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1892	-	The 20-bed Samaritan Hospital is dedicated by the Rev. Russell H. Conwell.
1901	-	Dr. Conwell founds Temple University School of Medicine.
1903	-	Dean Newton Snively is the first physician in Philadelphia to administer diphtheria antitoxin.
1906	-	Temple Medical College is the first co-educational medical college in Pennsylvania to award the MD degree to women.
1907	-	Dr. Wayne Babcock introduces the use of spinal anesthesia in the U.S.
1912	-	Agnes Berry Montier is the first African American woman to earn the MD degree from Temple. She practiced general medicine in Philadelphia until her death in 1961.
1918	-	W. Edward Chamberlain, MD designs the first image amplifier used in fluoroscopy.
1928	-	The nation's first rehabilitation department opens at Temple under Frank Krusen, MD.
1929	-	Samaritan Hospital undergoes name change to Temple University Hospital.
1930	-	Chevalier Jackson, MD, developer of the bronchoscope, opens the Jackson Clinic for the treatment of diseases of the airway and food passages.
1932	-	Walter I. Lillie, MD, Chairperson of Ophthalmology, introduces the concept of residencies to Temple.
1938	-	W. Emory Burnett, MD, Professor of Surgery, performs Philadelphia's first pneumonectomy.
1939	-	O. Spurgeon English, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, and Edward Weiss, MD open the first clinic for psychosomatic medicine.
1947	-	Ernest Spiegel, MD and Henry Wycis, MD perform the first surgical stereoencephalotomy with a device of their own invention. Fels Institute is founded by Harry Shay.
1949	-	W. Edward Chamberlain, MD designs the first biplane stereoscopic X-ray machine.
1966	-	Herbert Stauffer, MD designs the first television stereoscopic fluroscope.
1971	-	The Sol Sherry Thrombosis Research Center, the largest of its kind in the world, is founded.
1974	-	The world's first university-based sports medicine center opens at Temple.
1976	-	180 is now the average class size; more than 7,000 living alumni are practicing in nearly every state and various parts of the world; 22% of all practicing physicians in the Philadelphia area are Temple grads. David Hartman, the first blind medical student in the U.S. in 100 years, graduates.
1984	-	Philadelphia area's first heart transplant is performed at Temple. Sol Sherry, MD is first to use streptokinase as a therapy for acute myocardial infarction.
1989	-	The first combined heart and kidney transplant in the region is performed at Temple.
1998	-	Temple University Children's Medical Center and Shriners Hospital open.
1999	-	Temple and Fox Chase Cancer Center join to enhance academic and clinical programs. TUHS opens Burn Center. TUSM establishes Center for Substance Abuse Research.
2000	-	TUSM's Department of Surgery initiates gene therapy trials in patients with vascular disease.
2001	-	TUSM Medical Alumni Board and The Arnold P. Gold Foundation co-sponsor the first White Coat Ceremony, reinforcing our emphasis on humanism in medicine.
2006	-	Ground is broken and construction begins on the new Temple University School of Medicine scheduled to open in 2009.
2009		On October 29-31, 2009, the new Medical Education and Research Building is dedicated with a 3-day opening celebration and ribbon-cutting ceremony.