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4 unusual facts about Baylor College of Medicine


Aortic dissection

Surgery for aortic dissection was first introduced and developed by Michael E. DeBakey, Denton Cooley and Oscar Creech, cardiac surgeons associated with the Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas in 1954.

Cardiac marker

However, in 2010, research at the Baylor College of Medicine revealed that, using diagnostic nanochips and a swab of the cheek, cardiac biomarker readings from saliva can, with the ECG readings, determine within minutes whether someone is likely to have had a heart attack.

Epidermolytic hyperkeratosis

Successful gene therapy solutions have been recently achieved on mouse models by Jiang Chen M.D., a post-doctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dennis Roop, Ph.D., in the Center for Cutaneous Molecular Biology at Baylor College of Medicine.

Statutory college

Outside of New York, the privately run Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) has a financial-arrangement structure that is somewhat similar to that found in New York’s statutory colleges.


Andres Metspalu

In 1993 he spent three months at the University of Hamburg's H. Pette Institute for Experimental Immunolog, and then from 1993 to 1994 was a visiting professor at Baylor College of Medicine's Dept. of Molecular and Human Genetics with C. Thomas Caskey.

Brett Giroir

He maintains professor appointments in the Texas A&M College of Medicine, Dwight Look College of Engineering, and The Bush School of Government and Public Service, and is adjunct professor at the Baylor College of Medicine.

Bruce D. Perry

From 1993-2001, he was the Thomas S. Trammell Research Professor of Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine and Chief of Psychiatry at Texas Children's Hospital.

David Zarling

Zarling was a S. L. Brown Scholar and holds a BA with Honors in Biology, a MA in Molecular Biology/ Biological Sciences from Dartmouth College, a Ph.D. in Virology/Oncology, with emphasis on pharmaceutical drug development, from Baylor College of Medicine and an Executive MBA in Marketing/Finance from Pepperdine University.

Eleanor Searle

Her contributions included the establishment of the Eleanor McCollum Competition for Young Singers of Houston Grand Opera, patronage for Orbis International, and, together with her second husband, an important role in the development of Baylor College of Medicine.

Flor Muñoz Rivas

She works mainly at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital, she does also go to other big hospitals to work.

Holland Lodge

Ben Taub - Philanthropist essential for the University of Houston and Baylor College of Medicine

Lars Georg Svensson

He completed a residency in cariothoracic surgery from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and completed fellowships at Baylor and Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio.

M. R. S. Rao

For several occasions, he served as visiting professor to Baylor College of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and University of California at San Diego, USA.

Research to Prevent Blindness

Over a span of years, RPB organized capital campaigns for the construction of modern eye research centers in large population areas: University of California, Los Angeles, The Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University, University of Louisville, Medical College of Wisconsin, Baylor College of Medicine and Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland.

William E. Brownell

is a professor in the Bobby R. Alford Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, where he is the head of the Cochlear Biophysics Laboratory and is also the Jake and Nina Kamin Chair.


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Joseph Jankovic

In 1977 he joined the faculty of Baylor College of Medicine and became a founder and director of the Parkinson's Disease Center and Movement Disorders Clinic, which has since been recognized as a "Center of Excellence" by the National Parkinson Foundation and the Huntington Disease Society of America.

William Brownell

William E. Brownell, American scientist that conducts research at Baylor College of Medicine