Editorial Board Q&A: Edward C. Halperin

Edward C. Halperin, MD, MA, chancellor and chief executive officer, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York 1.  Describe your current activities. I recently completed a detailed study of the impact of off-shore for-profit medical education on the access of U.S. schools to clinical clerkships. The results of this study will be published in an upcoming issue of Academic Medicine. My colleagues and I also recently completed an analysis of material that was alleged to have been ashes from the Dachau concentration camp crematoria. The ashes were brought back to the U.S. by a returning soldier after the war and stored for 60 years by his family. The analysis posed interesting biochemical and ethical issues. My day job is chancellor and chief executive officer of New York Medical College. We have a school of medicine (MD, MS in Medical Ethics), school of health sciences (MPH, DPH, DPT, MS in Speech Pathology, MS in Biostatistics), and graduate school (MS, PhD). Our application for a new dental school is pending. I also see patients as a radiation oncologist at Metropolitan Hospital in Harlem and at Westchester Medical Center, just north of New York City. 2. What gaps do you see in today’s scholarship? Two gaps that come to mind are: The US has a far better system for comparing the safety and efficacy of drug A to drug B than we do for analyzing the safety and efficacy of machine A to machine B. The tremendous personal and societal costs related to the introduction of roboti...
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