
Article from HAVANA TIMES — “I think I’m infected,” Gabriela Sanchez-Bravo, MD '19 tells me with an astonishing calmness. “Do you think so?” With the same composure, she explains that her symptoms match those of COVID-19: the cough, the fever. She also tells me that it isn’t just her either, her boyfriend, a Medicine student, also has these symptoms. Read More>>

Article from Fordham Athletics on Joe Hartnett, MD '19: Today we recognize former track and field/cross country Ram Dr. Joe Hartnett, FCRH '14, a first year urology resident at Stony Brook Hospital. Hartnett graduated from SUNY Upstate medical school last year and started at Stony Brook last July. Little did he know what was ahead for him as a first year resident. Read more>>

Jennifer McConnell, MD '94: Inside the tent with a doctor who can't stand on the sidelines. For the past month, Dr. Jennifer McConnell and her medical partner have rotated shifts, working every other day from 7 am to 7 pm, to screen central Maine patients who believe they have coronavirus symptoms. Read more by Barbara Walsh>>

Upstate Alumni (residents at Jacobi-Montefiore) on the front lines of the Covid-19 pandemic. From right to left: Allan So, MD '16, Elaine Rodriguez, MD '16 and Styve Pamphile, MD '18.

Brandon James, MD '16 and Sarah Love Rhoads, MD, pose before their wedding in the masks the brides mother, Joanne Rhoads, made for them. Read more by Providence Journal>>
Christopher Tanski, MD '10 was asked by the New York State Health Department to serve as the initial chief medical officer for the field hospitals. He started on April 9. Click here to read full article from RIT news>>
Nicole Alexander Scott, MD '01 Rhode Island's State Department of Health director has been front and center during this pandemic. Click here to read article from Providence Journal>>
Ralph L. Stevens, MD '81: When we confronted the AIDs epidemic as house staff in the 80’s we were scared, but didn’t know how vulnerable we actually were. The graduating seniors will have no such illusions in July 2020. They deserve all the support and encouragement we can give them. Stay healthy!
Mark Katz, MD '75: I work (am on the slow boat to retirement) as an admitting hospitalist at a major Los Angeles hospital. We have all felt vulnerable, anxious, beaten up/down, but I have learned something profoundly meaningful about resilience--a favorite subject of mine: I have more free time (as many of us do)--and while catching up on Netflix shows, cooking new recipes, sorting through old photos, etc., at first I felt guilty for having a decent time while New York and other places were in anguish, desolation, and despair. But then I realized that the more I involve myself in my daily moments of joy and positive activity, it gives me more strength to psychically be there for all of the others. It's what I have always preached about "Resilience in Health Care": Do things which fill your own gas tank, and then you will be able to be there for others. So, each day, I have fun and do good things, and I also spend time meditating and praying for so many others.
Paul Stobnicke, MD '53: (Was interviewed for a story on syracuse.com) He’s a retired doctor who went into family practice on Syracuse’s West Side after serving as a fighter pilot in the South Pacific during World War II. He’s maintained his medical license and gives occasional talks in the theater at the Towne Center. Stobnicke said he knows several of his neighbors who have tested positive. Read more>>
Ron Freudenberger, MD '89: The class of 1989 graduated into the peak of the AIDS crisis. It was challenging, scary and extremely rewarding. Good luck to our brothers and sisters in the class of 2020.
Gary M. Kohn, MD '74: I am working at a local free clinic doing telehealth during the quarantine.