The Associated Medical Schools of New York (AMSNY) brings you the following compilation of the most recent updates and news on medical education and the physician workforce from the medical schools.
Highlights
- Albany Medical Center Named 2014 Most Wired
- New York Medical College and Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center Announce an Academic Affiliation
- Mount Sinai and Genetic Disease Foundation Celebrate “Food For Life” Program to Help Kids Manage Inherited Metabolic Diseases
Medical Education & Training
- Four Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Physician-Scientists Named 2014 Irving Scholars
- SUNY Honors 3 University at Buffalo Medical School Faculty for Superior Achievement
- University at Buffalo Medical Studens Honors Anatomical Gift Donors at Memorial Service
- Touro College Receives Final State Approval to Open Medical School Campus in Middletown
Health Care & Physician Workforce
- Plugged In to Patients and Families
- Medicaid Expansion: The Issue of Access
- Columbia Memorial Hospital and Albany Medical Center Take First Steps Toward Strategic Affiliation
- Rochester Hospitals Collaborate to Reduce Medicaid Costs
Albany Medical Center Named 2014 Most Wired
July 9, 2014 – Albany Medical Center has been named one of the Most Wired Hospitals in the nation, according to the 16th annual Health Care’s Most Wired Survey, conducted by Hospitals & Health Networks. Albany Med is one of only 22 hospitals in New York State to receive this designation, which is awarded based on a survey of hospitals’ uses of technology in infrastructure, business and administrative management, clinical quality and patient safety, and clinical integration. It is also one of only 375 hospitals in the nation to receive the designation.
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© 2014 Albany Medical Center. All rights reserved.
New York Medical College and Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center Announce an Academic Affiliation
July 9, 2014 – New York Medical College (NYMC), Valhalla, N.Y., and Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center, Brooklyn, N.Y., are pleased to announce an academic affiliation agreement.
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© 2014 New York Medical College. All rights reserved.
Mount Sinai and Genetic Disease Foundation Celebrate “Food For Life” Program to Help Kids Manage Inherited Metabolic Diseases
July 3, 2014 – Pediatric patients and their families recently joined physicians from The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and representatives from the Genetic Disease Foundation (GDF) to introduce revamped quarters for the Food for Life program, which serves patients in Mount Sinai’s Program for Inherited Metabolic Diseases – one of the largest centers of its kind. Food for Life was created to improve access to the specialized and often costly foods patients need to manage their health. Established with a grant from the GDF, the program features an on-site pantry stocked with food products made available at no cost to qualifying patients, along with advice and recipes from staff nutritionists.
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© 2014 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. All rights reserved.
Four Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Physician-Scientists Named 2014 Irving Scholars
July 9, 2014 – The Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research announced four young clinical investigators as 2014 Irving Scholars, who will conduct research to improve treatments for blood cancer, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and antibiotic-resistant infections. Each researcher will receive a three-year career development award and named professorship.
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© 2014 Columbia University Medical Center. All rights reserved.
SUNY Honors 3 University at Buffalo Medical School Faculty for Superior Achievement
July 1, 2014 – Steven J. Fliesler, PhD, Meyer H. Riwchun Endowed Chair Professor of ophthalmology; Elad I. Levy, MD, professor and chair of neurosurgery; and Alan J. Lesse, MD, associate professor of medicine, have received 2014 SUNY Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence.
The annual awards, presented in seven categories, recognize exemplary faculty and staff throughout the State University of New York’s 64 institutions. Fliesler and Levy were recognized for outstanding scholarship; Lesse was honored for teaching excellence.
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© 2014 School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo. All rights reserved.
University at Buffalo Medical Students Honors Anatomical Gift Donors at Memorial Service
© 2014 School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo. All rights reserved.
Touro College Receives Final State Approval to Open Medical School Campus in Middletown
June 24, 2014 – The Hudson Valley is one step closer to building a stronger healthcare system as Harlem-based Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine (TouroCOM) today received final approval from the New York State Board of Regents to open a new campus at the site of the former Horton Hospital complex in Middletown, N.Y.
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© 2014 Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine. All rights reserved.
Plugged In to Patients and Families
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© 2014 University at Rochester Medical Center. All rights reserved.
Medicaid Expansion: The Issue of Access
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© 2014 Columbia University Medical Center. All rights reserved.
Columbia Memorial Hospital and Albany Medical Center Take First Steps Toward Strategic Affiliation
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© 2014 Albany Medical Center. All rights reserved.
Rochester Hospitals Collaborate to Reduce Medicaid Costs
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© 2014 University at Rochester Medical Center. All rights reserved.