1990: The Caring Together program was established as a multidisciplinary outpatient treatment program for substance abusing mothers and their children.  The program was founded by Barbara Schindler, MD, longtime MCP/Drexel Psychiatrist, Vice Dean Emerita (2014), and Woman’s Med graduate (1970).

1991: Pauline R. Young, RN passed away at the age of 81. Ms. Young was a 1931 graduate of the Hahnemann Hospital School of Nursing and spent her entire career at Hahnemann, working her way up to Operating Room Supervisor. Described as “absolutely a legend,” she educated decades of nurses and young surgeons in operating room procedure.  These photos show her yearbook photo as well as Ms. Young in later years.

Early 1990s: Hahnemann and MCP moved with the times to pursue burgeoning  trends on smoke-free workplaces, recycling and other “green” policies, and public health programs encouraging children to wear helmets when biking, skateboarding, and rollerblading.

1992: First and second year MCP students began at the new Queen Lane Campus in the East Falls section of Philadelphia.  The 180,000 square foot facility was renovated to create spaces devoted to basic science teaching and research, administration, and student life.

1994: The five-hundredth bone marrow transplant was performed at Hahnemann Hospital, treating a patient who was a Philadelphia police officer.  In 1976, Hahnemann was the first hospital in the Delaware Valley to perform these transplants, with a team led by Isadore Brodsky, MD (pictured here).

1994: Leonard Ross, PhD was inaugurated as the 19th President of MCP, after 20 years as Professor and Chairman of Anatomy, during which he was active in education and research.  Dr. Ross served the school in multiple capacities during the changeable times of the 1990s, including Dean of MCP and Provost of MCP-Hahnemann, during which he played a major role in consolidating the two schools.  Dr. Ross retired in 1999 and passed away in 2013.  This photo shows Dr. Ross around 1980.

1998: June Klinghoffer, MD celebrated 50 years on the medical school faculty.  A 1945 graduate of Woman’s Med, Dr. Klinghoffer held medical, teaching, and administrative positions at Woman’s Med and MCP from 1948 through her retirement in 2000.  She was a revered colleague and won numerous teaching awards.

1998: Drexel University began managing and operating the merged MCP Hahnemann University after the bankruptcy of Allegheny Health, Education and Research Foundation (AHERF).

1998: The Dornsife School of Public Health was founded.  Jonathan Mann, MD, MPH was selected to be the first Dean.  Dr. Mann was a pioneer in public health, having founded the World Health Organization HIV/AIDS Program.  Known for his passionate advocacy linking health and human rights, Dr. Mann died tragically in a plane crash less than a year after assuming the deanship.  The Drexel Dornsife School of Public Health holds an annual Jonathan Mann Health and Human Rights Memorial Lecture series.

1998: Hahnemann celebrated its 150th anniversary as a medical school, after its 1848 founding as the Homeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania.  While the homeopathic system of medicine had been very popular among the many competing schools of medical thought in the mid-1800s, by the early 1900s, Hahnemann was providing instruction similar to most orthodox medical schools. This photo shows the building at 627 Arch Street where both Hahnemann Medical College and Woman’s Med held their first classes (in 1848 and 1850 respectively).