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[May 7, 2008] Downstate Heart Surgery Chief Dr. Wilson Ko to be Given Ellis Island Award Wilson Ko, MD, professor and chief of cardiothoracic surgery at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, will be presented the prestigious Ellis Island Medal of Honor during a ceremony on the island Saturday, May 10, 2008. More |
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[May 7, 2008] SUNY DOWNSTATE SYMPOSIUM AIMS TO EMPOWER YOUTH TO MAKE HEALTHIER LIFESTYLE CHOICES Physicians at SUNY Downstate Medical Center and other experts have teamed up to educate youth on sexual behaviors and health issues like diabetes, obesity, sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS at the 3rd Annual Dine & Learn Healthy Youth Symposium, themed “Play Safe, Play Healthy or Get Played!” More |
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[May 1, 2008] Dean Dawn Morton-Rias to be a Summer Fulbright Senior Specialist at University of Haifa Dawn Morton-Rias, EdD, PA-C, dean of SUNY Downstate’s College of Health Related Professions, has been selected for a Fulbright Senior Specialists project at the University of Haifa in Israel this summer. More |
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[April 25, 2008] The Best and the Brightest: Two Downstate Students Earn SUNY Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence Two students from Downstate Medical Center, one from the College of Medicine and the other from the College of Health Related Professions, were among the select group chosen to receive this year’s SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence. More |
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[April 25, 2008] Challenging Subject of Research on Children to be Addressed at DownstateSUNY Downstate Medial Center's Division of Humanities in Medicine will hold a conference on medical research on children -- "Ethical Dilemmas in Research Involving Children: 'Damned If You Do or Don't'" -- on Tuesday, April 29, 8:30 - 4:30 p.m., in the Alumni Auditorium, 395 Lenox Road, Brooklyn, New York. More |
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[April 23, 2008] Public Health Great Donald A. Henderson and Nursing Research Leader Patricia Grady to Speak at Commencement
Public health pioneer Donald A. Henderson, MD, MPH, who directed the successful global campaign to eradicate smallpox, and Patricia Grady, PhD, RN, director of the National Institute of Nursing Research, will be the speakers at commencement ceremonies of SUNY Downstate Medical Center on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 at Carnegie Hall in Manhattan. More |
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[April 21, 2008] University Hospital of Brooklyn Promotes Message of Healing and Cultural Diversity During National Hospital Week: Holds Annual Cultural Health Fair May 17 Hospitals are compassionate places that provide culturally diverse health care and promote community well-being. More |
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[April 18, 2008] Performing Artists Join in Celebrating Downstate: June 14 Gala to Benefit Medical ResearchHip-hop giant LL Cool J and actor Steven R. Schirripa, best known for his role on the “Sopranos,” have joined the growing list of celebrities attending the Celebrate Downstate Gala on June 14. More |
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[April 18, 2008] Study Suggests Ethnicity May Affect Sleep Patterns in Women: Study Represents the Basis for Future Research Into Insomnia Among Women From Different Cultures An estimated 25 percent of adults suffer from insomnia—women more so than men—and for many, a drink or sleeping pill is the answer to a good night’s sleep. More |
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[April 14, 2008] SUNY DOWNSTATE SCIENTIST HONORED BY RESEARCH FOUNDATION Dr. Todd Sacktor Recognized for Finding Molecule that Sustains Memory
SUNY Downstate Medical Center’s Todd Sacktor, MD, was among twenty faculty members from SUNY campuses around the state honored for their groundbreaking research at a recent awards dinner in Albany. More |
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[April 9, 2008] SUNY Downstate Medical Center to Launch School of Public Health Initiative: SUNY Downstate Medical Center inaugurates its new School of Public Health Initiative during a ceremony on the Brooklyn campus on Friday April 11, becoming the first School of Public Health at a public university in New York City. More |
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[March 31, 2008] Study Suggests Ethnicity May Affect Sleep Patterns in WomenStudy Represent the Basis for Future Research Into Insomnia Among Women From Different Cultures An estimated 25 percent of adults suffer from insomnia—women more so than men—and for many, a drink or sleeping pill is the answer to a good night’s sleep. More |
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[March 28 ,2008] Downstate Medical Students Get Good News on Match Day : Nearly Two Hundred Students Learn Location of Their Residency For millions of Americans, March is best known for the NCAA college basketball tournament, “March Madness.” More |
