Save the Dates - New York Osteopathic Medical Society

Anna M. Lamb, DO FACOFP
President’s Message
NEWSLETTER
SPRING/SUMMER 2013
Editor: Barbara Greenwald
Reporter: Christina Sportiello
NYSOMS had a unique and productive spring, distinguished by
a new location and name for our annual convention. If you did
not get a chance to join us at ROC-NY, you missed out on some
outstanding lectures. The program, titled Health, Wellness and
the Practice of Medicine in a Global Community, was both innovative
and thought-provoking—thanks to convention chairs
Sharon Koehler, DO, and Sonia Rivera-Martinez, DO. We
changed the venue to the NYIT Auditorium on Broadway in
Manhattan, which drew colleagues who usually don’t attend
our Long Island-based conventions. We plan to keep alternating
locations in the coming years.
Highlights of ROC-NY included a keynote speech at NYSOMS’ Annual Meeting by former New York Governor
David Paterson, who currently holds a faculty position at Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine-NY; a
weekend-long visit by AOA President Ray Stowers, DO, and his wife, Peggy; the election of Dr. Rivera-
Martinez as Treasurer; and the election of two new Board members, Bernadette Riley, DO, and Ken Steier,
DO, who replaced former Board members Lisa Eng, DO, and Tom Zimmerman, DO. I’d like to thank Lisa and
Tom for their service to NYSOMS.
We also had another successful DO day in Albany on May 21. Students from NYIT-COM and Touro-COM
joined NYSOMS student Board members Farzan Gorgani, and Aldo Manresa, the schools’ respective SGA
presidents; resident Board member, Matthew Pomykala, DO; and Board members Sherman Dunn, DO,
Bernadette Riley, DO and me on visits with our legislators, where we educated them about osteopathic
medicine. Five state legislators showed up to speak to participants at our morning rally.
NYSOMS is now getting ready to send its delegation to the AOA House of Delegates in Chicago. I expect
that one of the 'hot" topics this year will be
graduate medical education. New York has
one of the larger delegations due to the
number of DOs practicing in New York
State—which brings me to my next topic:
Membership.
NYSOMS’ membership drive is underway,
and there are more reasons than ever to
join! We have succeeded in giving osteopathic
medicine greater visibility in New
York State, and we will continue to do so.
The more members we have, the stronger
our influence. JOIN NYSOMS TODAY!
Save the Dates
Regional Osteopathic Convention - New York
Feb. 20-23, 2014
Sheraton Long Island Hotel
Hauppauge, NY
NYSOMS Intern/Resident Poster Competition
Friday, Feb. 21, 2014, at ROC-NY
DO DAY IN ALBANY
Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Executive Director’s Message
Barbara Greenwald
I am happy to announce that NYSOMS gave out four student scholarships
this year—three, from a fund designated for NYITCOM students and one
from a TouroCOM fund. Applicants were required to submit a CV, a personal
statement and a letter of recommendation from a faculty member.
NYSOMS’ scholarship committee, led by Immediate Past President and
Treasurer Sonia Rivera-Martinez, DO, selected students who exhibited
leadership, commitment to community service, dedication to the profession,
professionalism, and embodiment of the Osteopathic Philosophy.
All applicants were second-year students and every one of them was outstanding! Each NYSOMS scholarship
was for $500. The winners are: Marwah Ibrahem, Eric Ascher and Katherine Enos, of NYITCOM, and
Rohit Gupta of TouroCOM. Congratulations to all!
Once again, college student Christina Sportiello is working in the NYSOMS office for the summer. I’d like
to thank her for the great job she’s doing—especially as our Newsletter reporter!
