Historical Perspectives

The Medical College of Wisconsin is a private educational institution that offers MD, PhD, MS, MA and MPH degrees.

Here are pertinent dates in the history of the Department of Neurosurgery:

 

1893

The College is founded as the Wisconsin College of Physicians and Surgeons.
 

1913

The merger of the Wisconsin College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Milwaukee Medical College forms Marquette University School of Medicine.

1963

Neurosurgery becomes a division of the Department of Surgery with full-time faculty; Sanford J. Larson, MD, recruited as first chair.

1964

Neurosurgery research laboratories are headed by a full-time PhD faculty member in a joint program with the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Marquette University.

1967

The medical school is separated from Marquette University to become a freestanding institution, and subsequently named the Medical College of Wisconsin.

1971

First resident finishes the training program.

1978

The College moves to its present location in suburban Milwaukee, on the campus of the Milwaukee Regional Medial Center. Other institutions on the campus include Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee County Mental Health Complex, Curative Rehabilitation Services and the Blood Research Institute of the Blood Center of Southeastern Wisconsin.  The College benefits from a close working relationship with these institutions, as well as other Milwaukee institutions, including the Clement J. Zablocki Veterans Administration Medical Center, Marquette University, Milwaukee School of Engineering and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

1987

Spine fellowship initiated.

1988

Neurosurgery is made a full department at the Medical College of Wisconsin.

1999

Dr. Larson retires; Thomas A. Gennarelli, MD, appointed as chair.