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Summer/Fall 2011PDF Only SUMMER/FALL 2011 EINSTThe Magazine for Alumni and Friends of Albert Einstein CollegeE of Medicine ofIN Yeshiva University AIDS+30 AIDS Arises and Einstein Responds Meet Our Interactive Companion Magazine Give Einstein’s “virtual” version a try! This interactive version of the magazine resides at www.einstein.yu.edu/epubs/einstein/summerfall2011 and adds voices and moving images to the text and pictures you now hold in your hands. You’ll be able to view event coverage, hear interviews with Einstein faculty members, see how Einstein and Montefiore researchers have worked to defeat AIDS ... and more. If you like the status quo, don’t worry: We are continuing to publish Einstein magazine in print form. But do please give our alternative format a try as well. And let us know what you think about it by sending us a note at [email protected]. Follow us on 2 EINSTEIN : SUMMER/FALL 2 011 EinsteinMagazineSummer-Fall2011_11_2_11FINAL—November 30, 2011 5:21 PM SUMMER/FALL 2011 in this issue FEATURES 2 A MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN 22 AIDS +30 AIDS arises and Einstein responds 34 OF CELLS AND CENTENARIANS A generous investment by Ira and Ingeborg Rennert 22 funds biomedical research involving stem cells and aging 42 COMMENCEMENT 2011 In every ending, a new beginning 44 REUNION 2011 Honoring the Class of 1961 34 DEPARTMENTS 3 Letters to the Editor 4 Upfront: Collegial Life 14 Upfront: Lab Dish 40 Passionate Pursuits 48 Making a Difference 42 56 Our DNA: Alumni News & Class Notes 64 A Look Back To enjoy our interactive version of Einstein magazine on your smart- phone, download a mobile reader. We suggest visiting http://scan.mobi on your mobile device. EINSTEIN Summer/Fall 2011 The magazine for alumni, faculty, students, friends and supporters of Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University Published by A Message from the Dean The Philip and Rita Rosen Department of Communications and Public Affairs Gordon Earle, Associate Dean he cover story of this issue Department of Institutional Advancement of Einstein magazine com- Glenn Miller, Associate Dean memorates the 30th anni- Ira Lipson, Director versary of the first reports Science and Publications Editor Tof cases of AIDS. The story describes Larry Katzenstein key figures at Einstein and Montefiore Managing Editor who confronted the early stages of the Joan Lippert epidemic at one of its epicenters—the Institutional Advancement Writer Bronx—as well as Einstein investigators Lora Friedman who are responding to the challenges Contributors Kris DiLorenzo that AIDS still poses. Steve Ditlea I vividly recall the excitement at a Karen Gardner press conference in 1984, while I was at Gary Goldenberg the National Institutes of Health, when Creative Director Peter Dama Health and Human Services Secretary Margaret Heckler announced the dis- Art Director Lorene Tapellini covery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and predicted that a vac- Designer Jeneffer Gonçalves cine would be available within a couple Illustration of years. Nearly 30 years later, we still Tatyana Starikova Harris lack an effective vaccine—the critical Nancy Reagan—her hand avoiding Digital Imaging requirement for halting the epidemic. physical contact while meeting an HIV- Donna Bruno Still, enormous progress has been made, infected child—spoke volumes. Photography including the advent of highly active But Rubinstein was not alone Jason Torres Photography antiretroviral therapy. among Einstein physicians who distin- Victor Vanzo, East Coast Productions, Inc. When I directed the National guished themselves during that time. Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Peter Selwyn, Kathy Anastos, Ellie Consultants Kidney Diseases, I wasn’t familiar with Schoenbaum and other pioneers did Creative Direction Movement, Inc. key aspects of the history of AIDS. I all they could to stem the tide of the www.brandmovement.com made up for this deficiency in my edu- epidemic. Editorial Oversight cation after coming to Einstein in 2006. Today, Einstein faculty members Hayes Strategies One of my most memorable early continue to work on therapies for www.hayesstrategies.com experiences was a symposium mark- curing AIDS and strategies for prevent- Address correspondence to: ing the 25th anniversary of AIDS that ing it, for the benefit of patients in the Editor, Einstein Magazine featured Arye Rubinstein, M.D., the Bronx and worldwide. Jack and Pearl Resnick Campus 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Belfer 905 Einstein pediatrician who diagnosed one Bronx, NY 10461 of the first cases of pediatric AIDS. A E-mail: [email protected] film documented Rubinstein’s extraor- Website: www.einstein.yu.edu dinary work in caring for children with Copyright © 2011 AIDS, at a time of mounting hysteria Albert Einstein College of Medicine driven by ignorance of how the virus ALLEN M. SPIEGEL, M.D. of Yeshiva University was spread. A