Alpert Medical School
The Warren Alpert Medical School (formerly known as Brown Medical School) is the medical school of Brown University, located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Established in 1811, the school was among the first in the nation to offer academic medical education, but was suspended after sixteen years of operation by university President Francis Wayland. The medical school was reinstated in 1972, becoming the only MD-granting institution in the state of Rhode Island. Today, Alpert Medical School is a component of Brown’s Division of Biology and Medicine, which also includes the Program in Biology and the Program in Public Health. Together with the Medical School’s seven affiliated teaching hospitals, the Division attracts over $300 million in external research funding per year.
The fourth most selective medical school in the United States, Brown Alpert Medical School earned rankings of twenty-fourth for primary care education, thirty-fifth for research, and ninth for alcohol and addiction studies in the 2012 U.S. News & World Report. Graduates of Alpert Medical School are accepted into the nation's most competitive residency programs and leading medical centers. The school is currently seeking replacements for the Dean of Biological and Medical Sciences, Dr. Edward J. Wing, a renowned infectious disease specialist and former chair of the Department of Medicine, and current assistant Dean of Education, Phillip Gruppuso, whose contracts are being terminated at the end of this academic year.
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