Columbia University Irving Medical Center

NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center (NYP/CUIMC), also known as the Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC), is an academic medical center and the largest campus of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. It includes Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, College of Dental Medicine, School of Nursing and Mailman School of Public Health, as well as the Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital, the New York State Psychiatric Institute, the Audubon Biomedical Research Park, and numerous other institutions.

Columbia University Irving Medical Center
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
Geography
Location	Roughly bounded by: west: Riverside Drive north: West 169th Street east: Audubon Avenue south: West 165th Street, Washington Heights, Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S.
Organisation
Funding	Non-profit hospital
Type	Teaching
Affiliated university	Columbia University NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Harlem Hospital Center New York State Psychiatric Institute Bassett Healthcare, Cooperstown, NY Helen Hayes Hospital Lawrence Hospital James J. Peters VA Medical Center Stamford Hospital The Valley Hospital American Hospital of Paris Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
History
Opened	1767
Links
Website	cuimc.columbia.edu
Lists	Hospitals in U.S.

The campus covers several blocks – primarily between West 165th and 169th Streets from Riverside Drive to Audubon Avenue – in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.

CUIMC 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 much of the cost of the original buildings. Built specifically to house a medical school and Presbyterian Hospital, it 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 New York-Presbyterian Hospital, a merger of two medical centers each affiliated with an Ivy League university: Columbia-Presbyterian with Columbia University, and the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, with Cornell University's Weill Cornell Medical College.

The Medical and Graduate Education Building was designed by architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Gensler with structural engineer Leslie E. Robertson Associates.[1]

In September 2016 the Campus was renamed for one of the Hospital and the University's greatest benefactors, Herbert and Florence Irving.[2] Herbert Irving is a co-founder and former vice-chairman of Sysco Corporation, the nation's largest food distributor.

It counts among its achievements the first successful heart transplant in a child,[3] the first use of the anti-seizure medication, dilantin, to treat epilepsy, and the isolation of the first known odour receptors in the nose.

It supported key discoveries related to how memory is stored in the brain, and Nobel Prize-winning developments in cardiac catheterization (1956) and cryo-electron microscopy (2017) - a technique used to reveal the structures of large biological molecules at atomic resolution.[4]