Groundbreaking for new hospital wing
 Pictured at the groundbreaking is (left to right) Dr. Alfred Johnson, NIH deputy director for Management, Dr. Nina Schor, NIH deputy director for Intramural Research, Daniel Wheeland, NIH associate director for Research Facilities, Dr. James Gilman, NIH Clinical Center CEO, Andrea Palm, deputy secretary of Health and Human Services, Dr. Lawrence A. Tabak, acting NIH
Director, Dr. Tara A. Schwetz, Ph.D., acting principal deputy director of NIH, Courtney Aklin, NIH acting associate deputy
director, and Dr. Steven Rosenberg, Chief of the National Cancer Institute’s Surgery Branch.
The National Institutes of Health had a formal groundbreaking for a new hospital Surgery, Radiology and Laboratory Medicine (SRLM) wing. The construction work will add 547,290 square feet to the hospital to house state-of-the-art diagnostics and therapeutics to research and treat wide range of diseases and conditions. Work is anticipated to last until 2029.
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Clinical Center assessing how to expand services for children
 Members of the NIH Clinical Center Department of Pediatrics: First row (left to right) Dr. Tamara Goodman, Dr. Jill Rothschild, Dr. Deborah Merke, Dr. Uma Subramanian, Ruth Parker, DNP, Sandy Chow, NP
Back row (l-r) Dr. Alan Quillian, Dr. Andrea Pearson, Dr. Mike Parsons, Ibukun Agbede, NP Not pictured: Dr. Ante Wind, Dr. Jeanette Beaudry
The NIH Clinical Center’s Pediatric Consult Service has become the Department of Pediatrics and has established the Pediatric Hospital Medicine service with the goal of creating 24/7 pediatric, age appropriate care by in-house hospitalists. Hospitalists - physicians who practice solely in the hospital environment - make up a key part of the 12 person care team
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NIH Clinical Center celebrates its 70th year of operation
“This is a noble purpose”
 President Truman laying cornerstone of the Clinical Center
“We are here today to lay the cornerstone of a building which will be devoted to the service of mankind. The men and women who work in this clinical research center will be striving to save human lives and to prevent human suffering. This is a noble purpose.” - President Harry S. Truman at the dedication of the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in June 1951.
The NIH Clinical Center, the world’s largest hospital devoted to clinical research, opened its doors in July 1953 with a focus on improving public health. Since then, more than half a million patient volunteers from all 50 states and from all over the world have participated in clinical research at the hospital.
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Clinical Center features STEM innovators
Ten statues of contemporary scientists on display through August 25, 2023
 Jones with her statue at
the Clinical Center
NIH Scientific Review Officer Dr. Lataisia Jones, visited the NIH Clinical Center with friends to see her statue. Jones works in the Scientific Review Branch at the NINDS.
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