New York State Legislative Update
Medicaid Update: With the 2013 Legislative Session winding down quickly,
there are still many bills of interest that have not yet been acted upon. But
state lawmakers and the Governor have restored and expanded “prescriber
prevails” protections for millions of Medicaid patients across the state who
want their doctors - not heath plan managers - to have the final say on what
medications they take. Effective July 1, "prescriber prevails" will continue for
the atypical antipsychotic drug class in Medicaid managed care, and for all drug
Stephanie Darwak
Advocacy Consultant
classes in fee-for-service. In addition, the “prescriber prevails” provision will be expanded to include medically
necessary prescription drugs in the anti-depressant, antiretroviral, anti-rejection, seizure, epilepsy,
endocrine, hematologic and immunologic therapeutic classes, including non-formulary drugs.
This change is the result of legislation passed in the 2013-2014 Executive Budget, which will enable the
prescriber's reasonable, professional judgment to prevail for the above therapeutic drug classes that are
not on plan formularies or have prior authorization requirements. Plans will continue to develop formularies
and may also administer prior authorization programs for these drug classes. Prescribers will still be
required to supply plans with requested information and/or clinical documentation, but a new piece of
legislation will make it easier: Effective July 8, a standardized prior authorization form will be available on
the Medicaid Managed Care Pharmacy Benefit Information Center: http://pbic.nysdoh.suny.edu/.
Another budget provision will enable Medicaid managed care patients, at their option, to obtain mail order
specialty drugs at any retail network pharmacy. There are now processes in place that allow them to
use any network pharmacy if that pharmacy agrees to accept a price comparable to the mail order
specialty pharmacy price.
NYSOMS was an active player in the ongoing advocacy that helped to secure this legislative win. Dr. Lamb
was interviewed by the Associated Press about how “prescriber prevails” facilitates continuity of care.
Subsequently, Dr. Lamb and Barbara Greenwald secured a private meeting with New York State Medicaid
Director, Jason Helgerson, and Deputy Secretary for Health, James Introne, to drive the message home.

What’s Happening
DO Day in Albany: On May 21, a group of osteopathic
medical students from NYITCOM and TouroCOM-NY,
joined NYSOMS President Anna Lamb DO, and her
colleagues at the New York State Capitol for NYSOMS’
third annual DO Day. Participants met with state senators
and assemblymen/women to promote NYSOMS’
legislative priorities, such as liability reform and “truth
in advertising.” Louisa Sethi, OMS II, of NYIT-COM,
said that she saw first-hand how medical students
can be proactive and aware of issues that can impact
their futures and the effect they can have on legislative
decisions. Kristin Kenney, OMS II, of NYIT-COM,
also had a good experience saying it is important for
students to stay informed and advocate for the
profession. (Pictured, Dr. Lamb and NYSOMS Executive
Director, Barbara Greenwald, surrounded by white-coated DOs and osteopathic medical students.)
Martin Diamond, DO ( left), current Director of Osteopathic medical
education at Nassau University Medical Center, returned recently
to one of his alma maters, Queens College, where he spoke to
students about careers in medicine. Dr. Diamond joined other
prestigious alumni on a panel where they shared with the audience
how Queens College served as the foundation for their medical careers.
Dr. Diamond graduated Queens College in 1958.
A past president of NYSOMS and founding dean of TouroCOM-NY,
which he now serves as Dean Emeritus, Dr. Diamond completed the
Osteopathic Heritage Health Policy Fellowship in 2001 and become
a Fellow of the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians in 2003. He has received numerous awards
throughout his career, including both the President’s Citation Award (1993) and the Distinguished Service Medal to
Past Presidents (1994) from NYSOMS. Dr. Diamond received the American Osteopathic Foundation Leadership
Award in May of 1999. In 2009, he was awarded the AOA Distinguished Service Certificate for Furthering the Osteopathic
Profession Through Education and Philanthropy.
Thomas Zimmerman, DO, is the new president of the American Osteopathic Association of Medical Informatics.
Lynn Mark, DO, is the new treasurer of the Association of Osteopathic Directors and Medical Educators (AODME).
Bernadette Riley, DO pictured, far left), a new NYSOMS
board member, held a Young Physicians networking event in
January at the Westbury Houlihan’s Restaurant. The event
was a great success, drawing osteopathic residents from
NUMC, NYU, Good Samaritan, Long Beach and St. John’s hospitals
in spite of the heavy snow. Dr. Riley and former NY-
SOMS president, Martin Diamond, DO (pictured beside Dr.
