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School of Medicine Class of 2021 Officially Dons White Coats for the First Time
 They processed in as medical students but the School of Medicine Class of 2021 recessed out vested as members of the medical community proudly wearing their new white coats and shouldering the responsibilities of medicine. The White Coat Ceremony held at the Performing Arts Center in Purchase, N.Y., on October 22, was the symbolic beginning of the four-year journey of medical school and entry into the medical profession. More than 1,000 guests witnessed the rite of passage as 216 members of the Class of 2021 were cloaked in their new white coats by "investors," respected faculty leaders who represent the value system of medicine and NYMC and believe in the students' ability to carry on the noble tradition of the practice of medicine and took an oath that the class collaboratively wrote. View the White Coat Ceremony photo gallery here and the event video here. Read more...
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NYMC Reaches Out to Puerto Rico
 At a press conference convened on October 20, Robert Amler, M.D., M.B.A., left, dean of the School of Health Sciences and Practice and vice president of government affairs, Senator Terrence P. Murphy, center, and Michael J. Reilly, Dr.P.H. '10, M.P.H., director of the Center for Disaster Medicine, associate professor of environmental health science, and associate professor of clinical emergency medicine and director, Center of Excellence in Precision Responses to Bioterrorism and Disasters, shared their experiences of their recent medical mission trip to Puerto Rico, bringing desperately needed supplies and medical aid to the island after the devastation of Hurricane Maria. Click here to view video from press conference. Read more...
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REDCap Comes to NYMC
 The great things that are happening at NYMC just got a bit easier with the unveiling of a new core facility and shared resource, REDCap Cloud, the Research Electronic Data Capture), a data management tool. REDCap Cloud is a secure web-based application for building and managing surveys and databases online for clinical and translational research. REDCap was developed at Vanderbilt University and is currently used by more than 2,500 institutions worldwide. Read more...
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Health Sciences Library Celebrates Faculty Authorship
 The Health Sciences Library hosted the 24th annual Faculty Author Recognition event on October 24 to formally acknowledge faculty who published during the calendar year 2016. The event honored 383 published faculty members representing 605 journal articles, 3 books authored, 10 books edited, 61 book chapters and more. At the gathering, special recognition was given to individuals and departments for their efforts based on based on known citations and measurements. Michael S. Wolin, Ph.D., professor of physiology and chair of the Library and Academic Support Committee (LASCOM), accepted the award for the basic sciences department with the highest percentage of faculty publishing. He accepted the award on behalf of the Department of Physiology that boasted 75 percent of faculty members publishing, from Marie T. Ascher, M.S., M.P.H., the Lillian Hetrick Huber Endowed Director Health Sciences Library. View the NYMC and Touro College and University System faculty author bibliographies and the Faculty Author Celebration photo gallery.
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Symposium Focuses on Tick-Borne Disease
 Experts from across the country and as far as Slovenia gathered at NYMC on October 18 for "Bridging Clinical and Basic Science Research on Tick-Borne Infections Symposium: A Tribute to Ira Schwartz, Ph.D." The event honored Ira Schwartz, Ph.D., professor of microbiology and immunology, medicine and biochemistry and molecular biology, who is stepping down from his role as chairman of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology. Topics ranged from "Spirochets Do It Differently: Covalently Crosslinking of the Flagellar Hook" to "Understanding Borrelia Miyamotoi" to "Metabolomics to Diagnose and Understand the Pathogenesis of Tick-Borne Diseases." Dr. Schwartz recalled the serendipitous path he took to working with Lyme disease and the groundbreaking research that followed at NYMC. "We were really at ground zero in terms of Lyme disease, both clinically and in research," Dr. Schwartz said. View the photo gallery here.
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NYMC Goes Pink
 The NYMC community gathered to show their support for Breast Cancer Awareness month in October, proudly sporting pink and big smiles.
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 From left: D.P.T. students Andrew Giannetti, Priyanka Tanavde, Ula Nieznalska and Paul Spano presented "The Integration of Cultural Competency within a Hybrid DPT Curriculum" at the New York Physical Therapy Association 2017 Statewide Physical Therapy Conference, held in Troy, N.Y., on October 20-21. Their work was done under the mentorship of Gale J. Lavinder, P.T., Ed.D., assistant professor of physical therapy.
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Stuart A. Newman, Ph.D., professor of cell biology and anatomy and medicine, presented "Inherency in Development and Evolution" at the KLI Colloquium at the KLI Institute in Vienna on October 18. He was also a keynote speaker at the international symposium, Editing Genomes with CRISPR Between Scientific Breakthroughs and Societal Challenges, held at the University of Vienna on October 19-20. He presented at the CRISPR in Society: Promises, Hopes and Responsibilities session.
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| IN THE NEWS |
New York Medical College Leadership News
Westfair Online - 10/26/2017
Robert W. Amler, M.D., M.B.A., dean of School of Health Sciences and Practice and vice president for government affairs
Michael J. Reilly, Dr.PH. '10, M.P.H., director of Center for Disaster Medicine, associate professor of environmental health science, associate professor of clinical emergency medicine, and director of Center of Excellence in Precision Responses to Bioterrorism and Disasters
Faculty News
Westfair Communication - 10/27/2017
Rifat Latifi, M.D., professor of surgery
Ashutosh Kaul, M.D., professor of surgery
Annebeth Litt, M.D., clinical assistant professor of medicine
Michael Tarr, SOM Class of 2018
M.D. Alert - 10/25/2017
Wilbert Aronow, M.D., professor of medicine
Student News
AMSNY - October 2017
Sheba Ebhote, SOM Class of 2021
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Monday, October 30
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| Special Presentation by Holocaust Survivor, Jacob Eisenbach, D.D.S. |
4:00 p.m.
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Tuesday, October 31
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| Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Grand Rounds |
11:00 a.m.
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| Center for Long-Term Care Seminar |
3:30 p.m.
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Wednesday, November 1
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Department of Pediatrics Grand Rounds
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8:00 a.m.
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Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology Grand Rounds
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8:00 a.m.
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Department of Surgery Grand Rounds
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8:30 a.m.
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| Department of Medicine Grand Rounds |
12:00 p.m.
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Department of Neurology Grand Rounds
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4:00 p.m.
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Wednesday, November 8
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Department of Pediatrics Grand Rounds
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8:00 a.m.
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| Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology Grand Rounds |
8:00 a.m. |
Department of Surgery Grand Rounds
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8:30 a.m.
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Department of Medicine Grand Rounds
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12:00 p.m. |
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Seminar
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12:00 p.m.
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Tuesday, November 14
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| Center for Long-Term Care Seminar |
3:30 p.m. |
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Wednesday, November 15
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Department of Pediatrics Grand Rounds
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8:00 a.m. |
| Department of Medicine Grand Rounds |
12:00 p.m. |
Eichmann, Arendt, and the Banality of Evil: A Guided Tour of the Special Exhibit on the Capture and Trial of Eichmann
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4:00 p.m. |
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Thursday, November 16
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| Department of Cell Biology Seminar |
1:00 p.m.
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Student Healthcare Executive (StuHE) Health Career Mentor Session
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6:00 p.m. |
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