BY RUSCHELL BOONE NEW YORK CITY PUBLISHED 6:20 AM ET JUN. 29, 2021 Over the past year, the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted a lack of diversity among physicians in medicine, but the Associated Medical Schools of New York (AMSNY) is working to change that.   The AMSNY is creating pathways for people who are underrepresented… Read More

By Nelson A. King Jamaican-American Dr. Akya Myrie. AMSNY/Akya Myrie Akya Myrie grew up in Canarsie, Brooklyn after her mother migrated to the United States in the 1980s from Jamaica and witnessed her family’s search for better medical services for her older brother, who is described as “profoundly mentally disabled.” While growing up in Brooklyn,… Read More

MAYA KAUFMAN   May 5, 2021 The state is planning to dissolve a program funding stem cell research, a move that scientists warn will deal a blow to New York’s health and science startup economy. Lawmakers eliminated the New York State Stem Cell Science program, or NYSTEM, as part of the budget approved last month…. Read More

The Associated Medical Schools of New York (AMSNY) applauds Governor Cuomo and the New York State Legislature for funding AMSNY’s Diversity in Medicine programs in the FY2O22 budget at last year’s level of $1.244M and increasing scholarships for students under-represented in medicine to $550,000.  “AMSNY’s Diversity in Medicine programs are crucial to our effort to… Read More

By AKYA MYRIE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS | MAR 30, 2021 AT 5:00 AM As I finish my final year of medical school, I’m in a race against time. Growing up in Brooklyn as the daughter of Jamaican immigrants, I saw people that looked like me suffer from higher rates of asthma, diabetes and other… Read More

  BY JO WIEDERHORN, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR —  03/08/21 02:31 PM EST THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL In the year since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent death of more than 500,000 Americans, researchers around the world have raced to develop vaccines at… Read More

David A. Milling Mar 2, 2021 Covid-19 shined a spotlight on health disparities, with increased hospitalizations and death rates among Black and Latinx patients, including here in Buffalo. However, we have a powerful tool to address health disparities: increased diversity among doctors with the help of pipeline programs and scholarship. Increasing diversity among doctors is… Read More

Updated Mar 01, 2021; Posted Mar 01, 2021   Samantha Williams is a medical student at SUNY Upstate Medical University. Photo courtesy of Samantha Williams.   By Samantha Williams In the U.S., only 2 percent of physicians are Black women. As a medical student at SUNY Upstate Medical University, I am working to become one… Read More

Testimony of:  Jonathan Teyan, Chief Operating Officer  Associated Medical Schools of New York (AMSNY)  At a Joint Budget Hearing of  The New York State Assembly Committee on Economic Development, Job Creation,  Commerce and Industry  and  The New York State Senate Committee on Commerce, Economic Development and Small  Business  February 23, 2021  9:30AM  Virtual Public Hearing… Read More