STANDING Brooklyn’s Biggest Booster
Roll out welcome mat for new doc
SUNSET PARK
Standing O gives a big welcome
to Dr. Sam Serouya, a gastroenterologist
who recently joined the medical
staff at NYU Langone Hospital–
Brooklyn.
Serouya specializes in advanced
therapeutic endoscopy — which allows
direct evaluation of the gastrointestinal
tract and non-invasive
treatment of digestive disorders and
diseases. He is profi cient in using
state-of-the-art tools and performing
leading-edge endoscopic procedures
to detect and treat precancerous and
cancerous growths.
He joins a highly trained team of
gastroenterologists headed by Dr.
Adam J. Goodman,
chief of gastroenterology
and
director of endoscopy
and quality
in the Department
of Medicine. The
team works collaboratively
with surgeons,
oncologists,
radiologists, and a
variety of disease
specialists to provide
patients with
innovative minimally
invasive approaches to treatment.
NYU Langone Hospital–Brooklyn
offers the latest generation of technologies
for upper and lower endoscopy,
including colonoscopy, of the gastrointestinal
tract, which includes the
mouth, esophagus, stomach, and intestines,
as well as nearby organs
like the liver, pancreas, and bile duct.
Advanced endoscopy includes endoscopic
ultrasound, endoscopic retrograde
cholangiopancreatography,
and a wide range of endoscopic surgical
procedures.
“These technologies provide a detailed
image of the lining and walls of
the digestive tract, as well as surrounding
tissues, and these procedures allow
direct evaluation and innovative
treatment of digestive problems,” says
Serouya. “Advanced endoscopy is a
cutting-edge fi eld that is constantly
expanding to provide more and more
modalities for the diagnosis and treatment
of both benign and malignant
conditions.”
A stellar student, Serouya graduated
summa cum laude and earned
Phi Beta Kappa honors as a pre-med
undergraduate at Tufts University
in Boston. He completed his medical
education at NYU School of Medicine,
followed by an internship and
residency in internal medicine at
NYU Langone Medical Center.
Additionally, he completed a
three-year gastroenterology fellowship
at Mount Sinai Beth Israel
and a one-year advanced endoscopy
fellowship at Montefi ore Medical
Center.
Serouya cautions that certain
symptoms should not be ignored, including
yellowing of the eyes or skin;
abdominal pain, weight loss, blood
with vomiting or defecation, pain
with swallowing, or a sense of bloating.
Any of these conditions should be
brought to the attention of a primary
care provider who can make a referral
to a specialist in gastroenterology.
BOROUGH WIDE
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Know a deserving teacher who has
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students? Nominate that teacher for a
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Blackboard Award!
New York Family magazine is
looking for nominations for its 2019
Teachers Blackboard Awards, which
honor and celebrate educators of excellence.
The teachers who are picked as
2019 honorees will be feted at a ceremony
in June.
City teachers from all grade levels
(nursery school through high
school) and from every educational
sector (public, private, parochial, and
charter) are eligible for nomination.
Please include a brief explanation of
why this teacher is special.
In addition to nominations from
parents, nominations from educators
and students are also welcome.
The deadline to nominate a teacher
is April 5, 2019.
For more information and to nominate
your teacher, visit blackboardawards.
com . — Courtney Donahue
DOWNTOWN
Executives at Macy’s Fulton
Mall location partnered with a
charity founded by late actress
Elizabeth Taylor to present checks
totalling $70,000 to organizations
dedicated to combating HIV and
AIDS on Feb. 27.
Elizabeth Taylor’s grandson,
Rhys Tivey, was on hand with Macy’s
Downtown Brooklyn Assistant
Store Manager Tameka Baber to
pass along a $50,000 check to Gay
Men’s Health Crisis, and a $20,000
check to Visual AIDS, two local
organizations that fi ght to bring
awareness to the fatal auto-immune
illnesses.
The event, which happened to
fall on the late leading lady’s birthday,
is a part of the Elizabeth Taylor
AIDS Foundation’s ongoing
mission to provide grants for existing
charities and international
programs to provide care and other
services to people living with HIV
and AIDS. — Colin Mixson
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS
A true trailblazer
Three cheers to retired Justice
Yvonne Lewis, who was
honored for her groundbreaking
service to the judiciary at
the Brooklyn Women’s Bar
Association’s Black History
Month celebration at the Brooklyn
Bar Association in Brooklyn
Heights on Feb. 21.
Legal eagles from around
Kings County flocked to the association’s
Remsen Street headquarters
to celebrate Lewis, who
was the first African-American
woman to be elected judge of
the Kings County Civil Court
in 1986, and the second to take
a seat at Brooklyn’s Supreme
Court in 1991, before she retired
in 2015, according to one
of the leaders behind the event,
vice president of the Brooklyn
Women’s Bar Association, Natoya
McGhie.
Justice Sylvia Hinds-Radix
of the Appellate Division, Second
Department, spoke at the
legal society’s home between
Henry and Clinton streets, telling
attendees about how Lewis
was a mentor to her, and remembering
how the two women
would often be the only people
of color in courtrooms in the
1980s, according to McGhie.
The event was presided over
by the Women’s Bar Association
President Carrie Anne Cavallo
and the Brooklyn Bar Association
President David Chidekel,
and was closed out with a beautiful
rendition of Etta James’s
“At Last” by 13-year-old Nathaniel
Sobers.
The get-together also honored
prominent African-American
leaders, which aligns
with the Women’s Bar Association’s
mission, according to
McGhie.
“It’s what our organization
is about. It’s about community
efforts and promoting equality
and recognizing those in the legal
organization,” she said.
— Kevin Duggan
HELPING HAND: Macy’s Downtown Brooklyn partnered with the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS
Foundation to present checks totaling $70,000 to two local organizations fi ghting the
auto-immune illness. Nyki Elle Photography
Joining forces to help those in need