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Washington University School of Medicine

Index Washington University School of Medicine

Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM) is the medical school of Washington University in St. Louis, located in the Central West End neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. [1]

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  1. 89 relations: Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, Alexis Hartmann, Alfred Hershey, Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center, Arthur Kornberg, Audiology, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, BJC HealthCare, Brian Kobilka, C. Garrison Fathman, Carl Ferdinand Cori, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Central Institute for the Deaf, Central West End station, Central West End, St. Louis, Charles M. Rice, Christian de Duve, Clay Armstrong, Cortex Innovation Community, Dan Littman, Daniel Nathans, David Talmage, Doctor of Medicine, Duke University, Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., Edward Adelbert Doisy, Edwin G. Krebs, Eric D. Green, Ernst Wynder, Ethel Ronzoni Bishop, Ewald W. Busse, Faye Cashatt Lewis, Floyd E. Bloom, Forest Park (St. Louis), George Davis Snell, Gerty Cori, Grading in education, Hamilton O. Smith, Helen Elizabeth Nash, Herbert Spencer Gasser, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ingrid Skop, James E. Darnell, Jonathan Mann (physician), Joseph Erlanger, Luis Federico Leloir, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, McDonnell Genome Institute, Medical College Admission Test, Medical school, ... Expand index (39 more) »

  2. 1891 establishments in Missouri
  3. Medical schools in Missouri
  4. Washington University in St. Louis
  5. Washington University in St. Louis campus

Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

The Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research is one of the prizes awarded by the Lasker Foundation for a fundamental discovery that opens up a new area of biomedical science.

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Alexis Hartmann

Alexis Frank Hartmann Sr. (October 30, 1898 – September 6, 1964) was an American pediatrician and clinical biochemist.

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Alfred Hershey

Alfred Day Hershey (December 4, 1908 – May 22, 1997) was an American Nobel Prize–winning bacteriologist and geneticist.

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Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center

The Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine is a cancer treatment, research and education institution with six locations in the St. Louis area.

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Arthur Kornberg

Arthur Kornberg (March 3, 1918 – October 26, 2007) was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1959 for the discovery of "the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid" together with Spanish biochemist and physician Severo Ochoa of New York University.

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Audiology

Audiology (from Latin audÄ«re, "to hear"; and from Greek -λογία, -logia) is a branch of science that studies hearing, balance, and related disorders.

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Barnes-Jewish Hospital

Barnes-Jewish Hospital is the largest hospital in the U.S. state of Missouri. Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital are Washington University in St. Louis.

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BJC HealthCare

BJC HealthCare is a non-profit health care organization based in St. Louis, Missouri.

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Brian Kobilka

Brian Kent Kobilka (born May 30, 1955) is an American physiologist and a recipient of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Lefkowitz for discoveries that reveal the workings of G protein-coupled receptors.

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C. Garrison Fathman

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Carl Ferdinand Cori

Carl Ferdinand Cori, ForMemRS (December 5, 1896 – October 20, 1984) was a Czech-American biochemist and pharmacologist.

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

The Carnegie Corporation of New York is a philanthropic fund established by Andrew Carnegie in 1911 to support education programs across the United States, and later the world.

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Central Institute for the Deaf

Central Institute for the Deaf (CID) is a school for the deaf that teaches students using listening and spoken language, also known as the auditory-oral approach. Washington University School of Medicine and Central Institute for the Deaf are Washington University in St. Louis.

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Central West End station

Central West End station is a light rail station on the Red and Blue lines of the St. Louis MetroLink system.

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Central West End, St. Louis

The Central West End is a neighborhood in St. Louis, Missouri, stretching from Midtown's western edge to Union Boulevard and bordering on Forest Park with its array of free cultural institutions.

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Charles M. Rice

Charles Moen Rice (born August 25, 1952) is an American virologist and Nobel Prize laureate whose main area of research is the hepatitis C virus.

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Christian de Duve

Christian René Marie Joseph, Viscount de Duve (2 October 1917 – 4 May 2013) was a Nobel Prize-winning Belgian cytologist and biochemist.

