In Case You Missed It
By Office of the President | Apr 3, 2023
B.K. Reader
‘Brooklyn Needs Downstate’: Unions Rally for $133 in State Budget for SUNY Downstate Medical Center—March 27
Featuring: Redetha Abrahams-Nichols, R.N., MSN, FNP, Division of Nursing
NYSUT
SUNY’s Three Teaching Hospitals Need a Cash Injection to Stay Strong—March 24
Featuring: SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
Politico
NY Playbook PM-Rallying for SUNY Downstate—March 24
Featuring: SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
U.B. Now
Match Day a Rite of Passage for U.B. Medical Students—March 24
Featuring: Incoming Downstate EM Resident Shawn Gibson, M.D.
Becker’s Hospital Review
50+ Health System Chief Experience Officers to Know/2023—March 23
Featuring: Wren Lester, Ph.D., Chief Experience Officer
Becker’s Hospital Review
List of the 149 Black Healthcare Leaders to Know/2023—March 23
Featuring: Tashma Watson, Ph.D., RN, CSSM, Assistant Vice President of Surgical Services
New York Amsterdam News
SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University Celebrates Successful Match Day—March 21
Featuring: SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
CUNY Graduate Center
A New Job Yields An Unexpected Alumni Network—March 20
Featuring: Nicholas Cromie, Assistant Director, Academic Services; Susan Kane, Ph.D., MPH, Senior Assistant Director, Academic Services, and Vanessa Vales-Lewis, Ph.D., Assistant Director, Academic Services
Johns Hopkins University Press
Podcast: Robert Karp on Redlining and Lead Poisoning—March 20
Featuring: Robert Karp, M.D., Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics
Managed Healthcare Executive
TikTok “Skinfluencers’ Study Shows Bloggers Far Outpace Dermatologists—March 19
Featuring: COM student Shivali Devjani
Healio News
Patients with Skin of Color See Fewer Complications with Shorter Nd:YAG Laser Duration—March 18
Featuring: COM student Michel Ntiri
Nature
Sweeping Report Calls for Anti-Bias Measures in U.S. Science—March 16
Featuring: W. Marcus Lambert, Ph.D., Associate Vice President for Research Strategy and Operations
Campaign for Action
National Council Licensure Examination Trainers—March 14
Featuring: Mirian Zavala, DNS, R.N., SUNY Council Member
Holidays / Observances
Hospital and Campus Employee Observances to Note
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4/7: Hospital Admitting Clerks Day
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4/14: Pathologists Assistant Day
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4/16: National Librarian Day
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4/26: Administrative Professionals’ Day
Health Observances
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4/1: Lupus Alert Day
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4/2: World Autism Acceptance Day
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4/2: World Autism Awareness Day
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4/4: National Sexual Assault Awareness Day of Action
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4/5: Donate Life Living Donor Day
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4/7: World Health Day
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4/10: National Youth HIV and AIDS Awareness Day
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4/11: International Day for Maternal Health and Rights
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4/11: World Parkinson’s Disease Day
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4/14: National Donate Life (Blue and Green) Day
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4/16: Emancipation Day (Lincoln signed Act into lay in 1862)
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4/17: World Hemophilia Day
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4/18: International Adult Autism Awareness Day
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4/25: National DNA Day (20th anniversary of the Human Genome Project’s completion and the 70th anniversary of the discovery of the DNA double helix)
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4/25: World Malaria Day
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4/28: World Day for Safety and Health at Work
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4/30: National Sarcoidosis Day
Cultural/Religious/ Miscellaneous Observances
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4/2: Palm Sunday (Christian)
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4/4: Memorial of Christ Death (Jehovah’s Witnesses)
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4/5: Qingming Festival (Chinese)
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4/5-4/13: Passover (Jewish)
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4/6: Good Friday (Christian)
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4/9: Easter (Christian)
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4/14: Mahavir Jayanti (Jain)
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4/14: Vaisakhi (Sikh/Hindu)
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4/14: Eastern Orthodox Good riday
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4/16: Orthodox Easter
(Greek/Eastern Orthodox)
Hospital and Campus Employee Observances
- 4/16-22: National Volunteer Appreciation Week
- 4/17-21: Health Information Professionals Week
- 4/23-29: Administrative Professionals Week
- 4/23-29: Patient Experience Week
- 4/23-29: Medical Laboratory Professionals Week
- 4/25-5/2: Transplant Nurses Week
Health Observances:
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4/1-7: Medication Safety Week
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4/1-7: Testicular Cancer Awareness Week
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4/3-9: National Public Health Week
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4/9-15: STD Awareness Week
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4/11-17: Black Maternal Health Week
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4/16-22: Oral, Head, and Neck Cancer Awareness Week
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4/23-29: National Pediatric Transplant Week
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4/24-28: Every Kid Healthy Week
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4/24-30: World Immunization Week
Cultural/Religious/ Miscellaneous Observances
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3/22-4/20: Ramadan (Islam)
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4/17-18: Yom HaShoah
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4/20-5/2: Festival of Ridvan (Bahái)
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4/21-22: Eid al-Fitr (Islam)
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4/22: Earth Day
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4/27: Take Your Kids to Work Day
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4/27-29: Gathering of Nations
(Native American Tribes)
National Cultural Months
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Celebrate Diversity Month
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Earth Day/Earth Month
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National Arab American Heritage Month
Health Observances:
- National Alcohol Awareness Month
- National Autism Awareness Month
- National Cancer Control Month
- National Child Abuse Prevention Month
- National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
- National Donate Life Month
- National Mental Health Awareness Month
- National Minority Health Month
- National Interprofessional Healthcare Month
- National Occupational Therapy Month
- National Parkinson’s Awareness Month
- National Sexual Assault Awareness & Prevention Month
- African American Women’s Fitness Month
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome Awareness Month
- Medicaid Awareness Month
- Rosacea Awareness Month
- STI Awareness Month
- Stress Awareness Month
- Testicular Cancer Awareness Month