President's Message

To: The Downstate Community and Friends,

It’s time to celebrate Downstate! For 150 years we’ve been building our legacy, expanding our mission, and embracing new challenges. At the beginning, there was only one school – the College of Medicine. Three more were established in 1966: the School of Graduate Studies, the College of Nursing, and the College of Health Related Professions. Generations of Brooklynites have been born at Downstate and generations have received health care; many became our students, employees, and champions.

So, we have much to celebrate. Our clinical and research facilities are world class, and our faculty is in the forefront of clinical practice and scientific innovations. Our graduates fill the ranks of healthcare providers, academic leaders, policy makers, biotechnicians, scientists and entrepreneurs all over the country and beyond.

Join us in celebration at the Plaza on May 2, 2009, for an evening of dining and dancing. It will be a wonderful opportunity to meet our scientists and clinicians, and the physicians and business men and women of Brooklyn in an evening to remember.

John C. LaRosa, MD, President