Osteopathic Medicine
Osteopathic medicine is a unique form of American medical care that was developed in 1874 by Andrew Taylor Still, M.D. Dr. Still founded a philosophy of medicine based on ideas that date back to Hippocrates, the father of medicine. The philosophy focuses on the unity of all body parts. He identified the musculoskeletal system as a key element of health. He recognized the body's ability to heal itself and stressed preventive medicine, eating properly, and keeping fit. A Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine—a D.O.—is a complete physician, fully trained and licensed to prescribe medication, perform surgery, and utilize manipulative treatment. The osteopathic philosophy of treating the whole person is applied to the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.
Mission
The NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine is committed to training osteopathic physicians for a lifetime of learning and practice, based upon the integration of evidence-based knowledge, critical thinking, and the tenets of osteopathic principles and practice. We are also committed to preparing osteopathic physicians for careers in healthcare, including that in the inner city and rural communities, as well as to the scholarly pursuit of new knowledge concerning health and disease. We provide a continuum of educational experiences to NYITCOM students, extending through the clinical and post-graduate years of training. This continuum provides the future osteopathic physician with the foundation necessary to maintain competence and compassion, as well as the ability to better serve society through research, teaching, and leadership.
Vision
To advance patient-centered, population-based osteopathic healthcare through transformative education and illuminating research.
Outcomes
NYITCOM is proud to share our outcomes data. We consistently perform exceptionally well in national licensing examinations administered by the National Board of Osteopathic Medicinal Examiners. Find more outcomes information on our website.
Accreditation
NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine established in 1977 is accredited by the New York State Board of Regents, Middle States Commission on Higher Education, and the American Osteopathic Association Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation (COCA), which is the national accrediting agency for colleges educating osteopathic student physicians. Any student who has a complaint related to the COCA accreditation standards and procedures should file the complaint with:
The American Osteopathic Association
Department of Accreditation
142 E. Ontario St.
Chicago, IL 60611
312-202-8000
predoc@osteopathic.org
New York Institute of Technology
New York Institute of Technology offers 100+ tech-focused degree programs and areas of specialization—comprised of undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees in more than 50 fields of study—including architecture and design, arts and sciences, education, engineering and computing sciences, health professions, management, and osteopathic medicine. A nonprofit, independent, private institution of higher education, New York Tech has nearly 8,000 students attending its six schools and colleges on the campuses of Long Island, New York City, Vancouver, and online. The university is guided by its mission to provide career-oriented professional education, offer access to opportunity to all qualified students, and support applications-oriented research that benefits the larger world. To date, nearly 112,000 graduates have received degrees from New York Tech.
New York Institute of Technology is an independent college chartered by the New York State Board of Regents and accredited by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, among other accrediting boards and agencies in higher education.
For more information, visit nyit.edu.
Photo Release
Please refer to New York Tech's university-wide photo release policy.
Nondiscrimination Policy
Please refer to New York Tech's university-wide policy on non-discrimination.
Reasonable Accommodations and Documentation
New York Institute of Technology adheres to the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Section 504. No qualified individual with a disability shall, on the basis of disability, be excluded from participation in or be denied the benefits of this institution's classes or facilities. The College of Osteopathic Medicine has made reasonable modifications in policies, practices, procedures, and/or facilities when such modifications were necessary, to accommodate the needs of disabled individuals. The deans in the Office of Academic Affairs have been designated to coordinate compliance with the nondiscrimination requirements contained in Subtitle A of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990.
New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine (NYITCOM) offers medical education in two scenic campus locations on Long Island, N.Y. and Jonesboro, A.R.
The beautiful, wooded Long Island campus of NYITCOM provides easy access to New York City. State-of-the-art research and clinical institutions on Long Island and in New York City enhance the educational experience and opportunities. The campus facilities occupy most of a three-building complex: The Nelson A. Rockefeller Academic Center houses an auditorium, the Dean's office, the medical library, faculty offices, student study spaces, small group learning classrooms, and research laboratories. In addition, the offices of the Vice President for Health Sciences and Medical Affairs and the Academic Technologies and Media Services Groups are located in this building.
