The Medical Society of the County of Albany

The recipient of the Academic Achievement Award of the Medical Society of the County of Albany, Inc. during the Awards and Recognition Day program at the Albany Medical College.  It is awarded to the fourth year student whose legal residence is Albany County and who has the highest academic average by the end of the [...]

Eric Anderson
ALBANY — Four researchers at Albany Medical College’s Center for Cardiovascular Sciences have received a total of nearly $6 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health to explore how the workings of cardiovascular and pulmonary systems relate to cardiovascular disease and diseases such as asthma.
Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/business/article/Albany-Med-draws-disease-study-funds-3575074.php#ixzz1vcr1jeNx

ALBANY Munir T. Jabbur, M.D., 86, passed away on May 11, 2012 in Albany. Read more HERE

This is personal and not medically related.  Our neighbor and dear friend Richard “Dick” Clemens passed away last night.  He was a retired Massachusetts State Trooper who, while working in the Berkshires in the 1950s, caught the eye of Norman Rockwell and became his subject in the famous Saturday Evening Post cover “The Runaway.”  Irrespective [...]