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The Alumni Newsletter of NYU School of Medicine FALL 2014 VOLUME 15, NUMBER 1 Change Change Change the world…
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www.NYULMC.org 2014 Medical Alumni Weekend
ur annual NYU School of Medicine Alumni E. Salk ’39 as the first recipient. In 1969, Solomon A. Berson ’45 Weekend was held on Saturday, April 26. The received the award for the discovery of radioimmunoassay of weekend kicked off with a scientific program peptide hormones. His colleague, Rosalyn Yalow, PhD, was later on advances in medicine and science by faculty awarded the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for and alumni. David Oshinsky, PhD, director of their work. Because it is not awarded posthumously, Dr. Berson theO Division of Medical Humanities and professor in the NYU did not receive the Nobel Prize. However, in 1979, the NYU School Department of History, gave a talk on Jonas Salk, MD, Albert of Medicine Alumni Association memorialized him by naming Sabin, MD, and the battle against polio. An award-winning writer the prestigious Medical Alumni Achievement Awards in his honor. and historian, Dr. Oshinksy wrote Polio: An American Story, This year’s recipient of the Solomon A. Berson Alumni which won both the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Hoover Achievement Award in Basic Science was Robert Friedman ’58. Presidential Book Award. He graduated from Cornell University Dr. Friedman is professor and chairman of the Department and obtained his PhD from Brandeis University. of Pathology at the Uniformed Services University of the Eduardo D. Rodriguez, MD, DDS ’92DEN, chair of the Health Sciences. Dr. Friedman gave a presentation titled “The Department of Plastic Surgery Peculiar Story of Interferons: and an internationally From Panacea to Pariah to recognized leader in Paragon.” Dr. Friedman has reconstructive, craniofacial, and spent his career in medicine plastic surgery, spoke about as a pathologist conducting redefining the future of facial research on interferons and reconstruction. Previously with cytokines. He was one of the the University of Maryland early workers on interferon, School of Medicine and R which he began to study soon Adams Cowley Shock Trauma after he finished his internship Center, Dr. Rodriguez led the at Mount Sinai Hospital. His team that performed the most first project as an NIH research extensive and comprehensive fellow in the lab of Samuel full-face transplant completed Dean and CEO Robert I. Grossman, MD (Hon. ’08); Jennifer A. Baron ’52, ’48ARTS was to find to date—a groundbreaking Stein ’04, PhD ’02GSAS, MS ’00GSAS, the Julia Zelmanovich out why immune-impaired advancement in the field of Young Alumni Award winner; Lee Morin ’81, PhD ’82GSAS, MS patients often recovered from plastic and reconstructive ’78GSAS, the Solomon A. Berson Alumni Achievement Award in viral infections. To study this surgery. Dr. Rodriguez earned Health Science winner; Eduardo D. Rodriguez, MD, DDS ’92DEN, phenomenon, he developed his Bachelor of Science in chair of our Department of Plastic Surgery; Robert M. Friedman a method for inhibiting both neurobiology from the ’58, the Solomon A. Berson Alumni Achievement Award in Basic humoral and cellular immunity University of Florida, followed Science winner; Mark B. Taubman ’78, ’76GSAS, the Solomon A. in animals by employing by a DDS degree from NYU. He Berson Alumni Achievement Award in Clinical and Translational radiation and methotrexate. completed residency in oral and Science winner; and Anthony J. Grieco ’63, BS ’60ARTS, associate This was one of the first uses maxillofacial surgery at dean of alumni relations and academic events. of the latter for inhibiting Montefiore Medical Center/ immunity. The animals he Albert Einstein College of Medicine and received his medical studied recovered from virus infections just fine, and he showed degree from the Medical College of Virginia. He then studied that they still produced interferon. This was among the first proofs plastic surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital and the University of that interferons were important natural antiviral agents. After Maryland Medical Center. He subsequently completed an completing his residency at the NIH Clinical Center, Dr. Friedman International Reconstructive Microsurgery Fellowship at Chang worked for a year at the National Institute for Medical Research Gung Memorial Hospital in Taiwan. in London at the lab of Alick Isaacs, the discoverer of interferon, Since the inception of our School in 1841, our alumni and then returned to the NCI at the NIH both as a surgical have made major contributions to medicine and science. In pathologist helping to train residents and to continue his work on recognition of the accomplishments of our graduates, the Medical interferon, this time on how it induced antiviral activity in cells. Alumni Achievement Award was established in 1954, with Jonas In 1971, the NCI sent him back to London to work for two years
The Alumni Newsletter of NYU School of Medicine | 3 with Ian Kerr on developing a cell-free system to fully understand how interferon worked. Appointed chief of the Laboratory of Pathology at the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic is published by the Diseases in 1973, Dr. Friedman’s research then centered on how Office of Alumni Relations interferon inhibited the growth of viruses with lipid membranes such as leukemia viruses. In 1981, he was awarded a fellowship by the Royal Society to work at Warwick University near Coventry, New York University England. Dr. Friedman returned to the NIH in 1982 and has Martin Lipton, Esq. ’55LAW (Hon. ’00), helped to train about 20 percent of the physicians who have Chairman, Board of Trustees served in the Uniformed Services and a much larger percentage of those sent to serve in combat areas. John Sexton, PhD, JD (Hon. ‘03), President The recipient of the Solomon A. Berson Alumni David W. McLaughlin, PhD, Provost Achievement Award in Clinical and Translational Science Robert Berne, PhD (Hon. ‘07), was Mark Taubman ’78, ’76GSAS. Dr. Taubman is dean of the Executive Vice President for Health University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. Dr. Taubman spoke about tissue factor, cardiovascular disease, Debra A. LaMorte, Senior Vice President for Development and Alumni Relations and cancer. Dr. Taubman received his BA in biochemistry from Columbia University. He completed a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in cardiovascular diseases at the NYU Langone Medical Center Brigham and Women’s Hospital. After five years on the Harvard Kenneth G. Langone ‘60STERN (Hon. ‘01), faculty at Brigham and Women’s, he joined the Mount Sinai Chairman, Board of Trustees School of Medicine in New York, where he developed a well- Robert I. Grossman, MD (Hon. ‘08), funded research program in vascular biology, focusing on the The Saul J. Farber Dean and CEO regulation of proinflammatory and prothrombotic molecules in smooth muscle cells and in the arterial wall. In addition Grace Ko, Vice President for to his research program, Dr. Taubman was the director of the Development and Alumni Affairs Cardiology Fellowship, the principal investigator of an NIH training grant in molecular cardiology, and the director of the The Grapevine is published by Medical Scientist Training Program (the MD-PhD program). In the Office of Alumni Relations. 