For more than three decades second-year NYMC medical students in the medical microbiology course have benefitted from the knowledge, wisdom and good sense of guest lecturer Henry M. Frey, M.D., left, who presents on clinical aspects of staph and strep infections each year in the early fall. Jan Geliebter, Ph.D., right, professor of microbiology and immunology and otolaryngology and course director for medical microbiology, was pleased to recognize Dr. Frey for his dedication with a plaque presentation prior to the lecture on September 28. Dr. Frey received his undergraduate degree in chemistry from Harvard University and then worked for NASA where he worked as an aerospace engineer on space shuttle engine design. A change of heart led him to medical school at New York University School of Medicine, followed by an internship and residency in pediatrics and an infectious disease fellowship at NYU where he was awarded the Bristol Fellowship by the Infectious Disease Society of America. Dr. Frey recently retired from private practice in pediatrics and pediatric/adult infectious diseases. He served as chief of infectious diseases at St. Joseph's Medical Center and chief of staff at St. John's Riverside Hospital in Yonkers, N.Y. Dr. Frey's accomplishments include diverse publications ranging from "CCR-5 Genotype and Resistance to Vertical Transmission of HIV-1" to "Kinetic Performance of Barrier-Cooled Rocket Nozzles."

NYMC has joined the ranks of more than 30 academic institutions as members of the High-Value Practice Academic Research Alliance (HVPARA), a consortium working to advance high-value medical practice through collaboration, research, innovation and education. A key element of the HVPARA will be its annual National Research Symposium. The inaugural National Research Symposium of the High-Value Practice Academic Research Alliance, will take place on October 9, 2017 in Baltimore, sponsored by the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. The symposium will include abstract presentations demonstrating evidence of cost reduction in concert with patient care quality improvement, educational lectures from leaders in high-value care and best-practice presentations including Rita Redberg, M.D., professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco and editor-in-chief of JAMA International, Chris Moriates, M.D., assistant dean for healthcare value at Dell Medical School, University of Texas at Austin, and Richard Duszak, M.D., vice chair of health policy and practice, Department of Radiology at Emory University. Click here for more information on the HVPARA.