Office of Public Relations Highlights Report 2021

Where Knowledge and Values Meet

Office of Public Relations

2021 Highlights

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Where Knowledge and Values Meet

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The Office of Public Relations of New York Medical College (NYMC) is dedicated to supporting the College mission, strategic plan and a variety of institutional initiatives through the use of effective and accurate communications tools. The Office is responsible for all aspects of internal and external communications of NYMC, including media relations, official College social media accounts, branding, internal communications, publications and the nymc.edu website. The Office of Public Relations develops and maintains open, transparent channels of communications with all College stakeholders and leverages College experts to share the NYMC story to the world.

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Website Statistics

11.9%

2,693,543

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page views on nymc.edu

website contributors

88.1%

668,774 new users

The most website visitors in one day:

13,055

on Wednesday, May 26, 2021

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Website Statistics

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Social Media 6

Social Media Growth

15,823 likes 16,514 followers

138 new likes

3,720 followers 453.9K impressions

322 new followers

16,350 followers 423.5K impressions 4,246 reactions

1,668 new followers

4,875 followers

536 new followers

1,319 subscribers 600K impressions 5,900 minutes of

watch time

241 new subscribers

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Social Media Top Posts Programs at the NYMC School of Health Sciences and Practice

439,181 views

1,437 impressions

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Highlights of Match Day 2021 at NYMC School of Medicine March 2021

25,2021 views

473 likes

Doctor of Physical Therapy (D.P.T.) at NYMC

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224 likes

Social Media Spotlights and Highlights

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Social Media Ambassadors

30 posts

6 posts

Jullian Evalle

Amanda Scudder

Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

School of Medicine

27 posts

Phillip Lu School of Health Sciences and Practice Physical Therapy

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14 posts

37 posts & stories

Catherine Ferrara

Allison Asher

School of Health Sciences and Practice Speech-Language Pathology

School of Health Sciences and Practice Public Health

Social Media Ambassadors Top Posts

134 likes

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Social Media National Observances

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Social Media National Observances

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Social Media National Observances

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Digital Advertising 18

Digital Advertisement

TOP clicks Clinical Laboratory Sciences

1,921 link clicks • 152,601 reach SHSP Master of Public Health

747 link clicks • 102,388 reach Lyme Disease Diagnostic Center 517 link clicks • 351,392 reach 19

Digital and Print Campaigns 20

Community e-Newsletter InTouch is distributed to 4,000 faculty, staff, graduate and medical students, trustees and donors, media, opinion leaders and executives at affiliated hospitals. The newsletter’s primary objective is to increase awareness of programs and activities at the main campus.

TOP pages

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issues in 2021

22,117

views

3,537 Meet the School of Medicine Class of 2022

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Three SHSP Students Volunteer for Nationwide COVID-19 Data Collection Project

Faculty and Students Publish Study Demonstrating that Black 2,409 views SeedOil Plus Omega-3s May Counter Obesity-Induced Inflammation and Insulin Resistance

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Deans’ e-Newsletters

Graduate School of Basic Medical Sciences Dean’s Report 22

School of Medicine Dean’s Update

School of Medicine Dean’s Research Newsletter

Communication/Email Deliverables

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Community Announcements

300+ in 2021

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NYMC Coverage in the Media

First issue

October 2021 NYMC in the Media, is a monthly collection of media coverage of NYMC in local, regional and national media outlets.

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Email Invitations

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Design Services For a full list of core services and pricing*, visit nymc.edu/histology Histology services

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Histological slides and staining new project • Unstained slide (paraffin or frozen sections) Regular requests ooin 2021 Charged • H&E stain (paraffin or frozen sections) • Special stains o Masson Trichrome o Periodic Acid Schiff (PAS) o Elastin stains

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Immunohistochemistry from • One2020 antibody, counterstain with hematoxylin • Double labeling with antibodies, counterstain with hematoxylin • Antibody optimization

Location New York Medical College (NYMC) is located on a 54-acre suburban campus in Valhalla, New York, 15 miles north of New York City. The College is easily accessible by highway and is seven miles from the Tappan Zee/Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge. Frequent rail and bus service is available. Directions are available at www. nymc.edu/directions.

About Us Founded in 1860, NYMC is one of the nation’s largest private health sciences colleges. A member of the Touro College and University System, NYMC is located in Westchester County, New York, and offers degrees from the School of Medicine, the Graduate School of Basic Medical Sciences and the School of Health Sciences and Practice, as well as a school of dental medicine and a school of nursing. NYMC provides a wide variety of clinical training opportunities for students, residents and practitioners. The College has a strong history of involvement in the social and environmental determinants of health and disease and a special concern for the underserved.

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Infographics NYMC Days of Giving 2021 The two-day campaign on May 4 and 5, 2021, raised money for scholarships so students in the Graduate School of Basic Medical Sciences (GSBMS), the School of Health Sciences and Practice (SHSP) and the School of Medicine (SOM), can pursue their education based on their passion and not economic background.

