisory Board adopted a formal affirmative action policy.

1, 1974"The policy adopted by the Board required little change in the recruitment methods of this department.

Designed by architect Grosvenor Atterbury and renovated in 1983 by RTKL Associates, the Edwardian-style building's two wings partially overlook Fells Point and form a U around a garden court, complete with its own fountain, boxwood and trees.

He became JHU Vice Provost in 1985.

Using small mannequins, pediatric neurogureon Benjamin Carson and his surgical team rehearse for a 2006 operation to separate siamese twins joined at the head.

In 2016, the school of medicine developed that concept even further by rolling out a Primary Care Leadership Track designed to bring medical students face to face with patients and community doctors.

The graduating class of 2017 was vastly more diverse than the first — both in terms of gender and ethnicity.