Tricia Pendergrast

Mar 7, 2024 | statnews.com | Tricia Pendergrast |Jared Boyce

Medical students at Albert Einstein School of Medicine in New York City gathered last week to hear a life-changing announcement: Ruth Gottesman revealed she would be donating $1 billion, ensuring no student at Einstein will pay tuition ever again. Leadership at Albert Einstein School of Medicine celebrated the donation as a means to attract a more diverse student body. Improving diversity in the nation’s physician workforce is a public health imperative.

Mar 7, 2024 | everand.com | Tricia Pendergrast |Jared Boyce

A second New York medical school is going tuition-free in hopes of improving diversity. But more changes are needed. Medical students at Albert Einstein School of Medicine in New York City gathered last week to hear a life-changing announcement: Ruth Gottesman revealed $1 billion, ensuring no student at Einstein will pay tuition ever again.

Oct 3, 2023 | jamanetwork.com | Tricia Pendergrast |Regina Royan |Vineet M. Arora

Temporal Trends in Childhood Household Income Among Medical School Applicants and Matriculants Trends in Childhood Household Income in Applicants and Matriculants to Medical School and the Likelihood of Acceptance Mytien Nguyen, MS; Mayur M. Desai, PhD, MPH; Tonya L. Fancher, MD, MPH; Sarwat I. Chaudhry, MD; Hyacinth R. C.

Jun 23, 2023 | statnews.com | Tricia Pendergrast |Regina Royan |Vineet Arora

Father’s Day weekend was anything but calm on Twitter, which erupted as vaccine expert Peter Hotez was challenged online to a debate by podcaster and former reality TV host Joe Rogan. Rogan’s challenge began when Hotez, a professor of pediatrics and molecular virology and microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine and vaccine expert, tweeted his concern about Rogan’s three-hour interview with longtime anti-vaccine activist and presidential candidate Robert F.

Jun 14, 2023 | jamanetwork.com | Regina Royan |Tricia Pendergrast |Nicole C. Woitowich |N. Seth Trueger

Introduction Advocacy on social media is not without risks.