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5-Minute Test Leads to Better Care for People with Dementia in the Primary Care Setting

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Einstein's Class of 2024 Celebrates Match Day

Montefiore's Albert Einstein College of Medicine Announces Free Tuition in Perpetuity for All Medical School Students

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Einstein Announces Free Tuition in Perpetuity for All Medical School Students

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Juan Pablo Maianti, Ph.D., Awarded Pershing Square Sohn Prize for Cancer Research

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Making Long-Term Memories Requires Nerve-Cell Damage

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Felise Milan, M.D., Named Inaugural Assistant Dean for Learner Assessment and Clinical Competencies

Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Albert Einstein College of Medicine Names Marla Keller, M.D., Executive Dean

Monday, June 03, 2024

Einstein Celebrates Its 66th Commencement

Monday, May 20, 2024

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An Immune Mechanism Maintains Memory

Jelena Radulovic, M.D., Ph.D., discusses her study that identified an immune process in hippocampal neurons in mice that could help explain how memories are maintained. Dr. Radulovic is professor in the Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, and the Sylvia and Robert S. Olnick Chair in Neuroscience at Einstein, and director of the Psychiatry Research Institute at Montefiore Einstein.

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Quick Test Helps Detect Dementia

Joe Verghese, M.B.B.S., M.S., explains his study that found a five-minute cognitive assessment paired with prompts built into the electronic medical record system helped improve dementia-related care for patients. Dr. Verghese is professor and director of cognitive and motor aging in the Saul R. Korey Department of Neurology, director of the Jack and Pearl Resnick Gerontology Center at Einstein, and director of the Montefiore Einstein Center for the Aging Brain.

Additional coverage includes NIH Research Matters, Women's Health and Yahoo!News

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FDA Advisers Vote Against First MDMA Therapy to Treat PTSD

Jonathan Alpert, M.D., Ph.D., comments on an FDA committee's vote against using MDMA, commonly known as ecstasy, to treat PTSD. Dr. Alpert is the Dorothy and Marty Silverman Chair in Psychiatry at Einstein and is chair and professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Einstein and 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.