Perspectives

Dr. Meghan McGinty, Situation Unit Leader & Director, Emergency Planning, Resilience, and Recovery at NYC Health + Hospitals; and Scott Heller, Vice President, System Emergency Management at Albany Medical Center discuss how the health care industry has adapted to changing emergency events and overlapping and long-term emergency activations.

Dr. Alyssa Silver, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and attending physician at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore; and Dr. Noé Romo, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Pediatrics Inpatient discuss the role health care providers and institutions can play in firearm injury prevention.

Teresa Smith, MD, Associate Dean, GME and Affiliations & Associate Professor, Clinical Emergency Medicine at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, explores how GME programs have adapted to the challenges posed by COVID-19, how teaching hospitals can best support their residents, and what to expect as the new academic year begins. 

GNYHA’s David Rich and Jon Cooper take an expert look at what to expect from the incoming Biden administration on health care, including how a Democratic House and Senate will help President-elect Joe Biden, while presenting the challenge of a slim majority and need for bipartisan collaboration. 

Tom Mustac, Senior Director of Biomedical Cybersecurity at the Mount Sinai Health System, discusses responding to new and ongoing cyber threats during the COVID-19 pandemic and how health care can maintain its cybersecurity principles during an emergency.

Mark Jarrett, MD, Senior Vice President, Chief Quality Officer, and Associate Chief Medical Officer at Northwell Health, discusses approaching cybersecurity at multiple levels and how external partners can best help hospitals secure their facilities by creating a “just culture.”

Kris Kusche, Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at Albany Medical Center, discusses weaving cybersecurity into a health care organization as a basic strand of DNA and leveraging industry power to encourage change.