Dr. Jonah Mink joins MSIH for the second time

MSIH Alumnus Teaches First-Year Global Health Course  Many university educators adhere to the belief that each class has its own personality. From year to year, that personality may change. Some classes are more engaged than others, some more dynamic. Others have troublesome relationships within, while others are smooth and agreeable, with mutual respect and life-long […]

MSIH Faculty, Students and Alumni Excel

Many posts on this site share the achievements of our faculty, students, and alumni. As time progresses, we forget what’s gone before, so here we’d like to remind you of some of the wonderful things the MSIH family have been up to in the last couple of years: MSIH Alumnus, Dr. Joseph Sakran, leads the movement […]

Class of 2024 Zooms to MSIH

When the graduates of the MSIH class of 2024 relate to their children how they commenced medical school in Israel, they’ll say something like this:  “I’ll never forget how we started. It was during the 2020 pandemic and we couldn’t travel, so I had to watch lectures from my bedroom in {enter place} through video […]

MSIH Alumna, Dr. Ariela Orkaby published as lead author in Journal of American Medical Association

MSIH is filled with pride that alumna, Dr. Ariela Orkaby (class of 2010) is the lead author in an article published this month in JAMA – the Journal of the American Medical Association. Dr. Orkaby, currently a faculty member at Harvard Medical School, studied the use of statins in older adults. After graduating MSIH, Ariela […]

COVID-19 in Low Income Countries: MSIH learns from Global Health Partners around the World

For more than 20 years, MSIH has been working with partner institutions in low-income settings. Hundreds of fourth year students have taken Global Health clerkships in hospitals in India, Peru, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Vietnam, Ghana, and a host of other countries. When the Coronavirus pandemic swept the globe in early 2020, MSIH students were mid-clerkship. […]

What do Medical schools look for in applicants?

There is no one particular skill that makes for a good doctor. Instead, all doctors need a range of different qualities and skills to be able to provide the best care for their patients. The same holds true when it comes to getting into medical school. Many prospective students ask us, “What do medical schools […]

MSIH Alum, Dr Joseph Sakran, addresses Racism in Health Care

Dr. Joseph Sakran (MSIH Class of 2005 Alumnus), along with two colleagues, recently published an opinion piece in Scientific American titled, “Racism in Health Care Isn’t Always Obvious.” The article implores healthcare practitioners to acknowledge and denounce their own implicit racial biases, which may affect patient diagnosis and treatment. The piece addresses healthcare disparities in […]

Dr. Kent Willis wins NHLBI award

Dr. Kent Willis (class of 2011) has just been awarded a prestigious 5-year National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Career Development Award for his research into “The gut lung axis Influences the development of bronchopulmonary dysplasia”. The K08 – Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award enables candidates holding professional degrees (e.g., MD, DO, DVM, or […]

MSIH Helps Students Cope with the Stresses of a Pandemic

“Being an American myself, and the wife of an American MSIH graduate really help me to understand what students are going through – so I’m in a unique position to help.” These are the words of Laura Stiebel, a clinical social worker who provides help to students in all years at MSIH. “Regular Israeli students […]

Connecting Isolated Patients With Their Families During Coronavirus Pandemic

Dr. Patrick Keller ’03 at Lincoln HospitalAt the height of the COVID-19 surge in New York City, Dr. Patrick Keller, MSIH class of ‘03, MPH, Flight Surgeon & Chief of Aerospace Medicine for the United States Air Force, was mobilized to Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx to work as an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) attending. […]