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Three physicians with the Phelps Family Medicine Residency Program have achieved the Degree of Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), the national medical association representing nearly 134,600 family physicians, residents and medical students. They are Rebecca McAteer, MD, Sara Paul, MD, and London Muse, MD.

NYMC Faculty Mentions:

Rebecca McAteer, M.D.'08, clinical assistant professor of family and community medicine and School of Medicine advisory dean

Sara Paul, M.D., clinical assistant professor of family and community medicine

London Muse, M.D. ’12, clinical assistant professor of family and community medicine

White Plains Hospital’s emergency department staff took part in an eight-hour disaster training course to prepare for mass casualty situations.

New York Medical College Leadership News: Robert W. Amler, M.D., M.B.A., vice president for government affairs and dean of the School of Health Sciences and Practice

White Plains, NY (January 9, 2020) – The Westchester County Association (WCA) – Westchester’s leading economic development and business advocacy organization – today announced the appointment of twelve new members to its board of directors, a new vice chair of its board of directors, and three board members to its executive committee.

NYMC Faculty and Staff Mentions:

Lindsay C. Farrell, M.B.A., instructor of family and community medicine and president and chief executive officer, Open Door Family Medical Center, an ambulatory care program affiliate of the College

Deborah Novick, director of BioInc@NYMC

“When a disaster occurs it puts at risk both businesses and their employees during the event. Those risks are to the employees, the leadership and the people they serve,” Markenson said, noting that the ability to maintain business operations can be an early casualty. “Without disaster preparedness you can’t have continuity of operations. You can have an event that really shuts them down for days, weeks, months. You can imagine the impact that will have on a business.”

New York Medical College News: David S. Markenson, M.D., M.B.A., director of the Center for Disaster Medicine

Don’t assume your primary care doctor’s recommendation is best

NYMC Faculty News: Howard J. Luks, M.D., assistant professor of orthopaedic surgery and medicine

VALHALLA – New York Medical College in Valhalla is going to receive a $410,000 federal grand through the US Department of Health and Human Services for its research on heart and vascular diseases.

NYMC Faculty Mentions:

Brian B. Ratliff, Ph.D., assistant professor of medicine and physiology and director, Accelerated Master's Program

Michael S. Wolin, Ph.D., professor of physiology

On Dec. 11, President Trump signed an Executive Order which applies Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, color, and national origin in programs and activities receiving Federal financial assistance, to Jews.

NYMC Faculty News: Ira Bedzow, M.A., Ph.D., assistant professor of medicine and director of Biomedical Ethics and Humanities Program

VALHALLA, NY (December 2019) - In the spirit of the holiday season, Presbyterian Church of Mount Kisco Women's Association Member & Treasurer, Dr. Ansley Bacon delivered a $2,000 donation check to Westchester Institute for Human Development on December 18. The donation will be used to purchase toys for WIHD's Child Welfare program and laptop computers for its Assistive Technology program. WIHD creates better futures for people with disabilities and for vulnerable children and their families and caregivers through professional education, comprehensive services and supports, community training and technical assistance, and innovative research and information dissemination.

NYMC Affiliate Mentions: 

Izel Obermeyer, M.S., instructor, Center on Disability and Health, Ansley Bacon, M.A., Ph.D., professor emeritus, Center on Disability and Health,

Danielle S. Weisberg, LCSW, instructor, Center on Disability and Health

Susan Fox, M.Ed., M.A., Ph.D., associate professor of health policy and management, director, Center on Disability and Health, and president and CEO, Westchester Institute for Human Development

Here are 117 gastroenterologists Becker's ASC Review featured in 2019:

NYMC Faculty News: Edward Lebovics, M.D., professor and interim chair of Department of Medicine and Sarah C. Upham Professor of Gastroenterology

On Friday, November 15, 2019, Brain & Spine Surgeons of NY (BSSNY) held their first Annual Neuroscience Symposium. Healthcare professionals from far and wide gathered to meet the expert board-certified surgeons and learn about the latest technology and techniques. Brilliant presentations demonstrated the foremost treatments for neurosurgical disorders. Also present was featured guest speaker, Eugene S. Flamm, MD, Professor of Neurosurgery at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Flamm outlined the history of neurosurgery to the audience and demonstrated how it has advanced to today.

