VALHALLA – A gift of $3 million to New York Medical College (NYMC) has endowed the professorship and chair in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan to support teaching and training of medical students and residents and to foster research. The benefactor is the estate of Catherine Hinterbuchner, M.D., a physician who served as chair of NYMC’s Department of Rehabilitation Medicine from 1971 to 2004 and earned emeritus status in 2005. She passed away in 2015 at the age of 88. The endowed chair will be named “The Catherine and Ladislav P. Hinterbuchner Endowed Chair in Rehabilitation Medicine,” named after her and her late husband.
“I met Dr. Hinterbuchner in 2012,” said Edward Halperin, M.D., M.A., Chancellor and Chief Executive Officer, NYMC, “She was a force of nature and deeply devoted to assuring the long-term development of the medical specialty of rehabilitation medicine in order to improve the quality and quantity of the lives of future generations of patients.”
The Department of Rehabilitation Medicine currently has 12 full-time faculty members, primarily based at Metropolitan in New York City. A national search was held to fill the endowed chair position leading to the selection of Eduardo Lopez M.D., as the inaugural Hinterbuchner Professor and Chair.
Since its founding in 1875, Metropolitan has been affiliated with NYMC, representing the oldest partnership between a hospital and a private medical school in the United States.
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