1988 UR Medical School Class Play: MDL Club

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Dr. Robert D'Esposito (center) enjoying a collegial moment with colleagues Dr. Michael Ferragamo and Dr. Anthony Bruno. The Nassau County Medical Society will be honoring Dr. Robert F. D'Esposito for his service as president of the society. He will be the 2014 Honoree at the Society's Medallion Ball being held on April 6. He is a long time resident of Garden City and a former medical director of the Garden City School District.

Dr. D'Esposito's career in medicine began nearly forty years ago with an internship at Nassau Hospital, now known as Winthrop University Hospital. Robert (aka Bobby D) not only continued his practice at Winthrop but extended his experience expertise and caring to support his peers in the medical community and in the education of medical students and the local school community. His hospital appointments also include North Shore.

Dr. D'Esposito was born in Brooklyn New York and was taught by the Sisters of St. Joseph at Queen of All Saints. His family then moved to Plainedge in 1956, where as a teen he participated in football, wrestling and baseball.

Hofstra University provided the backdrop for achieving his pre-medical Bachelor of Arts in Biology Degree. He proudly earned his medical degree from The University of Padova, Italy in 1971. He became an attending physician in 1977 following residencies with the Departments of General Surgery and Urology at Winthrop and Bellevue Hospital, in NYC.

In addition he is a Clinical Associate Professor at Stony Brook Medical School, teaching third year medical students in their clinical rotation in Urology at Winthrop University Hospital.

Extensive medical community involvement is demonstrated by his past and present affiliations with a variety of organizations. This includes his prior service as Chairman of the Winthrop Laser Safety Committee as well as his service on the Surgical Review and Quality Assurance Committees. He continued to serve his peers as Vice President (1990-94) and President (1994-97) of the Medical Staff Organization.

Dr. D'Esposito is a Fellow of The American College Of Surgeons, The New York Academy of Medicine and The Nassau Academy of Medicine, where he sits on the Board as Secretary. He is the past President and past Governor of The American College of Surgeons where he has been active in the Brooklyn and Long Island Chapters. He serves as a member of the Board of Directors and past Chairman of Scientific and Continuing Education of the American College of Surgeons.

He is also a member of various societies including The American Fertility Society, The American Urology Association and The Society of Clinical Urologists. He serves as Chief Surgeon of the Fraternal Order of Police, New York Surgeons Lodge # 3.

Active in community service, Dr D'Esposito was Medical Director for the Garden City School District from 1977 through 2009. He has been active in lecturing, research studies and publishing.

In 2007, Winthrop awarded Dr. D'Esposito, The Medical Staff Lifetime Achievement Award. In October 2009, he was also honored by Hofstra University for his continued involvement with Hofstra University Alumni. He also received the Physicians Award for Healthcare Heroes in 2009.

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HSC School of Medicine honors project, alumni By Amy Cunningham Staff Writer Daily Toreador - Dept. of Student Media, Texas Tech University |

The Texas Tech Health Sciences Center will host an appreciation dinner and honor School of Medicine distinguished alumni, local physicians and others at 6:30 p.m. today at the Lubbock Memorial Center.

Additionally, medical students will recognize community participants in the Barber Shop Project, according to an HSC news release.

Students working on the project host health checks at barber shops and beauty salons, according to the release. The students raise awareness about body mass index and blood pleasure by providing information to patients.

Clinical faculty members and physicians from Lubbock will be honored for their support of medical education and health care. More than 600 community-based physicians work as part-time lecturers, according to the release, or provide opportunities in their private practices to students, residents and fellows.

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The Internet carried this week a riveting article titled Trapped Between CulturesNeither Filipino Nor American. The author is Dr. Eugenio Amparo, who has lived in the United States since 1974 when he started residency at the University of Texas Medical Branch.

Now Amparo is retired. I find time to contemplate [issues ranging from] quantum mechanics to the history of the bra, which has led him to an uncomfortable conclusion. Neither Filipino nor American, he is trapped between cultures.

