Shout Out to:
Francisco A. Colón, MSW as the Assistant Director of Enrollment & Onboarding Management in the School of Public Health. He will oversee the enrollment and onboarding processes at the SPH, contribute to
student recruitment efforts, support student success and retention, and facilitate
graduation and commencement activities.
Chief experience officer Wren Lester, Ph.D., CPXP, XPHQ, for serving as a panelist on “Black Maternal Health and the Pandemic: From Surviving
to Thriving.” The event was sponsored by the Greater Newark Health Care Coalition,
in partnership with the Essex and Morris County New Jersey Chapters of The Links Incorporated.
The Links is an international, not-for-profit volunteer service organization for civic-minded
African-American women dedicated to impacting their communities.
Department of Anesthesiology chair David Wlody, M.D., FASA, for being appointed by the New York State Board of Regents to its New York State
Board of Medicine, for a five-year term that began in early April. In this role,
Dr. Wlody will assist the Board of Regents on professional licensing matters in accordance
with duties specified by Article 131 of the New York State Education Law.
Downstate’s BioBAT, for receiving a $1.1M grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development
Administration. The grant, which will be matched with $500K in local funds, was authorized
under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
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SPH Epidemiology DrPH student Shabitri Dasgupta, for being awarded the Alfred Stracher Student Author Research Award in recognition of her manuscript, “Assessing Targeted Invitation and Response Modes
to Improve Survey Participation in a Diverse New York City Panel: Healthy NYC.” Ms.
Dasgupta’s study was conducted as part of an internship with the New York City Epi
Scholars program at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
Ophthalmology, Neurology, and Physiology & Pharmacology professor Susana Martinez-Conde, Ph.D., for presenting a keynote address, “From Fixation to Exploration: An Integrative
View of Oculomotor Function,” at the joint International Society of Neurogatronomy
Symposium and Association for Chemoreception Sciences 44th Annual Meeting on April
20, 2022.
To COM student Susan Gong, another recipient of the New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM) summer 2022 research
award. She received the Ferdinand C. Valentine Student Grant in Urology Research for
“Phenotyping Nocturia in Hypertensives according to 24-Hour Urine Composition, Free
Water Clearance, and Volume Status in a Racially Diverse Primary Care Population.”
As Board Chair of NYAM, I am proud to congratulate Susan, and her faculty mentor Department
of Urology professor and chairman Jeffrey P. Weiss, M.D., Ph.D., FACS
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I am pleased to announce the appointment of Jamie Grecco, Esq., as Senior Associate Vice President of Human Resources. In this role, Mr. Grecco
is reponsible for Human Resources Operations, Labor Relations, and the Employee Assistance
Program (EAP). He most recently served as Director of Redeployment / Realignment and
Employee Relations at the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation.
The Urology Care Foundation (UCF), the world’s leading nonprofit urological health foundation and the official foundation
of the American Urological Association (AUA), announced the appointment of Department of Urology vice chair and UHD Urology Service
chief Brian Keith McNeil, M.D., MBA, FACS, to its 
