DISTRICT 16-BROOKLY-N NEW YORK REGIONAL MEDICAL PROGRAM The Metropolitan New York program is currently receiving 967,010 in first year planning money. It is anticipated that 1969 will seek the development of an operational program in New York City receiving $6,961,957 in planning-operational funding. In keeping with '@%e feeling that major urban problems such as health cannot be handled adequately on a centralized basis, t'ne New York program has tried to steer a narrow course between central- ization by placing staff at both central locations, the New York Academy of Medicine, and the various schools in the area. The New York Academy of Medicine in conjunction with the eight medical schools has formed a non-profit corporation, the Associated Medical Schools of Greater New York, to administer the regional program. The regional program is under the leadership of Dr. Vincent de Paul Larkin. The planning activities have concentrated on a determination of the health and educational needs of the region. Priority considerations are being given to continuing education the problem of the community hospital, clincial research, facilities and manpower and cooperative arrangements. More detailed information on the New York Regional Medical Program follows. J. MURPHY DISTRICT 16-BROOKLYN NEW YORK METROPOLITi'@tN REGIONAL MEDICAL PROGRAM REGION New York City and Westchester, Nassau and Suffolk Counties COORDINATING HEADQUARTERS Associated Medical Schools of Greater New York STARTING DATE June 1, 1967 FUINDINTG Current Award: $967,010 Proje6ted Next Year: $6,961,957 PROGRAM COORDINATOR Vincent de Paul Larkin, M.D. New York Academy of Medicine OADVISORY GROUP. 1. Chairman: Vernon Stulzman Executive Director Methodist Hospital-Brooklyn 2. Membership: 42. Practicing M.D.'s 11; Medical Center 10; Hospital Administrators 3; Voluntary Health Agencies 2 Public Health Officials 4; OLher Health Workers 2; Public 12. Organization and Staffin& It was felt that major urban problems such as health cannot be handled on a centralized basis alone. The New York Metropolitan Regional Medical Program has tried to steer a narrow course between centralization and total decentralization by placing staff at both a central location at the New York Academy of Medicine and the various medical schools involved. Along with the difficult problem of attracting Regional Medical Program staff, the New York City region has to operate within the many governmental and nongovernmental parameters that exist in the city. To remove itself as much as possible from the vagaries of city life, the New York Academy of Medicine in conjunction with the eight medical schools formed An incorporated body, the Associated Medical Schools of Greater New York, to administer the regional program. Regional Advisory No major activities have been undertaken in the region without the informed 0 New York Metropolitan -2- e Executive Committee of the advisory consensus of the Advisory Group. Th group will handle all interim business between meetings of.the Regional Advisory Group. Subregionalization Through the decentralized staffing in the medical schools, the regional program has., in effect, created subregional clusters about the medical schools. Planninct Activities The planning activities in the region are centered around continuing education, community hospitals, research, health manpower and facilities and cooperative arrangements. The planning studies now being conducted in New York City include demographic studies, inventories of health facilities and manpower, morbidity and mortality data and an inventory of on-going continuing education programs. Proposals in response to these studies are concentrating on physicians without a hospital appointment, coronary care units, rehabilitation of the acute cardiac and stroke patient, multiphasic testing and central laboratories, and manpower. 0 There is one major feasibility study concerning the care of cancer patients at Memorial Hospital for cancer and allied diseases. The Memorial Hospital study will involve some thirty-five hospitals in New York, Connecticut, New Jersey and Philadelphia to develop programs for continuing education for physicians, nurseso social workers and radiation therapists. GRAYIS ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR PLANNING FOR REGIONAL'MEDICAL PRO IN NEW YORK Deans of the Medical Schools and Directors of Academy of Medicine John E. Dietrick, M.D. Cornell University The Medical College New York, New York Joseph K. Hill, Ph.D. Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine Brooklyn, New York George James, M.D. Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York, New York Marcus D. K6gel, M.D. Albert Einstein College of Medicine Bronx, New York H. Houston Merritt, M.D. Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons New York, New York Lawrence B. Slobody, M.D. New York Medical College New York, New York Lewis Thomas, M.D. New York University School of Medicine New York, New York New York Academy of Medicine Howard Craig, M.D.@ Director New York, New York John L. Madden President New York, New York J. E. McCormack, M.D. Associate Director 2 Hospital Administrators Sister Anthony Marie St. Vincents Hospital New York, New York Jack C. Haldeman, M.D. Hospital Review and Planning Council New York, New York Peter Rogatz, M.D. Long Island Jewish Hospital New Hyde Park, New York Mr. Vernon Stutzman Director Methodist Hospital Brooklyn, New York Mr. Peter B. Terenzio Director Roosevelt Hospital New York, New York John V. Connorton, Ph.D. Executive Vice President Greater New York Hospital.Association New York, New York Other Health Professions Jack Barsh, D.D.S. President First District Dental Society New York, New York Miss E. C. Lambertsen Director Division of Nursing Education Graduate School of Nursing Columbia University New York, New York Mrs. Eva M. Reese Executive Director Visiting Nurse Service of New York New York, New York 3. Melvin V. Weiss, D.O. President Osteopathic Society of the City of New York New York, New York Members of the Public Familiar with the Needs for the Services Provided Under the Program Mr. Herman Badillo President of the Borough of the Bronx Bronx, New York Mr. Benjamin Buttenweiser Kuhn, Loeb & Company New York, New York Mr. James R. Dumpson New York City Council Against Poverty New York, New York Mr. Leo Gottlieb, L.L.B. Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen and Hamilton New York,, New York Mrs. Harold D. Harvey New York, New York Mrs. Mary Lasker New York New York Mr. Malcolm Muir New York, New York Mrs. Henry T. Randall New York, New York Mr. Alex Rose President United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union New York, New York Mr. David Scher. President Stroock & Stroock & Lavan New York,-New York ,@'tr. Seymour N. Siegel Director of Radio Communications New York, New York Mr.. Benno C. Schmidt, L.L.B. J. H. Whitney & Company .New York, New York Rev. M. Moran Weston, Rector St. Philips Episcopal Church New York,, New York Medical Societies J. L. S. Holloman, Jr., M.D. National Medical Association New York, New York John A. Lawler, M.D. The New York County Medical Society New York, New York Isidore Sternlieb, M.D Bronx County Medical Society Bronx* New York Lawrence Ames, M.D. The Kinds County Medical Society Brooklyn, New York Peter V. Gugliuzza, M.D. Medical Society of the County of Queens Forest Hills, New York Charles Thom, M.D. President-Elect Richmond County Medical Society .New York, New York Maurice L. Woodhull, M.D. Medical Society of the County of Westchester Purchase, New York Marjorie H. Greene, M.D. Nassau County Medical Society Hicksville, New York Milton Gordon, M.D. Medical Society of the County of Suffolk Bay Shore, New York 5. Stanley H. Greenwald, M.D. American Academy of General Practice New York, New York Voluntarv Health Agencies Gray H. Twombly, M.D. American Cancer Society New York City Division New York, New York Alfred P. Fishmdn, M.D. President New York Heart Association New York, New York Other Organization, Institutions and Agencies Concerned with Activities of the Kind to be Carried on Under the Program Howard Brown, M.D. Administrator Health Services Department of Health New York,, New York Mr. Joseph Terenzio Commissioner of Hospitals New York, New York Marvin E. Perkins, M.D. Commissioner of Yiental Health New York, New York Dean Alex Rosen, Ph.D. N.Y.C. Graduate School of Social Work New York, New York