Also located on the NYITCOM Long Island campus: the W. Kenneth Riland Academic Health Care Center houses a large auditorium, the anatomy laboratories, several faculty research laboratories and offices, animal facilities, a cafeteria, and the Center for Simulation in Medicine, which trains and assesses students from their first year to their graduation in a patient simulation learning and assessment center.
Adjacent to the W. Kenneth Riland Academic Health Care Center is the Hannah and Charles Serota Academic Center, which houses a newly renovated state-of-the-art auditorium and study center and a modern osteopathic manipulation teaching laboratory. This facility also includes faculty and administrative offices and several conference rooms. In addition, students have access to campus playing fields, basketball and tennis courts, campus fitness center, and running track.
NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine (NYITCOM) at Arkansas State University, located in Jonesboro, A.R., is NYITCOM's newest location and offers advanced academic technology—linking classrooms, faculty, and students in New York and Arkansas. NYITCOM-Arkansas is housed in Wilson Hall, a beautiful art deco style building, which has been fully renovated with state-of-the-art facilities to optimize premier medical education. The site also includes osteopathic manipulative medicine (OMM) and anatomy labs, as well as patient simulation and robotics labs. During clerkship and resident training in leading hospitals and ambulatory health networks throughout the state and region, the Jonesboro campus of NYITCOM provides opportunities to work and learn in urban and rural communities in one of the most medically underserved areas of the country. In addition, this campus offers the best of Arkansas State University's resources, including on- and off-campus housing, dining services, libraries, a state-of-the-art fitness center, a health center, and access to athletic and cultural events.
The NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine medical libraries, at both the New York Long Island campus and Arkansas Jonesboro campus locations, house thousands of volumes of journals, textbooks, and other references and subscribe to hundreds of online resources. Access and training is available to all College of Osteopathic Medicine community members in person and online. The libraries also house photocopiers that require the use of the student's ID card instead of currency. The medical libraries are open for extended hours and professional librarians are available to advise, assist, and train all patrons.
At the Long Island campus medical library, students may borrow a laptop computer for limited time frames. Salten Hall Library—the main campus library—provides access to thousands of non-medical books, research literature, and other general resources.
All College of Osteopathic Medicine buildings are equipped with wireless network access.
Ambulatory Centers
NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine operates two primary care centers in New York. The on-campus facility in Long Island, N.Y. is known as the Academic Health Care Center, and the facility in Central Islip, N.Y. is called the Family Health Care Center. These centers are staffed by faculty from NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine.
The Academic Health Care Center provides clinical services geared toward students, faculty, staff, and their family members, in addition to the general community. These services include Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Osteopathic Medicine, Neurology, Genetic Counseling, Psychology, Acupuncture, Breast Health Services, Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, and Speech Therapy. In addition, the Academic Health Care Center also houses the Adele Smithers Parkinson's Disease Treatment Center, and the Centers of Sports Medicine, Behavioral Health, and Biomedical Innovation. In Central Islip, the Family Health Care Center provides primary care, including pediatrics, for the student body, faculty, staff, and the community.
The Adele Smithers Parkinson's Disease Treatment Center provides innovative comprehensive treatment, promotes community awareness and Parkinson's disease education, fosters scientific studies and medical research, and perhaps most importantly, helps patients achieve and maintain the best quality of life possible while coping with their disease.
The Center for Sports Medicine has a mission to deliver high-quality and personalized care in order to prevent injury, optimize performance, and provide wellness guidance and support. Advanced equipment in the Sports Medicine Center allows for evaluation of body composition, metabolic testing, bone density and fracture risk, lean muscle mass, adipose and visceral fat percentages, as well as the maximal rate of oxygen consumption.
The NYITCOM Center for Behavioral Health is located in the Academic Health Center on the Long Island campus. Staffed by a psychiatrist and psychologists, the center provides comprehensive mental health programming to students. The center's programming seeks to promote discussion and raise awareness of the mental health needs of the medical school community through research, educational opportunities, and campus resources. The center's vision is to identify and meet the mental health needs and challenges of our students by offering services that focus on education, research, treatment, and prevention, reducing stigma and offering hope.