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[March 19 ,2008] SUNY Downstate Opens New Sleep Disorders Center The National Commission on Sleep Disorders Research has found that as many as 40 million Americans suffer from various sleep disorders and that the consequences are diverse, serious, and sometimes catastrophic. More |
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[March 18 ,2008] Downstate’s History of Achievement to be Celebrated June 14 Banquet to Benefit Medical Research A gala banquet to celebrate Downstate Medical Center’s proud history of achievement will be held June 14 at the Vanderbilt at South Beach, Staten Island. More |
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[March 17 ,2008] SUNY Downstate Rolls Out Electronic Health Record System Centralized Patient Information Enhances Patient Care, Facilitates Operations, Improves Research SUNY Downstate Medical Center has begun a multi-year journey to deploy a sophisticated Electronic Health Record (EHR) to enhance patient care and safety, facilitate clinical research, and optimize operations for University Hospital of Brooklyn (UHB) and its community. More |
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[March 17 ,2008] SUNY Researcher Issued Patent for Virtual Telemicroscope Telemicroscope System Capable of Emailing Electronic Slides After nearly ten years of research and development, scientists at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn and Peking University in Beijing were awarded a United States patent for their virtual telemicroscope. More |
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[March 15,2008] SUNY Downstate Medical Center Fights Colon Cancer Colon cancer is easy enough to detect and treat. It develops from polyps that can be removed before they become cancerous. Yet thousands of people die from it every year. More |
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[February 11,2008] Largest Emergency medicine association honors Dr. Joel Gernsheimer as a ‘Hero of Emergency Medicine’ The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) recognized Joel Gernsheimer, MD, FACEP, as a “Hero of Emergency Medicine” recently. More |
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[February 8,2008] WEAR RED DAY OBSERVED AT SUNY DOWNSTATE In support of women's heart disease awareness, faculty and staff at SUNY Downstate Medical Center recently dressed in red to celebrate National Wear Red Day. Downstate employees gathered in the lobby of University Hospital of Brooklyn for a group photo to commemorate the life-saving awareness movement. More |
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[January 16,2008] EXPERTS GATHER TO DISCUSS MAKING NEW YORK SAFER Experts from New York and across the nation gathered recently to discuss how better to prepare New York City and State from a terrorist attack or natural disaster, at the first major conference held by Protect New York, a professional society originated in 2006 at SUNY Downstate Medical Center. The two-day conference was held at SUNY’s Neil D. Levin Graduate Institute of International Relations and Commerce, in Manhattan. More |
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[January 9,2008] SUNY DOWNSTATE TO RECEIVE FUNDS FROM STEM CELL INITIATIVE SUNY Downstate Medical Center is among 25 institutions statewide receiving funds from the state’s new $600 million-dollar initiative to study stem cells. More |
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[January 3,2008] MUSEUM CHILDREN SPREAD GOODWILL AMONG PEDIATRIC PATIENTS AT SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER An act of kindness toward someone who is sick or hospitalized during the holidays is often the best medicine More |
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[December 31, 2007] SENIORS GIVE NEWBORNS FIRST HOLIDAY GIFTS It was not three kings but eight women from the Christopher Blenman Senior Center in Crown Heights who brought holiday gifts for newborns and their mothers at SUNY Downstate Medical Center. More |
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[December 10, 2007] LOW-CARB DIET REDUCES INFLAMMATION AND BLOOD SATURATED FAT IN METABOLIC SYNDROME Metabolic syndrome is a condition afflicting one quarter to one third of adult men and women and is an established pre-cursor to diabetes, coronary heart disease, and other serious illnesses. More |
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[November 30, 2007] MEDICAL GIANT REMAINS MODEST ABOUT HIS PLACE IN HISTORYDr. Irving Kroop Discusses America’s First Hemodialysis
Dr. Irving Kroop was warmly greeted when he visited SUNY Downstate Medical Center in late November to present the guest lecture at Renal Grand Rounds, a gathering of physicians and medical students who learn by hearing case histories More |
