Bellevue Gala 2024
Dr. Nate Link, Chief Executive Officer Williams Hicks, Event Honoree Dr. Daniel F. Roses, and Dr. Steven B. Abramson
The Bellevue Association is comprised of physicians, community members, and concerned citizens who support Bellevue Hospital Center in its mission to offer high-quality, compassionate healthcare to all New Yorkers.
Bellevue Hospital Center. Founded in 1736, Bellevue Hospital is the oldest public hospital in the United States. For almost 300 years, Bellevue Hospital has been safeguarding the public health of New Yorkers and the city’s global population. Bellevue Hospital represents the noblest ideals of a humane society, providing free medical treatment to every person who comes through its doors, regardless of ability to pay, legal status, or illness.
Bellevue Teaching. The influence of Bellevue Hospital Center on the medical profession cannot be overestimated. Bellevue has served as the training ground for countless doctors and is the primary teaching hospital for NYU-Langone. Thousands of doctors from all over the world, including many members of the Board of The Bellevue Association, have learned the art and science of healing at Bellevue.
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Special Honoree
Our special honoree for this years Bellevue 2024 Gala is Dr. Daniel F. Roses, the Jules Leonard Whitehill Professor of Surgery and Oncology, in the Department of Surgery at NYU-Grossman School of Medicine.
Daniel F. Roses, MD, still recalls his first encounter with Bellevue and its impact on his career. To Dr. Roses, Bellevue is a dominant presence in medical education because, as he explains, “It was and remains a unique center for medicine, dedicated to caring for the broadest spectrum of patients in New York and around the world.”
After attending Columbia as an undergraduate, Dr. Roses entered the NYU School of Medicine in 1965. With the exception of two years of active duty in the U.S. Navy as a Lieutenant Commander in the Medical Corps, he has been at NYU ever since. Dr. Roses is the Jules Leonard Whitehill Professor of Surgery and Oncology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine.
From the beginning, Dr. Roses’ mentors at Bellevue encouraged him to pursue a career with clinical responsibility, as well as research and teaching, all of which laid the foundation for his surgical practice. He became a professor of surgery at the age of 39. Dr. Roses credits his experiences at Bellevue as a pivotal component of demonstrating the importance of teaching in clinical practice and believes that Bellevue remains an invaluable resource for medical education.
In addition to the many national and international honours that he has received, Dr. Roses is the author and co-author of more than 275 published manuscripts in the medical literature, as well as two major textbooks—Breast Cancer and Diagnosis and Management of Cutaneous Malignant Melanoma. As an educator, he has received the Great Teacher Award from New York University and is a five-time recipient of the Distinguished Teacher Award from NYU School of Medicine. He is also the recipient of Solomon A. Bergson Alumni Achievement Award in Clinical Science from NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Among scores of other achievements, Dr. Roses also served as a principal investigator for the National Cancer Institute’s Multicenter Selective Lymphadenectomy Trial, which established sentinel node biopsy as the standard of care for malignant melanoma and breast cancer. He also founded the Shifrin-Myers Breast Cancer Discovery Fund to provide funding for pilot projects in breast cancer research.
Dr. Roses is very proud of the history of Bellevue and being part of that legacy for over 50 years. Like so many being honoured tonight, his time at Bellevue was an essential part of his career’s trajectory. “It is often said that to practice good medicine one has to teach good medicine,” he says. “And whatever I have done I owe a great deal to Bellevue as a center of scientific medicine, public health, and above all, medical education.”
In Recognition
Medical Professional Board Members of The Bellevue Association
Dr. Steven Abramson
Dr. Michael Ambrosino
Dr. Mary Anne Badaracco
Dr. Nancy Bennett
Dr. Deborah Bernstein
Dr. Benard P. Dreyer
Dr. Lewis Goldfrank
Dr. Robert Grossman
Dr. Rajneesh Gulati
Dr. Budd Heyman
Dr. Katherine Jahnes
Dr. Gary Kalkut
Dr. Nate Link
Dr. Joseph Ravenell
Dr. Daniel Sterman
Dr. Linda Tewksbury
Dr. Fred Valentine
Dr. Andrew Wallach
Dr. Sondra Zabar
Dr. Joseph Zuckerman
Dr. Abigail Zuger
