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Graudate Medical Education Transforms FIU Recruits Dr. Robert

Memorial Healthcare System Into Sackstein from Harvard

An Academic Medical Center as Medical Dean

For more than a decade, we have all expand a learning environment we feel Dr. Robert Sackstein, who
heard the predictions of a dire short- produces the type of physicians who grew up in Miami, will leave
age of physicians in critical care areas. will positively affect the care of many. Harvard Medical School to
Currently, Florida ranks 42nd out of Medical residents in our program are join Florida International
the 50 states for Graduate Medical training under the watch of an experi- University, where he’ll be the
Education (GME) spots per 100,000 enced faculty, many of whom are con- dean of the Herbert
people. The impact for South Florida sidered among the foremost innovators Wertheim College of
is potentially significant, since we in their field. We also provide an insid- Medicine and senior VP for
know physicians very often end up er’s perspective on the patient and fami- health affairs.
practicing where they were residents. ly-centered care philosophy, innovative Dr. John Rock, the found-
With Memorial Healthcare System medicine, safety and service-oriented ing dean of the college,
now accredited with seven residency culture we feel provides a blueprint for established in 2006, will take
programs, I’m proud to say we’re tak- modern medical care. Given our status a leave of absence to become Dr. Robert Sackstein
ing steps to address the future short- BY SAIMA CHAUDHRY, as a tertiary and quaternary institution, the founding dean of the col-
age. The need for the doctors we are MD, Memorial offers a rich academic envi- lege of medicine at Khalifa
training is clear, especially among a ronment that has attracted some of the University in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Dr. Rock
population that traditionally exceeds best medical school graduates this year, plans to return to FIU later and become the John and Mary
national averages in age and growth. and it will continue to do so in the future. Lou Dasburg Chair in Medicine.
The seven medical residency programs we offer The evolution and launch of our Graduate Medical Dr. Sackstein will become dean on Jan. 2, 2019. At
include Pediatrics, Internal Medicine, Physical Education program, with its seven residency pro- Harvard, he is a professor in the departments of dermatology
Medicine and Rehabilitation, Neurology, Psychiatry grams, has transformed Memorial Healthcare System and medicine, and co-director of the Glycoscience Center,
and Podiatry, with General Surgery recently being from a community-based network of hospitals into which focuses on the role of sugars in biological systems. He
accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate an academic medical center. This is an exciting time conducted clinical research at Brigham & Women’s
Medical Education (ACGME) and the Surgical for us and the South Florida community. Hospital.
Residency Review Committee. Memorial also is pur- Born in Cuba, Dr. Sackstein immigrated to Miami at age 4
suing accreditation in Anesthesia, OB/GYN and other Saima Chaudhry, MD, is Chief Academic Officer, and graduated from Southwest High School. He graduated
specialties in the near future. Memorial Graduate Medical Education. summa cum laude as a biology major at Harvard University,
While we’ve always had medical students at our six For more information about Memorial’s Graduate and then earned an M.D. and a Ph.D. from Harvard. He did
hospitals, formal residency programs enable us to Medical Education program, visit: MHS.net/gme his medical residency at Jackson Memorial Hospital in
Miami. He was previously on the faculty of both the
University of Miami and the University of South Florida.

18 November 2018 southfloridahospitalnews.com South Florida Hospital News