Riley), were the two attending physicians on site. Dr. Riley
plans to hold future events for residents and young physicians.
Please contact her at briley@lbmc.org to get involved
with the New Physicians in Practice group.

Congratulations to Eric Ascher, OMS III, of NYIT-COM (pictured left), on winning the
national Council of Student Government Presidents (COSGP) Student Advocate of the Year
Award, given to the student on the COSGP Board who most strongly advocates for the
osteopathic profession by sharing information and knowledge with other students in order
to help promote change in the local community and beyond. Eric’s outstanding use of s
social media to extend communication among colleagues was cited as one of his strengths.
Eric is the 2013-4 SGA president of NYIT-COM and its representative to NYSOMS’ Board.
The Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine-NY, recently hosted a forum titled, Adolescent
Mental Health: A Triad of Intervention, which convened a panel of behavioral health experts
to discuss interventions for children and adolescents who suffer from mental illness.
They also discussed how untreated and preventable chronic illnesses such as hypertension,
diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular disease can be aggravated among this population
by poor health habits. Panelists stressed the need for psychiatrists, pediatricians, and
both community- and school-based mental health professionals to come together in identifying mental health conditions
in this population.
Drew A. Koch, D.O., FACOEP has begun his first year on the Board of Directors of the American College of
Osteopathic Emergency Physicians
NYSOMS Remembers
NYSOMS Pioneer Sheldon Sirota, DO, a founder of NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine and Touro
College of Osteopathic Medicine-NY, passed away on Sunday, April 21. He was 78 years old. Dr. Sirota
had been involved in the osteopathic medical profession for more than 50 years, most recently serving
as the Director of Osteopathic Medical Education at St. John’s Episcopal Hospital in Far Rockaway, NY,
and as Vice President of Osteopathic Medical affairs for Touro College.
Dr. Sirota’s passion in life was his wife,
Ruth, family, surgery and teaching thousands
of medical students and residents.
He was an ardent advocate of osteopathic
medicine. In 2012, Dr. Sirota received a
Presidential Citation from then AOA
President Martin Levine, DO, for his vision,
leadership and longstanding service to the
osteopathic medical profession. Dr. Sirota
was also the 2010 recipient of NYSOMS'
Educator of the Year Award. (Pictured, Dr.
Sirota receiving his Presidential Citation.)
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alumni of both colleges of osteopathic medicine in New York State.

NYIT-COM NEWS
Students Run for Boston
On April 17, students from
NYIT College of
Osteopathic Medicine ran
together to support
Boston after the Boston
Marathon bombings
earlier in the month.
Watch a video about this
event at:
http://www.nyit.edu/
index.php/videos/viewer/
New Motto Announced: All NYITCOM students and alumni were invited to create a motto for the school
that would capture its rich history while providing direction for its pre-eminence in the future. Five
finalists were selected by the Student Government Association: Noelle Cadotte, OMS-III; Kunal Oak, OMS-
III; Marwah Ibrahem, OMS-III; Tina Bruno, OMS-III; and Will Perillo, OMS-I.
The NYITCOM Alumni Board chose the winner—Will Perillo—whose motto was:
"Developing the hands, minds, and hearts of tomorrow’s physicians." Will’s motto will be condensed to its
essence: “Hands, Minds, Hearts”
Dr. Ross-Lee Honored: NYIT Vice President for Health Sciences and Medical Affairs
Barbara Ross-Lee, D.O., was honored as a “Physician of Distinction” by the Nassau
Physicians’ Foundation. She is the first osteopathic physician to be presented with this
award in the foundation’s ten year history. “We’re recognizing Dr. Ross-Lee for her lifetime
achievement as a physician, educator and policymaker and for her vision of
collaborative care among all of the healthcare fields” said David Levine, MD, NYITCOM
Assistant Dean of Clinical Education and a member of the foundation board.
