| 1962 |
University of California Regents approve medical school for the San Diego campus. |
| 1966 |
The University of California assumes the lease of the former county hospital, begins operating the newly named “University Hospital” as its primary clinical teaching facility. |
| 1968 |
The first class enters the UC San Diego School of Medicine.
San Diego’s first kidney transplant operation is performed at University Hospital. |
| 1973 |
The Regional Burn Center opens. |
| 1974 |
The federally sponsored General Clinical Research Center is established. |
| 1976 |
The Regional Trauma Center opens. |
| 1977 |
The UCSD Outpatient Center is completed.
UCSD’s Cancer Center is designated a Specialized Cancer Center by the National Cancer Institute.
The Teratogen Birth Defects Registry at UC San Diego Medical Center is made a statewide service.
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| 1979 |
UCSD’s Nurse Midwife program becomes the first in California to be fully accredited.
The Life Flight helicopter-ambulance program is inaugurated. |
| 1981 |
UC purchases University Hospital and adjacent County Mental Health complex from San Diego County. |
| 1983 |
University Hospital begins operating a Stroke Hot Line; stroke unit is dedicated. |
| 1984 |
Hyperbaric Medicine Center opens.
The Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment is established.
UCSD Medical Center is designated the only Level I Trauma Center for San Diego County.
UCSD is designated as the site of one of the original five national Alzheimer’s Disease Research Centers by the National Institute on Aging.
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| 1986 |
UCSD is designated as one of eight national centers for research and treatment of AIDS. |
| 1987 |
Liver Transplant Program is inaugurated. |
| 1989 |
Heart-lung Transplant Program is established with the recruitment of Stuart Jamieson, MD,
an innovator in the field. |
| 1990 |
First heart and heart-lung transplants are performed at UCSD Medical Center. |
| 1991 |
Region’s first double-lung transplant is performed at UCSD Medical Center.
The Donald P. and Darlene V. Shiley Eye Center opens, consolidating patient care and research programs in a state-of-the-art facility.
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| 1992 |
The first pancreas-kidney transplant in the region is performed on a man with diabetes and kidney failure at UCSD Medical Center.
Several thousand staff members, physicians and community members attend opening ceremonies for the completion of the UCSD Medical Center-Hillcrest expansion project.
Transplant surgeons perform UCSD’s 1,000th kidney transplant surgery and celebrate the Kidney Transplant Center’s 25th anniversary.
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| 1993 |
The John M. and Sally B. Thornton Hospital and Perlman Ambulatory Care Center open in La Jolla. |
| 1994 |
The Bannister Family House opens, providing affordable lodging for families of patients from outside the area.
The UCSD Heart/Lung Transplant Team performs the first infant heart transplant in San Diego history.
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| 1995 |
The Anne and Abraham Ratner Children’s Eye Center opens as an extension of UCSD’s Shiley Eye Center, providing specialized care for children.
Construction of the Cellular and Molecular Medicine East (CMM East) building is completed.
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| 1996 |
UCSD School of Medicine receives a $2.6 million grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Conjoined twins who were born attached at the chest and abdomen are discharged from UCSD Medical Center, after being separated.
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| 1997 |
More than 100 UCSD physicians are included in The Best Doctors in America: Pacific Region published by Woodward/White.
UCSD School of Medicine celebrates the 25th anniversary of the charter class graduation.
UCSD School of Medicine establishes a major new center for research in AIDS.
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| 1998 |
UCSD Blood and Marrow Transplant Program is designated as the only National Marrow Donor Program-approved transplant center in San Diego.
UC San Diego Thornton Hospital introduces the Hospitalist Program.
UCSD Medical Center team performs 1,000th pulmonary thromboendartectomy procedure (PTE).
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| 1999 |
UCSD Medical Center and Sharp HealthCare combine forces to establish a joint blood and marrow transplantation program (BMT) that is managed by both organizations.
UCSD Medical Center opens the region’s first Women’s Incontinence Center.
UCSD Medical Center opens a new family-centered birthing unit called The Birth Center.
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| 2000 |
UCSD’s Department of Pediatrics establishes a formal affiliation with Children’s Hospital and Health Center.
$20 million gift from the Moores family boosts philanthropic efforts toward a new UCSD cancer center facility.
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| 2001 |
UCSD Cancer Center receives prestigious Comprehensive Cancer Center status from National Cancer Institute.
UCSD team performs historic first surgery in experimental protocol using gene therapy to treat Alzheimer’s disease.
