Tulane University School of Medicine

Finally, in 1930, the school moved to its current location—the Hutchinson Memorial Building—on Tulane Avenue, next to Charity Hospital.

Today, the medical school is but one part of the Tulane University Health Sciences Center, which includes the School of Medicine, the Tulane University Hospital and Clinic, the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, the University Health Service, the Tulane National Primate Research Center, the U.S.-Japan Biomedical Research Laboratories, and the Tulane/Xavier Center for Bioenvironmental Research.

On August 31, 2009, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal along with Tulane President Scott Cowen and Louisiana State University System President John V. Lombardi approved a plan to establish both schools as board members for the future $1.1 billion University Medical Center New Orleans.

"[4] The Tulane Center for Advanced Medical Simulation and Team Training gives medical students, residents, practicing physicians, nurses, technicians, first responders and other healthcare providers the opportunity to learn and perfect the latest techniques and best practices for patient care and safety.

The Tulane University: Standardized Patient Center through Foundations in Medicine is the first to pilot low-cost virtual reality through Google Cardboard for first-year medical students.

The Tulane School of Medicine, located in the Medical District of downtown New Orleans.
Tulane University Hospital, located in the Medical District of downtown New Orleans and adjacent to the School of Medicine.
George E. Burch
Michael DeBakey , renowned heart surgeon who invented the roller pump
Leslie Vaughn Rush , orthopedic surgeon and inventor of the Rush pin
Luther Terry , former U.S. Surgeon General , who issued the first warning that tobacco is a health hazard