The Center for Biomedical Innovation has a mission to innovate, create, envision, and invent. Using state-of-the-art technologies including artificial intelligence, virtual reality, robotics, 3-D technologies, and imaging, the center will develop and apply novel technologies for biomedical discovery, diagnostics, and treatment. The Center utilizes lab spaces in both the Riland Building, as well as lab space in NYIT de Seversky Mansion on campus.
Students attending NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State University have access to health services offered through the Medical Clinic operated by NYITCOM at Arkansas State University.
Health Care Centers Addresses
NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine
Academic Health Care Center
Northern Boulevard / P.O. Box 8000
Old Westbury, NY 11568-8000
Phone: 516.686.1300
Fax: 516.686.7890
Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Thursday, 8 a.m. – 8 p.m.
* Patients are seen by appointment (preferred) but walk-in appointments are available.
NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine
Family Health Care Center
267 Carleton Avenue
Central Islip, NY 11722
Phone: 631.348.3254
Fax: 631.348.3031
Hours: Monday, Friday, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
* Patients are seen by appointment (preferred) but walk-in appointments are available.
NYITCOM at Arkansas State University
Medical Clinic
333 Red Wolf Blvd
Jonesboro, AR 72401
Phone: 870.972.2054
Fax: 870.972.2131
Hours: Monday – Friday, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
I do hereby affirm my loyalty to the profession I am about to enter. I will be mindful always of my great responsibility to preserve the health and the life of my patients, to retain their confidence and respect, both as a physician and a friend, who will guard their secrets with scrupulous honor and fidelity, to perform faithfully my professional duties, to employ only those recognized methods of treatment consistent with good judgment and with my skill and ability, keeping in mind always nature’s laws and the body’s inherent capacity for recovery.
I will be ever vigilant in aiding in the general welfare of the community, sustaining its laws and institutions, not engaging in those practices which will in any way bring shame or discredit upon myself or my profession. I will give no drugs for deadly purposes to any person, though it be asked of me.
I will endeavor to work in accord with my colleagues in a spirit of progressive cooperation and never by word or by act cast imputations upon them or their rightful practices.
I will look with respect and esteem upon all those who have taught me my art. To my college I will be loyal and strive always for its best interests and for the interests of the students who will come after me. I will ever be alert to further the application of basic biologic truths to the healing arts and to develop the principles of osteopathy which were first enunciated by Andrew Taylor Still.
Office of the Dean
Nicole Wadsworth, D.O.
Dean
Raquel Romanick, J.D.
Associate Dean, Operations
Shelley Cohen, M.B.A.
Executive Director, Finance
Susan Payette-Kulik, M.S., M.A.
Director, Student Professionalism and Special Projects
Anne Marie Kemp, M.A.
Executive Assistant to the Dean
Stacey Bogdan, M.P.S.
Director, Development, Alumni Relations, and External Affairs
Kathryn Karwoski, B.A.
Assistant Director, Alumni Relations
Brandon Hauff, B.A.
Administrative Specialist, Office of the Dean
Academic Affairs Office
William Blazey, D.O.
Associate Dean, Academic Affairs
Claire Bryant, Ph.D.
Assistant Dean, Educational Operations
Nelson Eng, D.O.
Assistant Dean, Clinical Education
James Burke, M.B.A.
Academic Enrichment Specialist
Crystal Collins, M.P.S., M.S.
Director, Pre-Clinical Education
Feona Elliot, M.P.S.
Director, Clinical Education
Esther Hevia Pagàn, M.P.S.
Academic Enrichment Specialist
Marilyn Hluszko, M.S.
Academic Enrichment Specialist
Kristin McBride, B.A.
Manager, Regional Clinical Site
Shannon McCartan, B.S.
Assistant Director, Clinical Education
Cheryl Newman, M.S.
Director, Academic Achievement and Disabilities Services Coordinator
Dianna Potente, B.S.
Senior Year Four Coordinator
Nikita Sangani, B.D.S., M.H.A.
Manager, Clinical Regional Site
Clinical Services
Brian Harper, M.D.
Chief Medical Officer, Academic Health Care Center
Vice President, Equity and Inclusion
Andrea Coladner, D.O.
Associate Medical Director
Hallie Zwibel, D.O.
Assistant Dean, Clinical Operations
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Brian Harper, M.D.