THANK YOU TO ALL OF OUR DONORS.

“COVID-19 left my employment status

rocky and I was uncertain as to how I was going to be able to afford to return to full-time school.

Scholarships are highly sought after and very difficult to earn, so any financial assistance received are of great help. My financial award provided peace of mind. It helped me veer focus back on my schoolwork and away from the fear of accruing debt or of working long hours to the detriment of my grades.”

RANIA HATAB, M.S. candidate in Clinical Laboratory Sciences Candidate, GSBMS

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$362,580

32 first-time donors

gift size

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GSBMS SHSP SOM

$ 3,582 $ 5,456 $ 330,575

“Receiving a scholarship has benefited

me in a lifelong way. It has lessened the financial burden on my family and has allowed me to focus 100 percent of my attention to my education. Graduating with my master’s degree, while having as little debt as possible, will expedite the process of me pursuing my goal to open my own clinic. The extra support will forever be appreciated.”

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MARISSA MANN, M.S. candidate in speech-language pathology, Class of 2022, SHSP

“As a first-generation medical student

from a humble background, I shied away from applying to medical school for years due to financial considerations. I knew that my family would not be able to provide any financial support and it seemed like a large financial burden. Upon being accepted to NYMC, I also received news that I was eligible for a scholarship. That news provided immense relief for myself and my family, and it meant that the gracious generosity of those who support student scholarships would help me fulfill my dream of becoming a physician. It is thanks to the contribution of kind donors that I chose NYMC and that today I am able to call myself a third-year medical student.”

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DAYENNY DEJESUS, M.D. candidate, Class of 2022, SOM

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Print Publications

Where Knowledge and Values Meet

Where Knowledge and Values Meet

NYMC by the numbers

2,056

Students

on the NYMC campus and online

Schools on the NYMC Campus

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• School of Medicine • School of Health Sciences and Practice

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Residents and Fellows Residency Programs

COUNTRIES REPRESENTED

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125,000+

beds

• Graduate School of Basic Medical Sciences • Touro College of Dental Medicine

nymc student housing capacity

Journal titles and databases in the Health Sciences Library

• Touro College School of Health Sciences nursing program

Faculty/Student ratio: 1:1

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academic programs campus-wide

College-wide Diversity: • NYMC students self-reported as members of the following groups:

NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE AT-A-GLANCE

diversity 44% • White 23% • Asian 9% • Black 10% • Hispanic <1% • American Indian/ Native Hawaiian 14% • Other/ Not Specified

2,500+ FACULTY campus-wide

1,233 Full-time; 428 Part-time; 807 Affiliate/ Volunteer; 45 Living emeriti

1,505

employees campus-wide

founded 1860

24,700+ living alumni

who are actively engaged in medical practice, health care administration, public health, teaching and research throughout the nation and abroad.

~129,000 square feet

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ACRES

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Alumni Publications 32

Invitations and Campaigns

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Invitations and Campaigns

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Alumni E-newsletters

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issues in 2021

The Alumni Connections newsletters are created quarterly for each of the three schools (SOM, SHSP, GSBMS) with the latest school specific news, accomplishments, profiles, events and ways to get involved for our alumni.

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Journal Ads

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Campus Signage History Posters Paul Augustus Collins, M.D. Class of 1913 In Memory of

In Memory of

Paul Augustus Collins, M.D. Class of 1913

Paul Augustus Collins, M.D., Class of 1913, was an ophthalmologist and political activist who holds the distinction of being the first African-American delegate to attend a Democratic National Convention.

Dr. Collins was born in 1885 and raised in Oakland, California. In 1908, he received a bachelor’s degree from Lincoln University, a historically Black university in Pennsylvania. He attended New York Medical College (NYMC) under the mentorship of Eugene Percy Roberts, M.D., Class of 1894, and Albert Sidney Reed, M.D., Class of 1895, both of whom had been members of the Class of 1891 at Lincoln. Dr. Collins graduated from NYMC in 1913 and settled in Trenton, New Jersey, where he was a founding vice president of the Trenton branch of the Urban League.

George Epps Cannon, M.D., Class of 1900, was a physician and civil rights leader in New Jersey, where he was a prominent political activist and led local and national campaigns against lynching and segregation.

After several years in Trenton, Dr. Collins moved to New York City and established a practice in Harlem. In 1925 he co-founded the Edgecombe Sanitarium, a private hospital established by and for Black physicians who were excluded from admitting privileges at other New York City hospitals. In 1927, he helped establish a free outpatient service for underserved neighborhood residents at the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Harlem, where he led the ophthalmology and otolaryngology clinics.

In 1930, Dr. Collins became a founding member of the executive board of the Manhattan Central Medical Society (MCMS), the Manhattan affiliate of the National Medical Association.

That same year, due to the efforts of MCMS president Louis T. Wright, M.D., the medical staff of Harlem Hospital was desegregated and Dr. Collins was subsequently named to the staff of the Department of Ophthalmology. A few years later, Dr. Collins became the first AfricanAmerican physician to chair the department, a position he held until his passing in 1952.

