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    History & Highlights

    College of Medicine History: 1980 - Present

    Martin Goldberg, MD, FACP

    • Chair 1979-86
        - Fourth Gordon and Helen Taylor Professor of Medicine
        - MD from Temple
        - Residency Cleveland Clinic
        - Fellowship in Nephrology U. Penn
        - 12 Divisions within the department
    • Shift from federally supported research to dollars
          derived from patient care activities
    • 1982-CGH name changes to University Hospital
    • Holmes Hospital new wing with ICU

    Training our future leaders.

    HIV in Cincinnati

    • HIV positive student/resident/attending 1987
        - Died in 1989
        - Letter sent out to all patients (1,400) due to Florida case of HIV from dentist
    • 1983-1991
        - 1,000 people HIV positive/611 with AIDS
    • NIH Cooperative grant $2.3 million to study HIV
    • 1987 1 of 19 AIDS Treatment Evaluation Units
        - National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease
        - $18.6 million in grants

    Robert Luke, MD, MACP.1988-present

    • Fifth Taylor Professor of Medicine
    • Growth of the residency
        - Primary care track
        - Med/Peds ~ 1990
    • 1988-Barrett Cancer Center
    • 1989-1993-Critical care pavilion
    • 1994-Formation of the Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati
    • 1997-present: continued growth of the medical center and research
        - Resident research
        - ACP clinical vignettes
    • Hoxworth Ambulatory Practice Center

    Hospital Statistics

    1910 1950 2002
    Patients treated 8901 18904 24271
    Patients died 979 708 624
    Avg. daily census 574
    Avg. length of stay 22.5 days 11.8 days 5.04 days
    Cost/day/patient $1.15 $ 12.36 $ 1781

    Cardiovascular Research Center

    • 127,000-square-foot wing attached to the east side of
          the Medical Sciences Building
    • completed: December '97
    • The facility for interdisciplinary research and education is intended to attract world-class investigators to the new Center for Graduate Education and Research in Cardiovascular Science.
    • Modular laboratories can be easily reconfigured as future uses change.

    Vontz Center for Molecular Studies

    • Completed in 1999
    • 150,000 sq ft lab space
    • Estimated cost $38 M
    • Designed by renowned architect Frank Gehry
    • Named after Albert W. Vontz, Jr. who donated $5 M Medical Center’s strategic plan for developing world-class leadership in molecular-based health sciences research
    • Albert Sabin display in the lobby

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