NYEE Residents Celebrate Commencement 2019
New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai’s graduating residents, from left: Michael Chai, MD; Ekaterina Semenova, MD; Katherine McCabe, MD; Miel Sundararajan, MD; Anna Do, MD; Eileen Choudhury Bowden, MD; and Chris Wu, MD.
Seven residents and eleven fellows recently participated in the 2019 Commencement of the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai (NYEE).
James C. Tsai, MD, MBA, President of NYEE and System Chair of Ophthalmology at the Mount Sinai Health System and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, told the graduates, “Use your knowledge and skills to deliver exceptional and life-changing patient care. Lead changes in health care to enhance and transform the lives of patients in the communities you serve.”
The graduating residents will pursue their fellowship training at NYEE and other leading U.S. institutions, including the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute at the University of Miami, and the Shiley Eye Institute at the University of California, San Diego. Like the fellows who preceded them, the graduating residents will receive advanced training in subspecialties such as cornea and refractive surgery, glaucoma, ocular immunology, vitreo-retinal surgery, pediatric ophthalmology, and strabismus.
Beginning in 2021, NYEE’s ophthalmology residency programs will merge with The Mount Sinai Hospital’s (MSH) to become the nation’s largest, with 10 residents per year.
“The Mount Sinai Hospital and NYEE have long histories of excellence in education,” says Douglas R. Fredrick, MD, Deputy Chair for Education in the Department of Ophthalmology at the Mount Sinai Health System. “The integration of the two programs will take advantage of their unique strengths while providing trainees with unprecedented access to a wide range of patients and pathologies, as well as extensive resources that come from being part of a major academic medical center.”
In addition to training at NYEE and MSH, the residents will rotate through Elmhurst Hospital in Queens and the James J. Peters VA Medical Center in the Bronx.
Faculty, fellows, and residents from the Department of Neurosurgery recently participated in the 16th Annual Neurosurgery Charity Soft ball Tournament in Central Park, joining more than 30 teams from academic medical centers in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. The event helps support the Neurosurgery Research and Education Foundation of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and pediatric brain tumor research.
Cardiology & Heart Surgery; Diabetes & Endocrinology; Ear, Nose & Throat; Gynecology; Nephrology; Neurology & Neurosurgery; and Orthopedics all improved their rankings from last year. Four other specialties—Cancer, Pulmonology & Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology—were rated as “High Performing.”
