The Associated Medical Schools of New York (AMSNY) brings you the following compilation of the most recent updates and news from its sixteen member institutions. AMSNY is engaged in highlighting efforts of the schools in areas including, but not limited to, medical education, training, and research.
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Highlights
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine Announces $500 Million Capital Campaign
- AMSNY Joins Rally for Medical Research in Washington, DC
- New York-Presbyterian Hospital Receives $100 Million Gift From David Koch
- New York Prepares More Doctors Than Any Other State in the U.S.
- Dr. David Duggan Appointed Dean of the College of Medicine at Upstate Medical University
- Medical Education & Training Featured on The Stoler Report
Education & Training
- South Nassau Hospital Awarded $300K Training Program Grant
- Industrial Engineering Students Win $25,000 for Health Care App
- UB Unveils Dramatic Design for New Downtown Medical School
- Virtual Human Body Changes How Medical Students Learn
- Plans for Med School in Middletown Advancing
- More UB Medical School Students Choose Buffalo for their Residencies
- How to Recycle Yourself
Government
- New York State’s 2013-14 Budget Impact on Medical Schools
- Elder Abuse Prevention Gets Boost From New York Budget
- Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine Students Participate in DO Day on the Hill
Research
- North Shore-LIJ Investing $175M in Cancer Institute Expansion
- Weill Cornell Medical College Announces Feil Family Brain & Mind Research Institute
- Genome Center Readies for its New York Debut
- 3D Scaffolds a New Tool to Fight Cancer
- New York Researcher Receives $130,000 Award for Stroke Research
- Multiple Sclerosis Research: The Thalamus Moves Into the Spotlight
- Can We Treat a ‘New’ Coronary Heart Disease Risk Factor?
- White Blood Cells Found to Play Key Role in Controlling Red Blood Cell Levels
- HTR/NYSERDA Program a Finalist for National Award
- Cells Forged From Human Skin Show Promise in Treating MS, Myelin Disorders
Albert Einstein College of Medicine Announces $500 Million Capital Campaign
April 15, 2013 – “Addressing an enthusiastic gathering of more than 400 supporters, alumni and faculty, Allen M. Spiegel, M.D., the Marilyn and Stanley M. Katz Dean of Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, tonight publicly announced the College of Medicine’s largest fundraising effort—a capital campaign to raise at least $500 million, known as “The Campaign to Transform Einstein.”
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AMSNY Joins Rally for Medical Research in Washington, DC
April 15, 2013 – The Rally for Medical Research was held in Washington D.C. on Monday, April 8th. AMSNY was a proud sponsor of the event, in which nearly 200 national health care and medical research organizations were present to show their support for federally funded medical research.
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New York-Presbyterian Hospital Receives $100 Million Gift From David Koch
April 3, 2013 – New York-Presbyterian Hospital has received a $100 million gift from Koch Industries executive vice president David H. Koch in support of a new facility dedicated to outpatient care. In the past, Koch has also contributed to the David H. Koch Theater (formerly the State Theater of New York) at Lincoln Center, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and the Jaffe Food Allergy Institute at Mount Sinai Medical Center.
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New York Prepares More Doctors Than Any Other State in the U.S.
March 27, 2013 – The Associated Medical Schools of New York (AMSNY) today announced that 2,160 graduating New York State medical students have “matched” to residency training programs within the state and across the country. Ninety-seven percent of New York’s students received a residency “match,” and more than half (51 percent) will remain in New York. Graduates begin their residencies in July.
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Dr. David Duggan Appointed Dean of the College of Medicine at SUNY Upstate Medical University
March 19, 2013 – David Duggan, MD, has been appointed dean of the College of Medicine at SUNY Upstate Medical University, after having served as the college’s interim dean since October 2011. He is retaining his position as professor of medicine. Dr. Duggan has been an active member of AMSNY’s Board of Trustees, which is comprised of the deans of New York’s sixteen medical schools, since 2011, during which time he has consistently been involved in the board’s advocacy initiatives and in its’ initiatives to improve medical education.
