The Upstate Medical University is located in the University Hill area of Syracuse, New York. The predecessor of the present university was the Geneva Medical College, part of the Geneva College that was founded in 1834 which is known as Hobart College today.
The medical college was originally located in Geneva, New York and is famous for its granting of an MD to Elizabeth Blackwell in 1849; the first woman to obtain an MD. In 1871 the college in Geneva was disbanded and its assets went to the newly founded University of Syracuse which later opened its own medical college. In 1950 the University was taken over by the State University of New York and was given its present name in 1999. The Upstate Medical University is New York's only academic medical center and it is also has the largest numbers of employees in the region.
The Upstate Medical University is running a study in schools to assess the usefulness of telemedicine as an aid to monitoring those children who are diabetic.The University also uses puppet shows in an attempt to promote a greater understanding of those children who are diagnosed as autistic. It has also produced a resource for health practitioners to help them to monitor and manage child and adolescent abuse. The medical university houses the only major trauma unit in the New York region. At present there is a struggle to prevent the Upstate Medical University from being placed elsewhere than in its parent city of Syracuse.
