Shout-Outs
By Office of Communications & Marketing | Sep 12, 2022
Midwifery Students Win National Scholarships
Lisa Craig
Su Yun (Esther) Hong
Midwifery students Su Yun (Esther) Hong and Lisa Craig for receiving Dorothea M. Lang CNM Memorial Scholarships from the American College of Nurse-Midwives Foundation.
The Foundation supports midwifery education, research, practice, and leadership activities that advance maternal, newborn, and well-woman healthcare services. These prestigious and highly competitive national awards are given to students based on academic performance, professional excellence, leadership potential, financial need, and plans to promote health equity.
Esther and Lisa are leaders in the Midwifery Program, strongly advocate for their classmates, and are deeply committed to racial and social justice. Lisa served as class representative for several years, and Esther was President of the Midwifery Student Association.
MindGames
The Downstate MindGames Team who participated in the MindGames competition at this year’s American Psychiatric Association annual meeting. (The MindGames format is inspired by the “Jeopardy” T.V. quiz show and tests psychiatric knowledge.) Downstate’s team was one of the three top-scoring finalists. Kudos to residents Amvrine Ganguly, M.D., Patrick Arthur, M.D., and Hagar Kandel, M.D.
Get with the Guidelines Program
University Hospital of Downstate, for receiving three awards from this year’s American Heart Association’s Get with the Guidelines program: 10-Year Recognition for Gold Plus achievement in Stroke or Heart Failure; Honor Roll for Type 2 Diabetes Care; Gold Plus recognition for 85 percent or higher adherence on all achievement measures for two or more years running.
Annals of Surgery features Downstate
Department of Surgery investigators and the iNSPIRe initiative, whose paper, “Timing of a Major Operative Intervention After a Positive COVID-19 Test Affects Postoperative Mortality,” was published in the September 2022 issue of the high-impact journal, Annals of Surgery.
In this nationwide analysis, lead authors Panos Kougias, M.D., and Sherene Sharath, Ph.D., demonstrated that postoperative mortality after major operative interventions performed within eight weeks of a COVID diagnosis is significantly higher than mortality after identical procedures in COVID-negative controls. Furthermore, the mortality risk was exceptionally high among patients undergoing surgery within two weeks from a COVID-19 diagnosis.
Enhanced Communications Efforts
Office of Communications & Marketing staff, James Gerontzos, Arlean Saa, Ellen Watson, and the New Media Services Team—led by John Zubrovich—including Sean Nurse, Sean Thill, and Aaron Cormier, for creating Announcements, a new monthly feature on our website that provides frequent updates on what’s happening at Downstate. Be sure to log on for regular Announcements updates here.