Week of March 2, 2020
NEWS
Dr. Mark Hasten, Philanthropist, Businessman and Touro College Chairman, Dies at 92 

New York Medical College (NYMC) and the Touro College and University System mourn the loss of Dr. Mark Hasten, chairman of the board. Dr. Hasten passed away on February 28, in Indianapolis. He was 92 years old. 

Dr. Mark Hasten was a visionary leader and ardent supporter of Touro.  An engineer as well as an entrepreneur in myriad businesses, including banking, real estate and health care, Dr. Hasten long focused his philanthropic interests on education. Chairman during Touro's most significant period of growth, he helped Touro launch its western divisions in California and Nevada and was a major contributor to the establishment of Touro's Lander College for Women--The Anna Ruth and Mark Hasten School, in Manhattan. During his 25-year tenure as Chairman of the Board, Touro's student body doubled in size--from 9,000 to more than 18,000 students. Touro became one of the leading and largest health care educators in the U.S., and its university system grew to 34 campuses and locations, mostly in New York but also in California, Nevada, Moscow, Israel and Berlin. Read the full story on Dr. Hasten.
Paul T. Diamond, M.D., Is Named the Catherine and Vladislav P. Hinterbuchner Professor and Chair of Rehabilitation Medicine 

Paul T. Diamond, M.D., has been appointed the Catherine and Vladislav P. Hinterbuchner Professor and Chair of Rehabilitation Medicine at New York Medical College (NYMC) and director of rehabilitation medicine at NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan.  Dr. Diamond most recently served as director of neuro rehabilitation and associate professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation with the University of Virginia Health System (UVA Health), which he joined in 1992. In addition to his clinical and administrative roles at UVA Health, he held a variety of academic appointments, including director of residency training, director of research and vice-chair and interim chair of the department. Read the full article on Dr. Diamond.

Anesthesia Interest Group's Simulator Stations Workshop Provides Advanced Hands-On Training 

Simulated (SIM) medical training is an integral part of today's medical education--and on February 11, advanced SIM training was front-and-center at New York Medical College (NYMC) during the Task Simulator Stations Workshop hosted by the Anesthesia Interest Group (AIG) in collaboration with the staff at the Clinical Skills and Simulation Center (CSSC). Thirty medical students, from all four classes, attended the workshop which was led by board-certified anesthesiologists, Garret Weber, M.D., assistant professor of anesthesiology and clerkship director at NYMC and preoperative assessment clinical director general anesthesia at Westchester Medical Center (WMC), and Andrew Iskander, M.D., two anesthesiology residents, Cindy Wong, M.D., and Joon Kim, M.D and Elli Levy, M.A., manager of simulation technologies at the CSSC.  Read the full article on the training.
Mock Trial Experience as Part of a Joint Course with NYMC and Touro Law Center

On March 1, New York Medical College and Touro Law Center students participated in a "mock trial" experience as part of the joint course, "Legal and Ethics Issues in Medical Malpractice." Led by Joan Foley, J.D., Kermit Gitenstein Distinguished Professor of Health Law & Policy and Professor of Legal Process at Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, and Ira J. Bedzow, Ph.D., director of the Biomedical Ethics and Humanities Program and associate professor of medicine, students in the course learned both the substantive issues related to medical malpractice as well as the procedures of a malpractice suit. The course culminated in a portion of a mock trial, where law students served as the plaintiff's and defense attorneys and the medical students served as expert witnesses and party litigants. This inter-professional education course is one of only a few of its kind in the country.
ACCOLADES
Sherlita Amler, M.D., M.S., clinical associate professor of pediatrics, adjunct professor of public health and senior fellow for Center for Disaster Medicine, and health commissioner at Westchester County Department of Health, was named as a charter member of the national planning committee for a federally-sponsored workshop series in disaster preparedness and response by The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The workshop series, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, will explore best practices in coordinated delivery of post-disaster human services and convene experts in human services, social work, case management, disaster recovery, public health and healthcare and emergency management, as well as leaders from federal state, local, tribal and territorial governments and non-government organizations.
GRANT NEWS
Chandra Shekhar Bakshi, D.V.M., Ph.D., assistant professor of microbiology and immunology, received a two-year $445,834 grant for "Advancement of a Mucosal Subunit Vaccine in an Outbred Model of Respiratory Tularemia" from the National Institutes of Health.
Thursday, February 27, marked the 160th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's famous Cooper Union Address and NYMC founder William Cullen Bryant introduced him on stage that evening. At the time Lincoln was not yet the Republican presidential nominee, but the lengthy address garnered key support and was one of the first major steps towards helping him win the presidency.

HIGHLIGHTS

NYMed Talks
Thursday, March 12, 2020
9:30 a.m.
Willner Lobby, Medical Education Center (MEC)

Envisioning Healthcare in 2020 and Beyond, an interdisciplinary conference that will shed light on bold visions and innovative solutions in health care reform.

