UC medical centers at glance, University of Cincinnati

UC medical centers at glance

College of Medicine founded in 1819 as the Medical College of Ohio, first medical college west of the Allegheny Mountains
College of Pharmacy founded in 1850 as the Cincinnati College of Pharmacy, the first pharmacy college west of the Alleghenies
College of Nursing founded in 1889 as the Cincinnati Training School for Nurses, became one of two schools to offer the nation's first baccalaureate degree in nursing
College of Allied Health Sciences founded in '98 to unite programs spread throughout the university, including communication disorders, nutrition, genetic counseling, medical technology and physical therapy

First emergency medicine residency program in the nation
Country's first medical laser laboratory
First legal-nursing baccalaureate program (begun in '99) and one of the oldest nursing master's degree programs in the country (offered in '56)
Nation's first university-based environmental research center
Country's first physical medicine and rehabilitation residency program
One of the country's first Family Practice residency programs, which helped pioneer the return of the family doctor to U.S. health care
State's first biomedical engineering department at a public university
The Tristate's only eye pathology lab
Region's first and only training program for medical-oncology fellows and residents

Pioneered orthopaedic joint replacement, particularly total bilateral hip replacement
Educated 80 percent of Greater Cincinnati physicians
Developed a treatment to reduce brain damage in stroke patients
Developed the heart-lung machine and the Fogarty heart catheter
Developed the first oral polio vaccine and the antihistamine Benadryl
Owns a nuclear magnetic resonance machine so high-tech that it is one of only 15 in the world
Operates a major transplantation center for heart, liver, kidney, kidney-pancreas and bone-marrow transplants
Serves as the region's major adult burns-treatment center
Boosted the Tristate's economy in '99 with a $3.05 billion economic impact, as measured in conjunction with its affiliates