The Temple University School of Meicine (TUSM), located on the Health Science Campus of Temple University in Philadelphia, PA, is one of 6 schools of medicine in Pennsylvania conferring the doctor of medicine (M.D.) degree. It also confers the Ph.D. (doctor of philosophy) and M.S. (masters of science) degrees in biomedical sciences. Founded in 1901 as Pennsylvania’s first co-educational medical school and as a medical school for the common man, the institution has attained a national reputation for training humanistic and dedicated clinicians. The School has been home to a number of renowned alumni and faculty, including such greats as W. Wayne Babcock M.D., inventor of the Babcock surgical forceps; Chevalier Jackson, M.D., pioneer in the field of otolaryngology; Waldo Nelson M.D., editor of the widely famous Nelson’s Textbook of Pediatrics; Angelo DiGeorge M.D., pediatrician and describer of DiGeorge Syndrome; and Joseph Wolpe M.D., eminent psychiatrist and father of behavioral modification therapy. Additionally, the first female president of Princeton University, Shirley Tilghman, Ph.D., is an alumna of the School’s biochemistry department.