NEWS Briefs NYMC Receives Unprecedented 12-Year ACGME Accreditation
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he Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), a professional organization that reviews and accredits institutions that sponsor residency training programs, has extended New York Medical College’s accreditation for a period of 12 years. In May of last year, under the former accreditation system, the College was granted full accreditation for five years through 2018, the maximum period allowable for an institutional sponsor of residency and fellowship programs.
On July 1, 2013, the ACGME introduced a new accreditation model, the Next Accreditation System (NAS), a competencybased accreditation developed to reduce administrative burden, facilitate innovation, improve patient safety, and enhance quality of patient care. Under the NAS, New York Medical College’s accreditation was extended to the year 2025. ■
The Department of Pharmacology is Proud to Host a Fulbright Scholar
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n March 2014, Igor Kizub, Ph.D., arrived at New York Medical College from Kiev, Ukraine, as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar to conduct research under the mentorship of Sachin Gupte, Ph.D., associate professor of pharmacology. Dr. Kizub, a senior researcher at the Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, became interested in Dr. Gupte’s work on the mechanisms of hypoxic pulmonary artery constriction. Both Drs. Gupte and Kizub had connected through a mutual colleague at King’s College in London who works in the area of lung physiology and pharmacology. Fast-forward a few months after diligently working on and preparing the paperwork to achieve this prestigious award, the two researchers began their collaboration on “The Role of Gap Junctions in Hypoxic Pulmonary Vasoconstriction Development,” and they are confident that it will be published at the end of the sixmonth program. ■ From left: Igor Kizub, Ph.D., Sachin Gupte, Ph.D., and Michal L. Schwartzman, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Pharmacology.
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