Dr. Collins’ attendance at the 1924 Democratic National Convention was widely reported on that summer. This caricature of Dr. Collins wearing a delegate’s sash was published in the Ithaca Journal on July 7, 1924.

Ophthalmologist and political pioneer

Kathleen C. Morton, M.D.

(1931-)

Dr. Cannon passed away in 1925. His funeral in Jersey City, New Jersey, attended by overflow crowds, included the reading of a condolence message from U.S. President Calvin Coolidge.

According to historian Dr. Graham Hodges, whose book Black New Jersey: 1664 to the Present Day was published in 2019, Dr. Cannon was “the most important Black New Jerseyan of the first quarter of the twentieth century.”

As President of the Committee of One Hundred, an organization of Black leaders, Dr. Cannon led the movement against segregation in the State of New Jersey. These headlines are from the January 15, 1914 New York Age.

“The most important Black New Jerseyan of the first quarter of the twentieth century.”

Eugene Percy Roberts M.D. 1894

Eugene Percy Roberts, M.D., Class of 1894, was one of the leading Black physicians in New York City for more than half a century.

Prominent in civic life as well as medicine, Dr. Roberts was an active figure in politics and culture during the Harlem Renaissance. At New York Medical College (NYMC), he was a mentor to a generation of Black physicians, many of whom went on to hold important medical and civic leadership roles.

Dr. Morton was born and raised in England and received her M.D. from the Middlesex Hospital School of Medicine in 1954. She came to the United States for postgraduate training and interned in pediatrics at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, while studying neonatology with Virginia Apgar, M.D. She then completed a residency in pediatrics at the Children’s Orthopedic Hospital in Seattle, Washington.

Dr. Roberts was born in 1868 in Lewisburg, North Carolina, to parents who had been enslaved prior to emancipation. He attended Lincoln University, a historically Black college in Pennsylvania, and received his bachelor’s degree in 1891. In 1894, he received his M.D. from NYMC and established a practice in New York City. He was among the early members of the National Medical Association, established in 1895, and served as its New York State vice president.

Together with her husband Richard Morton, M.D., an obstetrician who had also received his M.D. at Middlesex and trained at Kings County Hospital, Dr. Morton spent the next decade in private practice in rural Washington State. During this time, Dr. Morton was the first pediatrician to publish a case report of successful treatment of twin transfusion syndrome. Having read a previous report of a fatal case, and recognizing the syndrome in a pair of newborn twins, she successfully treated the suffering twin and both . The case report was published in 1964. In 1969 the Mortons relocated to southern California, where Kathleen became a professor at the University of California, Irvine and ran a clinic for developmentally disabled children at the Children’s Hospital of Orange County.

At the time, most New York City medical schools did not admit Black students, but in the two decades following Dr. Roberts’ graduation in 1894, nearly twenty Black students received their M.D. degrees from NYMC. Like Dr. Roberts, these students were mostly graduates of Lincoln University and went on to practice in the New York City metropolitan area. Dr. Roberts was the heart of this connection. Medical education at the turn of the century included a period of study with a “preceptor,” an established physician to sponsor the student, vouch for their potential during their admission to medical school, and allow them to shadow their private practice.

Dr. Roberts often served as preceptor for these students.

In 1971 the couple moved to Maryland, where Richard taught at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and Kathleen joined the faculty of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. In 1975, she was named dean of primary care education at Johns Hopkins, becoming Hopkins’ first female dean. In this position, she worked to address the primary care shortage by providing opportunities for students to study and experience primary care as a field. During her deanship, Hopkins expanded its programs in underserved urban neighborhoods in Baltimore and introduced primary care rotations in rural communities in Maryland and Pennsylvania.

In 1975, Dr. Kathleen Morton became the first female dean at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where she was responsible for expanding the school’s primary care training program. Clipping from the Baltimore Sun, December 11, 1975.

First female President of New York Medical College

Dr. Roberts’ mentees included members of his own extended family, with whom he shared a home and eventually an office in Harlem. His younger brother-in-law Arthur Logan, M.D., went on to become a prominent Harlem surgeon and was the personal physician to noted American composer Duke Ellington. In 1929, Dr. Roberts’ sister-inlaw Myra Adele Logan, M.D., Class of 1933, became the first recipient of NYMC’s Walter Gray Crump Scholarship, the first scholarship for Black medical students at a white-majority medical school. Dr. Logan would go on to become the second Black woman to be elected to the American College of Surgeons and the first woman of any background to perform open-heart surgery.

During Dr. Harding’s tenure, the Committee sponsored a children’s health and dental clinic, information services and lectures, devoting special attention to the needs of newly arrived migrants. He also encouraged his patients to pursue physical fitness; himself a competitive sprinter, Dr. Harding was a founding member of the Alpha Physical Culture Club, a community-run gymnasium credited by sports historians with introducing basketball to Harlem.

From 1921 to 1927, he served as a staff member in the outpatient genitourinary clinic of Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was the first African-American physician on staff.

