Student-Faculty Exchanges
The Center for Global Health facilitates the exchange of students between NYCOM/NYIT and other health institutions around the world. Elizabeth Ann Sullivan is the first NYCOM student to participate in a global exchange program, at the University of Heidelberg under the guidance of Siegfried Mense M.D., PhD.
NYCOM Students in Beijing
In the summer of 2008, five NYCOM students traveled to China, and studied at the Peking University Health Science Center, one of the premier institutions of medical education in China. The students had a chance to see how two philosophies of medical care are practiced, as they studied both traditional and modern Chinese medicine. The group included Anna Mardakhaveva, David Parizh, Jessica Chin, Vladamir Lakhter, and Vivian Siu.
Elizabeth Ann Sullivan
Pre-Doctoral Academic Medicine Fellow
Elizabeth Ann Sullivan is a third-year osteopathic medical student and a pre-doctoral academic medicine fellow in NYCOM’s Department of Osteopathic Manual Medicine. She is the first NYCOM student to engage in international research at the University of Heidelberg under the guidance of Siegfried Mense M.D., PhD.
Sullivan serves as the research coordinator of the pediatric obesity program at North Shore-LIJ Huntington Hospital, and her current research focuses on musculoskeletal complaints of postpartum women and pediatric obesity. Her academic interests include international medicine and public health policy. She is a member of the Student Osteopathic Medical Association, American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians, and Project for Latino Health. In 2005, Sullivan completed a two-year research project in cardiovascular research at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research of the North Shore-Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Health System, where she co-authored “Nuclear Localization of Protein Kinase C-alpha Induces Thyroid Hormone Receptor-alpha1 Expression in the Cardiomyocyte” published in the American Journal of Physiology – Heart and Circulatory Physiology.
After graduating from Villanova University with a bachelor’s in Business Management, Sullivan volunteered for three years in Central America. Immediately prior to starting at NYCOM, she again worked overseas, volunteering for several months in Kolkata (Calcutta), India, where she helped give basic medical services to the underserved.