University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers

In 1848, the University of Michigan (U-M) Board of Regents decided to establish a medical school. Two years later, the University of Michigan School of Medicine was officially established, the first university-owned medical institution in the United States. U-M created many firsts in American medicine. Such as the establishment of one of the earliest psychiatric departments (1906), the earliest dermatology (1912), the earliest application of electrocardiography (1913), the earliest advocacy of the use of iodized salt to prevent goiter (1922), the earliest thoracic surgery training ( 1928), the world's first successful lung resection (1932), the earliest human genetics program (1940), the first genetic disease clinic (1941), etc.