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Medical Education and Training Featured on The Stoler Report
March 14, 2013 – Leaders from NYS’ medical schools joined Michael Stoler, host and producer of The Stoler Report, to discuss the topic, “Medical Schools Training the Next Generation of Health Care Professionals.” Participants included:
- Allen Spiegel, MD – Dean, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
- Lawrence Smith, MD, MACP – Dean, Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine & Executive Vice President/Physician-in-Chief, North Shore-LIJ Health System
- Dennis Charney, MD – Executive Vice President & Dean, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
- Edward Halperin, MD, MA, FACR – Chancellor for Health Affairs & CEO, New York Medical College
The show’s air time will be announced shortly. Stay tuned!
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South Nassau Hospital Awarded $300K Training Program Grant
April 11, 2013 – “South Nassau Communities Hospital has been awarded a grant of $303,187 from the New York State Department of Health under its Doctors Across New York Ambulatory Care Training Program, which helps train and place physicians in underserved communities in a variety of settings and specialties to care for New York’s diverse population. It offers undergraduate clinical experiences for medical students from Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine, SUNY at Stony Brook, SUNY at Brooklyn, New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine and Ross University Medical School.”
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Industrial Engineering Students Win $25,000 for Health Care App
April 11, 2013 – “A team of UB engineering students has won $25,000 for designing a mobile app that aims to reduce hospital readmission rates by ensuring that patients receive appropriate care upon being discharged. The students took part in a contest, sponsored by GE Healthcare in partnership with Ochsner Health System, that asked participants to develop an app that improved patient and family experiences during hospital visits.”
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UB Unveils Dramatic Design for New Downtown Medical School
April 10, 2013 – “The University at Buffalo has unveiled the dramatic design for its new School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus in downtown Buffalo. At more than half a million gross square feet, the seven-story steel-framed building will be one of the largest constructed in Buffalo in decades. A groundbreaking is set for fall, and construction is expected to be completed in 2016.”
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Virtual Human Body Changes How Medical Students Learn
April 2, 2013 – “Today’s medical students won’t only learn anatomy from a dry, old textbook or a wet, fleshy cadaver. Thanks to NYU School of Medicine and the animation company BioDigital Systems, they can learn using a 3D, virtual, interactive human body. Its makers call it the BioDigital Human, and LiveScience got a demonstration of the 3D system in action.”
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Plans for Med School in Middletown Advancing
March 31, 2013 – “A dozen medical students from Touro schools will start their core clerkships at Orange Regional Medical Center this summer — the first step in the medical education that will become part of the hospital’s fabric when Touro opens a planned medical college at the former Horton Hospital campus in Middletown.”
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More UB Medical School Students Choose Buffalo for their Residencies
March 20, 2013 – Fifty percent more students in the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences have chosen a UB residency program this year than last year, according to statistics compiled on the graduates at Match Day 2013 held March 15.
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How to Recycle Yourself
March 13, 2013 – “Just as you recycle plastics and papers, you can sign up to recycle your body and use it for medical research. In fact, due to the economic recession that began in 2007, there’s been an upswing in the number of people who have registered to donate their bodies to medical research, according to the Associated Medical Schools of New York.
That means more medical students have cadavers to practice on to further their education, which, in turn, means that they’ll be better able to help the living. What could be better?”
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New York State’s 2013-14 Budget Impact on Medical Schools
April 10, 2013 – New York State’s medical schools declare victory on the State’s enacted budget for fiscal year 2013-14, beginning April 1, 2013, which included a number of provisions that will benefit the schools’ education and research missions. The budget maintains funding for stem cell and spinal cord research, pipeline programs that engage and support underrepresented students pursuing careers in science and medicine, and the three SUNY hospitals.
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Elder Abuse Prevention Gets Boost From New York Budget
April 9, 2013 – New York State restored funding and increased money for education and outreach towards prevention of elder abuse. Lifespan of Rochester will administer the contract that covers intervention, training for professionals, and education for seniors and families about the signs of abuse, and also will form a team made up of law enforcement, medical and social services. The University of Rochester Medical Center is one of the collaborators.
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Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine Students Participate in DO Day on the Hill
March 21, 2013 – Forty-three students from the Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine (TouroCOM) in Harlem
oined with over a thousand DOs and osteopathic medical students on March 14 to visit with elected officials about key health policy issues that affect osteopathic medicine. The group’s primary focus was additional funding for graduate medical education – specifically additional residency spots nationwide. Currently legislation is pending that would increase the number of residency spots that teaching hospitals can offer residents by 15,000 positions.
