The Tufts University School of Medicine is the medical school of Tufts University, a private research university in Massachusetts. It was established in 1893 and is located on the university's health sciences campus in downtown Boston. It has clinical affiliations with numerous doctors and researchers in the United States and around the world, as well as with its affiliated hospitals in both Massachusetts, and Maine.
Pliny Earle II, MD was an American physician, psychiatrist, and poet. He was the son of the inventor Pliny Earle of the Earle family.
Theodric Romeyn Beck, alternatively Theodoric Romeyn Beck or T. Romeyn Beck, was an American physician in Albany, New York, specializing in medical jurisprudence who authored the first significant American book on forensic medicine, Elements of Medical Jurisprudence in 1823.
Henry Halsey Childs was an American politician and physician from Massachusetts, who served as the 16th lieutenant governor of Massachusetts in 1843. He was a native of Pittsfield, Massachusetts and graduated from Williams College in 1802.
Austin Flint II was an American physician. He carried out extensive experimental investigations in human physiology and made several important discoveries. He assisted in establishing the glycogenic function of the liver; showed that one of the functions of the liver is to separate from the blood the cholesterin, which is a product of the nervous system. and which, becoming a constituent of the bile, is afterward converted into what he named "stercorin", the odorous principle of feces.
Benjamin Waterhouse was a physician, co-founder and professor of Harvard Medical School. He is most well known for being the first doctor to test the smallpox vaccine in the United States, which he carried out on his own family.
Jerome Van Crowninsfield Smith was an American physician, author and politician, serving as the fourteenth mayor of Boston, Massachusetts from 1854 to 1855.
The School of Medicine at Trinity College in Dublin, Republic of Ireland, is the oldest medical school in Ireland. Founded in the early eighteenth century, it was originally situated at the site of the current Berkeley Library. As well as providing an undergraduate degree in medicine, the school provides undergraduate courses in physiotherapy, occupational therapy, radiation therapy, human nutrition & dietetics and human health & disease, over 20 taught postgraduate courses, and research degrees.
Elisha Bartlett was a medical doctor, professor and poet who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and as the first mayor of Lowell, Massachusetts.
Berkshire Medical Center is a mid-sized non-profit community hospital located in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. The hospital is part of Berkshire Health Systems, a three-hospital healthcare system operating in Western Massachusetts. In 2022, the hospital reported 198 staffed beds, almost 12,000 discharges, and over 15,000 emergency department visits.
Joseph Pomeroy Root was an American medical doctor, politician, and leader of the Kansas Free Staters.
Willard Parker was a surgeon of the United States, for many years a professor at the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons and other schools.
Rufus Wyman (1778–1842) was an American physician. He was the first physician and superintendent of the Asylum for the Insane, renamed in 1823 to McLean Hospital, part of the Massachusetts General Hospital system, and the first mental hospital in the state.
Albert Moore Barrett, M.D. (1871-1936), an American physician, was professor of psychiatry at the University of Michigan, and credited with the establishment of the first psychiatric hospital within a university.
John Putnam Batchelder was an American surgeon and anatomist.
Seraph Frissell was an American physician and medical writer who specialized in diseases of women and children. She was the first woman in Western Massachusetts to be admitted to any district medical society, and the fourth woman to be admitted a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society. Women were first admitted to medical societies in Massachusetts in 1884; but the Berkshire District Medical Society made Frissell an honorary member in 1877, and she attended its monthly meetings, receiving notices as a regular member.