2003, Dr. Taubman moved to the University of Rochester as chief Anthony J. Grieco ’63, ’60ARTS, Associate Dean of the Cardiology Division and the director of the Cardiovascular Research Institute. In 2007, Dr. Taubman was appointed the Cheryl S. Kaufmann ‘72, President 2014-2015 chair of medicine at the University of Rochester, and in 2010 he Patricia Finerty, Senior Editor became dean of the University of Rochester School of Medicine Nancy O. Rieger, Contributing Writer and Editor and Dentistry. Dr. Taubman has served as a charter member of the AICS study section of the National Heart, Lung, and Erica J. Campbell, Associate Director of Blood Institute and the chairman of the Research Committee Development, Education, and Alumni Giving of the National American Heart Association (AHA). In 2006, in Kelly F. Cogan, Assistant Director of recognition of his contributions to vascular biology, he received Special Events for Alumni Affairs the Russell Ross Memorial Award of the Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology Council of the AHA. In 2007, Special thanks to: Dr. Taubman was named editor-in-chief of the AHA journal, Evens Lubin and Janet Montero Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology. Send all correspondence and inquiries to: Lee M. E. Morin, MD ’81, PhD ’82GSAS, MS ’78GSAS, MPH was the recipient of this year’s Solomon A. Berson Alumni NYU School of Medicine Achievement Award in Health Science. Dr. Morin is an astronaut Office of Alumni Relations One Park Avenue, 17th Floor working at the Johnson Space Center and is currently assigned New York, NY 10016 to the Exploration Branch, working on the cockpit of NASA’s Phone: (212) 263-5390 newest spacecraft, the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle. Dr. Fax: (212) 263-6690 Morin gave an overview of space medicine and how it enables E-mail: [email protected] expansion of our species. After graduating from the University of New Hampshire in 1974, Dr. Morin worked at the Media Lab at Website: www.med.nyu.edu/alumni MIT and then matriculated at NYU School of Medicine, earning a Master of Science in biochemistry, his MD in 1981, and a PhD Cover photo: The Class of 2014 in microbiology in 1982. He completed residency training in surgery at Bronx Municipal Hospital Center and Montefiore Hospital. In 1982, Dr. Morin received a direct commission in the Naval Reserve. In 1983, he entered active duty and attended
4 | FALL 2014 the Naval Undersea Medical Institute, where he became an postgraduate course, in addition to regularly lecturing medical undersea medical officer and diving medical officer, and students and residents on a number of topics in dermatology. received his “Dolphins” as a qualified submarine medical Her research has included molecular analysis of transcriptional officer. Dr. Morin then entered flight surgeon training at the repression of Bithorax Complex genes; genetic characterization Naval Aerospace Medical Institute (NAMI) and received his of zebrafish notochord mutants; molecular and genetic Wings of Gold as a naval flight surgeon in 1986. He remained analysis of novel genes controlling cellularization and germ on the staff at NAMI as flight surgeon/diving medical officer cell migration; and comparison of dermoscopic algorithms for until 1989, concurrently earning his Master of Public Health diagnosing melanoma. Her current research interests include from the University of Alabama. He briefly left active duty to multiple primary melanomas; genes controlling melanoma and practice occupational medicine in Jacksonville, Florida, but nonmelanoma skin cancers; imaging of melanoma; and skin remained in the Naval Reserve, where he served with the U.S. cancer in organ transplant patients. Marine Corps. In August 1990, Dr. Morin returned to active Dr. Stein is active on the regional and national level with the duty and was assigned to Bahrain as diving medical officer/ American Academy of Dermatology and the Skin Cancer Foun- flight surgeon during Operation Desert Storm and during the dation and on the international level with the International Der- postwar build-down period. In 1992, Dr. Morin rejoined the moscopy Society and the International Transplant Skin Cancer staff at NAMI, initially as special projects officer and later as Collaborative. She has received numerous honors and awards the director of Warfare Specialty Programs. In 1995, he entered for the broad spectrum of her multifaceted talents. These include the residency in aerospace medicine at the Naval Aerospace awards for her writing, mentorship, clinical and teaching excel-
Since the inception of our School in 1841, our alumni have made major contributions to medicine and science. and Operational Medical Institute. Selected as an astronaut lence, scholarly achievements, and education of the public at candidate by NASA, Dr. Morin reported to the Johnson Space large about the risks of skin cancers and methods to prevent them. Center in 1996, having qualified for flight assignment as a Laurie and Isaac Perlmutter were installed as honorary mission specialist. He initially was assigned to the Astronaut alumni of NYU School of Medicine. For over 30 years, the Office Computer Support Branch, followed by the Astronaut Perlmutters’ generous friendship has fostered advances across Office Advanced Vehicles Branch, and training tasks in the our campus—from gains in research and education to their Shuttle Operations Branch. Dr. Morin served on the EVA crew most recent transformational gift to name the Laurie and Isaac of STS-110 in 2002 and has logged over 259 hours in space, Perlmutter Cancer Center, which will increase our leadership including over 14 EVA hours. After STS-110, he was appointed in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer and help us attract the deputy assistant secretary of state for health, space, and science brightest students, physicians, and scientists. Mrs. Perlmutter in Washington, DC. is a trustee of the Medical Center and a member of the Cancer The Julia Zelmanovich Young Alumni Award is presented Center’s Advisory Board. She came to NYU in 1978 as a volunteer. each year to an alumnus who early in his or her career already She served as a buyer and merchandiser for the hospital gift has demonstrated extraordinary commitment to the profession shop. For nearly 10 years, she was president of our Auxiliary, and our School. This year’s recipient was Jennifer A. Stein, leading efforts to enhance patients’ overall quality of life. MD ’04, PhD ’02GSAS, MS ’00GSAS, an assistant professor of Mr. Perlmutter recently joined the Board of Trustees. Mr. dermatology at our School. Dr. Stein earned her BS in molecular Perlmutter, CEO of Marvel, has been a “superhero” supporter of biophysics and biochemistry at Yale and then came to NYU our institution. One of the Perlmutters’ previous gifts established School of Medicine, where she earned her PhD in cell biology the Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Professorship in Cell Biology and developmental genetics in 2002, under Ruth Lehmann, and and supported treatment and research facilities for childhood her MD in 2004, having been elected to AOA. She remained at cancers and gynecological cancers. NYU for medical internship and dermatology residency and The morning program concluded with Dean Robert I. then underwent additional training in international dermoscopy Grossman, MD (Hon. ’08) giving a report on NYU School of at the University of Graz in Austria. After completing training, Medicine and NYU Langone Medical Center. Following a she joined the faculty at our School, where she excels in her luncheon with classmates, there was a demonstration of the clinical activities, in education, and in research. She is associate biodigital human that is used as an adjunct to teach anatomy director of the pigmented lesion section of the Ronald O. dissection. In the afternoon, student-led nostalgia tours were Perelman Department of Dermatology at NYU, coordinator of provided of our School and of Bellevue. Later in the evening, the the Medical Center’s interdisciplinary skin tumor conference, Alumni Reunion Ball was held at the Ritz Carlton Downtown. and director of our transplant dermatology program. She is Please mark your calendar for next year’s Medical Alumni course director of the nonmelanoma skin cancer medical Reunion, which will be held on Saturday, April 25, 2015. Photos student concentration and the Advances in Dermatology from this year’s reunion can be seen on pages 7–8 of this newsletter.
