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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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Potential New Approach to Enhancing Stem-Cell Transplants

Thursday, August 08, 2024

Einstein Hosts NYS Health Commissioner McDonald for Announcement of $5 Million for Diversity Programs

Monday, July 22, 2024

Jessica Kahn, M.D., M.P.H., Named Senior Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Research at Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Monday, July 15, 2024

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NYC Medical School Offers Mentorship Program for Black and Latino Students

Elizabeth Lee-Rey, M.D., second-year medical student Yuliana Dominguez Paez, and students participating in Einstein's Summer Undergraduate Mentorship Program (SUMP) discuss how the pathway program provides opportunities to prepare them for a potential future career in healthcare. Dr. Lee-Rey is director of SUMP and a family medicine physician at Montefiore.

Breast Cancer Study Reveals a Paradox of Mastectomy

Julio Aguirre-Ghiso, Ph.D., says that following a unilateral mastectomy, the development of tumors in the remaining breast may prompt aggressive behavior in disseminated cancer cells from the initial tumor. Dr. Aguirre-Ghiso is the Rose C. Falkenstein Chair in Cancer Research, professor of cell biology, of medicine, and of oncology at Einstein, and director of the Cancer Dormancy Institute (CDI) at the Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Listeria Outbreak Tied to Sliced Deli Meat Hits NY Region, CDC Says

Claudia Gravekamp, Ph.D., says the recent outbreak of listeria from meat sold in several delis may have been caused by the food supplier rather than the individual stores. Dr. Gravekamp is associate professor of microbiology & immunology at Einstein and a member of the Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center.

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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.