NEW YORK UNIVERSITY BULLETIN 2008-2010 Announcement for the 169th and 170th Sessions School of Medicine 550 First Avenue, New York, New York 10016-6497 Contents THE UNIVERSITY ................................................................2 SCHOOL OF MEDICINE TRUSTEES AND OFFICERS......12 SCHOOL OF MEDICINE GENERAL INFORMATION......15 EDUCATION........................................................................21 ACADEMIC CALENDAR.....................................................31 POST-GRADUATE INFORMATION ..................................32 HOSPITALS AND FACILITIES ............................................34 APPLICATION AND ADMISSION .....................................37 FINANCIAL INFORMATION.............................................39 STUDENT LIFE....................................................................47 POLICIES AND NOTICES ...................................................49 ACADEMIC DEPARTMENTS..............................................51 ROSTER OF STUDENTS ...................................................142 RESIDENCY APPOINTMENTS ........................................152 FACULTY INDEX ..............................................................157 TRAVEL DIRECTIONS......................................................180 NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER MAP ....................181 GENERAL INDEX.............................................................182 Notice: The programs and requirements set forth in this bulletin are necessarily subject to change without notice at any time at the discretion of the administration. This edition of the New York University School of Medicine Bulletin is being published as a two-year issue, covering the 169th and 170th sessions of the School. Cover design: NYU Langone Medical Center Webteam 2 The University An Introduction to New York University Enrollment in the undergraduate divisions of the University ranges between 116 and 6,929. The founding of New York University in 1831 by a While some introductory classes in some programs group of eminent private citizens was a historic have large numbers of students, many classes are event in American education. In the early 19th small. More than 2,500 courses are offered, lead- century, a major emphasis in higher education was ing to more than 25 different degrees. on the mastery of Greek and Latin, with little attention to modern or contemporary subjects. The opening of the University of London in 1828 con- 1832 vinced New Yorkers that New York, too, should College of Arts and Science have a university. The founders of New York 1835 University intended to enlarge the scope of higher School of Law education to meet the needs of persons aspiring to careers in business, industry, science, and the arts, 1841 as well as in law, medicine, and the ministry. School of Medicine The first president of New York University’s 1865 governing council was Albert Gallatin, former College of Dentistry adviser to Thomas Jefferson and secretary of the 1886 treasury in Jefferson’s cabinet. Gallatin and his Graduate School of Arts and Science cofounders said that the new university was to be 1890 a “national university” that would provide a “ratio- Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and nal and practical education for all.” Human Development The result of the founders’ foresight is today a university that is recognized both nationally and 1900 internationally as a leader in scholarship. Of the Leonard N. Stern School of Business more than 3,000 colleges and universities in 1934 America, only 60 institutions are members of the School of Continuing and Professional Studies distinguished Association of American Universities. 1938 New York University is one of the 60. Students Robert F. Wagner Graduate School come to the University from all 50 states and from of Public Service over 130 foreign countries. The University includes 14 schools and colleges 1948 at six major centers in Manhattan. In addition, the Post-Graduate Medical School University operates a branch campus program in 1960 Rockland County at St. Thomas Aquinas College. Silver School of Social Work Certain of the University’s research facilities, 1965 notably the Nelson Institute of Environmental Tisch School of the Arts Medicine, are located in Sterling Forest, near 1972 Tuxedo, New York. Although overall the University Gallatin School of Individualized Study is large, the divisions are small- to moderate-sized units—each with its own traditions, programs, and 1963 faculty. Mount Sinai School of Medicine (affiliated July 1, 1999) 4 The Schools and Colleges of the University The College of Arts and Science offers the Bachelor residents also gain important clinical experience of Arts degree in a wide range of programs in the through the NYU Hospitals Center, which includes humanities, science, social sciences, and foreign the 705-bed Tisch Hospital and the 174-bed Rusk languages and literatures and, in some depart- Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine. The School also ments, the Bachelor of Science degree. Joint pro- maintains affiliations with select institutions for a grams of study currently involve NYU’s Robert F. variety of joint academic and clinical programs. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service; Affiliated hospitals include the NYU Hospital for Graduate School of Arts and Science; Steinhardt Joint Diseases Orthopaedic Institute; the School of Culture, Education, and Human Department of Veterans Affairs New York Harbor Development; Silver School of Social Work; School Health Care System; Jamaica Hospital Medical of Medicine; and College of Dentistry, as well as the Center; North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health Polytechnic Institute of NYU. System; Manhattan Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital; The School of Law is one of the oldest law Gouverneur Hospital; and Lenox Hill Hospital. The schools in the United States. It offers a compre- School is renowned for the excellence of its basic and hensive first professional program leading to the clinical science enterprises as well as its clinical care degree of Juris Doctor and a graduate curriculum through its faculty group practices. The School’s leading to the degrees of Master of Laws and Helen L. and Martin S. Kimmel Center for Biology Doctor of Juridical Science. The law school is a and Medicine at the Skirball Institute of leader in providing scholarships to promising stu- Biomolecular Medicine is one of the world’s leading dents, recruiting top faculty, and improving tuition medical research centers, with interdisciplinary subsidies and loan forgiveness programs. The research emphasizing the biomolecular roots of dis- School of Law regularly posts recent graduates to ease. Specific areas of focus include developmental the U.S. Supreme Court for the highly coveted genetics, molecular pathogenesis, molecular neuro- clerkships. The Root-Tilden-Kern scholarship pro- biology, and structural biology. gram has produced more than 800 of the finest The College of Dentistry is the third oldest and public service leaders in the country. Each year, the largest private dental school in the United some of the world’s top foreign lawyers visit to States. It offers a predoctoral program leading to teach at the Hauser Global Law School, founded in the Doctor of Dental Surgery degree, as well as 1995. An extraordinarily wide range of course advanced education programs in the dental spe- offerings, research centers, colloquia, and special cialties and an allied health program in dental programs is made available to students. Policy hygiene. The patient care clinics, laboratories, and makers and practitioners regularly converge on other teaching facilities that comprise the College Washington Square South to explore critical of Dentistry are housed within several buildings, issues in the law. including the Arnold and Marie Schwartz Hall of The School of Medicine and Post-Graduate Dental Sciences and the K. B. Weissman Clinical Medical School offer the Doctor of Medicine degree Science Building. The College is located on First and, through the Graduate School of Arts and Avenue, from East 24th Street to East 25th Street, Science, the Doctor of Philosophy degree, as well as in the midst of one of the nation’s most renowned courses for accreditation designed to meet the needs health sciences complexes, which extends from of physician-scientists and physicians in practice. East 14th Street to East 34th Street. Located Much of the clinical teaching takes place at the 809- within the College of Dentistry is the College of bed Bellevue Hospital Center, where the School of Nursing, one of the top programs in the country. Medicine supervises care. Medical students and Graduates assume positions in leading health care 5 The Schools and Colleges of the University institutions and universities and practice in areas complex is adjacent to the University’s renowned including acute care, community health care, pedi- Elmer Holmes Bobst Library. The Stern School atrics, geriatrics, mental health, and emergency offers B.S., M.B.A., and Ph.D. degrees. Students care. The College offers B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. may specialize in accounting, economics, finance, degree programs. A B.S./M.S. dual degree program information systems, international business, man- and an M.S./M.S. joint degree program with the agement, marketing, operations management, sta- Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public tistics, and actuarial science. Joint graduate-level Service are also available. programs are offered with the School of Law, the The Graduate School of