The Alumni Newsletter of NYU School of Medicine | 5 Murray J. Berenson ’61 and the Program He Inspired
uring his more than 40 Distinguished Scholars come years as a distinguished to NYU School of Medicine to Dinternist and gastro- conduct educational programs, enterologist at St. Vincent’s deliver a lecture as part of the Hospital in Greenwich Village, Department of Medicine’s Grand Murray J. Berenson, MD, Rounds, and lead small group touched the lives of countless sessions with house staff, fellows, patients in profound ways. A residents, and medical students. 1961 graduate of NYU School of “What I found in Murray when I Medicine, Dr. Berenson was re- first met him many years ago was nowned for his keen diagnostic a doctor I could talk to,” recalls Ms. skills and extraordinary ability DiPaolo, president of Benchmark to communicate effectively and Capital Advisors, “someone who compassionately with those un- really cared and really listened. der his care. Creating future Murray Berensons, On the occasion of physicians with his qualities of Dr. Berenson’s retirement in heart and mind, is no easy feat, 2008, three of his patients, but that’s precisely the objective the late Jonathan Auerbach, of the Berenson Scholars program Lorraine DiPaolo, and Ernest and why it’s so worthy of support.” Rubenstein, were instrumen- There have been three tal in launching the Murray Berenson Distinguished Scholars J. Berenson, MD, Program in to date, attracting over 250 par- Murray J. Berenson ‘61 (center), with Lorraine DiPaolo and Quality Care and Physician- Ernest Rubenstein, two of the grateful patients who helped ticipants to a robust, two-day Patient Communication. Their launch the Murray J. Berenson, MD, Program in Quality Care program of talks and workshops, intent was not only to honor a and Physician-Patient Communication. including physicians, nurses, beloved physician and friend, psychologists, social workers, but also to ensure that training in the communications skills pharmacologists, researchers, residents, and medical students. he had exemplified and taught throughout his career would In 2012, Judith Bowen, MD, FACP, professor of medicine at remain a vital component of medical education at St. Vincent’s. the Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) School of Unfortunately, two years later, financial difficulties forced the Medicine, spoke about rethinking the continuity of care in closing of the hospital. Faced with the demise of the program complex health systems. In 2013, Clarence Braddock, MD, MPH, they had helped make possible, the three philanthropists de- vice dean for education in the David Geffen School of Medicine cided to take action and find a new home for it. Within a year, at the University of California, Los Angeles, talked about shared they found exactly what they were looking for at NYU Langone decision making and whether it can reduce health dispari- Medical Center’s Program for Medical Education Innovations ties. At the time of his visit to NYU, Dr. Braddock was associate and Research (PrMEIR), led by Drs. Sondra Zabar ’91 and Adina dean for medical education, associate chief in general internal Kalet. “The fit could not have been better,” says Mr. Rubenstein, medicine, and director of clinical ethics at the Stanford Center a retired partner who is also of counsel with Paul, Weiss, for Biomedical Ethics, Stanford University School of Medicine. Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. “NYU Langone is deeply Most recently, in February 2014, Amitai Ziv, MD, MHA, chair- committed on every level to the education of doctors who are man of the Department of Medical Education at Sackler School not just skilled scientists but also responsive and caring healers of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, and founder and director of the in Murray’s mold. And where better to place the program than Israel Center for Medical Simulation, spoke about simulation- at his alma mater?” based education as a patient safety and quality care vehicle. Thanks to the initiative and ongoing generosity of Mr. In 2012, with additional support from generous donors, the Auerbach, Mr. Rubenstein, Ms. DiPaolo, and other visionary Berenson Grants Program was established to complement the donors, NYU’s PrMEIR is home to the Murray J. Berenson, MD, Berenson Distinguished Scholar Program. A grant is awarded Distinguished Scholar in Physician-Patient Communication each year to a junior faculty member to conduct research in Program. Annually, PrMEIR’s leadership selects a thought lead- physician-patient communication and to develop innovative er in the field of physician-patient communication. Berenson medical education curricula and programs.
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SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 2014 NYU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Photographer: Jay Brady
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The Alumni Newsletter of NYU School of Medicine | 7 ALUMNI REUNION BALL
SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 2014 THE RITZ-CARLTON NEW YORK, BATTERY PARK Photographer: Jay Brady
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The Alumni Newsletter of NYU School of Medicine | 9 Hard Work Robert I. Grossman, MD (Hon. ’08), the Saul J. Farber Dean of NYU School of Medicine and Chief Executive Officer of NYU Langone Medical Center, addressed the Class of 2014, their families, friends, and faculty at the Alice Tully Hall graduation ceremony on May 21, 2014. Following are his remarks.
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. faster than you can blink—the idea I quote, “never the most talented, never We have so much to celebrate today! of hard work as something to cherish the fastest, certainly never the strongest” You’ve certainly earned the right probably sounds a little (if not a lot) and who had only his work ethic to set to feel very proud of yourselves. And crazy. It probably would have sounded him apart. I’m enormously proud of you, too. But that way to me, too, when I was in Despite all the evidence that talent I suspect that proudest of all are the your shoes. For sure, there’s nothing is just the spark, and work the decisive people who have believed in you, hoped intrinsically beautiful about sleepless factor, in other words, many people for you, and supported you all along the nights. I’d like to address it, nonetheless, still believe that greatness is delivered way: your families, your friends, and because to me, it’s life defining. on some glorious silver platter, straight your teachers. I’d say there are two main from the gods. Let’s give them a rousing cheer phenomena that tend to mask the The second phenomenon— of thanks! importance of investing oneself to and for many young people today I’d like to talk to you this evening the fullest. One, of course, is that true unquestionably the biggest obstacle about the value of hard work. Now, to excellence looks so effortless. (Which, to embracing a strong work ethic—is tell you the truth, I wondered on my way by the way, is probably why some discouragement. to the podium just how thrilled you’d be people take pride in claiming their As growing numbers of voices are to hear that! successes just “happen.” You know the pointing out, economic disparities in After all, you wouldn’t be sitting type—so “brilliant” that they aced the this country are more egregious today here if you didn’t already know a great test without ever cracking a textbook.) than they have been in a century. When deal about the importance of effort. You It doesn’t matter how many “greats” some parents can afford to hire tutors may even feel that these past few years explain otherwise—from Michelangelo, to get their toddlers into prestigious have taught you more about it than you who said, “If people knew how hard I nursery schools while others are ever wanted to know! had to work to gain my mastery, it would working two or three jobs just to make In fact, at this stage of your lives— not seem so wonderful at all.” To Tiger ends meet, there’s not much left, it with one challenge following another Woods, who, in his own words, was, and seems, of the “level playing field.”
10 | FALL 2014 The belief, the very hope, that hard into an asset. One of the people Gladwell you’re very methodical about getting work will result in solid opportunity cites as an example is our trustee Gary there. You know just the kinds of gets frayed. Cohn, who’s severely dyslexic. Gary responsibilities that will have to show up But you know, I’m not sure the explains in the book that “on a good day, on your résumé, and you tackle them, “playing field” was ever all that “level.” it takes him six hours to read twenty-two one by one. Not because you care about My father was a coal miner’s son pages.” His mother’s biggest dream was them, mind you, but because they’ll Hard and my mother, an illegal immigrant. to see him graduate from high school so look good on your CV. And I distinctly remember, when I he could go drive a truck. I’ve seen this so many times. And I started medical school, that all my Instead, he went on to become can tell you, people can spot a careerist classmates seemed to be the offspring president of Goldman Sachs! a mile away. of prominent physicians. I felt, actually I That’s a pretty stunning story, Careerists may get where they was, totally clueless! don’t you think? It says a lot about wanted to go, but they never make good Work So I empathize with those who feel, the asymmetry some people have leaders. If you spend your time skating as New York Times columnist Charles in their talents—a serious deficit around the edges, you simply can’t be Blow pointed out a few months ago, that on the one hand and, on the other, engaged enough to contribute or, for that they were born at the bottom of a hill the determination to develop truly matter, learn anything along the way. that others never had to climb. At the extraordinary compensatory strengths. The second pitfall presents itself same time, bemoaning one’s fate has And to me, it says just how central when you quote-unquote “get there.” never ranked high as a problem-solving work can be, both to self-worth and to You have the exalted title. You’re strategy. Some of you sitting here today self-expression. impressed with your own clout. You already know that in deeply personal ways. If a comedian can “work” a room, a know, you have become an “icon” or Now, at this point, you might be farmer “work” the land, a potter “work” something. After a while, you figure thinking: “I know where he’s going with clay, if there can be “steelworks,” “public you have earned the right to sit on your this.” Right? works,” “good works,” “works of art,” laurels and watch the world go by— Well, yes, I do believe that then clearly “work” is a concept that gets assuming, of course, that the people investing the effort to rise above around in a special, very rich way! around you will keep on “bowing” to whatever circumstances are holding Now, let me get specific about you until the end of your days. you back is important. And I do hold what all this has to do with you. For one To me, that’s when it becomes most special admiration for those who have thing, you’ll probably have a number of important of all to remember how much demonstrated the strength of character “choice points” in your life, where the work matters. to surmount adversity—most especially easy road lies one way and the hard way In fact, I think it matters far more— because victory is never assured until points in a very different direction. to a life fully lived—than any of the you quote-unquote “get there.” But I The easy road, obviously, looks trappings of success. Money, fame, also believe that work is more important a lot safer. Typically it involves adulation may be pleasant, but they are than just as a means to an end. In fact, I skills you have already pretty much fickle—not to say phantom—goals. think it’s essential to mental health. mastered, so you know you’re likely In sum, for me, work matters even The terrible toll that unemployment to shine. But the harder road—from when you reach whatever heights you has taken—and continues to take—is my experience, anyway—is the one were aiming for. The great Chilean poet not just about economic hardship. It’s that will prove fulfilling. Even if you and Nobel laureate for literature, Pablo about loss of identity. stumble—which happens to everyone Neruda, saw the absence of ongoing Even people who’ve spent decades who has the courage to try new things— engagement as opting, and I quote, to dreaming about escaping the tyranny you will come out stronger, more “die slowly.” of alarm clocks, and the stresses of knowledgeable, and more resilient. “Avoid death in small doses,” he said, so-called “thankless tasks,” often find, The difficult path is the one that will “always reminding oneself that being when they finally get to retire, that they help you grow. alive requires an effort far greater than feel adrift. Take the challenge! the simple act of breathing.” Unquote. We tend to forget, I think, that Becoming everything you’re capable “Good enough” will never shield you there’s a real “high” in getting something of being is a beautiful, vital quest. But from stress. And for sure, it will never done that needs doing—even if it it can take two forms you should watch bring you joy. The world needs you. doesn’t seem intrinsically “glorious.” out for, especially if you’re aiming high. Work hard. Give much. Create a life Work bestows on life a sense of purpose. One is what I call the “notch-in-the-belt” of perpetual meaning. In his latest book, David and approach to career building. From anything I know, I can Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell demonstrates So here’s the scenario. You have promise you: you’ll never regret it. that it can even transform a disadvantage your eye on some exalted role. And Thank you very much.