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[November 14, 2007] SUNY DOWNSTATE FACULTY MEMBERS RECEIVE HONORS Distinguished Professors and Chancellor’s Award Winners Recognized A special reception was held recently at SUNY Downstate Medical Center to celebrate those faculty members newly honored by the State University of New York Board of Trustees with the title of distinguished professor, the highest academic rank conferred by the University, and also those faculty who received the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence. More |
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[October 24, 2007] BROOKLYN LAWMAKERS “RESIDENT FOR A DAY” AT DOWNSTATE Legislators Look at Role Teaching Hospitals Play in Healthcare System
Wearing the physician’s traditional white coat, two Brooklyn lawmakers, Assemblyman Karim Camara and City Councilman Mathieu Eugene, got first hand experience of the rigors that medical residents face daily at a top medical center during a tour of the facilities at SUNY Downstate Medical Center on Thursday October 18, 2007. More |
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[October 24, 2007] BROOKLYN HEALTH REPORT TO BE PRESENTED NOV. 1
Defying the notion that poverty, lack of health insurance, and other socioeconomic factors alone contribute to health disparities in disadvantaged communities, a new report by researchers at SUNY Downstate Medical Center reveals that how people view their health and what they do to improve it may be equally important in determining health outcomes. More |
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[October 17, 2007]
Hope starts in Brooklyn on Sunday, October 21. That’s when thousands of moms, dads, children, grandparents, co-workers, breast cancer survivors, and their loved ones will join the fight against breast cancer by walking in the American Cancer Society’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk in Brooklyn. More |
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[October 4, 2007] SECOND “DINE & LEARN HEALTHY WOMEN SYMPOSIUM” NOV 9th Downstate and Partners to Provide Health Talks, Screenings and Dinner To help women make healthy choices, SUNY Downstate Medical Center has partnered with The Brooklyn Tabernacle Medical and Women Ministries to present the second “Dine & Learn Healthy Women Symposium” to educate them on various health issues vital to their physical wellbeing. More |
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[September 21, 2007] TWO NEW GRANTS TO STUDY RISK-REDUCTION AND RELATED ISSUES Scyatta A. Wallace, Ph.D., assistant professor of preventive medicine and community health and member of the HIV Center for Women and Children at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, has received two grants addressing critical community health issues. More |
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[September 10, 2007] FREE PROSTATE SCREENINGS SEP. 17 TO SEP 21 September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month. SUNY Downstate Medical Center will offer free prostate cancer screenings at various times and locations in Brooklyn from September 17-21. More |
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[July 16, 2007] An article published today, July 16, 2007, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences provides strong evidence for a novel type of communication between nerve cells in the brain. More |
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[June 26, 2007] ROGER TRAUB WINS PRESTIGIOUS HUMBOLDT AWARD Prize is Highest Award Given in Germany to Non-German Scientists Roger D. Traub, MD, professor of physiology and pharmacology at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, has been chosen to receive a Humboldt Research Award, the highest prize awarded in Germany to foreign scientists. More |
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| [January 25, 2007] FILM CELEBRATING THE LIFE OF GERALD W. DEAS DEBUTS AT SUNY DOWNSTATE Although it may not be shown at a trendy film festival or even a local theater near you, IDEAS, the new film celebrating the life and times of Gerald W. Deas, MD, is certain to make a lasting impression on everyone who sees it. More |
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| [January 16, 2007] 4000TH KIDNEY TRANSPLANT A MILESTONE FOR DOWNSTATE Shortly before Christmas, a critically ill patient with end-stage renal disease arrived at SUNY Downstate Medical Center hoping for a miracle. More |
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| [January 16, 2007] SUNY DOWNSTATE’S STAR CENTER RECEIVES $4.4 MILLION GRANT SUNY Downstate Medical Center’s STAR Health Center has received a five-year Ryan White Title III renewal grant totaling $4,443,580. More |
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| [January 8, 2007] Reduced Frontal-Lobe Activity and Impulsivity May Be Linked to Alcoholism Risk A new study of brain processes provides support for the theory that increased impulsivity, or a lack of impulse control, is involved in a predisposition to developing many psychiatric disorders, including alcohol dependence. More |
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