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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.
How do we combat the glaring health-care inequalities impacting the Latino community? NYAM Fellow Elena Rios, who heads the National Hispanic Medical Association, says it starts with improved representation in leadership positions and a commitment to delivering culturally competent care.
The New York Academy of Medicine recently conducted a survey of 17 thought leaders in primary care and population health. In the fourth of five blog posts, we share a synthesis of what those leaders had to say.
The following is a segment of the Stoler Report on CUNY TV, New York's only television broadcast featuring real estate and business leaders. The segment, "Healthcare Executives Outlook for 2013," features NYAM Trustees Steven Safyer, M.D. President & CEO, Montefiore Medical Center and Michael Dowling, President & CEO, North Shore-LIJ Health System, Inc.
Reporters: to arrange interviews with NYAM medical and urban health experts, contact
Andrew J. Martin, Director of Communications
212-822-7285 / amartin@nyam.org
The 2012-2013 Duncan Clark Lecture - The Affordable Care Act: An Insider’s View
Featured Speaker: Sherry Glied, PhD, former Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
November 19, 2012 - The NYAM Section on Health Care Delivery welcomes Sherry Glied, PhD, former Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, who will deliver the 2012-2013 Duncan Clark Lecture on "The Affordable Care Act: An Insider's View."
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The New York Academy of Medicine with support from the New York State Heath Foundation released a new report, Federal Health Care Reform in New York State: A Population Health Perspective.
This report identifies opportunities that build on both the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act (ACA) and New York’s ongoing efforts toward improving the health of its 19 million residents.
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