The Alumni Newsletter of NYU School of Medicine | 11 DINNER DANCE IN HONOR OF THE CLASS OF 2014
TUESDAY, MAY 20, 2014 GOTHAM HALL, NEW YORK CITY Photographer: Jeff Weiner
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1. Emi E. Okamoto ’14; Michael S. 3. Andrew M. Watkins and his wife, Hannah 8. The Class of 2014. Davenport ’14; Lynn Feldman Lowy, JD; L. Kirsch ’14. 9. Harris Moore; Di Zhou ’14; Elizabeth D. and her husband, Joseph Lowy, MD, HS 4. Alex Chin and Tiffany Lo ’14. Marlow ’14; and Steven Lehrburger. Internal Medicine ’83, recipient of the Leonard J. Tow Humanism in Medicine 5. Vicki Chan and Kevin W. Chung ’14. Faculty Award. 6. F ernando F. Cuadrado ’14 and his wife, 2. Rachel E. Kaplan ’14; Roman Osatinski; Kellie Mendenhall-Cuadrado. Svetlana Azova ’14; Daniel Ballen; and 7. Melanie Hildebrant and Keith C. Emily C. Gotschlich ’14. Hemmert ’14.
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1. Front row: Lynn M. Buckvar-Keltz ’91; 2. Seth J. Concors ’14, BA ’10CAS; Wallace 4. Brian J. Gilberti ’14, BA ’05CAS; Steven B. Abramson, MD, HS Medicine A. Bourgeois ’14; and Distinguished Christie M. Gutierrez ’14; Mariela Mitre, ’78; August R. Dietrich ’14; Robert I. Teacher in the Basic Sciences award MD/PhD candidate; Mathew S. Lopes ’14; Grossman, MD (Hon. ’08); Stephen J. winner, David S. Goldfarb, MD. Sucharita Boddu ’15; and Emily R. Bergman, MD, DPhil (Oxon.); and Robert Walsh ’14. 3. Jonathan L. Tobkes ’02; his husband, Berne, PhD (Hon. ’07). Taylor W. Tobkes ’14; and their two- month-old son, Samson Warner Tobkes.
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5. Rebecca H. Haberman ’14 receiving her 8. Michelle Paulis; her husband, Richard 9. M. Fahad Khan ’07, MS ’14MED; Rajul diploma. Paulis; her daughter, Jacqueline Paulis Sheth, MD; and her son, Amish N. Sheth ’14; her son, Richard Paulis, MD; her ’14. 6. Samar Kamat and Risa Hoshino ’14. daughter, Beverly Paulis-Lukaszewski; 10. Seven-month-old Natalie and her uncle, 7. R oseann F. Titcombe ’14, PhD ’12GSAS; her daughter, Marilyn Paulis-Kneski; and Ryan P. Lau ’14. Jennifer Y. Zhu ’14, BA ’10CAS; and her three-year-old grandson, Mackas Courtney R. Cassella ’14. Kneski.
14 | FALL 2014 Community Following is the NYU School of Medicine Graduation Ceremony Valedictory Address, given by August R. Dietrich, MD, president of the Class of 2014. The ceremony took place on May 21, 2014, at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall.
It is a true and humbling honor to be NYU has taught us the power Center basement. We also managed to standing before all of you today. of community. It has taught us the achieve the highest class average in NYU This community we call NYU is importance of hope. It has done this history on our Step 1 Medical Licensing incredible. Four years ago, it took a not only by showing us—but it has Examinations. This is may be the most chance on us, the Class of 2014. It took required of us that we learn how to rely important test we will ever take. Oh, us into its fold, into a very rigorous and on our community, how to find our hope, and that was despite living through an difficult training environment. But, with and how to persevere, overcoming all earthquake and two major hurricanes. a lot of support along the way, we have obstacles as we work together to achieve Hurricane Sandy, you were a formidable made it through. what we hope for. foe. But NYU, being “in and of the city,” is, So let’s give it up. We are doctors! So let me give us, the Class of 2014, just as E. B. White once wrote, “peculiarly What I’d really like to do with this another collective pat on the back. We constructed to absorb almost anything speech is talk about every single one of have succeeded, as a community, despite that comes along.” my classmates. About their altruism, And so have we absorbed. We’ve their empathy, their intelligence. About learned. We’ve laughed. We’ve cried. how with every moment available to We’ve overcome. And now we’re here, them outside of the classroom, they are I hope that we take accomplished and heading to some really running free clinics, teaching public great residency programs. school students about good health and the with us what we have But we could not have done this power of medicine, and racing in Ironman learned here about the alone. So, now’s the time to give our competitions around the world. Okay, that thanks to each of the members of our last one may apply to just one of us, but strength of community community… that is so cool. First and foremost, thank you to our I wish that I could even go on and and its collective power families and friends, as well as those NYU tell you about the great parties that to do good work. faculty who have countless times acted, we’ve had and the lifelong friendships and continue to act, in those capacities. We that we have made. could not have gotten here without you. But sadly we don’t have the time, And thank you, in particular, to those even though I’m pretty sure I’d have some very harrowing circumstances. We spouses and significant others who have your attention. are the first class to complete our new, practically had to go through medical So, what I’d like to do instead, is go back and nationally recognized, Curriculum school themselves. You all deserve a to that concept of community. I’d like to talk for the 21st Century. We did this despite diploma today as well. about how we, as members, and soon to be such extreme compression of our So, family, friends, spouses, faculty: graduates, of this NYU community, will be anatomy units that actual Black Holes of You have been our ever-present support, uniquely prepared as doctors. Knowledge started forming in our Med and ever-understanding, when we time and
The Alumni Newsletter of NYU School of Medicine | 15 time again failed to celebrate your special Parents, you may be interested to am genetically programmed to be overly days, your birthdays, your weddings, or even know that, while we’ve been here, NYU has optimistic. But we, the Class of 2014, just that new movie you wanted to see. And rapidly ascended the U.S. News & World are smart, talented, and imaginative that’s why today, we’ve invited all of you Report rankings. It is bringing in millions individuals. We know the power of here, to share in our collective happiness. more in NIH research dollars every year. community. We are hopeful. And we And to say thank you to you! Because the And our research is making waves. have proven that we can persevere celebration of our accomplishments is also In fact, just last week, our very own despite large obstacles and into a celebration of you. Dr. Martin Blaser was interviewed by Jon uncertain territories. There’s one very special member So, let us now, as we move on to our of the NYU faculty whom I’d like to next phase of life, figure out what to hope personally thank as well for being to me, for, and, in the paraphrased words of and to many, many others sitting here Barbara Kingsolver, let’s live inside that today, a sort of surrogate mother. Thank hope, running down its hallways, touching you Dr. Vicky Harnik for always having the the walls on both sides. answer we need. Thank you so much for And let us find our guiding motivation being willing to work with us and on our That wherever we may right here, at home—specifically at our behalf to make NYU an even better place. practice, we live by the home we call Bellevue. Many others deserve similar thanks, I’d like to share with all of you a like Drs. Mel Rosenfeld and Lynn Buckvar- principle: “No one who few thoughts written by our very own, Keltz, as well as our former director of is sick is sent away.” and extensively published, attending student affairs, Joe Oppedisano, and our physician—Dr. Michael Pillinger. For a tireless director of financial aid, Phyllis And that, always, we little background, he wrote these words Shulz. In fact, Phyllis has the incredibly in 1986, just after he had finished his tough job of explaining to us the extreme ask ourselves, “How can clerkship year. He wrote: amounts of debt we all hold and we make the practice of “For the glue that binds us is a somehow convincing us that it will all principle always understood if rarely be all right. medicine better?” stated: ‘No one who is sick is sent away.’ Thanks to all of our professors and No one is too dirty, too drugged, too mentors. And thank you NYU for taking a drunken, or too different; none too poor chance on us four years ago. or too hopeless. We do not judge, at So this is our community. These least not in our public faces; we do our are the people, named explicitly and job. Bellevue is a city on a hill, an ideal implicitly, whom we have relied on and that, though abused and insufficient in who have taught us the value of hope Stewart on The Daily Show! We are not its reality, stands for the things a caring and perseverance. We could not have just educated well here, we are educated society might someday achieve.” gotten here today without your sacrifice by celebrities! So, forgive my naïveté, but I truly and support. This communal success is, to use a hope for all of us—all of us in the Class Because med school has not been medical term, infectious. And, now, we of 2014 and, in fact, all of us who work easy, but it has prepared us well. bleed purple. in health care—that this home, this Here at NYU, it’s 4:30 a.m. wake-up Yet, today, we find ourselves at community in which we have spent some calls, 9 p.m. “add-on” surgeries, emergent another inflection point of life, another of our most formative years, continues to and not so emergent blood draws, patient time of transition. And, whether we make serve as that ideal for us. That wherever transport, and outside hospital medical NYU our home for residency or even our we may practice, we live by the principle: record requests. Here we take on roles careers, or whether we move outward to “No one who is sick is sent away.” And beyond just those of students. We are at other institutions, I hope that we take with that, always, we ask ourselves, “How times nurses, technicians, social workers, us what we have learned here about the can we make the practice of medicine and, near the end of our time here, strength of community and its collective better?” “What do we need to do?” even doctors. power to do good work. And let’s go out and do it. How did NYU know we could do it? Because, as we all know, health care is So, Class of 2014: It has been a The power of caffeine aside … changing and many are worried. Perhaps I true pleasure. I will miss you. And I NYU knows, and has shown us, how should be, too. But … I’m not. look forward to following all of your community can be leveraged to do great Maybe I am still a bright-eyed, incredible careers. work … to succeed. inexperienced medical student. Maybe I Thank you all.
16 | FALL 2014 The Symphony
of Medical Rounds by Lloyd D. Lense ’77
Just as music gives organization to the orchestra or team attempts to understand the music (patient noise and mathematics gives meaning and conditions), work on areas of weakness (understanding to numbers, our daily ritual of medical disease states, mechanisms, therapies, appropriateness, patient rounds hopefully yields an effect of preference) in order to master the piece and evolve into a future education, edification, and healing. If “first chair” and eventual concertmaster or conductor. The done well, medical rounds will yield conductor (attending) is granted respect and understanding but the rich notes and textured rhythms must maintain those positions by familiarity of the body of music, of patient improvement, mutual guiding his musicians on how to interpret the piece from basic to scholarship, and collegial relations. complex and allowing the concertmaster (fellow) a certain amount One of my regrets is that I never of autonomous responsibility in the rehearsal and performance learned to play a musical instrument, but that did not limit me in of the body of music. Sometimes a guest conductor (second learning the enjoyment of music, my admiration of composers opinion) or guest artist (consultant) is of value. Recognition of and musicians, and the importance of exposure of music (and this circumstance will enhance the ability and leadership of the mathematics) to developing minds. In fact, one of the best conductor. Since many patient admissions allow for more than “investments” my wife and I made was the introduction of one day of medical rounding, there is the opportunity for repeat music at a young age to our children. From this “investment,” we performances to improve on the body of music (patient) and yield saw dividends of music and scholastic appreciation, respectful a work (patient outcomes and objectives) that is satisfying and teamwork and friendships, creativity, problem solving, and long-lasting as a worthy piece of classical music. learning another language (music). Not every piece of music is a masterpiece and not every The patient is the “body of music” and in “learning” patient outcome is an idealized success. Sometimes removing about this work it takes a number of professionals to hopefully the lack of harmony or atonality will make for a more satisfying bring this creation to its optimal performance. As with any experience (guidelines, metrics). Learning how to interpret, performance, there are important behind-the-scenes and on- struggle, and adapt to these challenges and make improvements the-scene personnel (laboratory, imaging, nursing, pharmacy, is part of our physician mission to promote education, order, transport, and administration). This is not a solo performance. healing, and humanity. The physician members with its conductor (attending), As a thought experiment, I attempted to relate certain pieces concertmaster or -mistress (fellow), and musicians (house staff, of classical music and my interpretation of the music to the medical students) need to properly rehearse through practice, dominant conditions I either treat or educate medical students listening, and mentoring. The performance of the physicians or house staff about. Some events are dynamic such as an acute depends upon expectations, coordination, and integration to myocardial infarction, recurrent as arrhythmias, and others more avoid a creation laced with errors or disharmony. contemplative and insidious such as chronic congestive heart The appreciation of a work of music, as in understanding failure. All involve an orchestra of professionals working with our patient or a medical condition, rests in part on using our different skills and experiences in a synergistic process to perfect senses. The importance of listening, visualization, and touch the elements of medical care into a successful and aesthetically are key components of care and appreciation in understanding satisfying patient care outcome. The pieces I chose were and enjoyment of our work and artistic creations. Preparation Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata, further allows us to derive more meaning and content from the Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto no. 1, and Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. encounter. The sharing and critique of the experience and the Try listening to these pieces as you contemplate the evaluation, opportunity to learn from seasoned colleagues, hopefully, yield treatment, and discussion of medical conditions through the opportunities for positive patient care, scientific and artistic prism of medical rounds. appreciation, and development of a legacy chain. Let the science, critical thinking, and the “music” of our The conductor (attending) needs to know the body of education and physician training translate into an uplifting music to be played, the skills and experiences of his musicians symphony of medical rounds, where all members of the orchestra (house staff, students), and the talents and commitments of his or team contribute to the “body of music” and the desire to keep deputies, namely the concertmaster (fellow). Each member of on performing at a fulfilling and gratifying level.
