•  Billion Donation Will Provide Free Tuition at a Bronx Medical School
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    $1 Billion Donation Will Provide Free Tuition at a Bronx Medical School

    The 93-year-old widow of a Wall Street financier has donated $1 billion to a Bronx medical school, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, with instructions that the gift be used to cover tuition for all students going forward. The donor, Ruth Gottesman, is a former professor at Einstein, where she studied learning disabilities, developed a screening test and ran literacy programs. It is one of the largest charitable donations to an educational institution in the United States and most likely the largest to a medical school. The fortune came from her late husband, David Gottesman, known as Sandy, who was a protégé of Warren Buffett and had made an early…

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  • Mercer School of Medicine hosts SNMA Region IV conference
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    Mercer School of Medicine hosts SNMA Region IV conference

    More than 120 medical and premedical students from across the Southeastern U.S. and Caribbean attended the Student National Medical Association Region IV Medical Education Conference at Mercer University School of Medicine in Macon on Feb 3. Photo by Richard Marcum Mercer University School of Medicine hosted the Student National Medical Association Region IV Medical Education Conference at the Macon campus Feb. 2-3. The Student National Medical Association, or SNMA, is a student organization committed to supporting current and future underrepresented minority medical students, addressing the needs of underserved communities, and increasing the number of clinically excellent, culturally competent and socially conscious physicians. The conference offered medical and premedical students the…

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  • UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health Dean Nancy Messonnier elected to National Academy of Medicine
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    UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health Dean Nancy Messonnier elected to National Academy of Medicine

    Dr. Nancy Messonnier, dean and Bryson Distinguished Professor in Public Health at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine. This election is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine. The academy recognizes individuals who have demonstrated outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service throughout their careers. New members are elected by current members through a process that recognizes major contributions to the advancement of the medical sciences, health care and public health. Dean Nancy Messonnier Messonnier was selected for NAM membership in 2021 and has been working with the group for about a year.…

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  • Stephanie Eick is awarded the JPB Environmental Health Fellowship | Rollins School of Public Health | Emory University
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    Stephanie Eick is awarded the JPB Environmental Health Fellowship | Rollins School of Public Health | Emory University

    Stephanie Eick, PhD, MPH, assistant professor in the Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health at the Rollins School of Public Health, was recently selected for the prestigious JPB Environmental Health Fellowship Program, facilitated by Harvard University. Eick is one of 14 early-career researchers to receive the fellowship nationwide. Her fellowship period runs October 1, 2022- February 28, 2026. The fellowship promotes cross-disciplinary collaborations and encourages fellows to work together and be open to multiple perspective to find solutions to health problems. It is designed as a career development award for early career faculty who want to research more in the public health field. The program trains and offers mentorship from recognized…

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  • .3 million NIH Superfund award to address environmental health issues caused by VOCs – School of Medicine News
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    $11.3 million NIH Superfund award to address environmental health issues caused by VOCs – School of Medicine News

    Wayne State to lead multidisciplinary, multiorganization team Wayne State University has received a five-year, approximately $11.3 million award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences of the National Institutes of Health to create a new Superfund Research Program, the Center for Leadership in Environmental Awareness and Research, or CLEAR. The center will be dedicated to understanding and mitigating adverse birth outcomes and serious developmental health problems that have been associated with urban environmental exposure to volatile organic chemicals, a special class of pollutant found in the subsurface of post-industrial cities like Detroit. Volatile organic chemicals, or VOCs, are a group of aromatic or chlorinated organic compounds that transition to…

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  • Long School of Medicine celebrates Women in Medicine Month
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    Long School of Medicine celebrates Women in Medicine Month

    Posted on September 2, 2022 at 12:42 pm. Shared by Jessica Binkley September is Women in Medicine Month (WIMM), an annual celebration recognized by the American Medical Association highlighting the contributions of women physicians since 1990. The Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine is home to countless outstanding women in medicine and science, including  physicians, teachers, researchers, mentors and more. The Office for Inclusion and Diversity has acknowledged WIMM since 2018 by recognizing these outstanding faculty and students within the Long School of Medicine, based on nominations submitted by faculty, trainees and students. This year, the school is honoring 21 women who are changing the face of…

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  • Celebrating the growth of the School of Osteopathic Medicine | Rowan Today
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    Celebrating the growth of the School of Osteopathic Medicine | Rowan Today

    County, health care and Rowan University officials gathered today, July 21, to celebrate the historic opening of the Sewell campus of the Virtua Health College of Health Medicine and Health Sciences of Rowan University’s School of Osteopathic Medicine (SOM). Following remarks to an assembled crowd of students, staff, faculty and special guests, the officials welcomed the first class of 72 medical students to the new campus with a traditional ribbon cutting ceremony. Located on the campus of Rowan College of South Jersey (RCSJ), the new Sewell campus represents SOM’s largest expansion since the medical school opened 45 years ago. In his opening remarks, Dr. Thomas Cavalieri, Dean, School of Osteopathic…

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  • Professor and Department Chair of Environmental Health Sciences job with School of Public Health and Health Sciences
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    Professor and Department Chair of Environmental Health Sciences job with School of Public Health and Health Sciences

    The School of Public Health and Health Sciences (www.umass.edu/sphhs/) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst seeks a dynamic senior scholar to lead its Department of Environmental Health Sciences and develop its future planning and direction. The duties of the chair include developing and implementing academic and scholarly activities for the department, planning finances and budgets, and supervising faculty, staff, and students in the department. In dialogue with colleagues and stakeholders across the university, the chair will implement the department’s strategic vision. The chair will promote excellence in the department’s undergraduate and graduate programs. The chair’s responsibilities are classified as professional duties requiring leadership and mentoring of faculty, administrative expertise to…

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