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North Shore-LIJ Investing $175M in Cancer Institute Expansion
April 15, 2013 – “The North Shore-LIJ Health System announced today it is making an initial investment of $175 million to expand its cancer services throughout the New York metropolitan area. In establishing the North Shore-LIJ Cancer Institute, the health system is opening and expanding cancer treatment centers throughout Long Island, Queens, Manhattan and Staten Island.”
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Weill Cornell Medical College Announces Feil Family Brain & Mind Research Institute
April 9, 2013 – Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City has announced a $28 million gift from longtime supporters Gertrude and Louis Feil through their family foundation to create a multidisciplinary neurological research institute. The Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute will work to develop novel therapeutics for neurological diseases and conduct investigations designed to enhance current treatments and bridge the existing gap in translational medicine.
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Genome Center Readies for its New York Debut
April 3, 2013 – Following President Obama’s launch of the BRAIN Initiative, which commits approximately $100 million to help researchers find new ways to treat, cure and prevent brain disorders, New York will open its own genome center this May – the New York Genome Center (NYGC).
The $47 million facility combines scientists from twelve top New York-area medical research centers and universities: Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Columbia University, Cornell University/Weill Cornell Medical College, The Jackson Laboratory, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Mount Sinai Medical Center, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, New York University/NYU School of Medicine, North Shore-LIJ Health System, The Rockefeller University, and Stony Brook University.
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3D Scaffolds a New Tool to Fight Cancer
April 3, 2013 – Porous polymer scaffolds fabricated to support the growth of biological tissue for implantation may hold the potential to greatly accelerate the development of cancer therapeutics. Researchers at Rice University and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York reported this week that three-dimensional scaffolds used to culture Ewing’s sarcoma cells were effective at mimicking the environment in which such tumours develop.
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New York Researcher Receives $130,000 Award for Stroke Research
March 25, 2013 – Clotilde Balucani, MD, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow at The State University of New York – Downstate Medical Center is receiving $130,000 for her research studying minor and rapidly improving stroke problems through the AHA/ASA/ABF Lawrence M. Brass, MD, Stroke Research Postdoctoral Fellowship from the American Brain Foundation, the American Heart Association and the American Stroke Association.
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Multiple Sclerosis Research: The Thalamus Moves Into the Spotlight
March 21, 2013 – “A growing body of research by multiple sclerosis (MS) investigators at the University at Buffalo and international partners is providing powerful new evidence that the brain’s gray matter reflects important changes in the disease that could allow clinicians to diagnose earlier and to better monitor and predict how the disease will progress.”
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Can We Treat a ‘New’ Coronary Heart Disease Risk Factor?
March 21, 2013 – “Depressive symptoms after heart disease are associated with a markedly increased risk of death or another heart attack. However, less has been known about whether treating heart attack survivors for depressive symptoms could relieve these symptoms, be cost-effective, and ultimately, reduce medical risk? Columbia University Medical Center’s Karina W. Davidson, PhD and her research team now report a patient-centered approach that answers these questions in the affirmative.”
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White Blood Cells Found to Play Key Role in Controlling Red Blood Cell Levels
March 17, 2013 – “Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have found that macrophages – white blood cells that play a key role in the immune response – also help to both produce and eliminate the body’s red blood cells (RBCs). The findings could lead to novel therapies for diseases or conditions in which the red blood cell production is thrown out of balance.”
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HTR/NYSERDA Program a Finalist for National Award
February 27, 2013 – “The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA)’s Entrepreneurs-In-Residence program, a statewide program managed by High Tech Rochester, is one of two finalists for the Incubator Innovation Award, a prestigious award presented by the National Business Incubation Association. Each year, the NBIA Incubation Awards honor the business incubators, client companies and graduates that exemplify the best in the industry.”
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Cells Forged from Human Skin Show Promise in Treating MS, Myelin Disorders
February 7, 2013 – “A study out today in the journal Cell Stem Cell shows that human brain cells created by reprogramming skin cells have the potential to be highly effective in treating myelin disorders, a family of diseases that includes multiple sclerosis and rare childhood disorders called pediatric leukodystrophies.”
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