Town Hall Meeting
College Events
All students, faculty, and employees are welcome to join for a State of the College update and a Q&A session:
• State of the Campus
• Status updates: key searches—director of human resources, chair of physical therapy, SHSP Dean, SOM clinical chairs
• PT accreditation: actions and pending items
• Status of new academic affiliations
• Accreditation updates: actions and pending items.
Campus Location: Basic Sciences Building (BSB). Room: Terence Cardinal Cooke Auditorium. Department/Division: Office of the Chancellor. Type of Event: Other. Audience: Alumni. Faculty. Staff. Students. Contact Name: Ashley McCarrick. Contact Phone: (914) 594-4991. Contact Email: amccarri@nymc.edu.
Thursday, April 16, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM.
Personal Histories of Encountering the AIDS Crisis in the 1980s and a Screening and Discussion of the Documentary Film "Cured" About Removing Homosexuality from the DSM in the 1970s
College Events
Please join us for a panel discusssion recalling personal histories of encountering the AIDS Crisis in the 1980's as well as a screening and discussion of the documentary film "Cured" about removing homosexuality from the DSM in the 1970's.
Panel Discussion Edward C. Halperin, M.D. M.A.
Chancellor and Chief Executive Officer, NYMC; Provost for Biomedical Affairs, TU
Bijan Safai, M.D. D.Sc.
Professor and Chair of the Department of Dermatology
Gregory Almond, M.D. M.P.H. ’00, M.S. ’00
Vice Chancellor for External Academic Relations, NYMC, School of Medicine
Program Highlights Panel Discussion: “When I was a young doctor—encountering AIDS in the early years” , Special Presentation: Dr. Halperin on creating a landmark 1997 issue of the North Carolina Medical Journal focused on gay and lesbian medicine. , Film Screening: Cured (2020), a documentary about the campaign that led to homosexuality being removed from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in 1973.
Campus Location: 19 Skyline Drive. Room: Skyline Auditorium. Department/Division: Office of the Chancellor. Type of Event: Other. Audience: Alumni. Faculty. Staff. Students. Contact Name: Ashley McCarrick. Contact Phone: (914) 594-4991. Contact Email: nymc-rsvp@nymc.edu.
Thursday, April 16, 2026, 4:20 PM – 7:50 PM.
Field Trip to the Yale University SOM Library - The Harvey Cushing Center
College Events
The Yale University School of Medicine library describes the Harvey Cushing Brain Tumor registry as an "archival collection of over 2,200 case studies, which includes human whole brain specimens, tumor specimens, microscopic slides, notes, journal excerpts, and over 15,000 photographic negatives dating from the late 1800s to 1936...The collection resides in the lower level of the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library. The spaice is designed to give visitors a unique experience showing Cushing as a caring surgeon, author, collector and bibliophile. Each specimen has been carefully examined, cleaned, and re-housed in the origina one-gallon jars..."
On this trip, you learn about the life and work of Harvey Cushing and visit the collection.
Optional: After visiting the Center, please join Edward C. Halperin, M.D. M.A. chancellor and cheif executive officer, and professor of radiation oncology, pediatrics and history, NYMCl and Yale School of Medicine Class of 1979, on a brief walking tour of the…
Campus Location: Off Campus. Off Campus Location: Yale University School of Medicine Library - The Harvey Cushing Center. Department/Division: Office of the Chancellor. Type of Event: CME. Academic. Audience: Alumni. Faculty. Students. Staff. Contact Name: Ashley McCarrick. Contact Phone: 914-594-4991. Contact Email: nymc-rsvp@nymc.edu. Cost: $10 per ticket $20 for tickets + CME.
Sunday, April 19, 2026, 1:30 PM – 5:30 PM.