Weill Cornell Medical College
1300 York Ave
New York, NY 10021
212 746-5454
The Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College
Weill Cornell Medical College at sunset.
First completed in 1932, the eleven-building medical education, research, and treatment complex covers more than six and a quarter acres over three city blocks between York Avenue and the East River and incorporates approximately five miles of interior corridors. Major recent additions include the 20,000-square-foot Weill Education Center, the Samuel J. Wood Library and C. V. Starr Biomedical Information Center, and the 776-bed Maurice R. and Corinne P. Greenberg Pavilion for inpatients.
The campus is convenient to numerous restaurants, stores, and theatres. Also within walking distance are the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Central Park, Carnegie Hall, the Museum of Modern Art, the Frick Collection, The Asia Society, The Hispanic Society, numerous art galleries, and the great strolls along Madison and Fifth Avenues
The medical college is divided into 20 academic departments: 7 focus on the sciences underlying clinical medicine; and 13 encompass the study, treatment, and prevention of human diseases, and maternity care.