Shout-Outs
By Office of the President | Oct 17, 2023
Hispanic Leadership Institute Earns Kudos
Congratulations to Christina Guillen, M.D., FAAP, who presented an updated SUNY Hispanic Leadership Institute capstone project at the ACT conference in Albany this past weekend. Joining Dr. Guillen were Roberta “Rosie” Hurtado from SUNY Oswego and Pathy Leiva from SUNY Oneonta. We proudly support the Hispanic Leadership Institute under the leadership of SUNY Assistant Vice Chancellor for Presidential Searches and Executive Director, Hispanic Leadership Institute Zulaika Rodriguez.
Downstate Joins Community Baby Shower and Resource Fair in Partnership With Sleep Safe Initiative
SUNY Downstate participated in a Community Baby Shower and Resource Fair in Partnership With Sleep Safe Initiative” at Garden 54 with NYS Assemblymember Monique Chandler-Wateman. The event provided valuable information on maternal-child care to expectant parents and those with infants and children. SUNY Downstate and other community partners/vendors offered services such as blood pressure screening, free maternal-child care resources, and giveaways, including diapers, informational materials, books, raffles, and more. The event served as a platform for the community to connect with organizations like Downstate, specializing in maternal-child care services, expectant family education classes, doula services, and breastfeeding support.
Thank you to Sarah Marshall, DNP, MS, RNC and Betty Jung, RN (Center for Community Health Promotion and Wellness), Haleesah Gibson and Michelle King (MPH Students), and Melissa Rojas and Vicente Marshall (Volunteer Dept.) for sharing our available resources at University Hospital at Downstate.
Former Downstate Students Earn Prestigious MDPI Editor’s Choice and Best Paper Award for 2024
Former Downstate University students achieved significant recognition from the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI). Their work has been selected for the Editor’s Choice and Best Paper Award for 2024. These outstanding accomplishments highlight their dedication and expertise in their respective fields.
Congratulations to Natasha Bobrowski-Khoury, Vincent T. Ramaekers, Jeffrey M. Sequeira, and Edward V. Quadros on the MDPI Editor’s Choice for their work titled Folate Receptor Alpha Autoantibodies in Autism Spectrum Disorders: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention), and Natasha Bobrowski-Khoury, Jeffrey M. Sequeira, Erland Arning, Teodoro Bottiglieri, and Edward V. Quadros, for their paper, Absorption and Tissue Distribution of Folate Forms in Rats: Indications for Specific Folate Form Supplementation during Pregnancy in 2022.
School of Public Health Faculty Earn Inspiring STEM Program Award
Congratulations to Drs. Marlene Camacho-Rivera and Anika Daniels-Osaze for their recent award from Insight into Diversity for their HRSA Public Health Scholarship Program and highlighted in the September edition of their magazine as one of the Inspiring STEM programs of 2023! See Page 66 for Downstate’s recognition.
Preventing Childhood Obesity
Kudos to Sarita Dhuper, M.D., Director of Pediatric Cardiology and founder of Live Light, Live Right, for this message about the challenges of preventing childhood obesity and what we should know to help combat the disease.