Johns Hopkins

Daniel Coit Gilman

John Shaw Billings

William Osler

William Henry Welch

William Stewart Halsted

Howard A. Kelly

Progressive Medical Education Begins

Antiseptic Surgery Debuts

Gynecologic Pathology Becomes a Specialty

Nursing Education Enters a New Era

The Hormone Epinephrine (Adrenaline) Comes to Light

Neurosurgery and Endocrinology Become Specialties

Prostate Removal Becomes Possible

Research Moves Into Clinical Departments

A Way to Grow Cells Outside the Body Is Created

Social Work Takes on a Formal Hospital Role

Psychiatry Gains Stature as a Scientific Discipline

Johns Hopkins Medical Education Sets the Standard

Medical Illustration Comes Into Its Own

Harriet Lane Home for Invalid Children

The Nation's First Full-Time Department of Pediatrics Is Born

The Nation's First Modern Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic Opens

Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic

A Working Artificial Kidney Is Invented

Urology Is Transformed Into a Major Surgical Specialty

James Buchanan Brady Urological Institute

Heparin Is Discovered

A Woman Scales the Ladder to Full Professor

A Revolution in Brain Surgery Begins

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Steps Forward

A Way to Purify Insulin Is Found

Pediatric Specialties Take Root

Wilmer Eye Institute

William H. Welch Medical Library

Child Psychiatry Becomes a Specialty

Osler Medical Clinic and Halsted Surgical Clinic

Electricity Restores Normal Heart Rhythm

Origin of the Pregnancy Hormone Is Discovered

Johns Hopkins Nursing Reaches Far and Wide

Modern Heart Surgery Arrives

Cardiac Catheterization Is Used to Diagnose Heart Disease

Lasker Award W. Horsley Gantt

Lasker Award Alan F. Guttmacher

The Groundwork for Polio Vaccine Is Laid

A Treatment for Motion Sickness Is Found

HeLa Cells Transform Medical Research

A Simple Device Makes Hemoglobin Analysis Practical

Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research

Neuroscience Becomes a Specialty

Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research

Medical Genetics Becomes a Specialty

Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Is Developed

Blalock Clinical Science Building

Johns Hopkins Children's Center

Diabetic Vision Impairment Can Be Treated with the Argon Laser

The Brain's Opioid Receptor Is Discovered

Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research

Edwards A. Park Building

Johns Hopkins Is Named a Comprehensive Cancer Center

The Johns Hopkins Atlas of Human Functional Anatomy Is First Published

A. McGehee Harvey Teaching Tower and Russell A. Nelson Patient Tower

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Lifesaving Heart-Device Surgery Begins

Modern Prostate Surgery Begins

Adolf Meyer Building

Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research

Cancer Treatment Takes a Major Step Forward

Johns Hopkins Health System Is Established

Twins Joined at the Back of the Head Are Separated

Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research

Richard Starr Ross Research Building

Robert M. Heyssel Building

The Operation for Pancreas Cancer Is Improved Dramatically

Prostate Cancer Treatment Becomes More Predictable

A Treatment for Sickle Cell Disease Is Discovered

A Major Breakthrough for Live Kidney Donation Arrives

Johns Hopkins Medicine Takes Formal Shape

Chemotherapy Goes Directly to Brain Tumors

Lasker Award for Special Achievement in Medical Science

Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research

A Diet to Control Epilepsy Comes Out of the Shadows

Human Stem Cell Research Makes a Breakthrough

A New Concept of Health and Disease Emerges

McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine

Bunting Family–The Family of Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Building

Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Building

Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences

HPV Is Linked to Head and Neck Cancer

MacArthur Foundation Fellowships

MacArthur Foundation Fellowships

Institute for Cell Engineering

The Transplant Center Launches Paired Kidney Exchange

Blood Filtering Allows a Kidney Transplant from Any Donor

CEPAR

Nobel Prize in Chemistry

National Medal of Science

Johns Hopkins Nursing Earns Magnet Status

Edward D. Miller Research Building

Loeys-Dietz Syndrome Is Identified

David H. Koch Cancer Research Building

David M. Rubenstein Child Health Building

A Research Powerhouse Is Recognized

MacArthur Foundation Fellowships

Brain Science Institute

MacArthur Foundation Fellowships Award

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Medical Education Takes Another Quantum Leap

Robert H. and Clarice Smith Building

Anne and Mike Armstrong Medical Education Building

The Science of Patient Safety Steps Forward

A Cure for Sickle Cell Disease Arrives

The Johns Hopkins Hospital Opens its New Front Door

A Double-Arm Transplant Changes a Life

Johns Hopkins Medicine International

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The Johns Hopkins Hospital Turns 125

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