Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University: Stony Brook Medicine Named Among America’s 50 Best — the Only on Long Island to Achieve this Ranking

Stony Brook Medicine (SBM) has received the highest level of achievement from Healthgrades, as one of America’s 50 Best for 2025. This achievement places Stony Brook Medicine among the top 1% nationwide for overall care excellence and is the only on Long Island to be ranked among America’s 50 Best. Learn more.

SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University Hosts Brooklyn’s First Neurodiversity & Transition Symposium

In December, Downstate hosted Brooklyn’s first symposium on “Neurodiversity and Transition to Adulthood,” bringing together over 360 clinicians, educators, families, and self-advocates for actionable insights and strategies to improve outcomes for neurodiverse populations. Learn more.

Albany Medical College: Disability Curriculum Brings Lived Experience to Medical Students

As second-year medical students, Baylee Kennedy and Kimberly Lipton have been learning about neuroscience and how the nervous system works. They had read about clonus—an abnormal reflex response—but had never witnessed it. Learn more.

Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra Northwell: Bolstering Awareness, Advocacy and Action — Zucker School of Medicine Hosts Seventh Core Learning: Pain and Addiction Care Education (PACE) Week

The Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell hosted its seventh annual Core Learning: Pain and Addiction Care Education (PACE) Week for its future doctors on January 21-24, 2025. Formerly known as Core Learning: Our Opioid Epidemic Week, the week immerses third-year medical students in a transformative and comprehensive program designed to educate and equip them with the essential skills and attitudes needed to properly address substance use and pain within routine patient care. Learn more.

SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University Clinical Reasoning Skills in Medical Education

One of the most essential skills in medicine is mastering clinical reasoning—assessing and interpreting patient information to make informed decisions. Yet many medical students face significant challenges moving from the classroom-focused pre-clerkship phase to the hands-on demands of clerkship training. Learn more.

Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra Northwell: Inspiring the Healers of Tomorrow – Zucker School of Medicine Hosts Inaugural NextGen Healers Healthcare Career Day

On Friday, January 24, 2025, the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell hosted its inaugural NextGen Healers Healthcare Career Day, for a day of hands-on activities centered around healthcare careers. Held in partnership with Bayview Avenue Elementary School of the Arts and Sciences in Freeport, NY and Hofstra University’s School of Nursing and Physician Assistant Studies and School of Health Sciences, over 100 third-grade students and teachers visited the Zucker School of Medicine. Learn more.

Student News

New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine Medical Students Receive Residency “Marching Orders”

After graduating from medical school, physicians in the United States must complete a residency training program, obtain a medical license, and become board-certified in a specialty. Medical students committed to military service complete their residency as members of the armed forces. Learn more.

Weill Cornell Medicine: New Physician Assistant Students Launch Educational Journey With White Coats

Jordyn Green always knew she wanted to work in health care, but an emergency room experience with her father two years ago cemented an enthusiasm for the physician assistant profession. A gardening accident with hedge clippers had landed them in the emergency room, and as her father received care, the PA stitching his fingers turned to her and said she should consider pursuing the medical field — and would be a great candidate. Learn more.

Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons Alumni Profile: Elaine Wan’05

A mouse’s heart is the size of a pinky nail and beats at least 600 times per minute. That has not stopped Elaine Wan’05, director of electrophysiology research at VP&S, from the daunting task of developing algorithms to precisely map its electrical activity in an NIH-funded study that has expanded the possibilities of testing where and why irregular heartbeats, or arrhythmias, emerge. Learn more.

University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry Student Spotlight: Aaron Huynh

Aaron Huynh is a second-year student in the Neuroscience Graduate Program at the School of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Rochester. He received his undergraduate degree in brain and cognitive sciences from the University of Rochester. He was a student in the biomedical research training program Post-baccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP) at the Medical Center. Learn more.

Awards & Grants

Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons Graduate Students Awarded NIH Fellowships

Twenty-one graduate students at VP&S successfully competed for NIH fellowships in the second half of 2024. Research education leadership, directors of graduate studies, and thesis mentors came together at an event in December to celebrate the students’ accomplishments. Learn more.

