Situated on a 20-acre campus in the Washington Heights community of northern Manhattan and comprising roughly half of Columbia University's nearly $3 billion annual budget, Columbia University's Medical Center provides world-class leadership in:

• scientific research
• health and medical education
• patient care

Faculty members from its four schools (College of Physicians & Surgeons, College of Dental Medicine, School of Nursing, and Mailman School of Public Health):

• Carry out the school's core mission of educating and training future generations of health care professionals.
• Conduct basic research with the ultimate goal of translating discoveries into new techniques for fighting disease and improving health
• Are responsible for a number of significant clinical breakthroughs - among them, the first blood test for cancer, the first medical use of the laser, and the first successful transfer of genes from one cell to another.

Columbia University Medical Center Address

Administration Directory; Contact information:

Columbia University Medical Center Administration	(14K pdf)
College of Physicians and Surgeons	(34K pdf)
College of Dental Medicine	(26K pdf)
Mailman School of Public Health	(12K pdf)
School of Nursing	(8K pdf)

Columbia University Medical Center – At a Glance (2007)

Vital Statistics 2007