Columbia University Irving Medical Center ( CUIMC ) is the academic medical center of Columbia University and the largest campus of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital . The center's academic wing consists of Columbia's colleges and schools of Physicians and Surgeons , Dental Medicine , Nursing , and Public Health . The center's healthcare wing include Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital , New York State Psychiatric Institute , and the Audubon Biomedical Research Park. The center is located in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan , New York City .
4-510: The campus covers several blocks—primarily between West 165th and 169th Streets from Riverside Drive to Audubon Avenue . The medical center was built in the 1920s on the site of Hilltop Park , the one-time home stadium of the New York Yankees . The land was donated by Edward Harkness , who also donated most of the financing for the original buildings. Built specifically to house a medical school and Presbyterian Hospital , it
8-470: The first successful heart transplant in a child, the first use of the anti-seizure medication, dilantin , to treat epilepsy , and the isolation of the first known odour receptors in the nose. The institution supported discoveries related to how memory is stored in the brain, and Nobel Prize-winning developments in cardiac catheterization (1956) and cryo-electron microscopy (2017). In 2023, The Roy and Diana Vagelos Institute for Basic Biomedical Science
12-414: Was designed by architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Gensler and the structural engineer was Leslie E. Robertson Associates. In September 2016, the campus was renamed as Columbia University Irving Medical Center , for one of the hospital and the university's largest benefactors, Herbert and Florence Irving. Herbert Irving was a co-founder and former vice-chairman of Sysco . The hospital completed
16-574: Was the first academic medical center in the world. Formerly known as the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center (CPMC), the name change followed the 1997 formation of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, a merger of two medical centers each affiliated with an Ivy League university: Columbia-Presbyterian with Columbia University, and New York Hospital -Cornell Medical Center, with Cornell University 's Weill Cornell Medical College . The Medical and Graduate Education Building
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