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Clay Armstrong

Clay Margrave Armstrong (born 1934) is an American physiologist and a former student of Andrew Fielding Huxley.

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Cortex Innovation Community

Cortex Innovation Community, Cortex Innovation District, or Cortex is an innovation district in the Midtown neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri.

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Dan Littman

Dan R. Littman is an American immunologist best known for his work on T lymphocytes.

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Daniel Nathans

Daniel Nathans (October 30, 1928 – November 16, 1999) was an American microbiologist.

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David Talmage

David Wilson Talmage (September 15, 1919 – March 6, 2014) was an American immunologist.

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Doctor of Medicine

Doctor of Medicine (abbreviated M.D., from the Latin Medicinae Doctor) is a medical degree, the meaning of which varies between different jurisdictions.

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Duke University

Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States.

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Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr.

Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr. (November 19, 1915 – March 9, 1974) was an American pharmacologist and biochemist born in Burlingame, Kansas.

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Edward Adelbert Doisy

Edward Adelbert Doisy (November 13, 1893 – October 23, 1986) was an American biochemist.

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Edwin G. Krebs

Edwin Gerhard Krebs (June 6, 1918 – December 21, 2009) was an American biochemist.

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Eric D. Green

Eric D. Green (born December 10, 1959) is an American genomics researcher who had significant involvement in the Human Genome Project.

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Ernst Wynder

Ernst Ludwig Wynder (April 30, 1922 – July 14, 1999) was an American epidemiology and public health researcher who studied the health effects of smoking tobacco.

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Ethel Ronzoni Bishop

Ethel Ronzoni Bishop (b. August 21, 1890 – 1975) was an American biochemist and physiologist.

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Ewald W. Busse

Ewald William Busse (August 18, 1917 – March 7, 2004) was an American psychiatrist, gerontologist, author and academic administrator best known for being the dean of the Duke University School of Medicine.

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Faye Cashatt Lewis

Faye Cashatt Lewis (20 January 1896 – 10 June 1982) was the first woman to graduate from Washington University School of Medicine in St.

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Floyd E. Bloom

Floyd E. Bloom (born 1936 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American medical researcher specializing in chemical neuroanatomy.

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Forest Park (St. Louis)

Forest Park is a public park in western St. Louis, Missouri.

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George Davis Snell

George Davis Snell NAS (December 19, 1903 – June 6, 1996) was an American mouse geneticist and basic transplant immunologist.

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Gerty Cori

Gerty Theresa Cori (August 15, 1896 – October 26, 1957) was a Bohemian-Austrian and American biochemist who in 1947 was the third woman to win a Nobel Prize in science, and the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for her role in the "discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen".

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Grading in education

Grading in education is the process of applying standardized measurements for varying levels of achievements in a course.

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Hamilton O. Smith

Hamilton Othanel Smith (born August 23, 1931 in New York) is an American microbiologist and Nobel laureate.

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Helen Elizabeth Nash

Helen Elizabeth Nash (8 August 1921 – 4 October 2012) was a pediatrician known for breaking racial and gender barriers in the medical field.

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Herbert Spencer Gasser

Herbert Spencer Gasser (July 5, 1888 – May 11, 1963) was an American physiologist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1944 for his work with action potentials in nerve fibers while on the faculty of Washington University in St. Louis, awarded jointly with Joseph Erlanger.

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Howard Hughes Medical Institute

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) is an American non-profit medical research organization based in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

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Ingrid Skop

Ingrid Skop is an American obstetrics and gynecology physician and anti-abortion activist who is the vice president and director of medical affairs at the Charlotte Lozier Institute, the research arm of the political advocacy group Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America.

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James E. Darnell

James Edwin Darnell Jr. (born September 9, 1930, Columbus, Mississippi) is an American biologist who made significant contributions to RNA processing and cytokine signaling and is author of the cell biology textbook Molecular Cell Biology.

