The old Blumstein’s department store sits across 125th Street from the legendary Apollo Theater. It’s something of a Harlem landmark, where “don’t buy where you can’t work” protests led to the hiring of African-Americans as the first salesclerks in 1934 and where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was stabbed by a mentally unstable… Read More
The electronic medical record is rapidly becoming a standard part of health care in the United States. Our nation’s health care providers, however, have limited information on how to best use this technology in ways that preserve — and even enhance — relationships with patients and families. With support from the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation,… Read More
Like other fields, biomedical research is enriched by diversity. Innovation thrives when people with different viewpoints, backgrounds, and skills contribute to an organization or attempt to solve a problem. The really thorny questions that biomedical science seeks to answer–like how cancer cells metastasize, or why some neurons degenerate–require collaboration with researchers from a variety of… Read More
My name is Maurice Selby and I am a tried and tested New Yorker as I have lived in every borough of New York City. A product of the New York City public school system, I attended the City College of New York for my undergraduate education and I recently graduated from the SUNY Downstate… Read More
Jennifer Yerke, MD ’12 a native of Hamburg, N.Y., has known since medical school that she wanted to stay and practice in Western New York. Now, as a first-year resident in family medicine, she is more sure than ever. “Growing up in the area, I’ve always loved it. I’ve never really gone far away because… Read More
NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine Graduate is Academic Scholar and Researcher Old Westbury, N.Y. (June 4, 2014) — An ocular enchantment took hold of Matt Schear, DO, even before he attended his first class at NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine. Schear’s path to a prestigious ophthalmology residency at North Shore-Long Island Jewish Hospital began when… Read More
In the life of a medical student, time is rare and stress abundant. Kyra Bernstein knows this perhaps better than anyone. In addition to her studies, she shares responsibility for two children—4-year-old Nelly and 1-year-old Jonah—with her husband, Dov Sebrow, a second-year ophthalmology resident at Columbia. Though the New York City native is what she… Read More
Age: 27 years oldHometown: Wellsville, NYCurrent city: Syracuse, NY Why did you choose to stay in New York? Staying in NY – I made staying in NY my top choice for residency. You might say “”location is everything”” for me, but more specifically “”I have to be near friends and family!”” Coming back to Syracuse… Read More
Zimbler Pursues Family Medicine with Hands-On Approach Old Westbury, N.Y. (June 4, 2014) — Community, family, and connection are key to Jodi Zimbler’s idea of practicing medicine. Zimbler, 25, a recent graduate of NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine who will start her family residency at North Shore-LIJ Plainview Hospital, feels a powerful draw to the… Read More
Age: 25Current City: Bronx, NY Why did you choose to stay in New York? I was born in the city but grew up in Maryland. My family remained very attached to New York and we visited often. I’ve always identified with New York City and knew I would feel at home here. After attending medical… Read More
