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For more than 160 years, NYAM has been a major thought leader in the area of urban health, emerging as a resource for regional, national, and international print and broadcast media outlets that cover critical issues related to aging, disease prevention and health promotion, and health disparities.
New York City is growing old. Not only is it growing old, it’s growing old fast. Faster than ever before. Sheila Roher, a Senior Policy Associate at The New York Academy of Medicine, drove that point home at the recent Bronx Forum on Senior Health Care.
Ruth Finkelstein, ScD, NYAM's Senior Vice President for Policy and Planning, has been selected as one of ten “Game Changers” by Metropolis Magazine for her leadership on the Age-friendly NYC initiative, an effort that focuses on creating environments, policies, and programs that will allow older adults in New York City and around the nation and world to live longer, healthier lives and stay fully engaged in their communities.
NYAM President Jo Ivey Boufford made recommendations on improving health of people before the state Department of Health's Public Health and Health Planning Council.
Reporters: to arrange interviews with NYAM medical and urban health experts, contact
Andrew J. Martin, Director of Communications
212-822-7285 / amartin@nyam.org
"Of Wards and War":
The Importance of Good and Bad Medical Care in the American Civil War
On February 8, 2012, Margaret Humphreys, the Josiah Charles Trent Professor in the History of Medicine at Duke University, will present a paper outlining the components of the best and worst of Civil War medicine, and argue that the conditions in southern hospitals were so far inferior to those of the north that it probably made a difference to the war effort.
Vimla Patel, Director of NYAM's Center for Cognitive Studies in Medicine and Public Health is part of IOM Committee report on Health IT and Patient Safety: Building Safer Systems for Better Care, a consensus report that outlines how health IT can help improve health care providers' performance, better communication between patients and providers, and enhance patient safety. Please click on link to read the full report.
