From left: Barbara G. Vickrey, MD, MPH, with Pasik family members: granddaughter and first-year Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai student Sara Diana Pasik; daughters Deborah Pasik, MD, and Lilia Pasik Gendler, PhD; and daughter-in-law Agata Stancato Pasik, MD.
Suzanne N. Haber, PhD, Professor of Pharmacology, and Physiology, University of Rochester Medical Center, presented the inaugural Tauba Pasik, MD and Pedro Pasik, MD Lecture in Neurology at the Hess Center for Science and Medicine on Friday, February 17. The lecture, established by Dr. Pedro Pasik after the passing of his wife, Tauba, in 2015—and now named for both—recognizes notable women in neurology and neuroscience.
Dr. Pedro Pasik, who passed away in 2016, and Dr. Tauba Pasik were Mount Sinai luminaries in the fields of neurology, neuroscience, and academic medicine for more than six decades. Together, they helped create the Laboratory of Experimental Neurology at Mount Sinai, and translated and edited the three-volume annotated version of Texture of the Nervous System of Man and the Vertebrates by renowned neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal. Following the lecture, Department of Neurology faculty gathered with members of the Pasik family, where Barbara G. Vickrey, MD, MPH, the Henry P. and Georgette Goldschmidt Professor of Neurology and Chair of Neurology for the Mount Sinai Health System, presented the Pasik family with a plaque commemorating the annual event.