Type | Private medical school |
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Established | 1908 |
Parent institution | Stanford University |
Dean | Lloyd B. Minor |
Academic staff | 801 |
Students | 3,498 |
Postgraduates | 1,158 |
Location | , , United States 37°26′04″N 122°10′34″W / 37.43444°N 122.17611°W |
Campus | Suburban |
Vice Dean | Linda M. Boxer |
Website | med |
The Stanford University School of Medicine is the medical school of Stanford University and is located in Stanford, California, United States. It traces its roots to the Medical Department of the University of the Pacific, founded in San Francisco in 1858. This medical institution, then called Cooper Medical College, was acquired by Stanford in 1908. The medical school moved to the Stanford campus near Palo Alto, California, in 1959.
The School of Medicine, along with Stanford Health Care and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, is part of Stanford Medicine.