View above Longwood Medical Area, toward Huntington Avenue, showing Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and part of Brigham and Women's Hospital.

The Longwood Medical and Academic Area (also known as Longwood Medical Area, LMA, or simply Longwood) is a medical campus in Boston. Centered on Longwood Avenue as it runs from Huntington Avenue to The Riverway, LMA straddles the Fenway-Kenmore and Mission Hill neighborhoods. It is most strongly associated with the Harvard Medical School and other medical facilities such as Harvard's teaching hospitals, but prominent non-Harvard and non-medical institutions are located there as well, such as museums, colleges and research centers.

[edit] Hospitals and research institutions

• Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
• Brigham and Women's Hospital
• Children's Hospital Boston
• Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
• Joslin Diabetes Center

[edit] Schools and colleges

• Boston Latin School
• Emmanuel College
• Harvard Medical School (whose Warren Anatomical Museum houses the skull and tamping iron of Phineas Gage)
• Harvard School of Dental Medicine
• Harvard School of Public Health
• Massachusetts College of Art and Design
• Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
• Northeastern University
• Simmons College
• Wentworth Institute of Technology
• Wheelock College

[edit] Transportation

LMA is served by two confusingly-named rail stations at opposite ends of Longwood Avenue: "Longwood" (on the MBTA Green Line's "D" branch) and "Longwood Medical Area" (on the "E" branch). Several public bus routes serve the area, and shuttles (generally for affiliated personnel only) connect with destinations such as the Cambridge campuses of Harvard and MIT.

[edit] See also

• Longwood Medical Area map
• Transit information and driving directions
• Parking.
• Shuttle information

[edit] References

• MASCO (Medical Academic and Scientific Community Organization) website

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