University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health is a professional school for the study of medicine and public health at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The medical school was proposed in 1848 and a two-year basic science course began in 1907. Charles R. Bardeen was the first dean of the medical school. The first four-year class matriculated in 1925, and the entire UWSMPH moved into the state-of-the-art Health Sciences Learning Center in 2004 . The UWSMPH has been ranked by U.S. News and World Report as one of the nation's best primary-care medical schools and... among the top 30 research schools. In the 2013 edition of graduate school rankings, UWSMPH was listed as 12th in primary-care education and as 27th among research schools. The UW School of Medicine and Public Health also ranks as one of the top medical schools in terms of research funding and expenditures, allocating US$446 million to research expenditures in 2006. The UWSMPH is an academic center for embryonic stem cell research, with UWSMPH Professor of Anatomy James Thomson being the first scientist to isolate human embryonic stem cells.
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