Henry Oswi Harding, M.D. 1913

Photograph courtesy of Chris Miller

In 1923 he ran as a reform candidate for the New York City Board of Aldermen in the 21st District. His platform included the desegregation of Harlem Hospital and the establishment of a children’s health clinic in Harlem. While Dr. Harding lost his election to the Tammany Hall-backed incumbent, he remained involved in politics. In 1938 he was among the founding members of the Coalition Congressional Committee, a group of Harlem civic leaders who organized to elect an African-American representative from Harlem to the U.S. Congress. Their efforts bore fruit in 1945, when Adam Clayton Powell Jr. became the first African-American Congressman from New York State.

Dr. Harding’s role as a tuberculosis advocate led him to be appointed to the board of directors of the New York Tuberculosis Association. He delivered citywide public radio lectures on tuberculosis care as a speaker on WNYC, and in 1943 he was appointed by New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey to the board of directors of the State Tuberculosis Hospital at Ray Brook in the Adirondack Mountains.

Courtesy St. Olaf College Archives

Eugene Percy Roberts, M.D. 1894, by Winold Reiss. This portrait, part of a series of portraits by Reiss of Harlem Renaissance luminaries, is now in the permanent collection of the New York Historical Society. Image courtesy of Renate Reiss.

In addition to his medical prominence, Dr. Roberts was a political and civic leader in the Harlem community. He was a co-founder of St. James Presbyterian Church, a major Black church in Harlem. In 1898, he was co-founder of the first Black-run Democratic Party organization in New York City, and in 1911, he helped establish the National Urban League. In 1917, Dr. Roberts was appointed by Mayor John Purroy Mitchel to the New York City Board of Education, becoming its first Black member. His wife Ruth Logan Roberts was herself a prominent suffrage and civil rights activist, and the family were friends and patrons of many artists and writers during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s.

In 1952, Harlem’s New York Age newspaper ran an 84th birthday profile of Dr. Roberts. By then, he was the oldest practicing physician in Harlem, described by the Age as “the dean of Harlem physicians” in recognition of his more than fifty years of service to the community. He died the following spring. His obituary noted that throughout his career in medicine, the Black community in New York City had grown from 18,000 people to three-quarters of a million. Some of these had been patients of Dr. Roberts. Many more had been the patients of his students.

“The dean of Harlem physicians”

The following year, with the departure of the previous department chair, Dr. Lillick was named an associate professor and became acting chair of the department. Her tenure as acting chair lasted for seven years. It appears that her doctoral background, in ecology rather than the health sciences, led to hesitation regarding her permanent appointment to the chair. So, while continuing to teach, Dr. Lillick enrolled in the M.D. program at NYMC. She graduated first in her class in 1953. That summer, she became a full professor and chair of the Department of Bacteriology, which was renamed the Department of Microbiology in 1956.

Dr. Lillick remembered with pride the many students she taught at NYMC. She was proud of the school and the quality of its medicine. She told me many times, “that school turns out good doctors.”

Remembrance of a California Department of Public Health colleague in Dr. Lillick’s Chironian obituary, 1976

Dr. Lillick left the faculty at the end of the 1961-1962 academic year to take a position at the University of California, Berkeley.

During that spring’s NYMC Alumni Day celebrations, Dr. Lillick carried the College Mace. This honor was typically given only to retiring faculty, but as the Chironian reported, “an exception had been made in view of the high esteem of faculty and students for Dr. Lillick.”

Dr. Lillick’s career and achievements progressed in medicine and the basic sciences. Her clinical experience as a consulting physician at NYMC’s affiliate hospitals inspired an interest in public health as the front line of disease prevention in underserved communities. While at Berkeley, Dr. Lillick received a Master of Public Health (M.P.H.). Soon she was on the staff of the California Department of Public Health, and by 1973 she had risen to become deputy director of the Department.

Dr. Lillick discovered a new interest and area of expertise. She recognized the need for home health care as a critical component of public health for the aged and vulnerable and fought for the inclusion of home care services in Medicare and Medicaid coverage. After her passing in 1976, the California Association for Health Services at Home established the Lois Lillick Award for outstanding leadership in home care advocacy.

Basic scientist, physician and public health leader

Zbigniew Darzynkiewicz M.D., Ph.D.

Sophie Rabinoff, M.D., M.P.H. I n M e mor y of Sophie Rabinoff, M.D., M.P.H. (1889-1957)

• Chair, Department of Preventive Medicine, Public Health and Industrial Hygiene, 1951-1956 (predecessor of the current Department of Family and Community Medicine) • New York City public health leader and childhood nutrition advocate • First female house staff member, Beth Israel Hospital, Manhattan • Only female physician, American Zionist Medical Unit in Palestine, 1918-1919

• Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, and of Medicine, New York Medical College (NYMC) • Founding Director, Brander Cancer Research Institute, NYMC • Pioneering cytometry researcher and expert on the phases of the cell cycle and cell apoptosis • Developer of the TUNEL, FLICA and SCSA assays • President, International Society for the Advancement of Cytometry

Mary B. Stark, Ph.D. (1912)

As Dr. Lillick later recalled, however, Harvard in the 1930s was “no place for an ambitious female.” She left Massachusetts for New York City in 1940 and joined the NYMC faculty as an instructor in what was then known as the Department of Bacteriology. In this new environment her focus shifted from field ecology to laboratory biology and she began publishing research on the mass culture of unicellular organisms. In 1945, Dr. Lillick was named assistant professor of bacteriology.