The Alumni Newsletter of NYU School of Medicine | 17 Have You Heard? 1940s Dr. Amelar’s many publications a concert in the Tel Aviv suburb of include Male Infertility, a book he co- Rishon LeZion, I wrote and premiered Florentine R. Worden ’49, ’49CAS, authored that has been widely cited my Israeli/American Festival Overture a native of New Jersey, moved to in the field. In 1969, he was invited for orchestra—consisting of American Auburn, New York, when her husband to Geneva, Switzerland, to serve and Israeli folk melodies intermixed. I of over 60 years, the late surgeon as a consultant to the World Health was awarded a plaque of recognition Robert P. Worden, MD, moved back to Organization on public health aspects for fostering international relations his hometown. As a young physician, of subfertility and sterility. The following through music. In 2012, I wrote a while also taking care of her family, year, he was awarded grants to cantata commemorating the Japanese Dr. Worden made morning rounds at establish the first free vasectomy clinic earthquake of March 2011. It was Auburn Memorial Hospital (AMH) and in the United States. He later served recorded and premiered in Israel and Mercy Hospital, saw patients in her of- on scientific and advisory committees re-presented in Moscow. I have yet fice, and made evening house calls. She for the National Institutes of Health and another new CD, called Trans Cultural worked with AMH patients and staff was director of the American Fertility Bonding, featuring the Japanese cantata for 30 years before being appointed Society. Dr. Amelar received the 50-Year as well as another, called Cantata for emerita physician. Dr. Worden lives in Faculty Service Award from the NYU Living (life philosophies), and the two an updated 1840 farmhouse, where School of Medicine in 2006. Israeli pieces. Now I am working on over the years she has fished, hunted, a cello concerto based on interstellar and had Tennessee walking horses. She Henry N. Claman ’55 was awarded an space beyond our solar system. I still enjoys spending time with her two sons honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, play organ every Sunday at historic St. and four grandchildren. She says, “I am Honoris Causa, at the University of James PE Church in Elmhurst, Queens grateful to NYU for my good education Colorado’s May commencement for (though not used for services/masses and still give advice at grocery stores.” his work spearheading their new anymore, we have the oldest church Medical Humanities Program. Now building in the city of New York, dated 1950s retired, Dr. Claman was on the medical 1732). My practice is still open, and I faculty for 53 years, serving as allergist/ perform major eye surgery as well in my Richard D. Amelar immunologist. special area of oculoplastics, lacrimology ’50, BA ’46CAS has and orbital surgery.” been honored by his Bernard M. Rosof ’57, MACP was daughter and son-in- honored on April 29 at the “Sunshine Bernard M. Abrams ’59, BS ’56ARTS law, Susanna Lodge, at Night” Project Sunshine Annual shares: “I am still working full time (and PhD, and Timothy Benefit Celebration. Project Sunshine then some) doing medical education Lodge, PhD, with empowers over 15,000 volunteers to for Dannemiller of San Antonio, Texas, the creation of the Richard D. Amelar bring recreational, educational, and and practicing neurology. One of my and Arthur S. Lodge Fellowship for social service programming to 100,000 intriguing jobs is being the equivalent of Outstanding Collaborative Research children facing medical challenges and mayor of my small but growing village in in Materials at the University of to their families, in 175 major cities Missouri. It provides quite a challenge to Minnesota. The fellowship also honors across the United States and Canada, account for public safety and the welfare Timothy Lodge’s father. The couple China, Israel, and Kenya. of the citizens. Since this is ‘tornado drew inspiration from their fathers, alley,’ we have a responsibility to plan both accomplished scientists of high Hampson A. Sisler ’57, ’54ARTS ahead and it takes a lot of time and intellectual and moral standards. shares: “I premiered the new oratorio considerable diplomacy to get it done. Dr. Amelar, now retired, was a I composed, The Second Coming of Regards to all my fellow classmates.” professor of clinical urology at the New Christ, at Ethical Culture in New York York University School of Medicine and City. It was also recorded in Sofia and 1960s a pioneer in the field of male infertility. is available on CD. Last year I was in “My father always wanted to be a Israel twice, for the premiering of my Philip Witorsch ’62, BA ’58ARTS is pro- doctor and the best doctor he could Faiths, Cohabiting orchestral suite (four fessor of medicine, pharmacology, and be,” says Susanna Lodge. “His patients’ movements: one for Christianity, one physiology at Georgetown University needs were paramount. He was an for Judaism, one for Islam, and one School of Medicine, where he is also extremely able and compassionate amalgamating the three). Then, on medical director, occupational health physician, with a broad and deep July 4, 2013, when Israel celebrated program; medical director, environmental understanding of medicine.” American Independence Day with and occupational toxicology assess-
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ment program; and full scholarships to high-achieving Michael M. Ambrosino ’82 was course director of Bronx Science graduates who attend inducted as a fellow in the American the medical student City College. It is administered by the College of Radiology (ACR) in April. clinical pharmacology City College Fund, an independent Dr. Ambrosino is associate professor course. He is also an fundraising organization that aids of radiology and associate dean of attending physician students who might not otherwise be graduate medical education at our in the department able to afford going to college. Since School. Induction as an ACR fellow of medicine and director of the clinical its inception in 2005, the project has is one of the highest honors the ACR pharmacology consulting service at Med- supported 86 students. can bestow on a radiologist, radiation Star Georgetown University Hospital. Dr. oncologist, or medical physicist. ACR Witorsch has been married to Joan Linda 1980s fellows demonstrate a history of service Pellman for almost 55 years; they have to the college, organized radiology, two children and three teenage grand- Solomon I. Hamburg ’81, PhD teaching, or research. Approximately 10 children. Dr. and Mrs. Witorsch recently ’78GSAS, ’73ARTS was appointed to percent of ACR members achieve this downsized from a home in Potomac, Cesca Therapeutics Inc. Clinical and Sci- distinction. Dr. Ambrosino is a member Maryland, and moved into a condo- entific Advisory Board (CSAB) serving as of the ACR, the New York State minium in Rockville, Maryland, a suburb the chairman of the Hematopoietic Stem Radiological Society, the Radiological of Washington, DC. They are snowbirds Cell Therapy (HSCT) and Bone Marrow Society of North America, and the who spend the winter months (Decem- Transplant Committees for the board. Society for Pediatric Radiology. ber through March) in their condominium Cesca Therapeutics Inc. is an autologous in Delray Beach, Florida. Dr. Witorsch cell-based regenerative medicine com- Timothy Orphanides ’83 shares has been known to say that if he never pany. The CSAB will serve to help set that after being in private practice as sees snow again, it will be too soon. Dr. strategic goals for the advancement of a gastroenterologist in Doylestown, Witorsch’s professional interests include research toward the development and Pennsylvania, in Bucks County, for pulmonary medicine, environmental commercialization of autologous cellular 24 years, and, with both children in health and toxicology, causation analysis, therapies to improve patient care in the school in Washington, DC, “I moved to occupational health, and clinical phar- fields of hematology/oncology, cardio- Winchester, Virginia, in the Shenandoah macology, especially adverse drug reac- vascular disease, and orthopedics. The Valley, with my wife of 32 years, Diana. tions and interactions. He has published CSAB will review I work in Martinsburg, West Virginia; I numerous papers in the scientific medi- evidence-based prac- am a member of University Healthcare cal literature, as well as edited several tices, identify training Physicians; and I am an assistant books in his areas of expertise. Although needs of network professor of medicine at West Virginia he has cut back some, he still works providers, identify School of Medicine. I do ERCPs and the virtually full time. An enthusiastic New reimbursement pro- usual GI procedures, get to interact with York Yankees fan, Dr. Witorsch strongly cesses, and monitor medical students rotating at the eastern roots against the Boston Red Sox and clinical guidelines that include cultural division of the medical school, and the Baltimore Orioles. He also roots for factors important in achieving optimum enjoy my work and life.” the Washington Nationals, except on patient outcomes. The newly formed those rare occasions when they play the CSAB will consist of leading scientists, Abel Torres, MD, HS Dermatology ’85, Yankees. researchers, and clinicians drawn from JD, FAAD has been elected president of the regenerative medicine field who have the American Academy of Dermatology Seymour Katz ’64 led landmark clinical research in hematol- (Academy), the world’s largest was honored on ogy/oncology, cardiovascular disease, and dermatologic society, representing more June 12, 2013, by his orthopedic development. Dr. Hamburg is than 17,000 physicians specializing in college alma mater, a partner at Tower Hematology Oncology the diagnosis and medical, surgical, and the City College of Medical Group, a Cedars Sinai Medical cosmetic treatment of skin, hair, and New York (CCNY), Center company, and is board certified by nail conditions. In for his outstanding the American Board of Internal Medicine addition, Dr. Torres promotion of scholarships for graduates in hematology, medical oncology and in- will hold this same of his high school alma mater, the ternal medicine. He currently serves as a position for the Bronx High School of Science. The clinical professor of medicine at the UCLA American Academy Bronx Science-CCNY Scholarship School of Medicine and as the CEO of of Dermatology Project, which Dr. Katz chairs, provides the Tower Cancer Research Foundation. Association. He