Dr. Ross-Lee is the first African-American female dean of a U.S. medical school and the first osteopathic
Physician to participate in the Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowship program. Last year, she was
appointed by the nonprofit Institute of Medicine (IOM), the health arm of the National Academy of
Sciences, join a roster of 18 other prominent medical professionals and scholars on its new committee
studying the governance and financing of graduate medical education. Dr. Ross-Lee said there are two
major challenges to reforming the graduate medical education system: determining how to produce an
adequate number of residency positions and ensuring that the distribution of medical specialties is
capable of meeting the needs of the nation over time.
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First-Year Students Travel to
Nicaragua for Medical Mission
By Barbara Franklin, Director of Communications
The patient was in so much pain from falling off a
hammock that she was limping and didn’t want to
move - even to flex her toes. The medical student
placed her on a table, lying on her stomach, where
she manipulated her legs, knees and feet to relax
her muscles. Ten minutes later she got up and was
walking normally. “She didn’t need any help,”
Touro-COM NEWS
recalled Nina Shah, OMS I. “She was laughing and smiling, and when we started she was crying. She said,
‘They fixed me! I don’t feel anymore pain!’ After that everybody wanted to be treated with OMM.”
The woman was one of approximately 300 patients seen during a recent medical mission to Nicaragua
organized by Cindy Agu, a first-year student who had been on a similar mission to Panama while an
undergraduate, and who was eager to go on another. Agu needed to pull together at least 15 students in
order to make another trip with support from Global Medical Training (GMT), a humanitarian organization
that arranges missions for students who want to expand their understanding of medicine outside of North
America. She sent an email to her fellow OMS I’s and in short order, she registered 20 of her peers and a
faculty mentor, Assistant Professor Grace Vasconez-Pereira, DO (Above, right, with Erica Mirigliani, OMS I).
“The purpose was to provide free medical care to rural communities in Nicaragua. We wanted to help people
who can’t get medical care or go to hospitals because they live too far or can’t afford to pay for doctors,”
said Agu, who was born in Nigeria. “I had been there and had seen how people suffered there and
in Panama, and I wanted to take what I had learned here in the United States to underserved communities.”
With the support of GMT, which made the travel arrangements and provided accommodations,
translators, and access to local physicians who assisted with diagnoses and provided medications, the
group spent a week in Nicaragua – working three days at makeshift clinics they set up in schoolhouses and
a church in remote areas of Granada, Managua and Masaya. It took hours to get to these rural sites: Dr.
Vasconez-Pereira recalled traveling five hours by bus and another three hours by canoe up a river to one
remote village. But it was worth it, she noted.
Although the student volunteers were only six months into their first year of medical school, they had
been trained to do physical exams and take patient histories. They brought their stethoscopes, blood pressure
cuffs and ophthalmoscopes, and saw patients ranging in age from infants to the elderly. Most of the
residents they saw, Agu said, suffered from gastritis, depression and parasitic infections caused by unsanitary
drinking water and other living conditions. Lower back pain from farming and repetitive motions was
also common, and treated with OMT. “We used any tables the people had over there. We were treating
on the benches, on the floors, we were working everywhere,” recalled Dr. Vasconez-Pereira. “The students
were well-prepared to help with basic, common conditions, using what they had learned at school.”
Shah said, “School prepared me very well to see these patients and I felt like everything we learned was
falling into place. I became more confident in my abilities. It opened my eyes to what medicine can do, to
what we can do, even as students, to help people.”

Class of 2013
NYITCOM: On May 20, 284 graduates received
doctoral hoods and accolades as they were honored
for their hard work, compassion, and dedication to
health care. Keynote Speaker Otis Webb Brawley,
M.D., chief medical and scientific officer and executive
vice president of the American Cancer Society,
told the group that their challenges include stopping
the trend of chronic disease and facing the
changing economics of medicine. He challenged
them to “value science, the scientific method, and
learning,” and to be curious. Brawley also reminded
the new doctors that they will see patients often
facing the greatest challenges in their lives. As a parting gift, students received a free copy of Brawley’s
book How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick in America.