Chief Medical Officer, Academic Health Care Center
Vice President, Equity and Inclusion
Medical Library
Jeanne Strausman, M.L.S.
Medical Librarian
Mahnaz Tehrani, MLIS, MSIT
Medical Librarian
Stephanie Lopez, MLIS
Medical Librarian
Research Office
Kurt Amsler, Ph.D.
Associate Dean, Research
Bhuma Krishnamachari, Ph.D.
Assistant Dean, Research
Min-Kyung Jung, Ph.D.
Biostatistician
Edwin Pagan
NYITCOM OSHA Compliance Officer
Jeanne Quidore-Jermann
Director, Vivarium
Student Administration Office
Kristin Cohen, Ph.D.
Associate Dean, Student Administration
Angjela Dajko, M.A.
Senior Admissions Specialist, Admissions
Stephen Dougherty, B.S.
Director, Admissions
Sadia Halim, LMSW
Associate Director, Counseling and Wellness
Clair Jacobi, B.S.
Director, Financial Aid
Heidi Langdon, B.S.
Assistant Director, Admissions
Kaitlyn McNamara, M.S.
Assistant Director, Admissions
Tanya Patterson-Stanley, M.P.A.
Assistant Director, Financial Aid
Kylie Pernice, LMSW
Associate Director, Counseling and Wellness
Thomas Reilly, M.S.
Associate Director, Financial Aid
Kathleen Riley, B.A.
Associate Director, Admissions
Stephen Taylor, Ph.D.
Associate Director, Counseling and Wellness
Christine Zembis, B.S.
Specialist, Application Processing, Admissions
Student Affairs
Donna Marie McMahon, D.O.
Associate Dean, Student Affairs
Felicia Bruno, M.A.
Assistant Dean, Student Affairs
Danielle Abbatiello, M.A.
Assistant Director, Medical Student Performance Evaluations
Marie Aldridge, B.A., B.S.
Senior Career Advisor, Medical Student Performance Evaluations
Linda Darroch-Short, M.S.
Director, Student Life
Deborah Heineman, M.A.
Manager, Student Services
Christine Hutak, Ph.D.
Director, Student Advisement and Mentoring
Jason Lasky, B.A.
Associate Registrar
Christine Martinez, B.B.A.
Assistant Registrar
Diane Molloy, M.S.
Manager, STEP Program
Julianna Viviani, M.A.
Senior Career Advisor, Residency Services
NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State University Campus
Shane Speights, D.O., FAAFP
Site Dean, NYITCOM at Arkansas State University
Evette Allen Moore, Ph.D.
Assistant Dean, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Rajendram Rajnarayanan, Ph.D.
Assistant Dean, Research and Publications
Clinton Iadanza, Ph.D.
Assistant Director, Educational Research
Kapil Bajaj, M.C.T.P.
Director, Academic and Research Technology
Academic Affairs
Amanda Deel, D.O., FAAFP
Associate Dean, Academic Affairs
Tracy McAllister Owens, Ed.D.
Assistant Dean, Academic Achievement
Tenisha Roming, B.S.
Assistant Director, Clinical Education
Ben Woodruff, M.B.A.
Director, Clinical Education
Lize McCoy, Ed.D.
Director, Faculty Development
William Scott Hinson, M.S.
Academic Enrichment Specialist
Michael Stinnett, M.S.E.
Academic Enrichment Specialist
Tony Slieman, Ph.D.
Director, Academic Affairs
Medical Library
Sloane Kelley, Ed.D.
Library Director
John Carter, MLIS
Medical Librarian
Rebekah Harmon, B.S.
Library Associate
Student Administration
Derrick Dixon, Ed.D.
Assistant Dean, Student Administration
Pamela Diaz-Lagos, M.S.
Associate Director, Admissions
Candace Evans, M.A.
Senior Career Advisor
Tracy Mosbey, LPC
Associate Director, Wellness Services and Counseling
Chioma Ota, LMSW
Assistant Director, Counseling and Wellness
Elizabeth Rouse, M.S.
Associate Director, Student Life
Colin Thompson, M.S.
Assistant Director, Admissions
Vicki Walker, Ed.D.
Associate Director, Financial Aid and Registration
Jennifer Wharton, M.S., CHES, CTTS
Associate Director, Pipeline Programs
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