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will be installed as president-elect in their seven-hospital served as site principal investigator on March 2015 and will hold the office Health System. Dr. numerous NIH and industry-funded clini- of president for one year beginning in Dunn is lead editor cal trials, including the Occluded Artery March 2016. of the textbook Trial (OAT), the Trial to Assess Chelation Dr. Torres is a professor and chairman Essentials of Therapy (TACT), and the Variation in Re- of the Department of Dermatology Hospital Medicine covery: Gender and Outcomes registry at Loma Linda University School of and a senior fellow (VIRGO). She is currently associate di- Medicine and an associate professor of of the Society of Hospital Medicine. rector of the Clinical Coordinating Center public health at Loma Linda University. for the NIH-funded ISCHEMIA trial. In He is a member of the Academy’s Jedd D. Wolchok ’94, PhD ’93GSAS, addition to her independent research Board of Directors and treasurer for MS ’91GSAS received the American program, Dr. Reynolds serves as the the American Society for Dermatologic Association for Cancer Research (AACR) associate director of the Cardiovascular Surgery (ASDS). 38th annual AACR-Richard and Hinda Clinical Research Center, which provides Rosenthal Memorial Award on April 6. support for many of the ongoing trials Martin R. Pollak ’88, This award provides incentive to young within the Division of Cardiology. chief of nephrology investigators early in their careers, so at Beth Israel Dea- it is stipulated that recipients be no 2000s coness Medical Cen- older than 50 at the time the award is ter (BIDMC) and pro- received. It was established in 1977 Julia B. Finkelstein ’11 married Dr. fessor of medicine by the AACR and the Rosenthal Family James S. Rosoff on March 29 at Guasta- at Harvard Medical Foundation to recognize research that vino’s in Manhattan, as announced in School, is among 84 new members and has made, or promises to soon make, a The New York Times. Dr. Finkelstein is a 21 foreign associates elected to the Na- notable contribution to improved clinical third-year urology resident at NewYork- tional Academy of Sciences (NAS). NAS care in the field of cancer. Dr. Wolchok Presbyterian Hospital. She graduated fellows are chosen for distinguished is the chief of Melanoma and Immu- magna cum laude from Cornell. Dr. Ro- and continuing achievements in original notherapeutics Service and associate soff is a urologist at Greenwich Hospital research. Dr. Pollak’s research has iden- director of the Ludwig Center for Cancer in Greenwich, Connecticut, and an as- tified the genes involved in the develop- Immunotherapy at Memorial Sloan-Ket- sistant professor of urology at Yale, from ment of focal segmental glomeruloscle- tering Cancer Center in New York City. which he graduated. He received a medi- rosis (FSGS), a common form of renal cal degree from Cornell. The couple met injury that disproportionately strikes Harmony R. Reynolds ’97, BS ’93CAS at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill African Americans. His work has shown has been selected as the Saul J. Farber Cornell Medical Center in 2010, while that two common coding sequence vari- Assistant Professor of Medicine at our Dr. Finkelstein was pursuing an elective ants in the APOL1 gene confer both re- School. This endowed professorship, rotation during her final year of medical sistance to trypanosome b. rhodiesiense which has a term of three years, was school and Dr. Rosoff infection (an African sleeping sickness established in 2011. Dr. Reynolds, as- was a fifth-year resi- agent) and a seven- to ten-fold increased sistant professor of medicine in the Divi- dent, both in the urol- susceptibility to FSGS and hypertension- sion of Cardiology, is a member of the ogy department. associated kidney disease. Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Honor Medi- cal Society and completed her internal Tara Russell ’13 was among 31 scholars 1990s medicine residency and cardiovascular selected for the Robert Wood Johnson disease fellowship training at NYU Medi- Foundation Clinical Scholars Program. Andrew S. Dunn ’92, MPH, FACP, cal Center and Bellevue Hospital Center. Dr. Russell will begin her two-year fel- SFHM is the 2014-2015 chair-elect of Dr. Reynolds is a nationally prominent cli- lowship, partially supported by the De- the Board of Governors of the American nician-investigator, with a primary focus partment of Veterans Affairs, in the fall College of Physicians (ACP), the nation’s on ischemic heart disease, particularly of 2015 at University of California, Los largest medical specialty organization. ischemic heart disease in the absence Angeles. This prestigious postresidency He also currently serves as governor for of angiographically obstructive coronary program will teach physicians to conduct the New York Manhattan/Bronx chapter disease, ischemic heart disease among innovative research and work with com- of the college. Dr. Dunn is a professor women, and stable ischemic heart munities, organizations, practitioners, of medicine at Mount Sinai School of disease. She was awarded a highly and policy-makers in order to take a Medicine and serves as the chief of prestigious Doris Duke Charitable Foun- leadership role in improving health and the Division of Hospital Medicine for dation research grant. Dr. Reynolds has health care in the United States.
20 | FALL 2014 Passings 1940s Lincoln Hospital in New York City, fol- Cleveland Clinic. He joined the faculty of lowed by residency in pathology at University of California, San Francisco, Raymond Sobel ’41 on December Mount Sinai Hospital. He completed a as a gastroenterologist in the early 30, 2013, as reported by his family. Dr. postdoctoral fellowship at the National 1950s and moved to Stanford University Sobel completed his internship at Morri- Cancer Institute and then served as in 1960 as professor of gastroenterol- sania City Hospital in New York City. His captain AUS-MC, stationed at the ogy. He retired in 2000 to pursue his residency in psychiatry was at Grass- School of Aviation Medicine at Ran- twin interests of writing and sculpting. lands Hospital in Valhalla, New York; dolph Air Force Base in Texas. In 1952, Dr. Liebowitz authored a series of well- Bellevue Hospital; and Hawthorne Cedar he became chief of the Department received books, including The Last Ex- Knolls. His fellowship in child psychiatry of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine pedition: Stanley’s Mad Journey through was completed at the Jewish Board of at the Miriam Hospital in Providence, the Congo. The Daniel Liebowitz MD Guardians in New York City. Dr. Sobel Rhode Island, and held an academic Student Essay prize will be established was a professor at Dartmouth Medical appointment in the Department of Pa- at the Bellevue Literary Review in his School and had a hospital appointment thology at Boston University School of name. Contributions in his memory can at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Medicine. He was appointed assistant be sent to the Bellevue Literary Review. in Hanover, New Hampshire. professor of pathology at Brown Uni- versity in 1969 and became associate 1950s William P. Clark ’44 on March 26 at professor in 1971. He was clinical as- the age of 92, as reported in The Jour- sociate professor of medical technol- Robert Werman ’52, ’48ARTS in No- nal News. Dr. Clark received a BS cum ogy at the University of Rhode Island. vember 2005, as reported by his family. laude from the University of Notre He directed the anatomic pathology Born in Brooklyn, New York, Dr. Wer- Dame and served three years in the service at the Miriam Hospital from man trained for three years in neurology U.S. Army Medical Corps rising to the 1970 to 1989 and was appointed se- at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City, rank of captain. Dr. Clark practiced inter- nior staff pathologist in 1990. In 1972, with an additional two years as a neurol- nal medicine for 36 years in Eastchester, he received a citation for “Outstanding ogist and a psychiatrist in the U.S. Navy. New York. He was a past president of Service to the Community in Practice