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SUNY Downstate Medical Center

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  • Dr. George Edward Tyler (1869 - 1902)
    State University of New York Downstate College of Medicine, Brooklyn: Long Island Coll. Hosp., 1896,
  • Carl Axel Gemzell (1910 - 2007)
    Carl Axel Gemzell (January 4, 1910 in Motala, Sweden – February 11, 2007 in Norrtälje, Sweden) was a Swedish physician and pioneer in reproductive endocrinology.Ref.:* Vem är det 1981
  • Dr Robert Francis Furchgott, Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, 1998 (1916 - 2009)
    Robert Francis Furchgott (June 4, 1916 – May 19, 2009) was a 1998 Nobel Prize-winning American biochemist. Life and career Furchgott was born in Charleston, South Carolina, to Arthur Furchgott (Decembe...

Wikipedia

SUNY Downstate Medical Center, located in central Brooklyn, New York, is the only academic medical center for health education, research, and patient care serving Brooklyn’s 2.5 million residents. As of Fall 2011, it had a total student body of 1,738 and approximately 8,000 faculty and staff.

Downstate Medical Center comprises a College of Medicine, Colleges of Nursing and Health Related Professions, Schools of Graduate Studies and Public Health, and University Hospital of Brooklyn. It also includes a major research complex and biotechnology facilities.

SUNY Downstate ranks eighth nationally in the number of alumni who are on the faculty of American medical schools. More physicians practicing in New York City graduated from Downstate than from any other medical school. With 1,040 residents (young physicians in training), Downstate's residency program is the 16th largest in the country.

SUNY Downstate Medical Center is the fourth largest employer in Brooklyn. Eighty-six percent of its employees are New York City residents; 68 percent live in Brooklyn. The medical center's total direct, indirect, and induced economic impact on New York State is in excess of $2 billion. SUNY Downstate Medical Center attracted close to $60 million in external research funding in 2011, which includes $26 million from federal sources. It ranks fourth among SUNY campuses in grant expenditures, and second among SUNY's academic health centers.

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