# University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry

The School of Medicine and Dentistry (SMD) is an accredited medical school and school for advanced dental education, with graduate education programs in biomedical, biological and health sciences. The facilities of the school are located in the URMC complex and the adjoining Arthur Kornberg Medical Research Building with research facilities. Dental education and patient facilities are located within the URMC complex and the Eastman Institute for Oral Health.
SMD has ranked in the top 35 graduate schools by U.S. News & World Report several times. In 2023, the medical school's class size was 105, the mean GPA was 3.82 and mean MCAT score was 516. SMD also received a full six-year accreditation by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education for its 26 residency programs at Strong Memorial Hospital in 2005. The medical school opened in 1925, and its first class graduated in 1929.

## Faculty

* George W. Corner, American physician, embryologist and pioneer of the contraceptive pill
* George Packer Berry (Prof. 1932–1949), later dean of Harvard Medical School
* Henrik Dam (Prof. 1942–1945), Nobel laureate (1943, physiology or medicine)
* George L. Engel, psychiatrist and creator of biopsychosocial model
* Paul Fiset, microbiologist and developer of the Q fever vaccine
* Lynne E. Maquat, professor of biochemistry and biophysics, pediatrics and oncology at the University of Rochester Medical Center
* Lisa Kitko, nurse scientist and academic administrator
* Kenneth Ouriel, vascular surgeon and researcher
* George Hoyt Whipple (Prof. 1914–1976), Nobel laureate (1934, physiology or medicine)
* Maiken Nedergaard, Danish neuroscientist, known for discovering the glymphatic system
* Wallace O. Fenn, chairman of the department of physiology at the University of Rochester

## Alumni

* Harvey J. Alter, medical researcher, virologist, physician, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Medicine (2020)
* Donald Henderson, physician, educator, and epidemiologist, Dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
* James V. Neel, geneticist who played a key role in the development of human genetics as a field of research in the United States
* Jason Diamond, plastic surgeon
* Seymour I. Schwartz, prolific surgeon, author of Schwartz's Principles of Surgery
* Mary Calderone, physician and public health advocate who was an instrumental figure in the advancement of reproductive rights and sex education in the United States.
* Bernadette Drummond, professor of dentistry in New Zealand and the UK
* Arthur Kornberg, molecular biologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1959 for his discovery of "the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)." Severo Ochoa of New York University was a co-recipient of the award.
* Richard Locksley, medical doctor, professor and researcher of infectious diseases at the University of California, San Francisco
* William Masters, American gynecologist and the senior member of the Masters and Johnson human sexuality research team
* Philip Pizzo, David and Susan Heckerman Professor and Professor of Microbiology and Immunology and former Dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine
* Renée Richards, American ophthalmologist and former professional tennis player
* Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk, nurse, professor of pediatrics and psychiatry at Ohio State University College of Medicine and dean of the College of Nursing
* Henry Metzger, immunologist
* Vincent du Vigneaud, recipient of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, known for synthesizing oxytocin
* David Nash (physician), American physician, public health expert, Founding Dean Emeritus, Professor of Health Policy at the Jefferson College of Population Health
* Michelle Albert, cardiologist, Chair in Cardiology and professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco
* David Amaral, professor of psychiatry, research director at the M.I.N.D. Institute
* Clement Finch, hematologist and anemia researcher
* Diane Mathis, chair of immunohematology at Harvard Medical School
* Don Catlin, American anti-doping scientist
* Michael S. Gottlieb, American physician and immunologist known for his 1981 identification of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS)
* Roger Nicoll, American neuroscientist
* David Satcher, four-star admiral in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and served as the 11th Assistant Secretary for Health, and the 16th Surgeon General of the United States
* Tener Goodwin Veenema, Senior Scientist in the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
* John Romano, founded the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Rochester
* Jonathan D. Quick, family physician and public health management specialist
* Akilah Weber, American politician and physician serving in the California State Assembly
* Phillip Russell (general), American arbovirologist, former commander of United States Army Medical Research and Development Command
* John Rowe (Aetna), American businessman and academic physician, who served as Chairman and CEO of Aetna Inc.
* Barbara Ann DeBuono, former New York State Commissioner of Health
* Frederick Bieber, Canadian-American geneticist currently serving as Senior Medical Geneticist at Brigham and Women's Hospital
* Richard Isay, American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College
* Eileen Sullivan-Marx, Dean of the New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing
* Elizabeth R. McAnarney, pediatrician who is recognized for her leadership in the fields of adolescent medicine and pediatrics
* Willard Myron Allen, American gynecologist, discoverer of progesterone
* Harold Paz, former executive vice president and chief medical officer at CVS Health/Aetna
* Jonathan Samet, American pulmonary physician and epidemiologist who serves as dean of the Colorado School of Public Health
* Paul E. Turner, American evolutionary biologist and virologist, Professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Yale University
* Bernard T. Ferrari, dean of the Carey Business School of the Johns Hopkins University
* Nevin S. Scrimshaw, American food scientist Institute Professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
* Alan S. Rabson, American pathologist and cancer researcher, and was deputy director of the National Cancer Institute
* Edward D. Miller, anesthesiologist, Dean of the Medical Faculty at Johns Hopkins University and the Chief Executive Officer of Johns Hopkins Medicine
* Carol Nadelson, psychiatrist, first female president of the American Psychiatric Association
* Eric Topol, Scripps Health Chief Academic Officer, cardiologist
* Warren Zapol, director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Anesthesia Center for Critical Care Research
* Donald Henderson, physician and epidemiologist who headed the smallpox eradication campaign