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NYMC Set to Commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 7 

This year's keynote is "Hitler and Hippocrates: Medicine during the Third Reich."

March 30, 2021
Tessa Chelouche, M.D Headshot

Dr. Chelouche has published numerous articles on medicine and the Holocaust and is the co-editor of the Casebook on Bioethics and the Holocaust," which has been translated into six languages and is used at numerous academic medical educational institutions worldwide. 

This year’s Yom Hashoah observance presented by the Health Sciences Library will also include remarks by Edward C. Halperin, M.D., M.A., chancellor and chief executive officer; Rabbi Moshe D. Krupka, M.S., executive vice president, Touro College and University System; Marie T. Ascher, M.S., M.P.H., the Lillian Hetrick Huber Endowed Director, Health Sciences Library; Anne Bayefsky, M.A., L.L.B., director, Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust; Stacy Gallin, D.M.H., founding director, Maimonides Institute for Medicine, Ethics and the Holocaust, visiting assistant professor, Medical Ethics Program at NYMC, and co-chair, Department of Bioethics and the Holocaust, UNESCO Chair of Bioethics at Haifa.