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October 2003 News Archive

Friday, October 31, 2003

McCabe named president-elect of American Board of Emergency Medicine

John McCabe, M.D., professor of emergency medicine at SUNY Upstate Medical University, has been elected president elect of the American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM). The ABEM seeks to improve the quality of emergency medical care by maintaining... read more

Thursday, October 30, 2003

University Hospital’s Patricia Knox named to University HealthSystem Consortium steering committee

Patricia Lippincott Knox, a registered nurse and clinical coordinator for University Hospital’s Palliative Care Service, has been appointed to the steering committee to oversee University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC) first palliative care benchmarking... read more

Wednesday, October 29, 2003

Children with cancer and blood disorders create holiday greeting cards to benefit University Hospital

Holiday greeting cards created by Central New York children who have cancer or a blood disorder will be sold to benefit the Center for Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders at University Hospital. This is the eighth consecutive year that patients from... read more

Thursday, October 23, 2003

Bonnie St. Andrews, Ph.D., Distinguished Teaching Professor at SUNY Upstate, dies at 58

Bonnie A. St. Andrews, Ph.D., Distinguished Teaching Professor of Bioethics and Humanities at SUNY Upstate Medical University, died Oct. 21 at her in home Syracuse from a brain tumor. She was 58. St. Andrews was an accomplished poet whose works were... read more

Wednesday, October 22, 2003

Adventurer Will Cross to speak at Community Diabetes Forum Nov.5

Adventurer Will Cross, who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 9, will offer a patient's perspective and discuss his recent expeditions to both the North and South Poles at the Community Diabetes Forum Nov. 5 at the OnCenter, 800 South State St.... read more

Friday, October 17, 2003

Hugh Bonner, Ph.D., named to federal health care advisory panel

Hugh W. Bonner, Ph.D., dean of the College of Health Professions at SUNY Upstate Medical University, has been named to a federal panel that advises the U.S. secretary of health and human services on medical education and community-based health programs.... read more

Thursday, October 16, 2003

SUNY Upstate student receives Bristol-Myers Squibb Medical fellowship

Hasra K. Phillip, a third-year student in the College of Medicine at SUNY Upstate Medical University, is one of 35 students nationwide to receive a 2003 National Medical Fellowship from the Bristol-Myers Squibb Fellowship Program in Academic Medicine.... read more

Thursday, October 16, 2003

Sherard A. Tatum, M.D., receives award from American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Sherard A. Tatum, M.D., a professor in the Department of Otolaryngology & Communication Sciences at SUNY Upstate Medical University, has received the 2003 Community Service Award from the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery's... read more

Thursday, October 16, 2003

SUNY Upstate offers free lecture on breast cancer therapy Oct. 29

Barbara L. Smith, M.D., Ph.D., whose research focuses on genetic and non-genetic risk factors for breast cancer, will deliver SUNY Upstate Medical University's Carol Baldwin Breast Cancer Research Lecture Wednesday, Oct. 29, from 8 to 9 a.m. in 2231 Weiskotten... read more

Thursday, October 9, 2003

Sen. Clinton tours SUNY Upstate; offers support for children's hospital and emergency preparedness center

U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton offered her support for the Central New York Children's Hospital and the Center for Emergency Preparedness during a visit to SUNY Upstate Medical University Tuesday, Oct. 7. During her visit to campus Clinton received... read more

Thursday, October 9, 2003

SUNY Upstate opens state of the art anatomy lab

First-year medical students at SUNY Upstate Medical University will set foot into a newly renovated and redesigned gross anatomy lab in Weiskotten Hall when they begin their first human anatomy class Oct. 30. The $3.6 million upgrade, which took more... read more

Friday, October 3, 2003

Care for adolescents with disabilities is topic of SUNY Upstate lecture Oct. 22

Nienke P. Dosa, M.D., assistant professor of pediatrics in Center for Neurodevelopmental Pediatrics at SUNY Upstate Medical University, will present "Improving Care for Adolescents with Disabilities in Our Community" at a luncheon sponsored by Advocates... read more

Wednesday, October 1, 2003

Edgar Johnson appointed diversity recruiter for SUNY Upstate

Edgar Johnson has been appointed diversity recruiter in the Department of Human Resources at SUNY Upstate Medical University. In this position, Johnson will recruit diverse candidates for healthcare positions at University Hospital. Funding for Johnson’s... read more

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