Lori Solomon, M.D. '99, M.P.H. '09, Is Appointed Chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine 

Lori Solomon, M.D. '99, M.P.H. '09, assistant professor of family and community medicine, has been appointed chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine. In her new role, she will lead the Department with a mission to provide quality education in family practice and generalist medicine and prepare students for today's demanding medical environment. Dr. Solomon joined the New York Medical College (NYMC) faculty in 2002 and as a family physician, she is committed to improving patients' healthcare experience and health outcomes through longitudinal, comprehensive medical care. She loves helping her patients adopt healthy lifestyles and supporting patients through all life phases. Read the  full article on Dr. Lori Solomon.

Karen M. Murray, M.D. '99, Is Named Associate Dean for Admissions for the School of Medicine 

Karen M. Murray, M.D. '99, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology, has been appointed associate dean of admissions for the New York Medical College (NYMC) School of Medicine (SOM). In her new position she is responsible for directing the Office of Admissions, reviewing thousands of applications, supporting the holistic review process, including CASPer (Computer-based Assessment for Sampling Personal Characteristics), the on-line situational judgment test, and the Multiple Mini Interview (MMI) practice, and ultimately seating classes of high-caliber, well-rounded medical students who will lead the future of medicine. Dr. Murray has been involved in the SOM admissions process for the past decade as a member of the admissions committee. Read the full article on Dr. Karen Murray.

NYMC Celebrates 25th Annual NYMC Faculty Author Event 

On August 28, members of the faculty gathered to congratulate each other at the Faculty Author Recognition- eagerly flipping through the pages of the faculty author bibliography to see what their colleagues have been up to in the realm of scholarly publication during the year of 2017. This year marked the 25th anniversary of the celebration representing nearly 20,000 publications collectively and the countless hours behind them from the genesis of an idea, to the background research, to the conduct of a study, to the preparation of a manuscript, editing, proofreading, submitting, revising and finally publication. For the first time this year, all of the publication citations and abstracts were entered into the Touro Scholar repository, the online archive of scholarship produced by all Touro College and University System institutions designed to disseminate and preserve intellectual output, and support individual researchers in maintaining their scholarly legacy. Read the full article on the Faculty Author Event.

View the 2017 Faculty Author bibliography. View the Faculty Author Event photo gallery. 

NYMC Welcomes County Executive for a Campus Visit 

New York Medical College (NYMC) leadership, from left, Edward C. Halperin, M.D., M.A., chancellor and chief executive officer, Robert W. Amler, M.D., M.B.A., dean of the School of Health Sciences and Practice and vice president for government affairs, and Alan Kadish, M.D., far right, president of the Touro College and University System, welcomed Westchester County Executive George S. Latimer for an afternoon tour on September 5 to catch up on the latest developments on campus. Stops included the Speech-Language Pathology Clinic, the Center for Disaster Medicine, the Clinical Skills and Simulation Center, BioInc@NYMC and the Touro College of Dental Medicine at NYMC.

NYMC Goes Gold 

The New York Medical College community gathered dressed in gold to show their support of the Childhood Cancer Awareness Month of September and highlight the critical need for awareness and support for those impacted by pediatric cancer.

BioInc@NYMC Welcomes Affina Biotechnologies to Incubator 

Affina Biotechnologies, a drug discovery start-up company has joined BioInc@NYMC as its newest client. Affina is the ninth organization to become a member of the biotechnology incubator offering shared resources, turnkey wet lab space, and sponsored professional services to promising, high-potential entrepreneurs and start-ups. Affina Biotechnologies seeks to develop novel drugs for difficult targets and is dedicated to services in biomolecule characterization, offering protein biochemistry and assay development. Read the full article on Affina Biotechnologies.

Marina K. Holz, Ph.D., dean of the Graduate School of Basic Medical Sciences, was awarded a five-year $2,050,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health for "Estrogenic signaling upstream and downstream of mTOR."

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