About the Cardiovascular Center
The rise of the Medical College 's Cardiovascular Center to national prominence in less than 15 years is a significant accomplishment.
More than 150 faculty physicians and research scientists drawn from 23 departments and divisions throughout the College are focused on the prevention, detection, treatment and cure of the large family of diseases encompassed by cardiovascular disease (including diseases of the heart and lung, high blood pressure, stroke and diabetes.)
Research is critically important to patient care because it speeds discoveries from the laboratory to those who suffer from disease and injury in the form of new treatments, products, preventions and cures.
Ongoing areas of research include:
- Stroke (Cerebral Vascular Disease)
- High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)
- Heart Attack (Ischemic Heart Disease)
- Heart Failure (Congestive Heart Failure)
- Development of New Heart Tissue (Angiogenesis)
The Medical College's Cardiovascular Center is among the top 10 heart centers in the country receiving funding from the National Heart, Blood & Lung Institute of the National Institutes of Health. NIH funding to the Cardiovascular Center in 2005 totaled $14.2 million in support of 37 research grants.
Since 1992, the Cardiovascular Center has received almost $100 million in NIH funding. Its NIH funding has nearly doubled over the last 5 years.
We Practice What We Teach
Founded in 1893, the Medical College of Wisconsin is the state's only private medical school and biomedical sciences graduate school.
The college educates 800 medical students, 550 graduate students and supervises 700 physicians in residency training programs. One out of every three Wisconsin physicians is a graduate of the Medical College. The college is the nation's 10th largest medical school in terms of enrollment.
The College's 1,100 faculty members conducted more than $126 million in externally funded research in fiscal year 2004-2005. Over the past 10 years, it is the nation's seventh fastest growing research-oriented medical school in terms of National Institutes of Health funding.
Located adjacent to the Medical College on the Milwaukee Regional Medical Center campus are Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital and Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, major teaching affiliates. Also located on the campus is the Blood Research Institute of the Blood Center of Wisconsin, a research partner of the Cardiovascular Center. The Zablocki VA Medical Center is also a major teaching affiliate. Medical College physicians care for more than 277,000 patients annually representing more than one million patient visits.