Tuesday, May 26, 2026
5:00 p.m. to 8:45 p.m.
Venue
New York Academy of Medicine
1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
New York, NY 10029
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Monday, June 1, 2026
5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Venue
New York Academy of Medicine
1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
New York, NY 10029
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Monday, April 20, 2026
6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Venue
New York Academy of Medicine
1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
New York, NY 10029
The event is free; advance registration is required.
Monday, March 23, 2026
5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Venue
New York Academy of Medicine
1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
New York, NY 10029
The event is free; advance registration is required.
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Monday, February 23, 2026 | Monday, March 2, 2026
5:30PM-7:00PM
Venue
This will be a two-part virtual event. Login information will be included in your confirmation email.
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Wednesday, March 18, 2026
6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Venue
New York Academy of Medicine
1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
New York, NY 10029
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Wednesday, February 11, 2026
5:30pm-7:30pm
Venue
New York Academy of Medicine
1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
New York, NY 10029
The event is free; advance registration is required.
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Thursday, November 20, 2025
4:00PM – 5:00PM
Venue
This will be a virtual event. Login information will be included in your confirmation email.
The event is free.
Please join New York Academy of Medicine Library for a presentation by our 2025 Klemperer Fellow in the History of Medicine, Leigh Alon, on research she conducted using the Library’s resources.
Abstract
The arrival of millions of new Jewish immigrants, as well as the rise of the eugenics movement, led to an increase in antisemitic sentiment in the United States in the early 20th century. American Jewish physicians, like other Jews, represented a wide range of ideologies regarding how this frightening trend should be addressed at home and globally, running the gamut from religious orthodoxy, to Jewish immigration to Palestine, to Jewish autonomous communities in the United States, to the complete integration of Jews with their fellow Americans. Unlike most American Jews, however, they were especially well equipped to couple these recommendations with their authority on Jewish biology, directly countering the scientific racism of eugenicists. This insider knowledge, along with the high esteem medical men were held by Jews at the time, made the voices of American Jewish physicians central to the community’s answer to “The Jewish Question” in the United States. While they disagreed on some biological nuances, early 20th century American physicians were broadly united in their resistance to a hereditarian notion of Jewishness: that Jewishness was biologically inscribed and that the Jewish body was inevitably distinct from the rest of the human race. By delving into the published writings, personal correspondences, and diary entries of two Jewish physicians who were in many ways ideologically opposed, I will show how early 20th century American Jewish physicians, regardless of their politics, saw delegitimizing the biological basis for Jewishness as imperative towards securing their community’s future.
About the Speaker

Leigh Alon is an MD/PhD student in the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, in her fifth year of the PhD. She is working on a dissertation tracking how American Jewish physicians defined Jewishness in biological terms from the late 19th into the 21st century.
Monday, November 17, 2025
5:30PM – 7:50PM
Venue
New York Academy of Medicine
1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd St
New York, NY 10029
The event is free; advance registration is required.
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Join the NYAM Nursing Section for an evening of reflection, learning, and action. We’ll begin with a reception, followed by a business meeting, a screening of the powerful documentary Everybody’s Work, and a panel discussion. Directed by Chad Tingle and SHIFT Films, and produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the film explores how racism and other health justice issues impact care—and how individuals can help change the systems that perpetuate inequity.
Agenda
- 5:30 p.m. – Reception (30 minutes)
- 6:00 p.m. – Business Meeting (20 minutes)
- 6:20 p.m. – Documentary Screening (1 hour)
- 7:20 p.m. – Panel Discussion (30 minutes)
Panelists
- Kenya V. Beard, EdD, AGACNP-BC, ANEF, FAAN, FADLN
- Ashley Graham-Perel, EdD, RN, CNE, MS, BS
Moderator
Angela A. Appiah, PhD, DNP, MPH, RN, COA, FAACM
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Thursday, December 4, 2025
6:00pm – 8:00pm
Venue
New York Academy of Medicine
1216 Fifth Ave at 103rd Street
New York, NY 10029
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The New York Academy of Medicine Section on Anesthesiology is pleased to present its Ninth Annual Jeopardy Competition and Poster Presentation Night. Please join us for a poster viewing session followed by watching top residents from Anesthesiology programs in the greater New York/New Jersey area test their knowledge against one another in a Jeopardy competition. We hope that you will plan to join us.