NYITCOM Dean Wolfgang Gilliar, D.O., urged the graduates to “think health, think health prevention” and
to connect and engage with their patients as they practice “high-touch” medicine that stimulates the
power of self-healing. “You have learned the first steps of care and caring while I am sure you continue
searching for a cure,” Dr. Gilliar said. He administered the osteopathic oath to the graduates and
announced winners of several achievement awards. Elaine Zhai, D.O., received the Dean’s Achievement
Award for overall academic excellence.
TouroCOM-NY: According to results from the school’s third consecutive
“Match Day,” about half of the 2013 TouroCOM graduates will serve primary
care residencies, and a similar number will remain in New York and
New Jersey. Additionally, graduates matched to many of the most prestigious
residency programs in the country. “The graduates show that the
faculty, staff and administration are focusing our strengths and energies
in an effective way,” said TouroCOM Dean, Robert Goldberg, DO. “The
patients of New York and beyond will reap these benefits in the years to
come”
“Elizabeth Prince, DO, a native of Maryland who received her Bachelor of
Music in tuba performance at the University of Maryland before attending
TouroCOM, said she was excited about her match to Johns Hopkins
for a residency in psychiatry. “I was fortunate to have the opportunity to
see many different programs during the interview season and Johns Hopkins
really felt like home. I got the sense I would fit in well and get a great education there,” said Prince,
who is most interested in pursuing consultation-liaison psychiatry, a branch of psychiatry that specializes
in the interface between medicine and psychiatry, usually taking place in a hospital or medical setting.
Cara Miller, DO, is similarly pleased with her match to New York Medical College-Westchester Medical
Center, where she will be working in pediatrics at its Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital, a leader in pediatric
care. Miller, who is from Beacon, N.Y. and attended Sienna College, said she plans to pursue a fellowship
in pediatric pulmonology. “I am very excited. It was one of my top choices,” Miller said.

Rockin’ at ROC-NY
Not content to put on the same old annual convention in the same old place, NYSOMS updated the name
and changed the venue: The Regional Osteopathic Convention-New York, or ROC-NY, took place April 4-7,
2013, in Manhattan. Highlights included: (clockwise, from top left) Maggie Tetrokalashvili, MD, speaking
about infertility; AOA President Ray Stowers, DO, updating members about AOA activities; convention
chairs Sharon Kohler, DO and Sonia Rivera-Martinez, DO, welcoming attendees; NYSOMS’ awards chair
Freda Lozanoff, DO presenting NYSOMS’ Educator of the Year award to Stanely Simon, DO; NYSOMS’
Presidential Citation recipient Connie Diamond, DA, enjoying the Friday night NYCOM alumni reception
with Bernadette Riley, DO; and Murray Goldstein, DO, accepting NYSOMS’ Pioneer Award. You can
watch the entire awards ceremony and hear Gov. Paterson’s keynote speech by logging in to NYSOMS’
Web site at www.nysoms.org and going to “current articles” on the lower left.

Winners of the ROC-NY Poster Competition
The winners (l-r): Nicole Tafuri, DO; Sangeetha Kolluri, DO; Laura Fil, DO; Tuesday Pearson, DO; and Jacob Bair, DO.
Case Study Winners
Nicole Tafuri, DO: First place, from St. John’s Episcopal Hospital
Poster: “Zoons Vulvitis in the Setting of Lichen Sclerosis”
Sangeetha Kolluri, DO: Second Place, from Flushing Hospital Medical Center
Poster: “A Rare Case of Giant Bi-lobed Meckels Diverticulum”
Brian Ault, DO: Third place, from Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center
Poster: “Not all Coins Pass: Case Report of an Atypical Quarter Ingestion”
Research Winners
Laura J. Fil, DO: First place, from Good Samaritan Medical Center
Poster: “Does Patient Education in the Emergency Department Increase Patient Awareness that
Acetaminophen is Contained in Percocet?”