During Dr. Lillick’s tenure, the Department of Microbiology was frequently involved in translational collaboration with the clinical departments. In collaboration with faculty from the Department of Medicine, she co-authored the first major study of cycloserine, an early antibiotic. Her own research interests, meanwhile, shifted to immunology.

Public health leader and political reformer

(1936-2021)

• Known as “the dean of Harlem physicians” for nearly sixty years of service as a medical and civic leader • First Black member of the New York City Board of Education, 1917 • Mentor to a generation of Black physicians at New York Medical College

In 1978, Kathleen C. Morton, M.D., became the first woman to serve as President of New York Medical College (NYMC). She had previously been the first female dean at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, where she was dean of primary care education.

A native of Cincinnati, Dr. Lillick received a Ph.D. in microbiology from the University of Michigan in 1938, completing her doctoral dissertation, The Microplankton of the Gulf of Maine. As a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, she studied the ecology of Atlantic phytoplankton. This work is now recognized as being foundational to the discipline of oceanographic ecosystem modeling.

In Memory of Zbigniew Darzynkiewicz, M.D., Ph.D.

(1868-1953)

• First female President of New York Medical College, 1978 • First female dean at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 1975-1978 • Published the first case report of a successful treatment of twin transfusion syndrome

In the summer of 1977, Dr. Morton was recruited from Johns Hopkins to succeed Dr. Lawrence Slobody, M.D., Class of 1936, as President of New York Medical College. Her appointment came at a time of great change for the College, which was then in the final stages of completing its move from Flower-Fifth Avenue Hospital in Manhattan to its new campus in Valhalla in Westchester County. On January 1, 1978, Dr. Morton became President of the College, the first woman to hold this position. A few weeks later, the College became part of the Archdiocese of New York. Dr. Morton served as President of the College until the end of July 1978, when she was succeeded by Joseph Cimino, M.D. After her time at New York Medical College, she served as deputy director of primary care at Montefiore Medical Center before retiring in the late 1980s. In 1989, she and her husband, who passed away in 2004, endowed the Richard and Kathleen Morton Chair in Genetic Research at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Morton now lives in retirement in California.

For many years Dr. Cannon served as executive director of the National Medical Association (NMA).

In the years following World War I, he led the NMA’s campaigns against the segregation of the medical staff of the Tuskegee Veterans Administration hospital and for the appointment of Black physicians to positions of equal responsibility in the medical units of the U.S. military. In 1916, in response to the success of D.W. Griffith’s white supremacist propaganda film Birth of a Nation, Dr. Cannon founded the Frederick Douglass Film Company, one of the first Black-owned movie studios, whose films highlighted Black achievement. The studio produced four full-length films, including a courtroom drama and a documentary on Black soldiers in the World War I.

In 1924 he became chair of the Harlem Tuberculosis Committee, a local branch of the New York Tuberculosis Association. The following year, recognizing that fighting tuberculosis in Harlem would require addressing the broader health and sanitary needs of the community, Dr. Harding led the Committee’s expansion to a general public health organization, the Harlem Tuberculosis and Health Committee. He served as its chair for the next five years before passing the position on to his classmate Peyton Anderson, M.D., Class of 1913.

Eugene Percy Roberts, M.D. Class of 1894

Kathleen C. Morton, M.D.

Lois C. Lillick, Ph.D., M.D. ’53, M.P.H., who chaired the Department of Microbiology from 1946 to 1962, holds the unique distinction of being the only physician ever to receive an M.D. from New York Medical College (NYMC) while chairing one of its basic science departments. Her legacy includes significant accomplishments in the basic sciences, medicine and public health.

Dr. Harding’s interest in public health began early on.

During his fourth year at NYMC, he was named secretary of the Committee for Improving Industrial Conditions of the New York Urban League – the beginning of a lifelong career in the service of public health. After graduating, Dr. Harding settled on Seventh Avenue in Harlem, where he established a private general practice and became involved in civic life.

In Memory of

In Honor of

(1913-1976) • Chair of the Department of Microbiology, 1946-1962 • Only person to receive an M.D. from New York Medical College while already chairing one of its basic science departments • Conducted foundational research in phytoplankton ecology at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution • Leader in Medicare advocacy and home care services at the California Department of Public Health

Henry Oswi Harding, M.D., Class of 1913, the son of Guyanese immigrants, grew up in New York City and enrolled in New York Medical College (NYMC) under the mentorship of Eugene Percy Roberts, M.D., Class of 1894.

