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Higher EducationUnited Kingdom501-1000 Employees
The University of Louisville School of Medicine is a long-established medical school within the higher education sector, founded in 1837 and based in the United Kingdom. On its metropolitan Health Sciences Center campus, it trains more than 600 medical students, 275 graduate students, and 1,000 resident physicians and post-doctoral fellows each year, supported by roughly 900 faculty across five basic science and 18 clinical science departments. Research at the school includes work on regenerating damaged heart tissue using stem cell approaches, pursuit of new cancer therapies, and advances in therapies for spinal cord injuries, among other clinical and basic science efforts. Faculty provide patient care through affiliated facilities such as the Ambulatory Care Building, the UofL Physicians Outpatient Center, the James Graham Brown Cancer Center, University of Louisville Hospital, and Norton Children's Hospital. The school is led by executive vice president of health affairs and dean Jeffrey Bumpous, M.D., F.A.C.S., and is noted for graduating a large number of physicians in the Commonwealth.