August 17, 2016

After assuming operations for the bankrupt Allegheny University of the Health Sciences, Drexel merges with the institution in 2002 to create the College of Medicine, School of Public Health and College of Nursing & Health Professions. This bold step, undertaken at President Papadakis’s urging, allows Drexel to kept intact a key academic medical resource for Philadelphia. It also preserves the traditions of two of the cities’ most historic institutions: Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania (founded in 1850 as the world’s first medical school for women) and Hahnemann Medical College (a pioneer in homeopathic medicine founded in 1848). Drexel builds its Center City campus and later acquires the Queen Lane Medical Campus for its new acquisitions.