Explore a collection of photographs featuring students, faculty, administrators, campuses
and other memories throughout the 125 years of our College's history. Learn more about
the history of PCOM or explore the Library's Digital Commons.
From 1903 to 1908, the Philadelphia College and Infirmary of Osteopathy (PCIO) housed
its campus in a seven-story Victorian stone mansion at 33rd and Arch Streets.
Located at 19th and Spring Garden Streets, The Reyburn Mansion became the cornerstone
of the College's campus and hospital buildings from 1917 to 1929.
The Spring Garden Street campus and hospital location featured a surgical amphitheater.
Medical and nursing students observe a 1924 surgery demonstration.
The Osteopathic Hospital of Philadelphia was founded in 1911 with one of its purposes
being to conduct a training school for nurses. Pictured are the Class of 1942.
The Frederic H. Barth Pavilion of the Hospitals of PCOM opened in 1968 (right-most
building). PCOM's Howard A. Hassman, DO ’83 Academic Center (formerly known as Evans
Hall, shown center) was completed in 1973. The Levin building can be seen on the left.
Participating in the 1994 ribbon cutting ceremony of the Clinical Learning Lab, from
left to right, are Jeffrey Freeman, DO, Kenneth Veit, DO '76, Anthony Errichetti,
PhD, Leonard Finkelstein, DO '59, and Matthew Haley, DO '96.
PCOM students film an interview as part of the documentary film. Subject Todd Morehouse
(DO '99) and his wife Jennifer are interviewed by Francis Keating (DO '99). Mark Melden
(DO '99) holds the microphone while Philadelphia filmmaker Jeff Wolfe films.
Primary care physician David Kuo (DO '96) in 2001 with a young patient. Dr. Kuo is
now Associate Dean of Graduate Medical Education and Associate Professor of Family
Medicine.
A 2003 reception honored O.J. Snyder Memorial Medal recipient Leonard W. Johnson,
DO '64 and also supported the Minority Scholarship Fund. Pictured are Jay Rosan, DO
'71; Dr. Johnson; J. Steve Blake, DO '89; William M. King, DO '62; and PCOM president
Matthew Schure, PhD.
Responding to a growing need for healthcare providers in the South, PCOM established
a new, branch campus in Suwanee, Georgia in 2005. The campus was renamed to PCOM Georgia
in 2019.
PCOM graduate and pediatric physician Larissa Fernando Dominy, DO '93, examines young
patients in 2006. Dr. Dominy is now Director of Core Clinical Clerkship and Clinical
Assistant Professor at PCOM.
Leonard H. Finkelstein, DO '59 (center), served as the College's sixth president and
CEO from 1990 to 2000. He then taught as a professor of urologic surgery until 2014.
Photo circa 2007.
Members of the PCOM executive leadership team in 2007. Left to right: Kenneth Veit,
DO '76, Robert Cuzzolino, EdD, Matthew Schure, PhD, Florcen Zeller, MPA, and Peter
Doulis.
Osteopathic manipulative medicine (OMM) fellows pose on the Philadelphia campus with
the College seal. Lauren Noto Bell, DO '06, is on the far right (late 2000s).
Three PCOM presidents in one photo. Pictured left to right: Jay Feldstein, DO '81,
executive assistant to the president Lavinia “Vinnie” Lafferty, Leonard Finkelstein,
DO '59, and Matthew Schure, PhD.
Robert Cuzzolino, EdD, vice president for graduate programs and planning, is the recipient
of the PCOM Alumni Association's Certificate of Honor in 2018.
A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held on August 6, 2019. PCOM South Georgia welcomed
its inaugural class of osteopathic medical students on August 12, 2019.
The Opportunities Academy is an annual summer STEM camp for local high schoolers held
at the College's three locations. This photo shows med students working with youth
during the 2022 camp at PCOM South Georgia in Moultrie.
PCOM Georgia faculty, staff and students volunteered to educate the community about
health topics as well as promote the College at the Paint Gwinnett Pink event (2022).
Traveling in a refurbished 35-year-old, 29-horsepower Citroen 2CV, the Kennedy's Disease
Association's “Great Road Trip” visited PCOM on May 18, 2022 to draw awareness to
this rare genetic disease.
Arturo Bravo Nuevo, PhD, (right) has several research interests including neuroprotection
of the retinal neuronal cells, muscle physiology and diabetes.
R. Bryan Ginn, Jr., (center left) has been PCOM Georgia's chief campus officers since
2012. Jeffrey K. Seiple (center right), is PCOM's Director of Anatomical Donor Services.
They stand with med students after a body donor memorial service.
