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1848
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The Boston Female Medical College is established as the first medical school created for educating women physicians. It later became the New England Female Medical College.
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1850
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Samuel Shattuck, known as the Father of Public Health, is the primary author of the "Report of the Sanitary Commission of Massachusetts."
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1873
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Boston University merges with the New England Female Medical College to establish the Boston University School of Medicine.
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1897
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Dr. Solomon Carter Fuller, who would become the nation's first black psychiatrist, graduates from the BUSM. A pioneer in Alzheimer's research, Dr. Fuller was an early proponent of minority recruitment.
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1946
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Dr. Sydney Gellis becomes Chief of the Department of Pediatrics at Boston City Hospital. Dr. Gellis was the 1959 President of the Society for Pediatric Research and would late become Dean of BUSM in 1962.
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1973
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Drs. Joel Alpert and Alan Cohen are awarded Federal Funding for the first Primary Care Residency Training Program in the nation. Established as a joint Pediatric and Medicine Initiative, the Department of Pediatrics at BCH would develop a national reputation for residency training in primary care and community based Pediatrics.
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1974
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Dr. Jerry Klein describes his work on occult bacteremia in the New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Klein was the 2002 recipient of the prestigious Maxwell Finland Award for Lifetime Achievement in Pediatric Infectious Disease.
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1982
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The Center for Human Genetics under the direction of Dr. Aubrey Milunsky is established at BUSM. The center has become one of the largest genetic diagnostic laboratory services at an academic institution and is known internationally for work in the prenatal diagnosis of genetic disease.
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1989
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Drs. Robert Needleman and Barry Zuckerman begin Reach out and Read (ROR) in the Ambulatory Clinic Waiting Area at BCH. IN 1998, ROR received federal funding to establish a national model combining literacy education promoted by pediatricians. Currently there are 2,337 ROR program sites, serving more than 2 million children nationally. 28,000 pediatricians, nurses, and other clinicians have been trained in the ROR strategy of early literacy.
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1990
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Hortensia Amaro establishes the MOM's Project, a community-based intervention program aimed at improving birth outcomes and reducing drug use among pregnant women by linking them with health-care services, social service supports, counseling and peer support.
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1993
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The Family Advocacy Program is established. This unique collaboration between lawyers and pediatricians, now called the Medical-Legal Partnership for Children (MLPC), provides direct, proactive legal assistance in the clinical setting to families at Boston Medical Center. The MLPC also educates health care professionals to identify non-medical barriers to a patient's health and to incorporate advocacy as part of their treatment plan.
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1994
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Boston Combined Residency Program (BCRP) formed.
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1996
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Boston Medical Center (BMC) is created by the merger of Boston City Hospital and University Hospital.
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1996
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Project Health Project HEALTH (Helping Empower, Advocate and Lead through Health) is founded as a collaboration of Harvard undergraduates and Boston Medical Center's Department of Pediatrics. It has grown to a network of college volunteers and health care mentors that aid inner-city children and families.
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1997
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Children's Sentinel Nutritional Assessment Program formed. CSNAP is a multi-site surveillance program of children birth to 3 years of age that uses nutritional and medical data to advocate for policy.
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1999
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Under the direction of Dr. Bobbi Philipp, BMC became the first hospital in New England to achieve Baby-Friendly status, fully implementing the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative, Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding.
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2004
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Drs. Chi Huang and CC Lee establish the Global Child Health Initiative at Boston Medical Center and the BCRP.
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2004
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The Department of Pediatrics establishes the SPARK Center. The Spark Center (formerly the Children's AIDS Program) is a model childcare program offering comprehensive, integrated services for children and families whose lives are effected by medical, emotional and/or behavioral challenges.
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2004
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Boston University School of Medicine is designated as the new site for the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL). This will be one of only four non-governmental Biosafety level 4 laboratories in North America. Designed to anticipate the research needs of investigators over the next 20 years, the lab will engage in cutting-edge research into diagnostic tests, treatments and vaccines for emerging infectious diseases.
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2005
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The Medical Legal Partnership for Children received funding to establish a national center directed by Ellen Lawton, J.D. and Lauren Smith, M.D. There are now Medical Legal Partnerships for Children in over 180 hospitals and health centers serving children and vulnerable adult populations.
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2006
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During the first 10 years of its formal organization, 15 members of the Division of General Pediatrics received 18 career development awards from the NIH and various foundations.
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2008
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Boston University School of Medicine is awarded a Clinical and Translational Science Institute named the BU-BRIDGE from the NIH. The focus of this 7 million dollar award is to increase the amount of translational research done at BUSM/BMC.
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2009
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Project HEALTH received a $2M grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to support substantial growth of the Family Help Desk model in other institutions. Today, Project HEALTH's 600 college volunteers staff Family Help Desks in 6 cities that assist over 4,500 patients and their families annually in securing health related community resources.
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2011
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The BCRP Global Health Initiative is established as a collaborative venture between the Department of Pediatrics at BMC and the Center for Global Health and Development at the BU School of Public Health
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2011
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Howard Bauchner, MD, is named the 16th Editor in Chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association
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