He began postdoctoral work in the prop- the Westchester County Medical Soci- and Teaching of Pathology, 1952-1972” erties of single nerve cells and was ap- ety. He served on the Board of Gover- from the Rhode Island Society of Pa- pointed assistant professor of neurology nors of Lawrence Hospital in Bronxville, thologists. He became associate pro- at Columbia University Medical School. New York, and as vice speaker of the fessor emeritus of pathology at Brown After a year’s research in Cambridge, House of Delegates of the Medical So- University in 1977. He was a member England, he was appointed research ciety of the State of New York. He was of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, the New professor of psychiatry at Indiana Uni- a delegate to the AMA and a member York Academy of Sciences, the New versity. He also served as a professor of of the Westchester County Board of England Society of Pathologists, the anatomy and physiology at Indiana Uni- Health. He served on the board of direc- International Academy of Pathology, versity. Dr. Werman moved to Israel in tors of the Medical Liability Mutual In- the College of American Pathologists, 1967 as professor of neurophysiology at surance Company of New York, as well and the American Medical Association. the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and as on the board of directors of the Asso- Throughout his career, Dr. Dyckman became the Arnold and Bess Zeldisch ciation for Mentally Ill Children of West- published numerous peer-reviewed Ungerman Professor Emeritus of Neuro- chester. After retiring, Dr. Clark moved articles regarding anatomic and clinical biology in 1998. to Connecticut. He subsequently served pathology and melanocyte biology and In the years 1964-1967, Dr. Wer- as a volunteer in the Indian Health Ser- instructed many physicians, residents, man led the team that discovered vice on several reservations throughout and medical students. Dr. Dyckman the first new central nervous system the southwest. Dr. Clark is survived by is survived by his three children and transmitter, a simple chemical called six children and four grandchildren. seven grandchildren. glycine, active as a short-term inhibi- tory transmitter in the spinal cord. This Jacob Dyckman ’44, BA ’39CAS, Daniel Liebowitz ’46 on May 4, as re- groundbreaking work opened the way to MS ’41GSAS on May 31, 2013, at the ported by his nephew, Albert B. Knapp, the discovery of a host of other chemi- age of 92, as reported by his daugh- MD, clinical professor of medicine cal messengers in the central nervous ter, Sharon Meller. Born in New York (gastroenterology) at our School. Dr. system, particularly the brain. City, Dr. Dyckman enjoyed a long and Liebowitz completed his internship in Dr. Werman had more than 200 pub- distinguished career in medicine; he medicine at Bellevue in the NYU division lications related to the nervous system began as an intern and resident at and followed with a residency at the and was the author of books on medical
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research, self-help, the Gulf War, and 1960s was a passion, especially cookies (which Hebrew poetry. He was also a diplomate she would elaborately decorate) and of the American Board of Neurology and Arthur Zaks ’64, ’82WAG on April 26 small pastries. Her husband always had Psychiatry. He served as president of the at the age of 75, as reported in The an easy gift with a new baking cookbook. Israeli Physiological and Pharmocological New York Times. Born in Brooklyn, New She also had a collection of over 200 Society from 1971-1974. York, he graduated from Stuyvesant stuffed pigs. Dr. Silverstein loved travel, High School and Brooklyn College, Phi pictures, show tunes, and Motown. Robert J. Eisenberg ’53,’49ARTS on Beta Kappa. Dr. Zaks completed his Everyone loved Dr. Silverstein. She was February 11 at the age of 89, as report- internship at Lenox Hill Hospital and warm and funny and was dearly loved by ed by his classmate, Ira J. Laufer ’53, his residency in psychiatry at New her patients, friends, and family. She was BA ’48CAS. Dr. Eisenberg completed York Medical College, Metropolitan a generous soul who gave of herself to his internship at Children’s Hospital in Hospital Center. After becoming board those she cared about. She was particu- San Francisco, California. He did his certified in psychiatry with an interest larly proud of her children. Dr. Silverstein residency in pediatrics at Long Island in drug addiction therapy, he went on is survived by her loving husband, James College Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, to establish South Brooklyn Medical R. Osofsky, and her two daughters. and Stanford University Hospital in San Services. Dr. Zaks was a member of the Francisco. His fellowship in cardiology U.S. Army Reserves from 1964-1970, 1990s was at Stanford University Hospital. He where he held the rank of captain. Dr. spent his career at Einstein and Monte- Zaks loved to travel and teach and had a Eszter M. Boksay, MD, fiore Hospitals in Bronx, New York. passion for history, politics, and the New HS Internal Medicine ’93, York Jets. Dr. Zaks is survived by his Fell Geriatric Medicine Stephen C. Finestone ’56 on August 7, loving wife, Mary L. Zaks, three children, ’95 on April 30 at the 2013, at age 81, as reported by his wife and five grandchildren. Donations may age of 49, as reported by of 55 years, Eileen Finestone. Dr. Fine- be made in his memory to NYU School Steven B. Abramson, MD, HS Medicine stone practiced his specialty of anesthe- of Medicine Scholarship Fund. ’78. Dr. Boksay was clinical associate sia for over 40 years and served as chief professor of medicine at our School and of anesthesia at Montefiore Hospital in 1980s a member of the Division of Geriatrics. Pittsburgh for 32 years. He was also vice Born in Hungary, she was a graduate of chairman of anesthesia at the University Suzy S. Silverstein ’83 on April 27 at Fordham University and Semmelweis of Pittsburgh as well as medical director the age of 54, as reported in Daily Hamp- University School of Medicine and of the university’s School of Anesthesia’s shire Gazette. A beloved obstetrician, was an attending physician at Tisch, program for nurses. Dr. Finestone com- she delivered thousands of babies in the Bellevue, Hospital for Joint Diseases, pleted his residency at Mt. Sinai Hospital Connecticut and Pioneer Valleys. Born and Manhattan Veterans Administration in New York City. He served as president in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she gradu- Hospitals. On faculty for almost 23 years, of the Pennsylvania Society of Anesthe- ated from the University of Pennsylvania Dr. Boksay was a wonderful mentor and siology and received its Distinguished and completed her residency at NYU. teacher. She ran the geriatric fellowship Service Award. Dr. Finestone was always Dr. Silverstein practiced for many years and the Bellevue geriatric inpatient active in the community and served on with Hampshire OB/GYN in Northampton consult service until three years ago and many boards. In his free time, Dr. Fine- and for the last few years was on staff also maintained a private practice. She stone enjoyed boating on Pittsburgh’s riv- at Baystate Medical Center, where she was always a strong advocate for geriatric ers and sailing on the dearly loved the medical residents she patients everywhere and will be greatly Chesapeake Bay. His supervised. Dr. Silverstein had a great missed. Dr. Boksay did research on family life included sense of humor and always had a joke Alzheimer’s disease and was a member numerous camping ready to deliver. She made friends with of the American Medical Association, trips, skiing, and re- many new mothers (and incurred the ire American Geriatric Society, and New unions at Tennessee of their significant others) by prescribing York Medical Society. Dr. Boksay will be lakes. Dr. Finestone rest and no housework or cooking for a missed and remembered by her loving enjoyed telling jokes and stories that month. She was an extended family, friends, and colleagues. were handed down from his late father avid quilter and seam- Dr. Boksay is survived by her husband, and acquired from other sources. He was stress. She was fond Judge Scott Siller; two sons, Alexander a loyal friend to many. In addition to his of making baby quilts and Nicholas; three siblings; and her devoted wife, Dr. Finestone is survived for newborn babies father, Istvan J. E. Boksay, MD, clinical by three sons and four grandchildren. of friends. Baking professor in the Department of Psychiatry.
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SEPTEMBER 2014 OCTOBER 2014 NOVEMBER 2014 18/Thursday 25/Saturday 18 / Tuesday Board of Governors Meeting Northern California Donor Thank-You Dinner 6 p.m., Smilow MultiPurpose Alumni Brunch The Water Club, New York City Room, NYU Langone Medical honoring Rachel D. Canning ’98 Center and Soheil Motamed ’98 APRIL 2015 12 noon, The Fairmont, 25/Saturday 21/Sunday San Francisco, California Alumni Day Massachusetts/Rhode Island NYU School of Medicine, Alumni Brunch 26/Sunday New York City honoring Jonathan Woodson ’79 Southern California Alumni Brunch 11 a.m., Boston Harbor Hotel, honoring Mark A. Mandel ’64 Alumni Reunion Ball Boston, Massachusetts 11 a.m., The Peninsula, Beverly Hills, 7 p.m., The Ritz-Carlton California New York, Battery Park, New York City