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Jonathan Mann (physician)

Jonathan Max Mann (July 30, 1947 – September 2, 1998) was an American physician who was an administrator for the World Health Organization, and spearheaded early AIDS research in the 1980s.

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Joseph Erlanger

Joseph Erlanger (January 5, 1874 – December 5, 1965) was an American physiologist who is best known for his contributions to the field of neuroscience.

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Luis Federico Leloir

Luis Federico Leloir (September 6, 1906 – December 2, 1987) was an Argentine physician and biochemist who received the 1970 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of the metabolic pathways by which carbohydrates are synthesized and converted into energy in the body.

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Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology

The Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (MIR), established 1931, is an academic radiology center associated with the Washington University School of Medicine, located within the Washington University Medical Center in St. Washington University School of Medicine and Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology are Washington University in St. Louis.

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McDonnell Genome Institute

McDonnell Genome Institute (The Elizabeth H. and James S. McDonnell III Genome Institute) at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, is one of three NIH funded large-scale sequencing centers in the United States. Washington University School of Medicine and McDonnell Genome Institute are Washington University in St. Louis and Washington University in St. Louis campus.

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Medical College Admission Test

The Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) is a computer-based standardized examination for prospective medical students (both Allopathic M.D. and Osteopathic D.O.) in the United States, Australia, Canada, and the Caribbean Islands.

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Medical school

A medical school is a tertiary educational institution, professional school, or forms a part of such an institution, that teaches medicine, and awards a professional degree for physicians.

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Missouri

Missouri is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Missouri Baptist Medical Center

Missouri Baptist Medical Center, known locally as MoBap, is a hospital in Town and Country, Missouri.

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National Academy of Medicine

The National Academy of Medicine (NAM), known as the Institute of Medicine (IoM) until 2015, is an American nonprofit, non-governmental organization.

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National Academy of Sciences

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization.

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National Human Genome Research Institute

The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) is an institute of the National Institutes of Health, located in Bethesda, Maryland.

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National Institutes of Health

The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH, is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research.

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National Medal of Science

The National Medal of Science is an honor bestowed by the President of the United States to individuals in science and engineering who have made important contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the fields of behavioral and social sciences, biology, chemistry, engineering, mathematics and physics.

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Neuroscience

Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system (the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system), its functions and disorders.

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prizes (Nobelpriset; Nobelprisen) are five separate prizes awarded to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind, as established by the 1895 will of Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist Alfred Nobel, in the year before he died.

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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin) is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine.

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Obstetrics and gynaecology

Obstetrics and gynaecology (also spelled as obstetrics and gynecology; abbreviated as Obs and Gynae, O&G, OB-GYN and OB/GYN) is the medical specialty that encompasses the two subspecialties of obstetrics (covering pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period) and gynaecology (covering the health of the female reproductive system – vagina, uterus, ovaries, and breasts).

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Paul Berg

Paul Berg (June 30, 1926 – February 15, 2023) was an American biochemist and professor at Stanford University.

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Pedro Cuatrecasas

Pedro Cuatrecasas (born 27 September 1936) is an American biochemist and an Adjunct Professor of Pharmacology & Medicine at the University of California San Diego.

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Philip O. Alderson

Philip O. Alderson, M.D. served as Dean of Saint Louis University School of Medicine from 2008 through 2016 and as vice-president for Medical Affairs from 2009 through 2016.

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Private school

A private school is a school not administered or funded by the government, unlike a public school.

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Radiology

Radiology is the medical specialty that uses medical imaging to diagnose diseases and guide their treatment, within the bodies of humans and other animals.

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Rita Levi-Montalcini

Rita Levi-Montalcini (22 April 1909 – 30 December 2012) was an Italian neurobiologist.

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Robert F. Furchgott

Robert Francis Furchgott (June 4, 1916 – May 19, 2009) was a Nobel Prize-winning American biochemist who contributed to the discovery of nitric oxide as a transient cellular signal in mammalian systems.

