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Amy S. Kahn Named Vice President for Development and Alumni Affairs
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Amy S. Kahn has been named vice president for development and alumni affairs, leading the College's comprehensive advancement program, including philanthropic development, major gifts, annual fund and alumni relations as well as special campaigns. In this role, Ms. Kahn will be responsible for creating and implementing the strategic plan to meet the College's advancement goals and will oversee the development and alumni relations teams. Ms. Kahn's experience includes more than a decade of development work at Northwestern University, starting at the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences in 1999 and ultimately directing development for student life and scholarships and focusing on university-wide priorities. Since 2013, Ms. Kahn has served as vice president of development at the Milwaukee Jewish Federation.
Ms. Kahn earned her B.S. in business administration at the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. Ms. Kahn reports to Edward C. Halperin, M.D., M.A., chancellor and chief executive officer.
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BioInc@NYMC Welcomes Two New Clients
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Two new clients of BioInc@NYMC, have taken occupancy in the biotechnology incubator at 7 Dana Road: SHY Therapeutics, a therapeutic product research company, and MediSprout, a telehealth solution company.
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Three High School Students Named Siemens Competition Semi-Finalists
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Three New York-area high school students--
Yasir Khan, Jaysen Zhang
and
Laura Pellegrino
, all mentorees of NYMC faculty members--were recently named semi-finalists in the
Siemens Competition for Math, Science and Technology
, the nation's premier science research competition. The 2015 Siemens Competition received more than 1,700 submissions from which 466 semi-finalists were named. Jaysen Zhang (Great Neck South High School, Great Neck, N.Y.) and Laura Pellegrino (School of the Holy Child, Rye, N.Y.) were STAR (Summer Trainees in Academic Research) Program participants at NYMC, who worked with Joseph M. Wu, Ph.D., professor, and vice chairman and M.S. program director, in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Tze-chen Hsieh, research associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology on a project, "Resveratrol Derivatives as Novel Activators and Inhibitors of Sirtuin 5 (Sirt5)."
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| GRANT NEWS |
Diane E. Heck, Ph.D.,
professor and chair of the Department of Environmental Science, received a one-year $325,365 continuation sub-award from Rutgers, State University of New Jersey for "CounterAct Research Center of E
xcellence." The funds originate from the National Institutes of Health.
Gary P. Wormser, M.D.,
professor of medicine, chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and vice chairman of the Department of Medicine, received a
$123,256 renewal sub-award from Tufts University for "Searching for Persistence in Lyme Disease." The funds originate from the National Institutes of Health.
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Meena Jhanwar-Uniyal, Ph.D., research associate professor of neurosurgery, chaired the session "Brain Tumor," at the World Congress on Advances in Oncology and International Symposium on Molecular Medicine held on October 10 in Athens, Greece. She also presented "Targeting Glioblastoma and Its Stem Cells Using Novel Small Molecule Inhibitors of the mTOR Pathway."
 Kathryn E. McGoldrick, MD, FCAI(Hon),
professor and chair of the Department of Anesthesiology, delivered an invited Refresher Course Lecture to an audience of approximately 500 anesthesiologists at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists held in San Diego in late October. She was also recently inducted as a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine.
The School of Health Sciences and Practice was well-represented at the 143rd American Public Health Association Annual Meeting and Exposition held in Chicago, October
31 - November 4.
Padmini Murthy, M.D., M.P.H., M.S., M.Phil., CHES,
at podium,
associate professor of public health practice, health policy and management, clinical assistant professor of family and community medicine and global health program director
, Lydia V. Cavieux, M.P.A., center, assistant professor of public health practice, health policy and management and assistant dean of eLearning, and Amy Ansehl, D.N.P., FNP- BC, assistant dean and associate professor of public health practice and executive director of the Partnership for a Healthy Population, participated in a discussion panel on "Use of Technology in Public Health Practice" and were presenters at other sessions.
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At the APHA meeting Dr. Murthy met up with Surgeon General Vice Admiral (VADM) Vivek H. Murthy, M.D., M.B.A.
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Other faculty members who were selected to present at the meeting included: Hong
-Duck Kim, Ph.D., assistant professor of environmental health science, David A. Moskowitz, M.A., Ph.D., assistant professor of epidemiology and community health, Penny Liberatos, M.A., Ph.D., assistant professor of epidemiology and community health, Chia-
Ching Chen, M.A., M.S., Ed.D., CHES, associate professor of epidemiology and community health, and Agustina Lopez Novillo, M.P.H., assistant director public health practicum.
 The Visiting Nurse Service (VNS) of Westchester-Putnam celebrated its five-year anniversary on November 10 with a community celebration. On hand for the occasion were, from left,
VNS board member,
Jean C. LePere, M.P.H. '05,who is a
network services manager at Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital Center, a public health practicum site for NYMC students,
Amy Ansehl, D.N.P., FNP- BC,
assistant dean and associate professor of public health practice and executive director of the Partnership for a Healthy Population, who serves as chairman of the VNS board of directors, and Putnam County Commissioner of Health Allen Beals, M.D. '75. VNS Westchester is a clinical site for NYMC medical students, speech-language pathology students and public health practicum students.
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| IN THE NEWS |
New York Medical College News:
Faculty News:
WCA Celebrates Leadership at Annual Fall Dinner
Westchester Magazine -- 11/9/2015
Edward C. Halperin, M.D., M.A., chancellor and chief executive officer
Meet the Doctors: Concussions in Youth Sports
News 12 -- 11/9/2015
Robert W. Amler, M.D., M.B.A., dean of the School of Health Sciences and Practice and vice president for government affairs
Greenburgh Students Learn About Nutrition, Fitness In Fun Program
Greenburgh Daily Voice -- 11/6/2015
John G. Edwards, Ph.D., Professor of Physiology
CARIBBEAT: Benefit Dinner/Dance and Awards Event to Aid Caribbean American Outreach Association
New York Daily News -- 11/8/2015
Montgomery Douglas, M.D., Associate Professor and Chairman of the Department of Family & Community Medicine
Affiliate News:
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| Department of Pathology Seminar |
11:00 a.m. |
| Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds |
11:00 a.m. |
| Office of Medical Education Grand Rounds |
5:00 p.m. |
| A Q & A on Contemporary Jewish Legal (halachick) Topics |
6:00 p.m. |
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| Department of Medicine - Division of Gastroenterology Seminar |
8:00 a.m. |
| Department of Medicine Grand Rounds |
12:00 p.m. |
| Department of Pathology Seminar |
1:00 p.m. |
| Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy Seminar |
2:00 p.m. |
| Department of Pharmacology Seminar |
3:00 p.m. |
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