Stanford University School of Medicine

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Stanford University
School of Medicine

Type	Private medical school
Established	1908; 116 years ago (1908)
Parent institution	Stanford University
Dean	Lloyd B. Minor
Academic staff	801
Students	3,498
Postgraduates	1,158
Location	Stanford , California , United States 37°26′04″N 122°10′34″W / 37.43444°N 122.17611°W / 37.43444; -122.17611
Campus	Suburban
Vice Dean	Linda M. Boxer
Website	med.stanford.edu

The Stanford University School of Medicine is the medical school of Stanford University and is located in Stanford, California, United States. It traces its roots to the Medical Department of the University of the Pacific, founded in San Francisco in 1858. This medical institution, then called Cooper Medical College, was acquired by Stanford in 1908. The medical school moved to the Stanford campus near Palo Alto, California, in 1959.

The School of Medicine, along with Stanford Health Care and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, is part of Stanford Medicine. Stanford Health Care was ranked the fourth best hospital in California (behind UCLA Medical Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and UCSF Medical Center, respectively).^[1]