As a student, Dr. Harding was an accomplished musician, playing first violin in the college orchestra and opening the 1913 Class Day exercises with a solo performance.

Dr. Cannon’s prominence as a physician soon made him a leader in New Jersey’s Black community, and he became active locally and nationally in the civil rights movement. In New Jersey, he chaired the Committee of One Hundred, a group of Black leaders who waged successful campaigns against segregation in local restaurants and against a racially targeted curfew law. Nationally, he was active in the campaign to pass a federal anti-lynching bill, and in 1923 he chaired a delegation of Black activists from 18 states to U.S. President Warren G. Harding in support of the bill. In 1924, the same year that his fellow NYMC alumnus Paul Augustus Collins, M.D., Class of 1913, attended the Democratic National Convention as its first Black delegate, Dr. Cannon was a delegate to the Republican National Convention, where he continued to advocate for an anti-lynching bill.

As a prominent physician and community leader in Harlem, Dr. Collins was politically active.

He was a close associate of Harlem Democratic leader Ferdinand Q. Morton and was involved in efforts to increase voter turnout in the Harlem community. In the summer of 1924, Dr. Collins attended the Democratic National Convention in Madison Square Garden. His presence as the first African-American delegate to attend the convention was widely reported. Dr. Collins remained an active participant in politics in Harlem for the remainder of his life, serving as a member of the New York County Democratic Committee and campaigning for Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1932 presidential election. In 1929, Harlem’s New York Age newspaper reported that Adam Clayton Powell Jr., the college-aged son of a prominent Harlem pastor, had been rushed to Dr. Collins for specialty treatment of a sinus infection. Fifteen years later, Reverend Powell Jr. became the first African-American Congressman from New York State.

Lois C. Lillick Ph.D., M.D. ’53, M.P.H.

• Lifelong public health leader and advocate for the well-being of the Harlem community • Chair, Harlem Tuberculosis and Health Committee • First African-American physician to hold a staff position at Mount Sinai Hospital • Candidate for the New York City Board of Aldermen, 1923 • Founder, Alpha Physical Culture Club

Dr. George Cannon was born in 1869 in Carlisle, South Carolina. Inspired by a prominent local pastor, the young Cannon resolved to attend Lincoln University, a historically Black university in Pennsylvania, where he paid his tuition by working as a Pullman car porter. He received his bachelor’s degree in 1893 and later received an honorary law degree from Lincoln in recognition of his civil rights activism. In 1896, he enrolled at New York Medical College (NYMC) under the preceptorship of his fellow Lincoln University and NYMC alumnus Albert Sidney Reed, M.D., Class of 1895. Dr. Cannon received his M.D. in 1900 and settled in Jersey City, New Jersey, where he established a thriving practice.

Lois C. Lillick, Ph.D., M.D. ’53, M.P.H. In Memory of

(1886-1958)

• First Black delegate to the Democratic National Convention, 1924 • Founding member of the Executive Council, Manhattan Central Medical Society, 1930 • First Black chair of the Department of Ophthalmology at Harlem Hospital after its desegregation

Photograph courtesy of Jill O’Reilly

Class of 1913

Henry Oswi Harding, M.D. Class of 1913

(1869-1925)

• Executive director, National Medical Association • Leader of campaigns against segregation in the State of New Jersey • Founder of the Frederick Douglass Film Company, one of the first Blackowned movie studios, 1916 • Chair of an 18 state anti-lynching delegation to President Warren G. Harding, 1923

Paul Augustus Collins, M.D. 1913

Henry Oswi Harding, M.D. In Memory of

George Epps Cannon, M.D., Class of 1900, LL.D.

(1885-1952)

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George Epps Cannon, M.D., Class of 1900, LL.D.

Sophie Rabinoff, M.D., M.P.H., was a public health leader and pioneer in medicine who devoted her career to bringing effective maternity and pediatric care to underserved communities in New York City. Born in 1889 to a Jewish family in Mogilev, Russia, Dr. Rabinoff was an infant when her family emigrated to the United States. After attending New York City public schools and Hunter College, she received her M.D. degree in 1913 from the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania. When she applied for an internship at Manhattan’s Beth Israel Hospital, she was initially turned down because of her sex, but the hospital administration eventually agreed to let her take the competitive admissions examination. Earning the top score out of thirty-one applicants, Dr. Rabinoff joined the Beth Israel house staff as its first female member.

Zbigniew Darzynkiewicz, M.D., Ph.D., professor of pathology, microbiology and immunology, and of medicine, was one of the pioneers of modern cytometry. As a faculty member at NYMC, Dr. Darzynkiewicz established the flow cytometry and laser scanning core facilities and was the founding director of the Brander Cancer Research Institute.

Dr. Darzynkiewicz was born in Poland in 1936. He received his M.D. degree from the Medical University of Warsaw in 1960 and his Ph.D. there in 1966.

