Dr. Ruth Browne to Receive Lewis and Jack Rudin Prize for Medicine and Health
Dec 4, 2013
Ruth C. Browne, ScD, MPH, MPP, chief executive officer of the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health, will be awarded the 2013 Lewis and Jack Rudin Prize for Medicine and Health, at the New York Academy of Medicine, December 11, 2013. The event will begin with a reception at 5:30 pm, with lectures to start at 6:15 pm. Dr. Browne will speak at the event, as will the 2012 Lewis and Jack Rudin Prize recipient, Henry Chung, MD, chief medical officer of the Montefiore Care Management Company and medical director for the Montefiore Accountable Care Organization.
The Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health was founded by the late tennis great Arthur Ashe at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in 1992, and continues to work in close partnership with SUNY Downstate.
The Lewis and Jack Rudin Prize is given to clinicians, healthcare administrators,
or health policy and health services researchers from the New York metropolitan area
who have demonstrated how the healthcare delivery system can work effectively with
partners in public health and the community. The awards are sponsored by the Greater
New York Hospital Association, the New York Academy of Medicine, and the Rudin Family
Foundation.
In addition to her position at the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health, Dr. Browne
is a director of the Brooklyn Health Disparities Center, a partnership between the
Arthur Ashe Institute, SUNY Downstate, and the Office of the Brooklyn Borough President.
She is also a clinical associate professor in the School of Health Professions and
a clinical associate professor in the Department of Medicine in the College of Medicine
at SUNY Downstate.
The New York Academy of Medicine is located at 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street in Manhattan. For more information, visit: http://support.nyam.org/site/Calendar?id=104441&view=Detail .
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About SUNY Downstate Medical Center
SUNY Downstate Medical Center, founded in 1860, was the first medical school in the United States to bring teaching out of the lecture hall and to the patient’s bedside. A center of innovation and excellence in research and clinical service delivery, SUNY Downstate Medical Center comprises a College of Medicine, College of Nursing, School of Health Professions, a School of Graduate Studies, School of Public Health, University Hospital of Brooklyn, and a multifaceted biotechnology initiative including the Downstate Biotechnology Incubator and BioBAT for early-stage and more mature companies, respectively.
SUNY Downstate ranks twelfth nationally in the number of alumni who are on the faculty of American medical schools. More physicians practicing in New York City have graduated from SUNY Downstate than from any other medical school.