THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE OF NYU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE SPRING/SUMMER 2019 High Tech High Touch School of Medicine Alumni Bring Innovation to Care, and Care to Innovation HENRY FELDMAN ’01 (RES. ’04), FACP, FHM DC 07/12/2019 PHOTO: JULIANA THOMAS THOMAS JULIANA PHOTO: Alumni giving helped us achieve this A Historic landmark; now your philanthropy is essential for sustaining our full-tuition Medical scholarship initiative in perpetuity. Help us continue to dramatically Breakthrough: reduce medical student debt, so future doctors can pursue their true passions. Free Tuition! For more information, contact Diana Robertson at 212-404-3510 NYU School of Medicine is or [email protected] now offering full-tuition Make an online donation at scholarships to all of its nyulangone.org/give/scholarships current and future students in the MD degree program. DC 07/12/2019 DEAN’S MESSAGE Dreaming Big Technology and innovation have long been core priorities of our institution. Early in my tenure, we invested in Epic, our electronic health records platform; this important— and, as it turned out, prescient—decision became the foundation for many innovative approaches to clinical care. In fact, innovation is at the forefront of everything we do. For example, our newest sites deeply programs, projects, and approaches worthy of integrate the power of technology in order such extraordinary tools and facilities. So I’m to transform how we deliver patient care, proud to present stories of some of our alumni perform research, and educate our outstanding who are doing just that: using technology, School of Medicine students. The Helen L. and innovative thinking, and AI as only the starting Martin S. Kimmel Pavilion and Hassenfeld point for what they hope to accomplish Children’s Hospital, among the most digitally for their patients, for science, and for the sophisticated inpatient facilities in the betterment of healthcare far beyond “OUR JOB IS country, refect careful consideration of the the confnes of this institution. TO IMAGINE provider and patient experience. Our MCIT Dr. Henry Feldman and Dr. Dara Richardson- AND ACHIEVE (Medical Center Information Technology) Heron are addressing the challenges of AI: PROGRAMS, and Real Estate Development and Facilities Dr. Feldman, at IBM Watson Health, from the PROJECTS, AND teams, in collaboration with other NYU digital side—how we as physicians incorporate APPROACHES Langone Health departments, have seamlessly the vast potential of big data into our work; WORTHY OF SUCH integrated systems and thoughtfully designed Dr. Richardson-Heron, at the NIH, from the technologies including our cutting-edge human side—how we ensure that big data EXTRAORDINARY ORs and the in-room MyWall screens that sets refect full diversity and build trust among TOOLS AND connect patients instantly to caregivers, their the huge numbers of patients who fuel them. FACILITIES.” health information, and the outside world. Closer to home, Dr. Roberto Flores is changing The Science Building creates a physical and the face of transplant surgery, using inno- digital environment that is especially suited vations such as high-defnition 3D printing to conducting research and sharing data with to restore and rebuild with precision and partners around the globe. At the School of life-changing results. Medicine, we have also implemented multiple And this is the tip of the iceberg. You, our programs to enhance how we deliver training alumni, bring the culture of the School of for students and faculty, and to increase access Medicine—dream big, create new solutions, to quality data. collaborate, and build excellence—to your Now we are in the midst of a full IT daily work. We look forward to continuing to integration of NYU Winthrop Hospital, starting celebrate your achievements in these pages. with the successful migration of 600 Winthrop ambulatory providers and their offces to Epic. Sincerely, We also added 2 million Winthrop patient records into the system. These are not just high-priority initiatives for NYU Langone Health. They are also opportunities to reexamine every function we ROBERT I. GROSSMAN, MD perform. Our job is to imagine and achieve THE SAUL J. FARBER DEAN AND CEO Photo: John Photo: Carnett 1 | GRAPEVINE ALUMNI MAGAZINE SPRING/SUMMER 2019 DC 07/12/2019 THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE OF NYU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE SPRING/SUMMER 2019 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY William R. Berkley, BS (STERN ’66) Chair, Board of Trustees Andrew D. Hamilton, MSc, PhD President NYU LANGONE HEALTH Kenneth G. Langone, MBA (STERN ’60), (Hon. ’01) Chairman, Board of Trustees Robert I. Grossman, MD (Hon. ’08) Saul J. Farber Dean and CEO OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT AND ALUMNI AFFAIRS Grace Y. Ko FEATURES Senior Vice President Anthony J. Grieco ’63, BS (ARTS ’60) Associate Dean, Alumni Afairs Christine Beeby Senior Division Director, Donor Engagement and Communications Diana Robertson Director, Alumni Afairs Darcy Sender Assistant Manager, Alumni