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Jericho doctor honored by New York City Pimsler grew up in Little Neck, Queens, before moving with his family to Jericho. He Dr. Mason Pimsler, a special- studied at Long Island Univerist in internal medicine from sity, and completed a fellowship Jericho who treats patients in in geriatrics from 2013 to 2014 the Bronx through New York at the SUNY Downstate, in City’s public hospital system, Brooklyn. was honored by the city with a Pimsler treats common conproclamation declaring Nov. 7, ditions such as diabetes, hyper2025, a day in his tension and heart name. disease, often in The recognition patients who face acknowledged significant health Pimsler’s work carcare barriers. For ing for underserved t h e p a s t s eve r a l people across New years he has treated York City, including people living in shelthe homeless and t e r s t h ro u g h t h e others who struggle hospital’s safety net to access medical DR. MASoN services, which offer treatment. care to those who PIMSlER Pimsler, 59, works Jericho would otherwise go at Lincoln Medical untreated. Center in the Bronx, “I treat the shelwhich is part of the city’s ter community,” he said. Health + Hospitals CorporaThat effort grew out of earlition. His focuses on internal er work helping migrants who medicine and geriatrics put were arriving in the city. Prohim on the front lines of diag- viding medical care to people nosing and managing a wide who can’t afford treatment, range of conditions affecting Pimsler said, has become one adult patients. of the most meaningful aspects “Internal medicine — it cov- of his work. ers everything in adults 18 and “I like treating the patient,” over,” he explained. “That’s he said. “There are people in especially cardiovascular dia- this life that need help, and betes, prevention, treatment, that’s what the government’s hypertension.” Continued on page 11
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Medical students at Hofstra explained the different parts of the neurological system to high school students from across Long island.
Teaching the next generation of doctors about neuroscience By WIll SHEElINE wsheeline@liherald.com
More than 50 high school students from across Long Island gathered at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell for the annual Brain Bee competition last Saturday, studying real brain specimens, exploring neuroscience concepts and hearing from physicians and medical students working in the field. Students moved through a series of educational stations in the school’s anatomy lab, where they examined skulls, spinal cords and preserved human brains while learning about the nervous system from medical students and neurologists. The two-part compe-
tition included a multiple-choice test on brain facts and the identification of anatomical structures and functions in real human brain specimens. Among the participants was Locust Valley High School sophomore Daniyel Asim, who said he has been interested in medicine, and specifically neuroscience, for years, because both of his parents are physicians. Before entering the lab, Asim said he was nervous about seeing real brain specimens for the first time. “I was mostly worried about it,” he said. “[But] I calmed myself down, and it was easy.” Dr. Robert Hill, an associate professor of science education at Hofstra who helped Continued on page 9
didn’t become a doctor to be called ‘doctor.’