A Message from Dr. Pardes and Dr. Corwin We would like to thank and New York-Presbyterian congratulate all of you for your The University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell energy and support throughout our NYP unannounced Joint Commission 4HENEWSLETTERFOREMPLOYEESANDFRIENDSOF.EW9ORK 0RESBYTERIAN!"##6OLUME )SSUE*ULY Mock Survey last month. NYP performed very well and the surveyors recognized our commitment to providing the highest quality and safest care to our patients and families. They were extremely impressed with the compassion Prom Night - and engagement of our staff, nurses and physicians; and they hen the calendar flips to June, teenagers across the coun recognized Patient Safety Fridays as try can barely contain their excitement as the school year a best practice and model that other W comes to an end. For many, it will mean graduation and the hospitals across the country are beginning of a new chapter in their lives. But before they reach that adopting. milestone, there is another rite of passagee a patient waiting in the for hospital them: theduring prom. It’s July and that means we will But what happens when you’r be conducting our annual Employee Despite chronic and life-threatening illnesses, about 40 prom season? Survey — one of the ways we can determined teenage patients at NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley bring about positive change at Children’s Hospital decided they would not let their prom night go NYP. We really count on everyone’s uncelebrated. participation in this confidential On June 6, dressed to the nines in gowns and tuxedos, the patients process so that improvements can be turned the Hospital’s Wintergarden into their own private ballroom, made across the Institution. Over the complete with a limousine, red carpet, the flash of paparazzi and a full years, your Survey feedback has led catered dinner fit for a prom king and queen. to the development of departmental primary mission of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is to get you “The Making It Better Plans which together back to your life as quick as we can,” said Dr. Pardes. “These amazing have contributed greatly to enhancing young people have shown us that even if you can’t leave the Hospital, the workplace at our Hospital. We you can enjoy the same experiences and moments as anyone(Continued else. I on am page so 4) have expanded training, education, happy to see such strength and determination in our patients.” and career development programs; added staff recognition initiatives; and renovated staff work areas — just a few of the many examples. This year’s Survey will be conducted from July 20 through August 15, so please be on the lookout for it. As we announced last month, the Hospital will be going smoke-free on August 10. We care deeply about the health and safety of our patients, our visitors, and our staff. That is why we will now be prohibiting smoking on all Hospital property, both inside and out. Our Medical School partners, Weill Cornell and Columbia, will be joining us in this important effort to create a completely smoke-free academic medical center, and a safe, healthy environment in which we can deliver the highest quality care. So, while there is much to get Photos by Charles Manley done as we begin the second half of 2009, we have a lot to be proud of. Our sincerest thanks to all of you! inside this issue 2 6 7 8 11 Greenberg Getting to EXPress Promotions Green Pages Herbert Pardes, M.D. Steven J. Corwin, M.D. Honoree Know You President and Executive Vice President Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer Distinguished With a Little Bit of Luck Pathologist Is ho brought the good luck to whom After hearing Brett read, Alyssa gave Brett and Alyssa were reunited on June Greenberg Honoree W is an open question, but one thing him a yellow bracelet and told him, “This 12 at a press conference at MSCHONY is clear: Brett Gardner, the New York bracelet will make you hit a home run hosted by Robert Kelly, M.D., Group Senior Yankees’ centerfielder, and Alyssa Esposito, tonight.” Brett said later, “I thought, ‘Yeah, Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and an 18-year-old Morgan Stanley Children’s right. I don’t hit home runs.’” Chief Medical Officer, NYP/Columbia. Both Hospital patient, are sure glad they met But that night he did — a seventh- were modest about their contributions to each other. inning home run that stayed inside the each other’s good fortune. “I don’t like to Fate brought them together on May 15, stadium, the Yankees’ first “inside-the-park” take credit,” Alyssa said. “I think somebody when Brett and Babe Ruth’s granddaughter, home run in the new Yankee Stadium. upstairs is looking after her,” Brett said. But