Newswise — NYIT's New York College of Osteopathic Medicine (NYCOM) will honor its Class of 2004 when the medical school hosts its 24th annual Hooding Ceremony. The program will be held on Thursday, May 20 at 10 a.m. at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall. New York State Department of Health Commissioner Dr. Antonia Coello Novello will deliver the keynote address.
Approximately 300 students are expected to participate in the ceremony. Dr. Barbara Ross-Lee, D.O., FACOFP, vice president for health sciences and medical affairs at NYIT and dean of NYIT's NYCOM, will also address the crowd, as will Edward Guiliano, Ph.D., president and CEO of NYIT; Kenneth Steier, NYCOM alumni president; and Michael Sabatino, NYCOM class president.
Dr. Novello and Dr. Ross-Lee are presently being honored at "Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America's Women Physicians," an ongoing, interactive, multimedia exhibition, held at the National Library of Medicine, an arm of the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Novello is the first woman and first Hispanic to become surgeon general of the United States Public Health Service; Dr. Ross-Lee is one of the first women in the nation to head a medical school and the first woman of color to do so.
Administrator, researcher, lecturer and author, Dr. Novello's motto is "good science and good sense." As the 13th New York State Department of Health commissioner, Dr. Novello heads one of the leading public health agencies in the nation. In her previous role as U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. Novello advised the public on various health matters, including smoking, AIDS, diet and nutrition, environmental health hazards, and the importance of immunization and disease prevention. She also served as special representative for health and nutrition for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
A board-certified pediatrician, Dr. Novello has devoted much of her efforts to the research of pediatric AIDS. She holds faculty appointments at the University of Michigan and Georgetown University School of Medicine. She received her M.D. from the University of Puerto Rico, holds 30 honorary doctoral degrees and is the recipient of numerous awards and honors.
NYCOM is the only osteopathic medical school in the state of New York. It is part of NYIT (New York Institute of Technology), an independent, comprehensive college that offers, through eight academic schools, more than 100 courses of study leading to undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees. NYIT currently educates more than 11,000 students on three physical campuses—in Old Westbury and Central Islip, Long Island, and Manhattan, near Lincoln Center—and one virtual campus via the Internet. More than 62,000 alumni have received degrees from NYIT, including some 3,200 medical graduates from NYCOM, the second largest medical school in the United States and the largest one in New York State.
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