Latest New York University School of Medicine Stories
Gastroenterologist, Roger S. Klein, M.D., FACP, has joined Summit Medical Group, New Jersey's largest private multispecialty medical practice. Berkeley Heights, NJ (PRWEB) May 13, 2013 Roger S. Klein, M.D., FACP, has joined Summit Medical Group’s gastroenterology department. Dr. Klein has expertise in inflammatory bowel disease, diseases of the liver, colon cancer screening, gastroesophageal reflux disease, and gastrointestinal bleeding. He practices with his colleagues, Drs....
BRONX, N.Y., April 11, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University will join the New York Genome Center (NYGC) as its twelfth Institutional Founding Member (IFM). A collaboration among leading academic medical centers, research universities and commercial organizations, NYGC aims to transform medical research and clinical care by creating one of the largest genomics research facilities in North America. (Logo:...
A Yardley, PA Board Certified physician specializing in Plastic Surgery, Dr. Ernest Cimino, is a Castle Connolly Top Doctor for 2013. YARDLEY, Pa., March 29, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., America's trusted source for identifying Top Doctors, has selected Yardley's Plastic Surgery specialist Dr. Ernest Cimino for inclusion in its highly selective list of Regional Top Doctors this year. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130329/DC85804)...
MANHASSET, N.Y., Feb. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research today announced that New York University (NYU) immunology researcher Dan R. Littman, MD, PhD, will be the recipient of the first annual Ross Prize in Molecular Medicine, issued via the Feinstein Institute's peer-reviewed, open-access journal, Molecular Medicine. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130212/DC58967) Dr. Littman is the Helen L. and Martin S. Kimmel Professor...
NEW YORK, Jan. 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- NYU Langone Medical Center is pleased to announce that it resumed additional services effective today, including all pediatric services and labor and delivery. The Emergency Department at NYU Langone remains temporarily closed due to damage sustained from Hurricane Sandy and the medical center will not be accepting EMS/911 ambulances at this time. In recognizing the community's need for urgent health services, NYU Langone has worked with...
NEW YORK, Dec. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- NYU Langone Medical Center announced that, effective today, inpatient services at Tisch Hospital and its Schwartz Health Care Center resumed for multiple programs and specialty services. In addition, by working with the New York State Department of Health, the Medical Center plans a return of nearly all services available on the main campus before Hurricane Sandy by the end of January. "We have overcome many challenges over the last two months,...
Largest Capital Gift of the University's $3.5 billion Making History Fundraising Campaign to Date PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The University of Pennsylvania has received an undisclosed gift from father and son philanthropists Joel and William Smilow to support Penn Medicine's translational research activities, naming the Smilow Center for Translational Research in the Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. The gift...
Neurologist Garth Turner, M.D., has recently joined Summit Medical Group, Berkeley Heights, NJ (PRWEB) August 23, 2012 Neurologist Garth Turner, M.D., has recently joined Summit Medical Group, New Jersey's largest private multispecialty physician practice. Dr. Turner's expertise includes general neurologic disorders such as headache (migraine), stroke, vertigo, dementia, multiple sclerosis, and movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease. He also diagnoses and manages...
PHILADELPHIA, June 14, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Frances E. Jensen, MD, has been named Chair of the Department of Neurology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She comes to Penn Medicine from Boston, where she is currently Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and a senior neurologist at both Brigham and Women's Hospital and Children's Hospital, Boston. Starting August 13, Jensen will become the 11th chair to lead Penn's Department of...
Researchers at NYU School of Medicine have, for the first time, identified a single gene that simultaneously controls inflammation, accelerated aging and cancer. "This was certainly an unexpected finding," said principal investigator Robert J. Schneider, PhD, the Albert Sabin Professor of Molecular Pathogenesis, associate director for translational research and co-director of the Breast Cancer Program at NYU Langone Medical Center. "It is rather uncommon for one gene to have two very...