His early research focused on lymphocytes, and by 1968 Dr. Darzynkiewicz had been the first author of several papers published in Nature and Science. In that year during a period of political repression in the Eastern Bloc brought on by the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia he escaped to the West, arriving in Sweden as a political refugee. There Dr. Darzynkiewicz joined the laboratory of Nils R. Ringertz, M.D., Ph.D., a pioneering cell geneticist, at the Karolinska Institute. The following year he emigrated to the United States, where he worked with Endre Balazs, M.D., at the Boston Biomedical Research Institute.

In 1974, Dr. Darzynkiewicz joined the staff of the Sloan-Kettering Institute.

His colleague at Sloan-Kettering, Myron Melamed, M.D., who would later chair the Department of Pathology at NYMC, introduced Dr. Darzynkiewicz to the flow cytometer, a newly developed instrument which allowed for the rapid computerized study of large quantities of cells. Flow cytometry became the focus of Dr. Darzynkiewicz’s research. In 1990, he was recruited to establish the Brander Cancer Research Institute at NYMC, bringing with him a staff of dedicated colleagues and several major grants. He spent the rest of his career at NYMC. Using flow cytometry to investigate the phases of the cell cycle, Dr. Darzynkiewicz made fundamental contributions to cell science. The methods he developed are now used by researchers worldwide. He distinguished previously unknown stages in cell growth and pioneered the study of apoptosis (cell death). One paper on this subject, “Features of apoptotic cells measured by flow cytometry,” remains the most highly cited paper ever published in the journal Cytometry. Dr. Darzynkiewicz developed the TUNEL and FLICA assays, widely adopted methods for detecting DNA fragmentation and techniques for laser scanning cytometry, which combined flow and still image cytometry allowing for simultaneous study of living and dead cells.

These discoveries in basic science had immediate clinical relevance to the treatment of cancer. With a detailed understanding of the phases of cell growth, drugs could be developed to intervene and halt tumor growth during targeted phases of the cell cycle. His methods for studying cell apoptosis have also been applied to fertility medicine as the basis of the SCSA assay, a tool for detecting male infertility caused by alterations in chromatin structure in the sperm cell.

Zbigniew Darzynkiewicz, M.D., Ph.D. (1991) New York Medical College Archives

Dr. Darzynkiewicz's research was internationally recognized and earned him many honors, including the Dean’s Distinguished Research Award at NYMC in 2003, the first Fulwyler Award for Innovative Excellence at the International Society for Analytical Cytology (ISAC) XXIII International Congress in 2006, as well as the 2012 Distinguished Scientist of Westchester award by the New York Section of the American Chemical Society in 2012. He garnered international media attention for his contributions to a 2010 study that used laser scanning cytometry to show that smoke from cigarettes made without tobacco or nicotine causes as much DNA damage as tobacco products.

Dr. Darzynkiewicz was the author of 780 papers, 15 books and holder of eight U.S. patents. Over the course of his career, he delivered more than 380 invited lectures. Dr. Darzynkiewicz is remembered by his many collaborators and former students as a generous teacher and mentor whose interests ranged widely and who believed in the importance of passing scientific knowledge to new generations of researchers and clinicians. He passed away in 2021 leaving a legacy of permanent contributions to cell science as a researcher, teacher and mentor.

Pioneer of flow cytometry and founding director of the Brander Cancer Research Institute at New York Medical College

The Beth Israel Hospital House Staff, 1913

She followed her internship with a residency in pediatrics at the New York Home for Infants, where she studied the effect of childhood nutritional deficiencies. In 1918, Dr. Rabinoff was recruited by Hadassah founder Henrietta Szold to serve in the American Zionist Medical Unit in Palestine, where she was the only female physician. While there, she organized the region’s first pediatric clinic, where children of all backgrounds could receive effective medical care.

Upon returning to New York, Dr. Rabinoff joined the New York City Department of Health, where she continued to study childhood nutrition and promote its importance as a public health issue. In 1938, she became the public health officer responsible for East Harlem, and in 1939 she joined the faculty of New York Medical College. As a voluntary instructor, she taught public health courses while continuing to serve at the Department of Health, where her responsibilities eventually came to include a large portion of the Bronx in addition to Harlem. Dr. Rabinoff received her M.P.H. from Columbia University in 1944, and in 1951 she became a full professor at New York Medical College as chair of the Department of Preventive Medicine, Public Health and Industrial Hygiene, a predecessor of today’s Department of Family and Community Medicine. She led the department until her retirement in 1956 and passed away at Flower-Fifth Avenue Hospital the following year.

“Miss Rabinoff made application for an internship at Beth Israel Hospital several months ago. She was informed that women were not eligible for appointment.

Later the hospital management decided to admit her to the competitive examination. Thirty men competed with her in the examination, but she emerged with flying colors, making the highest average and winning the appointment.”

