Establishment of BUSM and Affiliated
Hospitals on the Medical Campus
1848 New England Female Medical College
founded
1855 Mass. Homeopathic Hospital founded
(1918 Mass. Memorial Hosp.; 1965
University Hosp.)
1866 Boston City Hospital founded
1873 NEFMC merges with BU to become
Boston University School of Medicine
New England Female Medical College Becomes BUSM
1873 Group of 7 MD’s led by Israel Tisdale Talbot
expulsed from Mass. Med. Soc. for practicing
homeopathy
1873 Talbot negotiates transfer of NEFMC to Boston
University
1873 Talbot appointed Dean, BUSM (tenure 1873-1897)
1886 BUSM students allowed to train at BCH under
supervision of “regular” physicians
1918
BUSM drops association with homeopathy
1930
BU Medical Service is established at BCH
Robert Dawson Evans
The Bequest of Maria Antoinette Evans
1910 Original gift to fund first building
(opened 3/6/1912)
1912 $60,000 for endowment
1913 $100,00 added to endowment
1918 Securities of unspecified value added
on Mrs. Evans’ death
Mrs. Evans’ Vision Regarding her Bequests
• The Evans Department of Clinical Research
should combine clinical research, research
training, and public education
• Clinical research, clinical care, and teaching
should be closely interrelated
• Hospital beds for patient care should be
directed by researchers
• Laboratories should be restricted to research
activities
Directors of the Evans Memorial
Frank C. Richardson
Henry M. Pollock
1912 - 1919
1918 - 1930
Allan Rowe
Reginald Fitz
Chester S. Keefer
1930 - 1934
1934 - 1939
1939 - 1961
Robert W. Wilkins
Norman G. Levinsky
Joseph Loscalzo
Thomas Moore (ad interim)
David Coleman
1962 - 1972
1972 - 1997
1997 - 2005
2005 - 2006
2006 - present
Chester Keefer, M.D.
Evans 1
1912
Evans 2
1942
Evans 3
1971
Dr. Chester Keefer’s Core Faculty
Robert Wilkins, M.D. – Hypertension/Cardiology
Franz Ingelfinger, M.D. – Gastrointestinal Diseases
Charles Burnett, M.D. – Metabolic Diseases
Francis Lowell, M.D. – Pulmonary Diseases
Louis Weinstein, M.D. – Infectious Diseases
Joseph Ross, M.D. – Radioisotopes
Arnold Relman, M.D. – Renal Diseases
Charles Emerson, M.D. – Hematology
Hollander W, Wilkins RW. Chlorothiazide: a new
type of drug for the treatment of arterial
hypertension. Boston Medical Quarterly 1957;
8(3):69-75.
Wilkins RW, Hollander W, Chobanian AV.
Chlorothiazide in hypertension. Studies on its
mode of action. Annals NY Acad Sci
1958;71:473.
Freis ED, Wilson, IM. Potentiating effect of
chlorothiazide (Diuril) in combination with
antihypertensive agents. Preliminary report.
Med Assoc District of Columbia 1957;26:468.
Freis ED. Chlorothiazide in hypertensive and
normotensive patients. Ann NY Acad Sci
1958;71:450.
Selected Faculty Appointments during
the Wilkins Tenure
Norman G. Levinsky, M.D.
Edward A. Alexander, M.D.
Jay D. Coffman, M.D.
Edgar M. Cathcart, M.D.
Alan S. Cohen, M.D.
Sidney Cooperband, M.D.
Thomas R. Dawber, M.D.
Robert Levin, M.D.
Robert Donaldson, M.D.
Roger Lester, M.D.
Jacob Lemman, Jr., M.D.
Judith Vaitukaitis, M.D.
James Melby, M.D.
Leah Lowenstein, M.D.
Thomas Ryan, M.D.
Donald Small, M.D.
Gordon Snider, M.D.
Louis Sullivan, M.D.
Herbert Teager, M.D.
Aram V. Chobanian, M.D.
Special Article
Annual Discourse – The Boston City
Hospital: A Tale of Three “Cities”
Ephraim Friedman, M.D.
New England Journal of Medicine
1973; 289:503-506
Boston VA and BU Medical Service
• Affiliation of VA with BUSM, HMS and TUSM in
1952
• Merger of VA facilities in 1998 to create Boston
VA Health Care System.
• The VA is a key institution for the education of
BUSM medical students and residents and helps
support more than 100 BUSM faculty.
