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Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center Awarded Comprehensive Designation from the National Cancer Institute

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World-Renowned Scientist and Researcher Yaron Tomer, MD, Named the Marilyn and Stanley M. Katz Dean

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New Test Shows Promise for Detecting Hard-to-Find Cervical Cancers

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Discovery of Chikungunya Virus’s “Invisibility Shield” May Lead to Vaccines or Treatments

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Jennifer Garner Appointed Senior Associate Dean for Operations and Finance at Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Wednesday, September 20, 2023

Einstein Launches Comprehensive Career Development Program for Postdoctoral and Clinical Fellows and Early-Career Faculty

Monday, September 18, 2023

Einstein Pathway Program Receives National Diversity STEM Award

Monday, August 21, 2023

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Sofiya Milman, M.D., M.S., describes the SuperAgers Family Study, which seeks to discover drivers of healthy longevity in people over the age of 95. Dr. Milman is associate professor of medicine and of genetics and director of Human Longevity Studies at Einstein’s Institute for Aging Research and an endocrinologist at Montefiore.

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Covid-19 Linked with Higher Risk of High Blood Pressure, Study Finds

Tim Duong, Ph.D., explains his study that found more than 1 in 5 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 developed high blood pressure—twice the number of those hospitalized with influenza.

Dr. Duong is vice chair for radiology research at Einstein and Montefiore and professor of radiology, of biochemistry, and in the Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience at Einstein.

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A Quest for Social Justice in Science and Healthcare

Lynne Holden, M.D., discusses Einstein’s longstanding commitment to diversity and inclusion and her own background mentoring students in medicine. Dr. Holden is professor of emergency medicine and senior associate dean for diversity and inclusion at Einstein and an emergency medicine physician at Montefiore.

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When a Drug Becomes a Child’s Last Hope

Einstein scientist Vern Schramm, Ph.D., never imagined that his basic research into enzymes would intersect with a 2-year-old girl dying from an incurable form of blood cancer. He and that girl (Katie Lambertson, now a teenager) and her parents share their stories.

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Albert Einstein College of Medicine, a part of Montefiore, is a premier, research-intensive medical school dedicated to innovative biomedical investigation and to the development of ethical and compassionate physicians and scientists. Inspired by the words of our namesake, we have from our inception welcomed students, faculty and staff from diverse backgrounds who strive to enhance human health in the community and beyond. This is an attribute in which Albert Einstein took great pride when consenting to the use of his name in conjunction with the medical school.

Einstein’s first medical school class

1955

Two years after scientist and humanitarian Albert Einstein agrees to lend his name to a new medical school, the College of Medicine welcomes its first class of students (pictured here on graduation day, 1959).

Einstein affiliates with Montefiore

1963

Einstein affiliates with Montefiore. Seated, from left: Jacob W. Schwab, president, Montefiore Hospital; Samuel Belkin, Ph.D., president, Yeshiva University. Standing, from left: Marcus D. Kogel, M.D., dean, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Martin Cherkasky, M.D., director, Montefiore.

Montefiore assumes operation Weiler Hospital

1969

Montefiore assumes operational responsibility for Einstein’s Jack D. Weiler Hospital.

Departments of medicine merge

1980

The Einstein and Montefiore departments of medicine merge, combining the strengths of both campuses. Louis Sherwood, M.D., becomes the first unified chair of medicine.

Montefiore employs joint faculty

1990

Montefiore employs joint Einstein-Montefiore faculty.

Reaffirming the partnership

2009

Dean Allen M. Spiegel, M.D., and Steven M. Safyer, M.D., president and CEO of Montefiore, sign a renewal agreement reaffirming the partnership between Einstein and Montefiore. The two institutions agree that Einstein will administer research grants awarded to Montefiore.

Einstein and Montefiore jointly recruit faculty

2012-2014

Continuing the effort begun in 1977 to develop unified departments, each headed by a single chair, Einstein and Montefiore jointly recruit Judy L. Aschner, M.D. (pediatrics), pictured at right; Mark P. Schoenberg, M.D. (urology); Matthew N. Bartels, M.D. (physical medicine and rehabilitation); and Sharmila K. Makhija, M.D. (obstetrics & gynecology and women’s health).

Yeshiva University-Montefiore agreement finalized

2015

The YU-Montefiore agreement is finalized. Montefiore has operational and financial responsibility for Einstein, and Einstein becomes its own legal entity. Transfer to Montefiore of Einstein clinical programs (e.g., the Division of Substance Abuse, the Children’s Evaluation and Rehabilitation Center) is complete.