Sasha Hupka
Arizona Republic
Arizona State University will create a medical school as part of a $30 million effort by the state’s public university system to fill gaps in Arizona’s health care workforce, officials announced Thursday morning.
“We are focusing our full energy and innovation on improving Arizona’s health outcomes,” said ASU President Michael Crow. “We must generate knowledge at a scale that will impact society.”
With the school, which will be known as the ASU School of Medicine & Advanced Medical Engineering, the university joins just a handful of degree-granting institutions that currently offer medical programs in the Copper State, including the University of Arizona, which founded the first medical college in the state in 1967.
