1810

Yale University School of Medicine - then named the Medical Institution of Yale College - is established and formally opens in 1813 with four professors and a handful of students. Classes are held and students housed in a building on the corner of Grove and Prospect Streets across the street from the Grove Street Cemetery.

1833

The State Hospital - eventually known as the Yale-New Haven Hospital - opens with room for 75 patients in a building between Cedar and Howard Streets.

1860

The Medical Institution moves closer to the hospital, to 150 York Street.

1879

The State Assembly approves a charter to incorporate the Medical Department of Yale College, giving the president and fellows of Yale College the right to determine the qualifications for the M.D. degree. The Medical Department of Yale College establishes a mandatory three-year graded program for the M.D. degree.

1886

Surgical Class photo

1894

Yale Medical Journal publishes its first issue.

1901

The New Haven Dispensary, used for clinical teaching since 1879, moves to the corner of Cedar and Congress Street. The building, today known as the Hope Building, is funded by a bequest in memory of Jane Ellen Hope.

1915

Yale establishes the country's first academic program in public health.

1916

Yale admits first women to Medical School: Louise Farnam and Helen May Scoville, who is later hired by Yale as an instructor in surgery and pathology.

1917

Brady Laboratory opens.

1921-1931

Yale Medical School emerges as one of the top medical schools in the country.

1925

Sterling Hall of Medicine building is completed, taking on its present appearance with the addition of the Institute of Human Relations wing in 1931.

1931

Sterling bequest builds the Yale Medical Library with its magnificent Historical Library.

1949

William H. Sewall, Jr., a third year medical student at Yale, develops the first artificial heart pump which is now displayed at the Smithsonian.

1955

Edward S. Harkness Memorial Hall, the residence hall for medical students, is completed.

1957

Dr. Orvan Hess develops the fetal heart monitor.

1958

The Hunter Radiation Therapy Center is dedicated.

Yale-New Haven Medical Center incorporated.

1961

Dr. Dorothy M. Horstmann becomes Yale's first woman professor. She and Dr. John Rodman Paul develop and test live vaccines against polio and rubella.

The Laboratory of Epidemiology and Public Health opens.

1965

New affiliation agreement between Yale University and Grace-New Haven Community Hospital resulted in a Hospital name change to Yale-New Haven Hospital.

1970

Physician Associates Program established.

1975

1975 Yale rheumatologist Dr. Stephen E. Malawista and Allen Steere identify and name Lyme disease.

1980's

Dr. Stephen Wardlaw and Robert Levine invent the QBC (quantitative buffy coat analysis) test for malaria, the most widely used method of hematological analysis in physicians' offices worldwide.

1983

Yale opens the first AIDS clinic in the state.

1984

Yale establishes New England's first skin bank.

1987

Dr. Richard Edelson develops and uses photopheresis, an innovative treatment used to treat cutaneous T cell lymphoma, scleroderma and graft vs. host disease in transplant patients.

1988

Yale Physicians Building on Howard Street opens.

1991

Boyer Center for Molecular Medicine opens, an interdisciplinary center for molecular research for understanding disease.

1994

AIDS drug (Zerit), discovered by Dr. William Prusoff, is brought to market.

1999

Lyme vaccine (LYMErix), discovered by Richard A. Flavell, Ph.D., Fred S. Kantor, M.D., Erol Fikrig, M.D., and Stephen W. Barthold, D.V.M., PhD, hits the market.