After 100 Years, The IU School Of Medicine Is Ready To Celebrate
INDIANAPOLIS -- Are you ready to party? At the IU School of Medicine,
we are! Why? Because we’re 100 years old, and feeling great!
So on Sept. 23, the IU School of Medicine will kick off its year-long
centennial celebration with a statewide party, starting at noon.
We’ll have some of the usual trappings of a birthday celebration,
such as really big cakes shaped like Indiana, Centennial pins and balloons.
We’ll have some unusual ones, too, like a videoconferencing hookup
that will enable all eight regional centers for medical education and
the Indianapolis campus to celebrate together.
All this is a way of starting our year of centennial activities, commemorating
the fact that the Indiana University School of Medicine opened in September
1903 on the Bloomington campus, enrolling 18 students, one of them a woman.
About five years later, after much political battling, the IU School of
Medicine program in Indianapolis was created, merging the programs at
Purdue University and a proprietary school in Indianapolis with the Bloomington
school. People were feeling huffy back then, but we’re in a celebratory
mood now.
At the Sept. 23 party, IU School of Medicine Dean Craig Brater, M.D.,
will kick off the festivities with his remarks, joined by videoconference
by the directors of the eight regional centers. The centers were created
in the early 1970s as a means of spreading the benefits of medical education
and research across the state. Students spend the first two years of their
medical school education in the regional centers as well as the Indianapolis
campus, and then spend the final two years in Indianapolis.
We’ll then cut our cakes at each location, and all students, current
and emeritus faculty, staff and other guests in attendance will get cake
and an IU School of Medicine Centennial commemorative pin.
Officials at the regional centers are planning various individual festivities,
with local faculty, students, alumni and other guests on hand. At Indianapolis,
for example, medical students will be selling Centennial merchandise with
the money raised going to scholarship funds.
In West Lafayette, a cream and crimson banner will fly over Lynn Hall
on the West Lafayette campus of Purdue University in recognition of the
School of Medicine’s Centennial Celebration. That’s because
Lynn Hall, which houses the Purdue School of Veterinary Medicine, also
is home to IUSM’s Lafayette Center for Medical Education exemplifying
the concept of “one medicine” with different patient populations.
The Center has served as the portal of entry for more 500 medical students.
Among the guests in West Lafayette will be Lindley Wagner, M.D., founding
director of the Center.
In Bloomington, the center will be having its cake-and-punch party and
video hookup in Jordan Hall 109, while people will gather in the third
floor of the classroom medical building in Fort Wayne to join the noontime
party, watch the statewide video conference and have a slice of cake.
In Terre Haute, Center director Roy Geib invites faculty, students, clinical faculty, and invited guests to the Landsbaum Center for Health Education (LCHE). The public is also welcome for cake and punch.
In Evansville, officials plan to celebrate twice, first with the noontime
festivities in the center’s conference room, Health Professions 3028,
then at 4 p.m. where there will be cake and ice cream under a tent in
the front yard of the Evansville center.
For more information about events at the Regional Centers for Medical Education,
call the media contacts at:
Bloomington Medical Science Program
Director: Talmage R. Bosin, Ph.D.
Media contact: Ruth Sanders
(812) 855-8118
rasander@indiana.edu
Evansville Center for Medical Education
Director: Rex D. Stith, Ph.D.
Media contact: Jingle Hagey
(812) 464-1831
jhagey@usi.edu
Fort Wayne Center for Medical Education
Director: Barth Ragatz, Ph.D.
(260) 481-6731
ragatz@ipfw.edu
Lafayette Center for Medical Education
Director: Gordon L. Coppoc, DVM, Ph.D.
Media contact: Donna R. Fulkerson
(765) 494-8591
drf@purdue.edu
Muncie Center for Medical Education
Director: Douglas A. Triplett, M.D.
Media contact: Ila Verneman
(765) 751-5100
iverneman@bsu.edu
Northwest Center for Medical Education
Director: William W. Baldwin, Ph.D.
Media contact: Dawn Ilgenfritz
(219) 980-6551
dilgenfr@iun.edu
South Bend Center for Medical Education
Acting Director: John F. O'Malley, Ph.D.
Media contact: Stephanie Schurz
(574) 631-7908
schurz.1@nd.edu
Terre Haute Center for Medical Education
Director: Roy W. Geib, Ph.D.
Media contact: Amber Lore
(812) 237-2777
alore@medicine.indstate.edu
Media Contact: Eric Schoch
317-274-8205
eschoch@iupui.edu
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