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The most important culture shift is also the simplest. We must all shift to hear what women have to say. We need to listen instead of scrutinizing. Allow women to express their ideas regardless of their looks or the way they speak.

NYMC Administration news: Jennifer Riekert, M.B.A., vice president of communications and strategic initiatives and Ali Jackson-Jolley, M.B.A., communications specialist

Research by Adam Block, Ph.D., an assistant professor of public health at New York Medical College, on the Managed Healthcare Executive® website shows that net operating income in the second quarter of this year had increased by an average of 136.7% relative to the second quarter of 2019.

Faculty news: Adam E. Block, Ph.D., assistant professor of public health in the Division of Health Policy and Management

As the COVID pandemic continues, people must make tradeoffs between taking on risk in activities and other factors that have value to them — like seeing family and earning income. 

Faculty News: Adam E. Block, Ph.D., assistant professor of public health in the Division of Health Policy and Management and George W. Contreras, M.E.P., M.P.H., M.S., CEM, FAcEM, assistant director of the CDM, assistant professor in the Institute of Public Health of the SHSP and assistant director of the Advanced Certificate in Emergency Management Program

How do we acknowledge differences without cancelling commonalities? Similarity, how can we respect ethnicities without turning them into ethnic stereotypes?

Faculty news: Ira J. Bedzow, Ph.D., associate professor of medicine and director of the Biomedical Ethics and Humanities Program 

These clear face masks are crucial for the DDH community, but they may also be a vast improvement for caregivers in a senior facility or even teachers in a classroom, explains Robert Amler, M.D.

NYMC 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

There is lots of great counsel in the letter. It claims, “Only in a professional does one’s voice sing in harmony with one’s being. Want that for yourselves, for only a life undivided is a life of full integrity.”

Faculty news: Ira J. Bedzow, Ph.D., associate professor of medicine and director of the Biomedical Ethics and Humanities Program

Biotechnology has the potential to push society to a future that may be very different than the world in which we currently live.  If we will be able to make any sense of our future world, it is not enough to examine how technology can get us there.  We also need to understand who we are and how we relate to who we may become. 

Faculty news: Ira J. Bedzow, Ph.D., associate professor of medicine and director of the Biomedical Ethics and Humanities Program

Athletes have long complained that they are expected to “stick to their sport,” to be seen and not heard. Yet ironically, it was the absence of their presence that will ultimately speak the loudest.

Faculty news: Stacy Gallin, D.M.H., visiting assistant professor in the Biomedical Ethics and Humanities Program

The COVID-19 pandemic has put unprecedented pressures on the resources and safety of the country's medical teams. Stories of immense challenges have been juxtaposed with stories of bravery, hope and camaraderie among front-line medical workers.

Faculty news: Sean S. Tedjarati, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., chair of the Department of Obstetrics and gynecology and clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology

“Cluster feeding seems to happen most often during the first few weeks of breastfeeding (because the milk supply may be more erratic) and then again around three months, but it can also occur later,” explains Jeffrey L. Brown, MD and clinical professor of pediatrics at New York Medical College.

Faculty news: Jeffrey L. Brown, M.D., clinical professor of pediatrics

AstraZeneca's decision to pause its global trials of a COVID-19 vaccine candidate over safety concerns should reassure skeptical Americans that "they are looking very carefully at everybody who is getting the vaccine," New York Medical College Professor Dr. Bob Lahita told “Your World" Wednesday.

Faculty news: Robert G. Lahita, M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicine

West Virginia University moves undergrad classes online due to rise in coronavirus cases; reaction from Dr. Bob Lahita, professor of medicine at New York Medical College and chairman of medicine at St. Joseph's University Hospital.

Faculty news: Robert G. Lahita, M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicine

“It's going to be probably, and I'm going to bet on this, December,” he said. “Mid-December, before the holidays.” Three coronavirus vaccine candidates are currently in the final phase of human trials in the U.S. -- one made by AstraZeneca, one made by Moderna and a third made by Pfizer-BioNTech.

Faculty news: Robert G. Lahita, M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicine

And yet, in a deeply fractured society facing the greatest global challenge since World War II, academic elites bemoan a growing populist rejection of science just as their own institutions reject the same science that they themselves have advanced, for it does not suit their operational interests.

Faculty news: Douglas Lee Krohn, M.D., clinical assistant professor of pediatrics

We tell them to wear a mask, we keep social distancing, you can buy food - but don't eat the food until you get into the theater," Lahita advises. "[Family members] can sit next to you because you're with them all the time and you know their health situation. But the [other] people in the theater should be at least two rows apart.

Faculty news: Robert G. Lahita, M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicine

Prone-triggered PNI may also result from "the way patients are positioned and the weight it may put on certain nerves for prolonged periods of time," said Dr. Armeen Poor, an attending physician of pulmonary critical care medicine at Metropolitan Hospital Center in New York City.

Faculty news: Armeen D. Poor, M.D., clinical assistant professor of medicine

Let's spend more time discussing the real issues of the campaign and less on defending rules of presidential etiquette, which history teaches us, never existed.

NYMC Leadership news: Edward C. Halperin, M.D., M.A., chancellor and chief executive officer

The Westchester County Youth Bureau is offering this virtual forum FREE for parents, students, and youth service providers. Expert panelists will include: Dr. Arlene G. Adler, Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital at Westchester Medical Center Assistant Professor of Pediatrics & Psychiatry, New York Medical College

NYMC faculty news: Arlene G. Adler, Ph.D., assistant professor of pediatrics

Recently, Vilma Bordonaro, chief of staff to New York Medical College Chancellor and CEO Edward C. Halperin, M.D.; legendary New York Yankees closer Mariano Rivera; and New Rochelle Mayor Noam Bramson came together at the city’s Refuge of Hope Church, where Rivera’s wife, Clara, is pastor, to discuss the coronavirus, education, leadership and inspiration.

NYMC Leadership news: Edward C. Halperin, M.D., M.A., chancellor and chief executive officer and Vilma E. Bordonaro, M.B.A., chief of staff

“If you’re going to do phase four opening of essentially nonessential locales such as restaurants, gyms, tattoo parlors, and barbershops, I would think those would be of more risk than going to a movie theater, because of their inherent proximity to strangers,” Lahita said.

NYMC Faculty news: Robert G. Lahita, M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicine