Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School

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Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School
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Type Medical school
Established1818 (Charing Cross Hospital Medical School)
1834 (Westminster Hospital Medical School)
1984 (Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School)
1997 (Imperial College School of Medicine)
Location,
Affiliations Imperial College London Charing Cross Hospital

Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School existed as a legal entity for 13 years, as the midpoint of a series of mergers which strategically consolidated the many small medical schools in west London into one large institution under the aegis of Imperial College London.

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In 1984, Charing Cross Hospital Medical School and Westminster Hospital Medical School merged to form the Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School. This move was part of a series of mergers in the London medical schools in the early 1980s, which foreshadowed the second, larger round of mergers in the late 1990s.

Based at the Charing Cross Hospital site in Hammersmith and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in Chelsea, the new medical school took the form of its larger precursor (CXHMS) in using "X" as an abbreviation for "Cross". The medical school also maintained academic units at the university hospitals of Queen Mary's Roehampton, West Middlesex, Ashford and Hillingdon. [1]

In 1997, CXWMS merged with Imperial College, London (whose medical department was at St Mary's Hospital Medical School), The National Heart and Lung Institute and the Royal Postgraduate Medical School to form Imperial College School of Medicine.

Student life

Students' Union based around the Reynolds Bar. CXWSU merged in Imperial College School of Medicine Students' Union in 1997.

Deans

YEARDEANPRESIDENT
2000-1Prof JMA Whitehouse
1999-0Prof JMA Whitehouse
1998-9Prof JMA WhitehouseWade Gayed
1997-8Prof JMA WhitehouseNick Carter
1996-7Prof RM Greenhalgh
1995-6Prof RM GreenhalghChristina Dale
1994-5Prof RM Greenhalgh– Dwynwen Roberts
1993-4Prof RM Greenhalgh– Andy Carne
1992-3Mr JEH Pendower– Cliona Kirwan
1991-2Mr JEH Pendower– Stana Bojanic
1990-1Mr JEH Pendower– Eddie Strivens
1989-90Mr JEH Pendower– Roby Rakhit
1988-9Professor Tony Glenister– Abigail Samuels
1987-8Professor Tony Glenister
1986-7Professor Tony Glenister–
1985-6Professor Tony Glenister
1984-5

Notable alumni

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References

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