A 2012 head count shows 14,785 Filipino physicians in the United Statesa distant second to Indians. And 2,952 Filipino nurses took US licensure exams from January to September 2013up by nearly 11 percent.

Nurses have a recent face. In his 2013 State of the Union Address, US President Barack Obama said: When Hurricane Sandy plunged New York University Langone Medical Center into darkness, nurse Menchu Sanchez from the Philippines didnt think of her own home Her mind was on the 20 newborns in her care. The rescue plan she organizedtaking babies down eight flights of stairskept them all safe.

As a child in Iloilo City, Amparo recalls dreaming of America: cars, supermarkets, snow. Now, I have a BMW and a Mercedes-Benz in a three-car garage; a refrigerator full of food; and obesity. Add loneliness. I miss the Philippines.

When he visits, I envy the close family and friendship ties. His first cousins are scattered in Metro Manila. Sundays, they lunch together in Quezon City. By contrast, I can count on the fingers of one hand the times I met, in the past 10 years, with my brother in Virginia and sister in Oregon.

Amparos daughter lives in San Franciscoa two-hour drive from his home. They meet once every two months. My son and grandchildren are a 20-minute drive away. Its a major feat to see them once a week.

Americans are too busy. The worlds greatest economic power also has the loneliest people with a very high prevalence of depression. I am not American enough to resign myself to loneliness, as a consequence of a rugged individualism

The solution? Retire in the Philippines? But it takes almost two hours to drive 13 kilometers from the University of the Philippines in Quezon City to the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) in Manila. You can barrel 104 kilometers from Sacramento to San Francisco in the same time. Im no longer Filipino enough to be patient with Manila traffic.

Dealing with the US Department of Motor Vehicles or Internal Revenue Service can be frustrating. But it is done without bribes. Our medical school alumni association donated a cargo container of supplies for [PGH]. It was confiscated by Customs and released only after politicians intervened.

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MACON Last year, Derick Spellman fractured his tibia while playing an annual high school alumni basketball game. This year his heart stopped.

He plans to sit out of the next alumni game.

Third time's the charm, right? Spellman said.

But luck was what Spellman had last month when he abruptly collapsed and was immediately surrounded by medical personnel.

Carol Dodson, chief nursing officer at St. Marys Hospital, was in the right place at the right time Saturday, March 22.

That afternoon her youngest son, Casey, had convinced her to come out to the Meridian High School alumni basketball tournament. Dodson is from Macon, and her children went to Meridian schools. She even worked as the high school cheerleading coach for some time.

Her youngest of three children, Casey, graduated several years ago and was part of the basketball team that won state in 2009. He convinced Dodson to come out for the alumni basketball tournament after missing the morning game.

She hadn't been back to the newly renovated high school since Casey had graduated and was sitting in the bleachers catching up with other parents.

All of sudden, my son called my name out, Dodson said. And my son doesn't call me by name.

One of the players was spread out on the gym floor.

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The man who opened the doors to Sam Rayburn High School a half-century ago has been selected for induction -- along with six alumni and two other former educators -- in the schools new Hall of Honor.

The late Carter O. Lomax, who served as Sam Rayburns principal from the schools opening in 1964 until his retirement in 1981, will be honored as a member of the Texans first class of inductees during a ceremony on April 26.

The ceremony will be the main feature of the schools 50th anniversary celebration that day. The public is invited to the 50th anniversary observance, which is scheduled from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Sam Rayburn alumni selected for induction are:

Dr. Mike McKinney, Class of 1969, the former chancellor of the Texas A&M University System;

Dave Freisleben, Class of 1971, who pitched seven years in the major leagues;

J. Michael Solar, Class of 1971, a prominent trial lawyer who practices in Houston;

David Brammer, Class of 1977, a world-traveling photographer;

Dr. John Kirkwood, Class of 1979, a family practice doctor in Pasadena and co-founder of Bayside Urgent Care;

And State Rep. Ana Hernandez, a member of the Texas House who has represented District 143 since 2005.

