MEDICAL ALUMNI WEEKEND APRIL 12, 2008

A note from Julie S. Mitnick '72, '66A, President of the NYU School of Medicine Alumni Association and Shari I. Lusskin '86, Chair of the 2008 Medical Alumni Reunion.

Greetings to the entire alumni family! This year´s Medical Alumni Reunion on Saturday, April 12th will have a new format. We´ll begin with a CME program, which will include presentations by this year´s recipients of the Solomon A. Berson Medical Alumni Achievement Awards. Joel D. Oppenheim, Ph.D., Senior Associate Dean for Biomedical Sciences will start off the morning as Moderator and we´ll hear from Daniel B. Rifkin, Ph.D., Professor of Cell Biology and Charles Aden Poindexter Professor of Medicine on "Basic Research and Translation to the Clinic: Marfan Syndrome as a Potential Success Story.”

This will be followed by a discussion of the “Status of Gene Therapy at NYU Medical Center” by Daniel Meruelo, Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Director of Gene Therapy. After sitting down with our classmates for a celebratory luncheon, we´ll have an opportunity to check out the alumni art show, attend the Alumni Association Business Meeting, and take a tour of our campus led by current medical students. The Alumni Reunion Ball, later that evening, should be great fun and is taking place at the beautiful Union League Club.

The Julia Zelmanovich Young Alumni Award will be presented to Lisa Marie Campanella ´00 . Dr. Campanella is a physician in the Emergency Department of St. Joseph´s-Wayne Hospital in New Jersey. As a senior medical student her excellence was recognized with an award from the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM). She won scholarship and recognition awards in three consecutive years from the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), including the 2004 New Jersey ACEP Resident of the Year Award. She is the first author of three peer-reviewed articles and one web-based tutorial, all of which stem from her outstanding work in clinical anatomy. During medical school, residency, and currently as a practicing physician she has served as a Clinical Instructor for NYUs anatomy classes. In 2004, she took her skills and talents internationally, as a visiting clinical anatomy instructor at the medical university in Bologna, Italy. She is an adjunct professor at Seton Hall University in the graduate medical education department, and has been an expert advisor and guest lecturer at other institutions and hospitals, including Cornell University in New York and Morristown Memorial Hospital in New Jersey.

2008 Medical Alumni Weekend