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Canadian Students Complete Their Clinical Studies
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Six Canadian senior podiatric medical students from the Université du Québec à Trois-Riviéres recently completed a 15-week clinical rotation at the New York College of Podiatric Medicine as well as at Metropolitan Hospital, with which NYCPM is affiliated. They spend five weeks each in Orthopedics/Pediatrics, Surgery and Medicine.
In photo above the students are, from left to right, back row: Justin Piette, Marie-Helene Deschenes, Marie-Noell Tardif, Simon Lagarde. Front row, left to right: Marie-Michele Pelletier, Marie-Phillippe Mercier.
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Naeemah Ruffin (2016) Co-Wrote Chapter in Forthcoming Book
DPM/MPH Candidate Naeemah Ruffin (2016), below left,
has co-written a chapter of a book, Environmental Health Disparities: Costs and Benefits of Breaking the Cycle, Editors: I. L. Rubin, M.D. (Research Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Morehouse School of Medicine
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Co-Director of the Southeast Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit at ... Read more
Liu Wins Zelda Walling Vicha Scholarship
Gaston Liu (2016),
above right, won one of two 2015 Zelda Walling Vicha Scholarships, which are awarded by the ASPMA (American Society of Podiatric Medical Assistants) annually. His winning essay appears in the
4th Quarter 2015 ASPMA Journal. The scholarships are awarded to third-year podiatry students to help with their residency expenses.
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Get to Know ...
NYCPM Faculty
Robert A. Eckles, DPM, MPH
University of Pittsburgh, 1977 (MPH)
California College of Podiatric Medicine, 1983 (DPM)
Dean, Clinical and Graduate Medical Education
Associate Professor, Department of Orthopedic Sciences
While many NYCPM faculty studied at the College and may have been College residents before teaching here,
Robert A. Eckles, DPM, MPH, followed a long, winding, international path to the school. After he earned his MPH degree at the University of Pittsburgh in 1977, Robert A. Eckles, MPH, became a patient at the podiatry hospital of Pittsburgh. He was
struck by how well he was cared for there, and how passionate and open the residents were about what they were doing. Two years later, Dr. Eckles
began to study podiatry himself at the ... Read more
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Caprios Donate to Scholarship Fund
Trustee Gabriel Caprio, MBA, LHD, Vice Chairman of the NYCPM Board, and his wife Jerilyn, have made a generous donation to their scholarship fund, the Gabriel and Jerilyn Caprio Scholarship Fund.
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High APMLE Part III Pass Rate
Michael J. Trepal, DPM, VP of Academic Affairs and Dean, announced that of the 32 NYCPM graduates (mostly from the classes of 2014 and 2015) who took the APMLE Part III exam in early December, 31 passed. That's a 97% pass rate! Dr. Trepal offered his congratulations to the graduates as well as to the faculty that taught them.
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Publications
Reduction of Dorsal Displacement of the Proximal and Middle Phalanges Using a Neutral or Angled Implant for Joint Arthrodesis to Treat Hammertoe Deformity,
Javier Bayod López, Ricardo Becerro de Bengoa Vallejo, Marta Elena Losa Iglesias, Kevin T. Jules and Manuel Doblaré, Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association, November 2015.
http://www.japmaonline.org/doi/pdf/10.7547/14-032.1
Dr. Zev Leifer, PhD, has been invited to be a reviewer for the
Journal of Pathology Informatics, one of the important journals in the field of Digital Pathology.
Deputy Board Chairman Rock G. Positano, DPM, MSc, MPH is quoted in this article in
The Times-Picayune of New Orleans ...
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Michael J. Trepal, DPM, VP of Academic Affairs and Dean, is quoted in the February 2016 issue of
Bottom Line Health, "Ask the Experts" section.
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Paul Greenberg, DPM ('89) Donates Important Equipment to FCNY
A piece of equipment that Clinic Administrator Eunice Ramsey-Parker, DPM ('85), MPH calls "extraordinarily important" has been donated to the Foot Center of New
York by alumnus
Paul Greenberg, DPM ('89)
. Sold under the name PadNet, the machine measures arterial and venous flow in the leg. According to Dr. Parker, "we use it for the lower extremity, because we're concerned about
blood flow to the foot. We identify patients who may need bypass surgery in arteries or veins in the legs."
The printouts from the machine are
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The Hardest Position
to Fill?
According to the American Staffing Association (ASA)'s Skills Gap Index, released mid-December, the hardest-to-fill occupation in the United States for the third quarter of 2015 was ... Podiatrist.
(Source:
PM News)
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