Shout-Outs
By Office of the President | Feb 21, 2023
Dr. Jason Lazar Featured in SUNY RF’s Research Forward Newsletter
Jason M. Lazar, M.D., MPH, College of Medicine vice dean for Education and chair of Medical Education, was featured in a special edition of the SUNY Research Foundation newsletter, Research Forward, focusing on heart research. “Using Wearable Technology to Prevent Cardiac Events,” highlighted Dr. Lazar’s EKG remote monitoring research with HITLAB and AccurKardia.
Downstate Residents and Med Students Present on Medical Advances at Annual Surgery Conference
Downstate’s Department of Surgery was strongly represented at the 18thAnnual Academic Surgical Congress, held February 7-9 in Houston Texas. Residents and students who presented their research findings to a national audience of faculty and trainees included:
Erfan Faridmoayer, M.D., Surgery resident and postdoctoral research fellow: In-Hospital Mortality Trends After Transcatheter or Open Aortic Valve Replacement.
Junhyung Katie An, COM MS4: Inflation-adjusted Costs of Transcatheter and Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement Over the Past Decade.
Lindsay Haefner, COM MS4, Regional Variation in Admission Costs after Transcatheter or Open Aortic Valve Replacement.
SeungJoon Noh, COM MS3, Effect of Chronic Kidney and Peripheral Artery Disease on Mortality after Aortic Valve Replacement.
Tobi Somorin, COM, MS2, Medicaid Health Insurance Associated with Decreasing Profit Margins among Academic Medical Centers.
Surgery Chair Panos Kougias, M.D., MSCc, with student and resident presenters at the 2023 Academic Surgical Congress
Impact of Climate Change on Maternal/Fetal Health
Laura Geer, Ph.D., MHS, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences chair and associate professor, Lori Hoepner, DrPH, MPH, EOHS assistant professor, and Ryne Veneema, M.D., COM graduate/Orthopedic Surgery resident, were co-authors on “Climate Change-Related Environmental Exposures and Perinatal and Maternal Health Outcomes in the U.S.” The paper, a meta-analysis of 639 publications, was published in a special issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health devoted to maternal and fetal exposure to environmental insults. Their research suggests that climate change-related environmental exposures, including extreme weather events, air pollution, and national disasters, are significantly associated with adverse perinatal and maternal health outcomes across the United States.
Incubator Company ChemFinity: Fixing Mining in the Amazon
Downstate Incubator company ChemFinity Technologies was a $100,000 winner in a global sustainability competition sponsored by the U.S.
Agency for International Development. Mining operations in the Amazon basin, including
those by small artisanal gold miners in Peru, are polluting the Amazon rainforest
water and soil by dumping high levels of toxic mercury. The Artisanal Mining Grand Challenge: The Amazon sought innovative solutions that could be scaled to safeguard local ecosystems. ChemFinity
won for its new chemically-selective, porous membranes that reduce the energy needed
to purify salt water and recover valuable metals.