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Robert S. Brookings

Robert Somers Brookings (January 22, 1850 – November 15, 1932) was an American businessman and philanthropist, known for his involvement with Washington University in St. Louis and his founding of the Brookings Institution.

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Saint Louis University School of Medicine

Saint Louis University School of Medicine is a private, Jesuit medical school. Washington University School of Medicine and Saint Louis University School of Medicine are medical schools in Missouri.

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Science (journal)

Science, also widely referred to as Science Magazine, is the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and one of the world's top academic journals.

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Scripps Research

Scripps Research is a nonprofit American medical research facility that focuses on research and education in the biomedical sciences.

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Selna Kaplan

Selna Lucille Kaplan (April 8, 1927 – July 21, 2010) was an American pediatric endocrinologist and a professor of pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco.

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Severo Ochoa

Severo Ochoa de Albornoz (24 September 1905 – 1 November 1993) was a Spanish physician and biochemist, and winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine together with Arthur Kornberg for their discovery of "the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)".

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Spencer Truman Olin

Spencer Truman Olin (August 20, 1900 – April 14, 1995) was an American businessman and philanthropist.

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St. Louis

St.

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St. Louis Children's Hospital

St. Washington University School of Medicine and St. Louis Children's Hospital are Washington University in St. Louis.

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Stanley Cohen (biochemist)

Stanley Cohen (November 17, 1922 – February 5, 2020) was an American biochemist who, along with Rita Levi-Montalcini, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1986 for the isolation of nerve growth factor and the discovery of epidermal growth factor.

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Surgery

Surgery is a medical specialty that uses manual and instrumental techniques to diagnose or treat pathological conditions (e.g., trauma, disease, injury, malignancy), to alter bodily functions (i.e., malabsorption created by bariatric surgery such as gastric bypass), to reconstruct or improve aesthetics and appearance (cosmetic surgery), or to remove unwanted tissues (body fat, glands, scars or skin tags) or foreign bodies.

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Susan Kolb

Susan Kolb (born November 26, 1954) is a medical doctor in Atlanta, Georgia, and the author of The Naked Truth about Breast Implants: From Harm to Healing.

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Tom Hornbein

Thomas Frederic Hornbein (November 6, 1930 – May 6, 2023) was an American mountaineer and anesthesiologist who made the first ascent of Mount Everest via the west ridge; the Hornbein Couloir on Everest was named in his honor.

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U.S. News & World Report

U.S. News & World Report (USNWR, US NEWS) is an American media company publishing news, consumer advice, rankings, and analysis.

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University of Washington School of Medicine

The University of Washington School of Medicine is the medical school of the University of Washington, a public research university in Seattle, Washington.

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Urban area

An urban area is a human settlement with a high population density and an infrastructure of built environment.

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Veterans Health Administration

The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is the component of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) led by the Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Health that implements the healthcare program of the VA through a nationalized healthcare service in the United States, providing healthcare and healthcare-adjacent services to veterans through the administration and operation of 146 VA Medical Centers (VAMC) with integrated outpatient clinics, 772 Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOC), and 134 VA Community Living Centers (VA Nursing Home) Programs.

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Washington Manual of Medical Therapeutics

The Washington Manual of Medical Therapeutics is a medical textbook first published in 1942 by Wayland MacFarlane, a professor at the Washington University School of Medicine and chief of the internal medicine ward. Washington University School of Medicine and Washington Manual of Medical Therapeutics are Washington University in St. Louis.

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Washington University in St. Louis

Washington University in St.

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Wolf Prize in Medicine

The Wolf Prize in Medicine is awarded annually by the Wolf Foundation in Israel.

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World Health Organization

The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health.

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See also

1891 establishments in Missouri

Medical schools in Missouri

Washington University in St. Louis

Washington University in St. Louis campus

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_University_School_of_Medicine

Also known as Missouri Medical College, St. Louis Medical College, WUSM, Washington University (medical school), Washington University Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Washington University Medical School, Washington University Physicians, Washington University School of Nursing, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, Washinton University Physicians.

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