• Major BUSM research programs exist currently
at the VA
Payor Mix for Boston Medical Center
(1996 projected)
Payment Sources
BCH
BUMCH
New BMC
Medicare
15%
44%
29%
Medicaid
27%
8%
18%
BC/BS
2%
13%
7%
HMO
9%
16%
12%
Other commercial
4%
9%
7%
Self-pay and others
43%
8%
27%
Growth of Faculty in the Evans Department of
Medicine
434
87
10
1940
29
1962
1987
2012
Professors, Department of Medicine
Edward Alexander, MD
Deborah Cotton, MD
Alice Jacobs, MD
Richard Saitz, MD
Karen Antman, MD
William Cruickshank, PhD
Michael Klein, MD
David Salant, MD
Caroline Apovian, MD
Ravin Davidoff, MBBCh
Bernard Kreger , MD
Jeffrey Samet, MD
Gary Balady, MD
R. Curtis Ellison, MD
Nancy Kressin, PhD
Vaishali Sanchorawala, MD
Clinton Baldwin, PhD
Jerrold Ellner, MD
Robert Lafyatis, MD
Paul Schroy, MD
Emelia Benjamin, MD
L. Jack Faling, MD
Adam Lerner, MD
John Schwartz, MD
Jeffrey Berman, MD
Harrison Farber , MD
Robert Levin, MD
David Seldin, MD, PhD
John Bernardo , MD
Francis Farraye, MD
Robert Levine, MD
Rebecca Silliman, MD, PhD
Shalender Bhasin, MD
Lindsay Farrer, PhD
Sharon Levine, MD
Robert Simms, MD
Victoria Bolotina, PhD
David Felson, MD
Chang-seng Liang, MD, PhD
Martha Skinner, MD
Lewis Braverman , MD
Alan Fine, MD
Joseph Mizgerd, ScD
Avrum Spira, MD
Jerome Brody, MD
Susan Fried, PhD
Thomas Moore, MD
Martin Steinberg, MD
Wellington Cardoso, MD, PhD
Robert Friedman, MD
John Murphy, PhD
Maria Trojanowska, PhD
Phyllis Carr, MD
Irene Gavras, MD
George O‘Connor, MD
Joseph Vita, MD
Joel Caslowitz, MD
Haralambos Gavras, MD
Jay Orlander, MD
Kenneth Walsh, PhD
Tai Chen, PhD
Caroline Genco, PhD
Thomas Perls, MD
Donald Weiner, MD
Aram Chobanian, MD
Jianlin Gong, PhD
Susan Perrine-Faller, MD
Lewis Weintraub, MD
Hyon Choi, MD, DPH
Kevan Hartshorn, MD
Vasan Ramachandran, MD
Lee Wetzler, MD
David Chui, MD
Victora Herrera, MD
Katya Ravid, PhD
Robert Witzburg, MD
Richard Cohen, MD
Warren Hershman, MD
Rahul Ray, PhD
Vassilis Zannis, PhD
David Coleman, MD
Michael Holick, MD, PhD
Sayon Roy, PhD
Yuging Zhang, DSc
Wilson Colucci , MD
Tien Hsu, PhD
Neil Ruderman, MD, DPhil
Barbara Corkey, PhD
Elaine Hylek, MD
Nelson Ruiz-Opazo, PhD
Section Chiefs, Department of Medicine
Cardiovascular Medicine
Hematology/Oncology
Wilson S. Colucci, MD
David Seldin, MD, PhD
Clinical Epidemiology Research and Training Unit
Hypertension
David Felson, MD, MPH
Haralambos Gavras, MD
Computational Biomedicine
Infectious Diseases
Avrum Spira, MD
Jerrold J. Ellner, MD
Endocrinology, Diabetes, Nutrition, and Weight
Nephrology
Alan Farwell, MD, Interim Section Chief
David J. Salant, MD
Gastroenterology
Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology
David Nunes, MD, Interim Section Chief
Vasan S. Ramachandran, MD
General Internal Medicine
Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine
Jeffrey H. Samet, MD, MPH,
David M. Center, MD
Genetics Program
Rheumatology
Lindsay A. Farrer, PhD
Robert W. Simms, MD
Geriatrics
Vascular Biology
Lisa B. Caruso, MD, MPH, Interim Section Chief
Richard A. Cohen, MD
Molecular Medicine
Herbert T. Cohen, MD