Path Talk

Commentary by
David B. Roth, Irene Diamond Professor of Immunology and Chair of the Department of Pathology

A Brief History of the NYU Langone Medical Center
October 13, 2008

The overarching focus of our profession is driven by the desire to alleviate human suffering and in this endeavor we seldom get a chance to pause and look back at our accomplishments and the achievements of those on whose work we are building. This thought recently occurred to me again when I looked back to review the strategy I had set up for the first five years of my tenure as Chair.

I certainly won't bore you with the specific details of this plan, but you may be interested in the larger context within which our Department functions. For this I have put together a little movie presentation, giving you a timeline of what is now the NYU Langone Medical Center over the last century and a half. Here you can see some of the highlights in a brief and, admittedly, very abbreviated history of the NYU Langone Medical Center.



Image: A skin graft procedure at Bellevue Hospital in 1889 (courtesy NYU School of Medicine, Ehrman Medical Library Archives)