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| 2002 |
Palmer Taylor, PhD, chair of pharmacology, is named founding dean of new UCSD Pharmacy School; first class enters pharmacy school.
UCSD dedicates center for functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).
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| 2003 |
Ground is broken on the new School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences building.
UCSD names new biomedical research building on the School of Medicine campus the Leichtag Family Foundation Biomedical Research Building.
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| 2004 |
UC San Diego Stroke Center is first in San Diego to receive certification as a Primary Stroke Center.
$30 million gift from the Skaggs Institute for Research is given to pharmacy school.
UC Regents approve planning for new cardiovascular center and Thornton Hospital expansion in La Jolla.
UCSD dedicates new state-of-the-art glaucoma and retina centers to expand Shiley Eye Center complex.
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| 2005 |
Dedication ceremonies mark the opening of the new Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer Center building in La Jolla.
Ground breaking held for La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology and Gemini Science.
$10 million leadership gift from the Sulpizio family supports the new cardiovascular center project.
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| 2006 |
Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences officially opens its doors.
UCSD Medical Center receives international “Baby Friendly” designation.
UCSD joins with the Burnham Institute, Salk Institute and Scripps Research Institute to form the San Diego Center for Regenerative Medicine.
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| 2007 |
UC Regents approve planning for new inpatient bed tower to expand UCSD Medical Center in La Jolla.
Ground is broken for the new Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center/Thornton Hospital expansion in La Jolla.
The School of Medicine expands in class size from 122 to 134.
UCSD Medical Center surgeons are among the nation’s first to begin performing Natural
Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES).
One of six Autism Centers of Excellence (ACE) in the country is established at UC San Diego.
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| 2008 |
UC San Diego’s new Institute of Engineering in Medicine is created.
UCSD Medical Center in Hillcrest celebrates expansion of Regional Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
The UC Regents approve planning for a new health sciences biomedical research building in La Jolla.
UCSD and the Salk Institute establish a center to formally explore the origins of humanity.
Roger Tsien, PhD, professor of pharmacology, is one of three scientists awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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| 2009 |
UC San Diego Medical Center is first hospital in region to offer microwave technology to destroy liver tumors.
The San Diego Epigenome Center at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research at UC San Diego is established — one of four National Institutes of Health (NIH) Reference Epigenome
Mapping Centers (REMC).
UC San Diego has more Alzheimer’s disease researchers on the top 100 list than any other institution in the world, according to the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease.
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| 2010 |
Joan and Irwin Jacobs pledge $75 million to build the UC San Diego Jacobs Medical Center in La Jolla, which will include four hospitals: Thornton Hospital, a cancer hospital, a hospital for women and infants, and a hospital for advanced surgery.
UC San Diego Medical Center name changes to UC San Diego Health System.
UC San Diego Health System is listed as one of the nation’s top 15 major teaching hospitals by Thomson Reuters for the first time.
UC San Diego Health Sciences and its Clinical Translation Research Institute (CTRI) partners
receive a $37.2 million Clinical and Translation Science Award grant to speed up the development of laboratory discoveries into effective treatments for patients.
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| 2011 |
UC San Diego Health System performs the West Coast’s first implant of the world’s only
FDA-approved total artificial heart in a four-hour procedure.
Steve and Lisa Altman pledge $10 million towards the planned Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute (CTRI) building in La Jolla — which will include research laboratories and clinical research space to support UC San Diego medical and bioengineering investigators — slated for completion in late 2015.
UC San Diego Health System was ranked first in San Diego in U.S. News & World Report's first-ever "Best Hospitals" metro rankings — a prestigious ranking that required a hospital to score in the top 25 percent among its peers in at least one of 16 medical specialties.
UC San Diego School of Medicine is among 27 research institutions selected across North
America to be part of the Cancer Immunotherapy Trials Network, funded by the National
Cancer Institute, which will establish a network of top academic immunologists to conduct
multicenter research on agents that boost patient’s own immune systems to fight their cancer.
UC San Diego Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center officially opens its doors as San Diego’s first and only dedicated cardiovascular center combining groundbreaking research and life-saving care under one roof.
The National Institutes of Health awards UC San Diego School of Medicine researchers an
inaugural grant designed to fast-track development of a novel Alzheimer’s disease therapy as
part of its $50 million Blueprint for Neuroscience Research.
UC San Diego Health System wins the 2011 University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC)
Quality Leadership Award, which is awarded to academic medical centers that demonstrate
excellence in delivering high-quality care as measured by the UHC Quality and Accountability
Study.
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