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Principal William Latson of Spanish River Community High School in Palm Beach County, Florida was removed from his position and reassigned to a different position in the Palm Beach County school district after refusing to admit that the Holocaust was a “factual, historical event.”

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

We all know that the sun can cause sunburn, but it's easy to forget that concrete surfaces, strollers, metal bleachers, slides and other play equipment also can burn sensitive skin after just one to three seconds of exposure.

NYMC Faculty: Francis V. Winski Jr., M.D., clinical assistant professor of surgery and otolaryngology

For infants and toddlers, having a closed-off pool area is the key to safety. "Build or install a self-latching gate with childproof locks and, ideally, an audible alert when motion is detected in the water," says Darshan Patel, MD, Chief of the Pediatric Emergency Department at Maria Fareri Children's Hospital, a member of the Westchester Medical Center Health Network (WMCHealth).

NYMC Faculty: Darshan D. Patel, M.D., assistant professor of pediatrics, family and community medicine, and emergency medicine

"Broken heart syndrome -- which is, in fact, a real thing -- is when someone finds out some shocking news, typically terrible news, and there's a massive release of these stress hormones that are released into the bloodstream, and the heart is then bombarded with these stress hormones," said Dr. Matthew Lorber, a psychiatrist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York.

NYMC Faculty: Matthew W. Lorber, M.D., M.P.A., clinical assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences

On October 11th, Jeffrey will give a presentation on "Serving Those Who Have Served Us: Why and How to Market Veterans' Healthcare to Your Community" at Becker's Health IT + Revenue Cycle 2019.

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

Seeing your primary care doctor for your annual physical or because you're being slammed with a virulent case of the flu is one thing. Visiting a cardiologist for the first time for possible heart issues is another. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the U.S. for men and women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: About 610,000 people die of heart disease in the U.S. annually.

NYMC Faculty: Julio A. Panza, M.D., professor of medicine

After refusing to admit that the Holocaust was a “factual, historical event,” Principal William Latson of Spanish River Community High School in Boca Raton, Fla., was removed from his position and reassigned to a different position in the Palm Beach County school district.

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

When healthcare providers are evaluating and upgrading their resuscitation programs, they often focus on cardiac care. That’s understandable, since even in the medical community resuscitation is often seen as primarily focused around patients presenting with heart attacks or other cardiac-related issues. However, this lifesaving activity is vital to improve outcomes in many other patient conditions as well, says Dr. David Markenson, Chief Medical Officer for the American Red Cross Training Services and Medical Director at the New York Medical College Center for Disease Medicine, which he co-founded in 2005.

NYMC Faculty: David Markenson, M.D., medical director of the Center for Disaster Medicine

Health care today is changing in ways that have the potential to undermine its ethical foundations. To manage these changes effectively, leaders must develop the complex skills necessary to give “voice” to the core values of health care in this evolving landscape. This entails, first, recognizing the competing ethical values underlying the challenges they face. Next, leaders must be competent in analyzing complex ethical dilemmas. Third, and perhaps most challenging, they must learn to develop and implement realistic strategies that can maintain the core values of health care in a rapidly-changing climate. To train values-driven leaders in these critical skills, we have created an ethical leadership program for health care that is based on the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) methodology. This article will make the argument for developing a version of GVV aimed at those in leadership positions in the health care field and briefly describe the program.

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

The renovations may seem like minor cosmetic adjustments, but many studies published over the past couple of years from communities across the United States have found that urban-remediation efforts can both reduce gun violence and other crimes like vandalism and increase time that residents spend outdoors.

NYMC Faculty: Stephan M. Carlson, M.D., assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences

Identifying the reasons for poor financial performance of health plans is important for startups and health plans expanding their markets and for state and federal regulators who aim to promote competitive markets, for health insurance. This is especially important during a time when 112 members of the House of Representatives have cosponsored HR 1384, the Medicare for All Act of 2019, which would eliminate health insurers from all U.S. markets.

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

We must ban, not simply pause embryonic gene editing before someone decides to forge the very biological nature of future generations, threatening their health and hijacking their identities before they are even born.

NYMC faculty: Stuart A. Newman, Ph.D., professor of cell biology and anatomy and medicine

Here are 10 gastroenterologists Becker's ASC Review profiled in June: Edward Lebovics, M.D., is the chief of the gastroenterology and hepatobiliary disease division at the Valhalla, N.Y.-based Westchester Medical Center. Dr. Lebovics also serves as the Upham professor of gastroenterology and is the director of the Sarah C. Upham division of gastroenterology and hepatobiliary diseases at New York Medical College.

NYMC faculty: Edward Lebovics, M.D., professor of medicine and interim chair of the Department of Medicine

"We were very surprised to document that the patient was bitten by this particular tick species which was not known at the time to even exist in our state," Dr. Gary P. Wormser from New York Medical College, in Valhalla, told Reuters Health by email.

NYMC faculty: Gary P. Wormser, M.D., professor of medicine, microbiology and immunology, and pharmacology, and vice chair of medicine for research and development

Each year, the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA) presents awards to deserving members of the financial aid profession and higher education community. These awards are reviewed and selected annually by NASFAA’s Awards Committee and ratified by the Board of Directors. They are presented each year at the National Conference, with nearly 2,300 student aid professionals from across the country in attendance.

NYMC Leadership News: Anthony M. Sozzo, M.A., M.S. Ed., associate dean for student affairs and director of student financial planning and student activities

Legal reasoning may help boost students' ability to look at multiple sides of an argument, and how they approach their own schoolwork: understanding there isn’t always one solution, one answer or one point of view.

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

When Native American students start the academic year at the University of Arizona College of Medicine—Tucson, they’re invited to attend a blessing ceremony. A traditional healer burns cedar and prays, then fans the smoke with eagle feathers to bless those in attendance, a practice known as smudging, which is believed to provide physical and spiritual strength.

NYMC Mentions: 
Daniel Kadosh, M.D. ’16, Westchester Medical Center
Fredrick Z. Bierman, M.D., director of graduate medical education, Westchester Medical Center Health Network and professor of pediatrics

To find better ways to diagnose the disease more reliably and maybe sooner, scientists are trying to identify genetic changes that occur in the body even before the immune system rallies. Other researchers are measuring immune responses that may prove more accurate than existing tests.

NYMC Faculty: Paul M. Arnaboldi, Ph.D., assistant professor of microbiology and immunology

When your institution offers resuscitation education, is it instructor-led? Online? Or a combination of the two, where an in-class instructor offers coursework and assesses skills using a feedback mannequin in tandem with, or following completion of, an online course?

NYMC Faculty: David Markenson, M.D., medical director of the Center for Disaster Medicine

People facing a poor prognosis may not want to squander their limited energy on traveling, undergoing invasive scans or inhabiting hospital environments. The location of trials in urban centers poses a challenge for rural populations. Additionally, eligibility requirements make it impossible to enroll when people don’t have a specific genetic mutation or have previously taken a specific drug.

NYMC Faculty: 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