Dean's file on school survey, 1953.

Curran, Jean Alonzo, 1893-

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Jean Alonzo Curran (1893-1977), MD, 1921, Harvard Medical School, was a medical educator, historian, administrator, and consultant based in New York City and Boston, Mass. Curran was president of Long Island College of Medicine from 1942 to 1951 and oversaw the merger of the Long Island College of Medicine with the State University of New York to become the SUNY Downstate Medical Center in 1950. He was a consultant for historical research to Harvard School of Public Health from 1964 to 1968 and ...

American medical association

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Association of American Medical Colleges

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The Association of American Medical Colleges is a non-profit association founded in 1876 to work for reform in medical education. Originally representing only medical schools, the Association now comprises the 125 accredited U.S. medical schools, the 16 accredited Canadian medical schools, 400 major teaching hospitals and health systems, 90 academic and professional societies representing nearly 100,000 faculty members, and the nation's medical students and residents. Additionally,...

Downstate Medical Center (N.Y.)

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In colonial New York, only a small number of almshouse infirmaries existed to care for the sick, while the mentally ill were usually imprisoned or placed in poorhouses. It was not until the early to mid-19th century, when the New York City area's dependent and poor population increased dramatically, that hospitals and other health services organizations, such as homeopaths and maternity wards, readily began to emerge. In Brooklyn specifically, the earliest hospitals included the Kin...