The New York University Medical Center, one of the nation's premier centers of excellence in health care and medical research, is located on 30th Street and First Avenue in midtown Manhattan. NYU Medical Center consists of two hospitals: the Tisch Hospital and the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine and is closely affiliated with Bellevue Hospital, the New York Downtown Hospital, and the Hospital for Joint Diseases Orthopaedic Institute, which together provide a range of superb clinical care matched by few centers world-wide. Tisch Hospital, an acute-care general hospital of 726 beds, contains important treatment and diagnostic units and is a focus for a wide spectrum of regional patient care programs. America's first licensed female physician, Elizabeth Blackwell, founded NYU Downtown Hospital in 1853, and today its 300 beds and over 500 attending physicians enable it to provide acute care to the 600,000 people who work and live in Lower Manhattan. Descendant from an infirmary established in 1658 and founded in 1736 as the first hospital in what was soon to be the United States, Bellevue Hospital today occupies a 25-story, 1232 bed facility with an attending physician staff of 1,200 and a house staff of more than 500 residents. At Bellevue Hospital, 26,000 inpatients and nearly 400,000 outpatient clinic visits are accommodated each year as well as another 100,000 people through the Emergency Department each year. The Hospital for Joint Diseases Orthopaedic Institute is a 220-bed hospital with expertise in orthopaedic surgery, rheumatology and molecular medicine, rehabilitation medicine, neurology, and specialized neurosurgery.

The Department of Radiology at the New York University School of Medicine has over 70 board-certified radiologists and provides a wide ranging and large volume clinical service at all of the NYU Medical Center hospitals. Subspecialty expertise is world-renowned in areas such as neuroradiology, thoracic imaging, abdominal imaging, cardiovascular imaging, genitourinary imaging, musculoskeletal radiology, interventional radiology, and nuclear medicine. Major research efforts are extensive and diverse, including multiple sclerosis, brain spectroscopy, brain perfusion imaging, ventilation MR of the lung, virtual colonoscopy, cardiac perfusion, lung cancer screening, transplant donor evaluation, screening for hepatocellular carcinoma, and MR renography among many others. Education of students, researchers, residents, fellows, and visiting scholars is also an integral component of the department's mission. The NYU School of Medicine, one of the nation's leading centers of advanced biomedical learning, spans a history of excellence of nearly 160 years in the education and training of physicians, in patient care, and in scientific research. NYU School of Medicine includes the Post-Graduate Medical School, the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, the Sackler Graduate School in Biomedical Sciences, the National Cancer Institute-designated Kaplan Comprehensive Cancer Center, the federally-funded Nelson Institute of Environmental Medicine, and the Center for AIDS Research.