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*Editors note: Ron Sutherland sent this letter to the N.C. State Faculty Senate on April Fools Day.

Dear Members of the NCSU Faculty Senate,

I ran across this op-ed in The Daily Tar Heel today and thought it would be extremely relevant to some of your ongoing deliberations:

Hospital sale is for the students.

We can certainly see the perspective of those who dont want the leaders of UNC-Chapel Hill to sell our iconic hospital. Yes, it has been a part of the University for six decades, longer than most of us can remember. And yes, the staff and alumni of the Medical School have many fond memories from the years of hard work theyve spent tending patients there and making important discoveries. But times are tough, and we cant afford to be sentimental about this sort of thing, especially now that our appropriations keep getting cut by the General Assembly in Raleigh.

Weve done the numbers, and youll just have to trust us that if we sell the hospital to a private buyer, and then invest the proceeds into a balanced Wall Street portfolio of stocks and bonds, the annual yield for the Medical School will be three times as high, and much more reliable than what we were getting by owning the healthcare facility ourselves. The Medical School has ambitious plans for becoming a world leader in the burgeoning field of health insurance database ethics management, and we cant realize those plans (including a brand new building for the HIDEM program) unless we are putting all of the assets we have available to their highest and best use.

And before you start waxing romantically about the heyday of medical training, lets all take a moment to remember the reason why Dean Walter Berryhill founded the hospital in the first place: to make money for the Medical School. We live in a modern world now, much different from when Berryhill was around, and we think he would fully support our move to liquidate the hospital assets and invest them somewhere where they will safely earn higher returns.

It is not like the hospital was getting that much use anyway. Sure, medical students still undergo some training there, but in recent years weve strategically moved most of their curriculum to the UNC Urgent Care Center on Farrington Road. We just dont need a dinosaur facility like the hospital anymoreits too big and cumbersome, and it takes too much of our administrative capacity to manage it. The world of healthcare has moved on, and training doctors is only a small part of what UNCs Medical School does now in 2014. There are some minor concerns about the impact of the sale on public health in North Carolina, but as the Chancellor sagely remarked, Were not the Department of Healthcare, were a University.

Right now the financial integrity of our school is far too dependent on the whims of healthcare demand. And with the recession still lingering on, demand for the most profitable kinds of healthcare is at a low point we havent seen in years. Some have tried to argue that the same lack of demand is going to reduce the amount of money well get for selling the hospital, but they are forgetting one thing: opportunity costs. How long would they have us wait to sell the hospital, and how many years of crucial scholarships for HIDEM students would that cost us? And lets not forget that Chapel Hill seems to be a magnet for tornadoes, rendering the entire hospital vulnerable to being destroyed with barely a moments notice. Compare that to Wall Street, which just isnt subject to those kinds of random fluctuations.

Youre rightwe did promise everyone last year that the facility would remain a working hospital under the new ownership, but it turns out that permanent restrictions of that sort just arent typically part of a hospital sale agreement. We take the buyer at his word that the legacy of the hospital will be preserved, perhaps through a nice little stone memorial sheltered from all of the new construction that will soon be underway.

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TULSA, Oklahoma -

Oklahoma State University's College of Osteopathic Medicine has been ranked among the Top 80 medical schools in the nation for primary care training.

U.S. News & World Report recently ranked the Tulsa school.

"OSU Center for Health Sciences' mission is to train the next generation of primary care physicians to serve the citizens of our state," said Dr. Kayse Shrum, OSU Center for Health Sciences president and dean of the College of Osteopathic Medicine.

"Our students really embrace that mission and devotion to patient care through medical school and carry it forward with their careers by choosing specialties in primary care."

The rankings are based on medical college admission test scores, grades, acceptance rate, student-to-faculty ratio and proportion of graduates who enter primary care specialties, among other factors.

