

Alumni Association
- Mar 30, 2017
- 1 min
Watch the AOA Annual Lecture 2017: Ralph Snyderman, MD ’65, on YouTube
Ralph Snyderman, MD ’65, Duke University Chancellor Emeritus, gave the AOA Lecture March 21, 2017, at SUNY Downstate. Learn more about Dr. Snyderman’s ties to Duke and SUNY Downstate, here. #health #history #publichealth #NewYorkCity #medicine #NYC #highereducation

Alumni Association
- Dec 15, 2016
- 5 min
Class Notes: December 16, 2016
Donna Younger, MD ’55
Dr. Younger, an internal medicine physician and Harvard Medical School professor, retired in 2016. Allen Silberstein, MD ’62
Dr. Silberstein writes that he has been retired for 10 years now, and spends his time sculpting, playing tennis and traveling with his wife, Irene. Allan Naarden, MD ’64
Dr. Naarden’s son, Gregory, and daughter-in-law, Ann, had a child, Dr. Naarden’s fourth grandchild. Andy Schwartz, MD ‘65
Dr. Schwartz writes, “We have evolved


Alumni Association
- Dec 12, 2016
- 2 min
Remembering Gerald Greenberg, MD ’59, Friend of Downstate
Died November 21, 2015 Gerald M Greenberg, MD, age 83, of Roslyn Heights, NY, died peacefully and gently and with a soft smile on his face, much as he had lived, on November 21, 2015 at home on hospice care, surrounded by his family. He was the beloved husband of Abby J. Greenberg, MD, ’59.
Jerry was born on October 22, 1932, the son of Emanuel D. Greenberg, DDS and Sayde Greenberg. He was raised in the Bronx, overlooking Yankee Stadium, and graduated from the University of

Alumni Association
- Dec 1, 2016
- 2 min
World AIDS Day at SUNY Downstate, Brooklyn, New York
Throughout today, panels from the AIDS quilt are on display in the atrium of the Basic Science Building for SUNY Downstate. We remember those people who have passed away during the epidemic, and those who continue to die from this disease. We celebrate those survivors and the amazing modern medicine that has made survival possible. SUNY Downsate events for World AIDS Day December 1, 2016
Display of panels from the AIDS Memorial Quilt, sponsored by the Student Center Governin


Alumni Association
- Nov 17, 2016
- 3 min
Monica Sweeney, MD, `75, Panelist for “Out in the Rural,” the Story of a Health Center &
The remarkable individuals who founded the first rural community health center in Bolivar County, Mississippi more than 50 years ago led “a radical assault on both the medical and the social status quo,” writes Thomas J. Ward Jr. in his new book, Out in the Rural: A Mississippi Health Center and Its War on Poverty, published by Oxford University Press. The story is as “urgent today as it was a half century ago,” according to Publisher’s Weekly. “The Mississippi experiment tes


Alumni Association
- Apr 29, 2016
- 1 min
Gloria Glantz shares Holocaust experience at Downstate
Noon, Thursday, May 5, 2016, in Alumni Auditorium Gloria Glantz was born in Wegrow Poland in 1939, and fled the Holocaust to live in four countries on two continents before settling in the US. In her professional life as a teacher, it has been her mission to see that the Shoah is not forgotton. Gloria Glantz has won fellowships from the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, American Federation of Teachers and Jewish Labor Committee to study the Holocaust and Resis