Norton College of Medicine at Upstate Medical University Student Honored for Best Dissertation in SUNY System

Yunting Zhu, PhD, of the Department of Neuroscience and Physiology has been honored for writing the best PhD dissertation in the SUNY System. SUNY Chancellor John. B. King, Jr announced Zhu as the Chancellor’s Distinguished PhD Graduate Dissertation Awards winner, which recognizes the best PhD dissertations in the SUNY system. Zho’s dissertation is titled “The Neuroinflammatory Basis of Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder: Spotlight on Brain Macrophages, Cytokines, and the Blood-Brain Barrier.” Learn more.

University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry: New NIH ROC StARR Program Bolsters Residency Research

New National Institutes of Health R38 grant funding expands research opportunities for residents in Medicine, Pediatrics, Medicine-Pediatrics and Dermatology.  The $2.1 million award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) aims to train a diverse pool of physician-scientists to lead the development, implementation and evaluation of new approaches to diagnose, treat and prevent autoimmune, allergic, inflammatory, and infectious diseases across the age spectrum. Learn more.

Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University Surgery’s Chadwick Inducted Into Triological Society; Receives Harris P. Mosher Award

Doctor Keith A. Chadwick, MD, MS; of Stony Brook Surgery’s Division of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery (ENT), was recently inducted as an Active Fellow into the esteemed American Laryngological Rhinological and Otological Society, Inc. (aka, the Triological Society). Dr. Chadwick also was awarded the prestigious Harris P. Mosher Award for Excellence in Clinical Research. Learn more.

Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences at University at Buffalo Professor Receives Presidential Recognition for STEM Mentoring

Margarita L. Dubocovich, PhD, a SUNY Distinguished Professor of pharmacology and toxicology at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, is a recipient of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM). Learn more.

Weill Cornell Medicine: Dr. Samara Reck-Peterson Named Chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine

Reflecting the ongoing evolution of science toward interdisciplinary collaboration, Weill Cornell Medicine has created a new Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, combining expertise from its Departments of Biochemistry and of Physiology and Biophysics. Dr. Samara Reck-Peterson, a nationally renowned mechanistic cell biologist, has been recruited to lead the department, which marshals biochemists, biophysicists and experts in protein engineering and imaging to drive discoveries in the basic mechanisms of cell function, effective Aug. 1. Learn more.

New York Medical College: John Phillips, M.D., FACS, to Lead Department of Urology

John Phillips, M.D., FACS, has been named chair of the Department of Urology at New York Medical College (NYMC) School of Medicine and director of the Department of Urology at Westchester Medical Center. He succeeds Muhammad Choudhury, M.D., who has led the department as chair at NYMC since 2001 and the director of the Department of Urology at Westchester Medical Center since 1989. Learn more.

Albert Einstein College of Medicine: Adam Kohn, Ph.D., Named Chair of Neuroscience at Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Adam Kohn, Ph.D., has been named the chair of the Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience at Albert Einstein College of Medicine following an extensive national search. Dr. Kohn, whose research focuses on visual processing, has been acting as the interim chair of the department for the past two years. He is a professor of neuroscience, of ophthalmology and visual sciences, and of systems & computational biology, and the Isidor Tachna Professor of Ophthalmology at Einstein. Learn more.

Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences at University at Buffalo: In Unity Against Gun Violence, UB & MSU Invite Peer Med Schools to Join Remembrance Conference

In the wake of mass casualty tragedies on and near their campuses, two medical schools have formed a partnership aimed at engaging other medical schools in meaningfully addressing the crisis of gun violence in the U.S. through a public health lens. Learn more.

Albert Einstein College of Medicine  Gives Back in Honor of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy of Service

Albert Einstein College of Medicine has a long history of partnering with the Bronx community.  A shining example is our annual Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) Week of Service, when Einstein faculty, students, staff, and postdocs volunteer in our home borough and throughout the area. This year, more than 100 members of the Einstein community took part in the event, which was sponsored by Einstein’s service-learning program in the office of medical education. Learn more.

New York Medical College Highlights the Powerful Intersection of Holocaust Remembrance and Black History

New York Medical College commemorated International Holocaust Remembrance Day and Black History Month with a presentation, “The Segregated U.S. Military and Liberation of a Concentration Camp,” on January 28. John L. Withers II, center, retired U.S. Department of State ambassador for Albania, shared his father’s powerful story of confronting racial segregation in the military while participating in the liberation of a concentration camp. Learn more.