Stanford medical school opens $90 million training center aimed at transforming the way physicians are trained
The Stanford Daily
October 1, 2010
The Stanford School of Medicine on Wednesday opened the Li Ka Shing Center for Learning and Knowledge, which the school expects will help transform the way in which physicians are trained.
About 300 people attended the dedication ceremony on Alumni Green, adjacent to the new building. A $90 million project, it faces Campus Drive, nestled between the Beckman Center and Fairchild Building in the medical school complex.
Philip Pizzo, dean of the School of Medicine, said on his first visit to Stanford to interview for the dean’s position, none of the cab drivers he asked knew where on campus the Medical School was. The 120,000-square-feet Li Ka Shing Center raises the school’s physical profile.
In their remarks, Pizzo, University President John Hennessy and donor Li Ka-Shing extolled the virtues of the five-story building, which features several interactive and technologically advanced teaching tools for doctors.