Monday, March 16, 2020
4:00 p.m.
Health Sciences Library Bentivegna Classroom
Basic Sciences Building (BSB)

Tuesday, March 17, 2020
10:00 a.m.
MEC and BSB

Keynote: "Let the data take you where it may: A journey of studying protein tyrosine phosphatases in disease," by  Anton Bennett, Ph.D. '93

Friday, March 20, 2020
11:00 a.m.
Willner Lobby, MEC

Tuesday, March 24 - Wednesday, March 25, 2020

NYMC Days of Giving campaign--an exciting fundraising initiative with a goal of raising much needed student scholarships in the School of Medicine, the Graduate School of Basic Medical Sciences and the School of Health Sciences and Practice.
Tuesday, May 19, 2020
2:00 p.m.
Westchester County Center 
198 Central Avenue, White Plains, NY 10606
EVENTS ON THE NYMC CALENDAR
 

Tuesday, March 3
 11:00 a.m.
 Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Seminar
12:00 p.m.
 Health Sciences LIbrary Seminar
Wednesday, March 4
 8:00 a.m.
 Department of Pediatrics Grand Rouds

11:00 a.m.
 Department of Pharmacology Seminar

1:00 p.m.
 Department of Pathology Research Seminar
Thursday, March 12 9:30 a.m.
 NYMedTalks
Monday, March 16
 4:00 p.m.
 Health Sciences LIbrary "Art Meets Science" Exhibit
Tuesday, March 17
 8:30 a.m. 32nd Annual Graduate Student Research Forum
Wednesday, March 18
 6:45 a.m.
 Department of Anesthesiology Grand Rounds

9:00 a.m.
 Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases Grand Rounds

2:00 p.m.
 Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy Seminar
Thursday, March 19
 4:00 p.m.
 Undergraduate Medical Education Information Session
Friday, March 20
 11:30 a.m.
 SOM Class of 2020 Match Day
 

IN THE NEWS
 
New York Medical College Leadership News
Health Medicine Network - 2/28/2020
Robert W. Amler, M.D., M.B.A., vice president for government affairs and dean of the School of Health Sciences and Practice 

Brinkwire - 2/28/2020
Robert W. Amler, M.D., M.B.A., vice president for government affairs and dean of the School of Health Sciences and Practice 



HuffPost - 2/27/2020
Robert W. Amler, M.D., M.B.A., vice president for government affairs and dean of the School of Health Sciences and Practice

Business Insider - 2/27/2020
 Robert W. Amler, M.D., M.B.A., vice president for government affairs and dean of the School of Health Sciences and Practice



Quartz - 2/27/2020
Robert W. Amler, M.D., M.B.A., vice president for government affairs and dean of the School of Health Sciences and Practice

Conde Nast Traveler - 2/27/2020
Robert W. Amler, M.D., M.B.A., vice president for government affairs and dean of the School of Health Sciences and Practice 



Daily Mail - 2/27/2020
Robert W. Amler, M.D., M.B.A., vice president for government affairs and dean of the School of Health Sciences and Practice

Business Insider - 2/26/2020
Robert W. Amler, M.D., M.B.A., vice president for government affairs and dean of the School of Health Sciences and Practice 





Daily Mail - 2/26/2020
Robert W. Amler, M.D., M.B.A., vice president for government affairs and dean of the School of Health Sciences and Practice 

Shape - 2/26/2020 
Robert W. Amler, M.D., M.B.A., vice president for government affairs and dean of the School of Health Sciences and Practice



The Moguldom Nation - 2/26/2020
Robert W. Amler, M.D., M.B.A., vice president for government affairs and dean of the School of Health Sciences and Practice 



Business Insider - 2/25/2020
Robert W. Amler, M.D., M.B.A., vice president for government affairs and dean of the School of Health Sciences and Practice

Faculty News
 
Homeland Magazine - 2/28/2020
Mill Etienne, M.D. '02, M.P.H., FAAN, FAES, assistant dean of student affairs, associate professor of neurology and School of Medicine House Advisory Dean

Smart Parenting - 2/25/2020
Camille A. Clare, M.D., M.P.H. '11, associate dean of diversity and inclusion for the School of Medicine and associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology



The New York Times - 2/21/2020
Jonathan K. Mays, M.D., clinical associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology



 
Touro College of Dental Medicine at NYMC

BioInc@NYMC



The Strategist - 2/27/2020
Golda Erdfarb, D.D.S., associate professor of dental medicine, course director of dental anatomy and occlusion and course director of operative dentistry

Health IT Outcomes - 2/25/2020
Samant Virk, M.D., founder and chief executive officer of MediSprout, a BioInc client


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