New York Medical College

April 2022

Touro becomes a university in New York

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In February, Touro College – the largest Jewish-sponsored educational institution in the United States – kicked off its yearlong 50th anniversary celebration with a special gift: The school was granted university status by the New York State Board of Regents. Overseeing this transformation at a time when geopolitics (Touro has schools in Moscow and Jerusalem) has dovetailed with heath care is Alan Kadish, M.D. – president of the Touro College and University System, a man whose entrepreneurial skills have been as crucial to his personal and professional success as his medical gifts and Jewish faith.

April 2022, HEALTH & FITNESS

Medical ethics, then and now

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The Nuremberg Doctors’ Trial and the ethical medical guidelines that came out of it have taken on new urgency in the age of Covid and the Ukrainian War, says Boston University health law professor George J. Annas, who will speak at the virtual April 28 Yom Hashoah Symposium by New York Medical College in Valhalla.

February 2020, HEALTH & FITNESS

A doc who’s all heart

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“When we used to hire in our practice, where they went to school and did their training was at the bottom of the list,” says Jeffrey Green, founder of The Heart Center in Stamford. “We would ask, ‘Is this the kind of person I would trust my patients with?’”