Tuesday Pearson, DO: Second place, from St. John’s Episcopal Hospital
Poster: “Is More Aggressive Management of Rupture Membranes in Labor Appropriate?”
Jacob A. Bair, DO: Third place, from Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center
Poster: “Does the Use of Osteopathic Manipulative Treatments on Patients with Headaches in
the Emergency Department Result in Decreased Pain?”
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ROC-NY Poster Competition Contestants
Leon Sultan, DO (right), of St. Barnabas Hospital in
the Bronx, pictured right with his poster, “The
Prevalence of MRSA in Patients Admitted to Saint
Barnabas Hospital: Does it Pay to Screen and Isolate
all Patients in the Emergency Room?
Methicillin resistant Staph aureus (MRSA) is an
antibiotic-resistant infection that is a growing
problem in hospitals. Sultan and his team conducted
an experiment in which 100 patients were
cultured for MRSA; 31 of them were positive. The
carriage rate based on the sample is approximately
31% , with methicillin resistance being 25%.
Seven out of eight MRSA patients did not have
previous cultures showing MRSA carriage. The
conclusion was that it can be feasible to screen
and isolate patients with MRSA prior to hospital
admission. A faster method for screening for the
disease needs to be investigated.
D. Wesley Daughertry, DO, from the Department of Surgery
at Wyckoff . Heights Medical center in Brooklyn with his poster,
Complete Aortic Occlusion in Buerger’s Diseas. Dr.
Daughertry (pictured left, with a colleague) focused on
Thromboangitis obliterans (TAO), a non-atherosclerotic segmental
inflammatory disease found in smoking patients. His
case study underwent a right axillary artery to bi-femoral
artery bypass after discovering a complete aortic occlusion
at a level just distal to the renal arteries. Unfortunately, an
above the knee amputation on his right leg was necessary,
since post-operative anticoagulation grafts failed. Management
of Buerger’s Disease is difficult due to the poor response
of patients to the treatment. Studies have shown
that the only way to avoid the disease is to quit smoking
Sara Pace, DO (bottom left), of the Department of Surgery at
St. John’s Episcopal Hospital, with her poster, Wedge Resection
as Surgical Treatment for Gastric Perforation of Remnant
Stomach in a Patient with Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass. She focused
various treatment options a physician can use on patents
with gastric perforation . The case study had a history of
gastric surgery and was brought into the hospital after experiencing
extreme stomach pain. The patient was brought to the
OR where an anterior gastric perforated ulceration was found
in the remnant stomach, and wedge resection was done. An
internal hernia causing SBO was found reduced and superior
mesenteric defect was closed. Postoperative course was uncomplicated
and patient was discharged on post op day 5. The
conclusion was that wedge resection is not an option in juxtapyloric
ulcers due to anatomic difficulties but should be used
to remove damaged stomach material without stricture risk.
You Are Invited: The 8 th Annual Conference of The National Physicians Alliance will be held October
19-20 in Washington, D.C. Titled, Leading the Way: Courage and Innovation in Patient-centered Reform,
the conference will deal with the ethics of conflict-of-interest in medicine and will offer 8 CME credits.
For more information, contact Darden Rice at (727) 560-2479 or Darden.Rices@npalliance.net

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Feb. 20-23, 2014
Sheraton Long Island Hotel,
Hauppauge, NY

Bloomin’ Healthy: Wild Medicine at the New York Botanical Garden
This just in at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx: the exhibition Wild Medicine: Healing Plants
Around the World, Featuring the Italian Renaissance Garden. This unique exhibit explores the history and
uses of medicinal plants and shows the important connection between biodiversity and human health,
More than 500 species will be on display, including teas, fruits and cacao. See some of the base plants
that make up pharmaceuticals, such as the cinchona tree, which produces malaria medication, and the
white willow, which is the base for aspirin.
As an added visual treat, the exhibit takes place in the beautifully re-created Italian Renaissance garden, an
interactive area of the Botanical Garden. Wild Medicine runs through September 8. Use code 9944 at
www.nybg.org for a discount..