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Michel Kahaleh is an American gastroenterologist and an expert in therapeutic endoscopy. He is a Professor of Medicine, and is currently the Clinical Director of Gastroenterology, Chief of Endoscopy, and Director of the Pancreas Program at the Department of Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers, The State University of New ...
The hospital was founded in 1909 as Lawrence Hospital by prominent businessman William Van Duzer Lawrence, who recognized the need for a community hospital after his son fell ill with appendicitis and had to be transported to New York City. In 2005, Lawrence Hospital Center became an affiliate member of the NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare ...
In early 1981, reports began surfacing in San Francisco and New York City that a rare form of cancer called Kaposi's sarcoma was affecting young gay men. [10] In response, 80 men gathered in New York writer Larry Kramer's apartment on August 11, 1981, to discuss the issue of "gay cancer" and to begin organizing efforts to raise money for research.
Bellevue is the designated hospital for treatment of the President of the United States and other world leaders if they become ill or injured while in New York City. [ 5 ] The organization underwent a rebranding initiative in November 2015, shortening its name from 40 characters to 19 characters, as "NYC Health + Hospitals".
North General Hospital (NGH) was an American private, not-for-profit, voluntary teaching hospital [1] located in New York City in the East Harlem section of Manhattan at Marcus Garvey Park. It was founded in 1979 to replace, as tenant, the Hospital for Joint Diseases (HJD) , which vacated its East Harlem facility and moved that same year ...
Metropolitan Hospital Center (MHC, also referred to as Metropolitan Hospital) is a hospital in East Harlem, New York City. It has been affiliated with New York Medical College since it was founded in 1875, [ 1 ] representing the oldest partnership between a hospital and a private medical school in the United States.
Doctors Hospital (1929–2004) was a hospital located at 170 East End Avenue, between 87th and 88th Streets opposite Gracie Mansion in the Yorkville neighborhood of the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. It served as the primary maternity hospital for uptown Manhattan births (Manhattan General served as such for Lower Manhattan). It ...
It was New York City's 19th municipal hospital, [10] serving residents of the Lower East Side, a neighborhood that was at the time expanding with European immigration. [11] It was the first public hospital in the United States to create a tuberculosis clinic, and the first to employ a female ambulance surgeon, Dr. Emily Dunning Barringer . [ 5 ]