Linda Ruth Tosetti, toured Morgan Stanley The very next morning, Alyssa, who then he added, “If we get to the playoffs, Children’s Hospital and read books with had been waiting 107 days for a heart maybe I’ll need to come to see her every day.” baseball themes to hospitalized children. transplant, got the call that a donor had The May 15 story reading at been found for her. Jan Quaegebeur, M.D., MSCHONY where Brett and Alyssa met the Hospital’s Director of Pediatric Cardiac was sponsored by Project Sunshine, an Surgery, performed the six-hour organization that provides special events for o transplant procedure. young patients. ! it os p s Br E et Maurice R. “Hank” Greenberg, Chairman a t s G Emeritus of the NYP Board of Trustees s a (right), presented a sterling silver tray to y r l d Daniel M. Knowles, M.D. n A e r riends gathered for a festive F evening at the Pierre Hotel on May 7 to honor a leader in the field of pathology — Daniel M. Knowles, M.D., the 2009 winner of the Maurice R. Greenberg Distinguished Service Award. Dr. Knowles is Pathologist- in-Chief at NYP/Weill Cornell, the David D. Thompson Professor and Chairman of the Department of Pathology at Weill Cornell Medical College, and Chief Medical Officer Richard Lobell of the Weill Cornell Physician Organization. He is internationally recognized for his work in hematopathology, the medical science concerned with diseases of the blood and related tissues. Dr. Knowles paid tribute to his mother, a grocery store owner; his father, an artist and jeweler who was one of the first soldiers to land on Omaha Beach on D-Day; and his grandfather, a Canadian lumberjack who became a building superintendent in Brooklyn. “They lived courageous lives, overcame extreme adversity to survive, and eventually thrived,” he said. “They showed me by example that I could accomplish anything I desired.” The Greenberg Award is made possible through an endowment Richard Lobell from Maurice R. Greenberg and the Starr Foundation. Dinner co-chairs were Bernadette Castro and Peter Guida, M.D., and Robert Kelly, M.D. (second row, fifth from left) and members of Alyssa’s medical team, including Jan Quaegebeur, M.D., and Linda Addonizio, M.D. (second row, second ! and third from left), Lisa Gilmore, P.N.P. (second row, seventh from left) and Tara Giblin, P.N.P., M.P.H. (second row, fourth from right) joined Brett Gardner and Alyssa and Myra and Arthur Mahon. her family at a press conference. Media ran the amazing story on the chance encounter that was followed by her heart transplant and his historic home run. NYP!"## 2 JULY 2009 A Fitting Tribute for a Psychiatric Pioneer he New York State Office of Mental “Put simply, it’s pretty nice to see your A longtime leader in the field of missioner, OMH; Jerry Speyer, Vice Chair, T Health (OMH) on May 15 named the name on a building,” Dr. Pardes joked. psychiatry, Dr. Pardes was Director of NewYork-Presbyterian Board of Trustees; main building of its New York State Psychi- “Equally powerful is seeing so many family, the Institute from 1984 until 1989 while Lee Goldman, M.D., M.P.H., Dean of the atric Institute on West 168th Street and Riv- friends and colleagues who I have so much simultaneously serving as Chairman of Faculties of Health Sciences and Medicine at erside Drive in honor of Dr. Pardes. affection for gathered here today.” the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia Columbia University Medical Center; Jeffrey University College Lieberman, M.D., Director, New York State of Physicians and Psychiatric Institute; Jack Barchas, M.D., Surgeons. The building Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Weill naming acknowledges Cornell Medical College; and John Oldham, Dr. Pardes’ achievements M.D., Senior Vice President and Chief of in education, research, Staff, The Menninger Clinic in Houston. clinical care and health “Herb has this sense of where things policy, especially his are going, and that’s why every institution pioneering efforts to he has ever led has been one step in front of remove the stigma from everyone else,” said Dr. Goldman. mental illness. The event was hosted by William Polf, “Nothing will ever Ph.D., NYP’s Senior Vice President, External reverse or impugn the Relations, and featured the unveiling of a progress that Herb Pardes naming plaque and official portrait of Dr. has achieved in the Pardes. The Herbert Pardes Building of the field of mental illness,” New York State Psychiatric Institute is a six- said former New York story, state-of-the-art research, teaching, and Governor Mario Cuomo, patient care building. a speaker at the building “Herb Pardes fought tirelessly to get dedication ceremony. this building built, to serve the needs of Eva Vagg Other speakers the mentally ill,” Mr.