The college says nearly 54 percent of its alumni are practicing in a primary care field.

"Increasing the number of primary care physicians in Oklahoma is of critical importance as we address the challenges associated with the physician shortage in our state," said Shrum.

"With an aging physician population, we know it is essential to recruit new physicians who want to stay in Oklahoma and practice in primary care areas."

The most popular residency training programs for graduates include family practice, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology and pediatric

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Primary care and research programs at the John A. Burns School of Medicine have risen in ranks among the best medical schools in the nation.

These rankings indicate that JABSOM has gained additional national recognition amongst U.S. medical schools, JABSOM Dean Dr. Jerris Hedges said.

According to the 2015 U.S. News & World Report, JABSOMs primary care program propelled nine places from 66 in 2014 to 57 in 2015, while the schools research program earned an improvement of four spots, moving up from 82 to 78.

I believe our primary care rankings continue to rise in conjunction with our student scores rising on what is called the U.S. Medical Licensing Exam, Step one, said Tina Shelton, communications and government affairs director at JABSOM.

Second-year medical students across the country must pass the USMLE Step One to continue their medical education for a third year.

In the last 10 years in a row, our second-year medical students have scored above the national average in this exam, Shelton said. That is a singular achievement as far as we know and speaks incredibly well of the faculty at our school and the problem-based learning curriculum adopted at JABSOM in the late 1980s.

According to Shelton, JABSOM has focused its research in recent years on addressing health disparities, which affect groups such as Native Hawaiians, Asian Americans and low-income citizens.

I am grateful for the excellent work that a stellar group of leaders at JABSOM has done during the last academic year, Hedges said. They, in turn, have relied on many other hard-working and committed individuals who support the vision of our school, to 'Attain Lasting Optimal Health for All.'

Among medical schools at land grant universities without a university hospital, JABSOM has led the nation in external funding, which include gifts and faculty practice income. In fiscal year 2013, external funding for JABSOM exceeded $57 million.

It has been a great privilege to complete my medical school training at JABSOM, said fourth-year medical student Kristen Teranishi. The students and faculty are top-notch both academically and as people.

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When the global financial crisis hit in 2008, over 2.6 million people in the U.S. lost their jobs. No industries were spared not even the legal profession, which had historically been among the most secure.

Wide-eyed college graduates used to flock to law school because it was the golden ticket to a stable and financially secure career. But the legal environment has changed drastically since that crucial year. As the demand for law-related jobs has shrunk, law school graduates have begun competing more fiercely than ever before, according to law school deans across the country.

Before 2008, we saw a lot of people go to law school because it was the best option, said Robert Rasmussen, dean at the University of Southern California Law School. Now the students that Im seeing are making a conscious decision that they really want to be lawyers.

In the interest of making their graduates more competitive candidates for jobs, law schools have amped up their number of practically-oriented programs, instituting more business-related courses, law clinics and career center initiatives. But a debate has emerged among scholars and legal professionals: Should law schools focus on theoretical teaching, or do they have a duty to prepare students for their future careers?

Yale Law School tends to skirt the question altogether. Over 25 faculty, students and administrators claimed that Yale Law School does not have to make any compromises between the two paths. Not only is it an institution that has topped law school rankings for years it is also just different.

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Faculty and administrators interviewed said Yale Law School has a stable identity, making it relatively exempt from the current debate on liberal versus practical law education. The school consistently gets a sizable slice of the job market pie but it also remains faithful to the same ideals and principles it held at the time of its 1843 founding.

We have not felt that pinch because we are still in the top of the top tier, and we have never been a law school that has ever relied exclusively on the private sector, said Yale Law School Dean of Admissions Asha Rangappa.

Deputy Dean for Experiential Education Michael Wishnie said the school is more committed to theory and experiential education, in the form of clinics, than any other law school in the country.

But just because the school enters the discussion on legal education from a more privileged standpoint does not make it immune altogether.

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