Jul 12 2010

NYIT Hosts Playing for Parkinson’s Benefit Concert

Old Westbury, N.Y. (July 12, 2010) – New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) will host the Playing for Parkinson’s concert, featuring The Nassau Pops Symphony Orchestra, to benefit NYIT’s Adele Smithers Parkinson’s Disease Treatment Center.

When: Sunday, July 18, 2010, from 3 to 4:30 p.m.

Where: W. Kenneth Riland Academic Health Care Center auditorium

Tickets cost $25 per person, and all proceeds are tax-deductible. Reservations are required as seating is limited. For more information about the concert or to reserve seats, please contact Barbara Urban at burban@nyit.edu.

Adele Smithers Parkinson’s Disease Treatment Center is part of NYIT’s Academic Health Care Center (AHCC), an active, ambulatory health-care teaching institution at NYIT’s College of Osteopathic Medicine (NYCOM). The center offers an innovative and comprehensive treatment program that empowers and improves the well-being of Parkinson’s disease patients.  As a progressive collaboration among physicians, health professionals, and neuroscientists, the center works to alleviate the physical limitations and debilitating symptoms of patients with this disease.

About NYIT
New York Institute of Technology (NYIT), founded in 1955, offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees in more than 90 fields of study, including architecture and design; arts and sciences; education; engineering and computing sciences; health professions; management; and osteopathic medicine. A non-profit independent, private institution of higher education, NYIT has more than 15,000 students attending campuses on Long Island and Manhattan, online, and at its global campuses. Led by President Edward Guiliano, NYIT 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, 85,000 students have graduated from NYIT. For more information, visit nyit.edu.

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Contact:
Briana Samuels
Communications Specialist
646.273.6022
brianasamuels@nyit.edu