Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences - Facilities

Facilities

On campus, there is the Administrative Building, located where Children's Mercy Hospital once existed, which houses the administrative offices and support facilities, the Annex Building, which houses 2,200+ seat lecture halls, and the D'Angelo Library. The D'Angelo Library opened in the spring of 2011 and includes a learning resources center, collection and reference rooms, several training and conference rooms, an audio-visual/multimedia room, a special collections room, and group study rooms and numerous offices for library support personnel. The library is named for Vincent F. D'Angelo, D.O. (COM '57), and his wife, Cleo V. D'Angelo. The Leonard Smith Hall houses more than 50 individual and small-group study rooms, a computer lab, student lounge, and a state-of-the-art Bioethics classroom. The Mary Lou Butterworth, D.O., Alumni Center is a meeting center for students, faculty, and alumni.

The Dybedal Center for Research is the focus of research activities at KCUMB. The 45,000-square-foot (4,200 m2) center is equipped for Biosafety Levels I and II research and includes more than 20,000 square feet (1,900 m2) of basic science laboratories. Opened in 2004, the Dybedal Center also includes an 8,000-square-foot (740 m2) clinical research center, the only adult academic clinical research center in Kansas City, Mo., which conducts Phase I-IV studies.

The Kesselheim Center for Clinical Competence, completed in 2006, significantly enhances the early clinical education of first- and second-year KCUMB medical students. By linking eight high-tech human patient simulators with the College of Osteopathic Medicine’s well-established Standardized Patient Program, medical students are provided invaluable opportunities to evaluate, diagnose and treat hundreds of “patients” in a realistic, yet risk-free environment.

The 96,000-square-foot (8,900 m2) Strickland Education Pavilion, opened in 1996, houses a state-of-the-art anatomy and OMT laboratories with fully integrated camera equipment, a high-tech classroom for biomedical sciences students, a 250-seat auditorium, a cafeteria, teaching labs, and meeting rooms.

The Student Activities Center opened in early 2011. The building includes a student lounge, Common Grounds Cafe, meetings and conference rooms, Matthews Bookstore, a multi-dimensional fitness center with cardiovascular and weight training equipment, an aerobics facility, and game room. The building is connected to Weaver Auditorium.

In 2007, the University officially opened the Weaver Auditorium, a 1,500-seat auditorium named in honor of Jack T. Weaver, D.O., Mary Weaver, Howard D. Weaver, D.O., and Debra S. Albers, D.O.