New York Medical College News

Alina Moran leads the hospital where she was born. Indeed, the CEO for NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan is proud of her special connection to the expansive institution, where she’s worked for three-and-a-half years, while having been part of the greater NYC Health + Hospitals system for over nineteen.

NYMC Affiliate News: Alina Moran, M.P.A., chief executive officer, NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan and a member of the New York Medical College Board of Trustees

NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan CEO Alina Moran, New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, and Council Member Diana Ayala today announced plans to improve access to care in East Harlem, NY.

NYMC Affiliated News:

Alina Moran, M.P.A., chief executive officer, NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan and a member of the New York Medical College Board of Trustees

John T. Pellicone, M.D., chief medical officer at Metropolitan, NYMC associate dean for medical education at Metropolitan and assistant professor of medicine

Hussein Matari, M.D., professor of radiology

Ladders News has written a lot about the shocking number of germs that can survive pretty much on everything you come in contact with on a plane. Your desk at work also makes for a pretty horrifying picture of bacteria. But you would think that if you avoided public transportation on your commute you were probably eliminating a significant amount of germs in your daily life, but new research proves that isn’t so.

New York Medical College Leadership News: Robert W. Amler, M.D., M.B.A., dean of the School of Health Sciences and Practice and vice president for government affairs

Many researchers are proving the power of resonant breathing. According to researchers, it can calm you down in only a few minutes. We all encounter high stress and anxiety-inducing communications and situations in our life.

NYMC Faculty News: Patricia L. Gerbarg, M.D., clinical assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences

MDA’s Medical Education department was established in response to the growing need for clinician education in neuromuscular disease (NMD). We are pleased to present four webinars that cover newborn screening (NBS) and early intervention, genetic testing, and best practices in multidisciplinary care. Our Medical Education department, together with key opinion leaders in the NMD field, created detailed and well-referenced educational content to serve clinicians and ultimately improve patient care.

NYMC Faculty News: David F. Kronn, M.D., associate professor of pediatrics and pathology

Adding brentuximab vedotin and rituximab to combination risk-adapted chemotherapy without cyclophosphamide, etoposide, or bleomycin was associated with reduced treatment toxicities among patients with newly diagnosed Hodgkin lymphoma (HL), researchers reported in an abstract presented at the 61st American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting and Exposition in Orlando, Florida.

NYMC Faculty News: Jessica C. Hochberg, M.D., assistant professor of pediatrics

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Familial haploidentical stem-cell transplant improves outcomes in children and adolescents with high-risk sickle-cell disease, researchers report. HLA-matched sibling allogeneic stem-cell transplant has been shown to improve event-free survival (EFS) in sickle-cell disease (SCD). But rates of graft failure and chronic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) have been higher than expected.

NYMC Faculty News: Mitchell S. Cairo, M.D., professor of pediatrics, division of pediatric hematology, oncology and stem cell transplantation, and professor of medicine, pathology, microbiology and immunology, and cell biology and anatomy

VALHALLA, NY – Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-Westchester/Rockland), Chairwoman of the House Appropriations Committee, today announced that New York Medical College in Valhalla, NY, will receive $410,000 through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for its research on heart and vascular diseases.

NYMC Faculty Mentions: 

Brian B. Ratliff, Ph.D., assistant professor of medicine and physiology and director, Accelerated Master's Program

Michael S. Wolin, Ph.D., professor of physiology

The healthcare industry continues to transform. Innovative technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, mobile devices, and telemedicine are helping providers better care for their patients and more efficiently operate their businesses.

BioInc@News: Samant Virk, M.D., founder and chief executive officer of MediSprout, a BioInc client

Clinical trials of long-acting injectable antipsychotics usually have the study drug-naive patient receive test doses, as in, for example, the study of aripiprazole lauroxil, where "Aripiprazole-naive patients were given a test dose of oral aripiprazole 5 mg administered daily for 2 days prior to randomization to assess tolerability. Patients who had previously taken and tolerated aripiprazole were not required to undergo the tolerability assessment.

NYMC Faculty News: Leslie L. Citrome, M.D., M.P.H., clinical professor of psychiatry & behavioral sciences