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Stepinac Hosts First-of-Its-Kind Medical Symposium For High School Students

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- Thirty-nine high school students from throughout Westchester and the Bronx recently devoted an entire Saturday at Archbishop Stepinac High School to learning all about career opportunities in the expanding fields of medicine and healthcare.

Stepinac High School students Joseph Esposito (left) of Yonkers and Alex Fiallos of Port Chester learn about checking blood pressure during an exercise that followed a lesson on patient evaluation and diagnosis at the Medical Symposium.

Stepinac High School students Joseph Esposito (left) of Yonkers and Alex Fiallos of Port Chester learn about checking blood pressure during an exercise that followed a lesson on patient evaluation and diagnosis at the Medical Symposium.

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The all-day Medical Symposium, which Stepinac hosted, was the first-of-its-kind to be held in Westchester. It drew students from The Ursuline School (New Rochelle), School of the Holy Child (Rye), North Salem High School (North Salem), Fordham Preparatory School (Bronx), John F. Kennedy High School (Bronx), Preston High School (Bronx) and Stepinac (White Plains).

Topics included: Careers in Medicine, Medical Ethics, Level of Patient Care, Patient Evaluation and Diagnosis, Public Health, Emergency Medicine, Medical Research, and Epidemiology. The program also provided students with real medical research case studies and enabled them to participate in simulations.

The symposium facilitator was Todd D. Stroberg, R.N. of the Cornell University Research Unit of the Joan & Sanford I. Weill Medical College. Stroberg drew on his 20-year career including emergency medicine, critical care, geriatric and neurology and 12 years in clinical and pharmacology university research.

The program included a discussion by Dr. Mark Herceg, Commissioner of Mental Health for Westchester County. New York City firefighter Gregory Elukowich talked about the role of a certified first responder in providing pre-hospital care for medical emergencies, drawing on his personal experience.

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