SUNY Downstate’s Dr. Maja Nowakowski Appointed to the International Committee for Review and Evaluation of Medical Laboratory Science Training Programs in Israel
Sep 13, 2016
Brooklyn, NY – SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University’s Clinical Associate Professor of Pathology and Medicine Maja Nowakowski, PhD, has been appointed by the Israeli Council of Higher Education to serve as a member of the International Committee for Review and Evaluation of Medical Laboratory Science Training Programs in Israel.
Dr. Nowakowski, who is also director of pre- and post-doctoral education at the Center for Allergy and Asthma Research (CAAR) at SUNY Downstate, was among four persons (two from the United States, two from Israel) selected as experts in medical laboratory science principles, practice, and training.
The Council of Higher Education was established in 1958 as Israel’s national body in charge of higher education, with powers to grant permission to establish, and to grant accreditation to, institutions of higher education. Further, the Council of Higher Education has the power to authorize an accredited institution to award academic degrees, to make proposals to accredited institutions for organizational and academic changes and improvements, to submit higher education budgets to the government, and to provide branches of foreign higher education institutions with licenses to operate in Israel.
Dr. Nowakowski has been a member of the SUNY Downstate faculty for several decades and is an expert in basic and translational immunology, diagnostic immunology, and virology. She participated in the establishment of the Diagnostic Immunology Laboratory at Downstate’s University Hospital at Downstate and directed it from 1984 to 2009. In 2010, Dr. Nowakowski was an invited lecturer at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer-Sheva, Israel, where she taught a course on clinical laboratory immunology.
Dr. Nowakowski has taught medical and graduate students, residents, and fellows at SUNY Downstate. Currently, she teaches in the College of Medicine’s Foundations of Medicine phase of the curriculum (Units 1-4). She also teaches the Human Immunology elective for MS3-4, a research selective for MS4, and in the School of Graduate Studies (Graduate Immunology, Human Immunology, and Immunopathology of Virus Infections).
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About SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
Downstate Health Sciences University in Brooklyn is one of four academic health centers (AMCs) in The State University of New York (SUNY) 64-campus system and the only SUNY AMC in New York City dedicated to health education, research, and patient care for the borough’s 2.7 million residents. Its flagship hospital, University Hospital at Downstate (UHD), is a teaching hospital and benefits from the expertise of Downstate’s exceptional medical school and world-class academic center research facilities. With a staff of over 800 physicians representing 53 specialties and subspecialties, Downstate offers comprehensive healthcare services to the community.
UHD provides high-risk neonatal and infant services, pediatric nephrology, and dialysis for kidney diseases and is the only kidney transplantation program in Brooklyn. Beyond its clinical expertise, Downstate houses a range of esteemed educational institutions, including its College of Medicine, College of Nursing, School of Health Professions, School of Graduate Studies, and School of Public Health. Downstate fosters innovation through its multifaceted biotechnology initiative, the Biotechnology Incubator and BioBAT, which support early-stage and more mature biotech companies.