Afairs FACULTY ALUMNI COUNCIL MEMBERS Ariel Ostad, MD ’91 2018–20 Alumni Association President Tech and Change In It for All of Us Fit to Print Nicole M. Hindman, MD ’01, Res. ’06 Associate Professor, Department of 16 22 26 Radiology Henry Feldman ’01(Res. ’04), Dara Richardson-Heron ’89 From breakthroughs in Dimitris G. Placantonakis, MD ’03, FACP, FHM on the ever- (Res. ’92) is building one of 3D printing to his work on PhD (GSAS ’02) Director, Neurosurgical Laboratory evolving nature of innovation the largest—and most NYU Langone’s historic face for Stem Cell Research and how doctors can harness diverse—biomedical data transplant, Roberto Flores, Rafael Rivera, Jr., MD, Res. ’00, AI to enhance their own sets in the world. MD ’01 (Res. ’04, ’07) is Fellow ’01, MBA (STERN ’15) Associate Dean, Admissions and practices. making a lot of news. Financial Aid Linda R. Tewksbury, MD ’90, Res. ’93 Associate Dean for Student Afairs Marc M. Triola, MD ’98, Res. ’02 NEW(S) HEARD Associate Dean, Educational Informatics, Director, Institute for Innovations in Medical Education 4 9 30 GRAPEVINE NYU Long Island School of NYU Langone Health Named Class Notes Celia Regan Medicine Opens Healthcare’s Most Wired 31 Editor Barbara C. Mlawer 6 10 Hailen Mak ’74 Shares Her Managing Editor $75 Million Gift Establishes First-Year Resident Named Passion for Climbing Jen Swetzof Center for Blood Cancers to Forbes “30 Under 30” List 32 Editorial Services Travis Adkins 7 10 Q+A with Freya Schnabel ’82 André da Loba NCI Awards Perlmutter Its MD-PhD Student Wins (Res. ’87) Sarah Jackson Highest Ranking Nemko Prize Andrew Lichtenstein 34 Miguel Montaner Karsten Moran 7 11 Timothy Peck ’11 Uses Len Rubenstein Biggest Turnout at 2019 Match Day Technology to Transform the Matthew Septimus Contributors Alumni Brunch in Florida Delivery of Emergency Care 11 Opto Design 8 Admissions Surge 36 Publication Design Dean’s Honors Day Families: Rachel Canning ’98 CONTACT INFORMATION 12 Please contact us at and Soheil Motamed ’98 9 [email protected] or Alumni Reunion 212-263-5390. You can also write A New Kind of House Call 38 to us or visit our website. 14 In Memoriam NYU School of Medicine New Books Ofce of Development and Alumni Afairs 40 One Park Avenue, 5th Floor New York, NY 10016 Look Back: Stephen Smith med.nyu.edu/alumni NYU Langone Health comprises NYU Langone Hospitals and NYU School of Medicine. DC 07/12/2019 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR It was with no small amount me to note how many more of pride that I read “Full articles have been published Tuition Scholarship for All” critiquing the scholarship New(s) in the Fall 2018 issue of than praising it—the most ACHIEVEMENTS Full-Tuition Grapevine. As a member of fallacious of which contend Scholarships for All NYU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE is now For each of student in the MD sends a clear signal down- the frst top-ranked medical degree program, regardless of stream to all those consid- school in the nation to offer class year, that amounts to an ering a career in medicine the inaugural class to expe- that the generosity is mis- full-tuition scholarships to all annual scholarship of about that it is now within reach current and future students $55,000 and signifcantly re- of everyone—regardless enrolled in its MD degree duces the average fnancial debt of their fnancial means.” program. Robert I. Grossman, for graduates, which was previ- Grants, much like merit and MD, the Saul J. Farber Dean ously estimated at $184,000. fnancial aid, are made only and CEO of NYU Langone “Tuition-free medical after students have chosen rience the C21 curriculum, placed altogether, or should Health, announced the news education goes beyond the their career path, explains to the incoming class at the merit and fnancial scholar- Dr. Rivera, who is also an White Coat Ceremony on ships and debt cancellations alumnus of the NYU Langone August 16, 2018. that other academic centers Health residency program. “THIS DECISION Starting this fall, thanks to have traditionally favored,” “That’s too late if we wish to a student during both the be reserved for those physi- RECOGNIZES the extraordinary generosity says Rafael Rivera, MD, MBA expand the pipeline to bring of more than 2,500 alumni, (STERN ’15), associate dean forth the broadest, most A MORAL donors, and friends, students for admissions and fnancial talented group of students, IMPERATIVE at NYU School of Medicine no aid. “More importantly, by and to give them the fnancial THAT MUST BE longer have to worry about taking tuition off the table freedom to choose medicine ADDRESSED, AS overwhelming fnancial debt. for all of our MD students, it over other careers.” launch of the three-year MD cians committing themselves INSTITUTIONS We’d love to hear from you! PLACE AN INCREASING DEBT BURDEN ON YOUNG PEOPLE program and the post-Sandy to a career in primary care, WHO ASPIRE Please send your letters to the TO BECOME PHYSICIANS ” ROBERT I GROSSMAN, MD, SAUL J FARBER relief-and-renovation efforts, an underserved community, DEAN AND CEO editor to alumnirelations@ I’m no stranger to the adven- et cetera.