<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news-events/downstate-update/digest/issue-02/07-21-26-dr-simon-s-rabinowitz-retires.html" dsn="blogs"><featured/><categories/><pubDate>07/21/2026 09:00:00 AM</pubDate><title>Dr. Simon S. Rabinowitz Concludes Nearly Four Decades of Service at Downstate</title><sub-title/><description>As he prepares to retire after nearly 40 years at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Simon S. Rabinowitz, M.D., Ph.D., Vice Chairman of Pediatrics and Clinical Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, leaves behind a legacy that reaches far beyond the patients he treated.</description><author>Office of Communications &amp; Marketing</author><image><img xmlns:ouc="http://omniupdate.com/XSL/Variables" src="/news-events/downstate-update/digest/_images/rabinowitz-simon.jpg" alt="photo of Dr. Simon S. Rabinowitz "/></image><loc>/var/staging/oucampus/suny-downstate/downstate/news-events/downstate-update/digest/issue-02/07-21-26-dr-simon-s-rabinowitz-retires.xml</loc><categories/></item>