Section activities increased significantly in 2014, with 43 section-related events, a 40% increase over last year, with well over 2,500 total attendees. These events ranged from focusing on trainee research to highlighting the most pertinent clinical practice and health care policy issues of the day.

Collaborative Sections

Five Academy sections—Anesthesiology and Resuscitation, Evidence Based Health Care, Radiology, Pediatrics, and Urology—partnered to host a well-received interdisciplinary panel on pre-operative testing, which was featured on the cover of Anesthesiology News.

Nursing Leadership Group

The Nursing Leadership Group hosted “Preparing Nurses for Board Governance,” a leadership training event designed to help nurses plan and navigate a path to governing body appointments in major health care institutions.

Section on Dermatology

At the Section on Dermatology’s second annual Emerging Leaders in Dermatology Night, a new Academic Research Awards Program in Dermatology was announced.  This annual award fulfills a need to provide funding for residents and early-career dermatologists performing basic science or clinical research relevant to the field of dermatology.

Section on Social Work

The Section on Social Work presented its annual Social Work Leadership Recognition Night, honoring Dr. Susan Bernstein, Director of Social Work Services at Mount Sinai Hospital, and her team for their work to develop care coordination models shown to reduce unnecessary re-hospitalizations, a goal of the Affordable Care Act.

Section on Health Care Delivery

The Section on Health Care Delivery presented several events including “Albany Update: Fitting Together the Pieces of NYS Health Care Reforms,” featuring a panel of New York State health care experts.

Section on the History of Medicine and Public Health


For the first time, the Section on the History of Medicine & Public Health hosted two History Night events instead of one to provide a forum for the large number of strong papers submitted by health professionals and others actively working on history of medicine research.