clip in the film showing The Marilyn and Stanley M. Katz Dean All rights reserved 2 EINSTEIN : SUMMER/FALL 2 011 LETTERS | FROM OUR READERS Letters to the Editor WINTER/SPRING 2011 around the College of Medicine. The For me, the real high of the eve- magazine also keeps me informed about ning was being on stage and playing EINSTThe Magazine for Alumni and Friends of Albert Einstein CollegeE of Medicine ofIN Yeshiva University research funding and philanthropic the Haydn Quartet no. 104 with three endeavors that contribute to the growth other really good musicians, and being of our institution. Einstein’s community applauded by the very sophisticated efforts and alumni news complete the audience of Einstein faculty and friends picture. Keep up the good work! that had come to see Dali and his work. Rubina Heptulla, M.D. Following the reception, we were Division Chief DE[LIVER]ANCE introduced to Dali. He was grateful that Researchers and Clinicians Team Up Pediatric Endocrinology to Combat the Liver Disease Epidemic we played for him and shook hands with Professor, Pediatrics and Medicine all of us. I was not well schooled in art Albert Einstein College of Medicine Bronx, NY at the time; Dali’s work did not appeal Winter/Spring 2011 to me very much then and is still not Hello, Dali! among my favorites. But what I most vividly recall was how ridiculous his Thanks from a Faculty Member I was one of the student musicians who As a relative newcomer to Einstein, I entertained at a reception for Salvador cape and handlebar moustache looked. In retrospect, of course, I probably very much enjoy reading Einstein maga- Dali hosted by his friend Einstein pro- zine. It’s well illustrated and engaging fessor Helmuth Nathan, M.D., on the should have been in awe of the man. and helps me stay informed about what’s occasion of a show and sale of Dali’s My wife, an artist and admirer of Dali’s going on around campus. Einstein artwork to raise funds for the medical work, certainly thinks so. Sidney Sobel, M.D. ’61, FACR researchers are prolific, and it is difficult school (“A Look Back,” Einstein, Winter/ Clinical Associate Professor of Spring 2011). I played the cello in a for all of us to keep up with the research Radiation Oncology findings that they generate. The maga- chamber music quartet (not visible in the University of Rochester School of zine offers me a convenient way to learn photo you printed), and my recollection Medicine and Dentistry about the achievements of my colleagues of that occasion might surprise you. Rochester, NY Social Media: Online at Einstein YouTube: Einstein’s YouTube which receives nearly 10,000 visits per Twitter, YouTube and other social media videos have been viewed 52,000 month. Visit www.einstein.yu.edu/video. allow for almost instantaneous contact times! Check out www.youtube. LinkedIn: Einstein maintains a and information exchange. “It’s all about com/user/EinsteinCollegeof Med. corporate profile on LinkedIn. building community,” says Paul Moniz, iTunes: From this platform, Visit www.linkedin.com/ Einstein’s director of communications you can stream and download companies/556031. and marketing. Einstein videos, lectures and RSS: “Really Simple Here’s how and where at Einstein: discussions to your computer or iPod/ Syndication” delivers Web Twitter: Einstein tweets iPad. Visit www.einstein.yu.edu/home/ content directly to your desktop multiple times every day (to mu_itunes.asp. or browser. To get started, visit www. 1,000 followers—and counting)! Einstein Multimedia Page: einstein.yu.edu/home/rss/news.xml. We also participate in Twitter chats. To See all of Einstein’s audiovisual Website: Updated daily, follow Einstein’s Twitter feed, visit content in one place on our easy-to-use website is http://twitter.com/EinsteinMed. Einstein’s dynamic multimedia page, www.einstein.yu.edu. SCIENCE AT THE HEART OF MEDICINE 3 UPFRONT | COLLEGIAL LIFE Match Day: “Thank You, Einstein” Einstein Profs Help High School Students high school laboratory can offer a bright science-minded Astudent only so much. Fortunately, a number of Einstein professors open the doors of their own labs to local students each summer. Among them: Katalin Susztak, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of medicine (nephrology) and of genetics, mentored Natasha Mathur, now a senior at Dobbs Ferry High School. Natasha researched tubular interstitial kidney fibrosis. She went on to place n Match Day 2011 last March, to Yale–New Haven Hospital, Houston’s second in the health and medicine Brian Nishinaga anxiously Baylor University Medical Center, category at the Westchester Rockland Oopened an envelope that Chicago’s McGaw Medical Center Science Symposium and received would direct his life for the next few of Northwestern University and the the Phillips Award for Exceptional years. He was ecstatic to learn that he University of California Irvine Medical Research in medicine at the was headed for an emergency medicine Center.
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