Herman Gates Weiskotten (1884-1972) [1] served as dean of Syracuse University medical school from 1922 to 1951.
During his final year, the school had been renamed SUNY Upstate Medical University.
He holds this post until 1951 and brings the College of Medicine through the difficult depression years of the 1930s into the modern medical world.
From 1934 to 1940, he chaired a commission of the AMA Council on Medical Education and Hospitals to write a follow-up to the 1910 "Flexner Report."
In 1940, his team published Medical Education in the United States, 1934-1939, known as the "Weiskotten Report," which showed that only 66 of the 79 American medical schools had full four-year programs and that about 20 of the 89 American and Canadian medical schools were below AMA standards.