- Cincinnati Ohio Tribune, 1913

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December 11, 2021: Margaret Giannini, Champion of People With Disabilities, Dies at 100 - Margaret Giannini, M.D., F.A.A.P., professor of pediatrics from October 1948 to December 1982 April 28, 2021: Fears About New Rules on Masks Outdoors Sonia Hur, SOM Class of 2021 March 2, 2021: In Their Own Words: Why Experts Say Elementary Schools Should Open - Sheila Nolan, M.D., assistant professor of pediatrics

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December 26, 2021: 9 Ways To Kick Off A Conversation With Someone You Don’t Know - Abraham S. Bartell, M.D., M.B.A., clinical associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences October 28, 2021: NovaSignal’s AI-Guided Robotic Platform Aims To Change The Diagnosis Of Stroke - Chirag D. Gandhi, M.D., M.S., chair of the Department of Neurosurgery, professor of neurosurgery, neurology and radiology October 20, 2021: Your Guide To Getting Health Insurance Quotes - Adam E. Block, Ph.D., assistant professor of public health in the Division of Health Policy and Management March 2, 2021: NASA Names D.C. Headquarters After Mary Jackson, STEM Leader and NASA’s First Black Female Engineer - Jane Cooke Wright, M.D. ’45, served as associate dean at NYMC from 1967 to 1975 53

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November 28, 2021: School Closures Aren’t Just for Covid Anymore - Royal S. Copeland, M.D., (1868-1938) was dean of NYMC from 1908 to 1918

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October 4, 2021: At A Glance Who’s New - Tracey A. Milligan, M.D., M.S., FAAN, FANA, has been named chair of neurology at New York Medical College School of Medicine and director of neurology at Westchester Medical Center, Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital and MidHudson Regional Hospital July 15, 2021: Crain’s New York hosts inaugural Excellence in Diversity & Inclusion Awards - Mill Etienne, M.D.’02, M.P.H., FAAN, FAES, vice chancellor for diversity and inclusion, associate dean for student affairs and associate professor of neurology and medicine July 12, 2021: Notable in Health Care - Srihari S. Naidu, M.D., professor of medicine

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October 5, 2021: Are vaccine mandates un-American? Ask the father of our country - Edward C. Halperin, M.D., M.A., chancellor and chief executive officer May 10, 2021: Death by firing squad in South Carolina is the wrong answer to the wrong question - Edward C. Halperin, M.D., M.A., chancellor and chief executive officer March 7, 2021: What Dr. Seuss can still teach us - Edward C. Halperin, M.D., M.A., chancellor and chief executive officer

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February 28, 2021: Bucs’ Assistants Lori Locust, Maral Javadifar First Women Coaches to Win Super Bowl - Maral Javadifar, D.P.T. ’15

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August 18, 2021: The New United States Census and the Chant of White Supremacists - Edward C. Halperin, M.D., M.A., chancellor and chief executive officer July 13, 2021: Billionaire Space Flights and the ‘Malefactors of Great Wealth’ - Edward C. Halperin, M.D., M.A., chancellor and chief executive officer April 8, 2021: The Hippocratic Oath Stops at the Arkansas Border Edward C. Halperin, M.D., M.A., chancellor and chief executive officer January 29, 2021: There Is No Vaccine for Selfishness - Edward C. Halperin, M.D., M.A., chancellor and chief executive officer January 27, 2021: International Holocaust Remembrance Day Should Serve as Call to Action - Stacy Gallin, D.M.H., visiting assistant professor in the Biomedical Ethics and Humanities Program

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October 6, 2021: 16 Medical Schools That Trained Famous Doctors (slide 17) - Jane Cooke Wright, M.D. ’45, served as associate dean at NYMC from 1967 to 1975 September 20, 2021: AHA News: Clot-Removing Procedure Appears Safe for Pregnant Stroke Patients - Fawaz Al-Mufti, M.D., assistant professor of neurology, radiology and neurosurgery June 28, 2021: The Average Cost of Braces and How to Save - Howard A. Fine, D.M.D., clinical assistant professor of dental medicine and director of orthodontics, TCDM February 19, 2021: Health Highlights: Feb. 19, 2021: Pfizer to Begin Clinical Trial of COVID-19 Vaccine in Pregnant Women - Robert G. Lahita, M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicine January 7, 2021: What You Can Do with a Biochemistry Degree Kristina Harris Petersen, Ph.D., assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology and assistant dean, academic support programs

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Awards and Recognition Westchester and Fairfield Counties Doctors of Distinction Caring for All Awards Karen M. Murray, M.D. ’99, associate dean for SOM admissions and associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology Caring for All Awards Lauren S. Bader, M.D. ’12, G.M.E. ’15 Lifetime Achievement Award Elaine Healy, M.D., clinical assistant professor of medicine No Land Too Far Award Sudhir Vaidya, M.D., clinical associate professor of family and community medicine Promise for the Future Award Mathias E. Palmer, M.D. ’21 Crain’s New York: Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion Champion of Change Award & Healthcare Hero Award by MP360 Magazine Mill Etienne, M.D. ’02, M.P.H., FAAN, FAES, vice chancellor for diversity and inclusion, associate dean of student affairs and associate professor of neurology and of medicine

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