When was meharry medical college founded

Over the years, Meharry has expanded in-depth and diversity. Meharry houses the Lloyd C. Today, Meharry Medical College is the largest private, historically Black institution exclusively dedicated to educating health care professionals and biomedical scientists in the United States.

Meharry has graduated nearly 15 percent of all Black physicians and dentists practicing in the United States. Since , Meharry has awarded more than 10 percent of the Ph.

Hubbard Hospital, named after George W. Hubbard, one of the first faculty members, was built in Meharry grew steadily in the first half of the 20th Century. In Dr. Harold D. Under his leadership the campus expanded and another wing was added to Hubbard Hospital. The School of Nursing and the Division of Dental Technology were terminated, but improvements were made in the other schools. West Basic Sciences Center. Unlike the medical schools at Howard and other historically black colleges and universities HBCU , Meharry is a private not-for-profit, independent institution.

From to an interim committee managed Meharry until the former dean of the medical school, Lloyd Elam, was appointed president. Meharry then established a graduate school offering the Ph. New buildings for the schools of medicine and dentistry and a new hospital were constructed in the s. Elam provided Meharry with thirteen years of progressive leadership and continued his service to the school as a distinguished member of the teaching faculty. In July David Satcher became the third black man to hold the position of president.

Satcher rose to national prominence and was appointed director of the United States Center for Disease Control in Atlanta in In President Bill Clinton nominated Satcher to the position of surgeon general of the United States; he was confirmed the following year.

The reins of Meharry were passed to Dr. John E. Maupin Jr. Maupin became the ninth president on July 1, He was charged with overseeing construction and renovation of facilities, merging the respective clinical staffs, and accomplishing the monumental job of solidifying the national community around the continued viability of Meharry Medical College. Maupin also would orchestrate the inauguration of the merged facilities on January 1, West Basic Sciences Center.