Sackler Faculty of Medicine

Sackler Faculty of Medicine is a medical school which is part of Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv, Israel.

It was named after Arthur, Mortimer and Raymond Sackler, U.S. physicians who made substantial donations to the school. Each year the school presents the Sackler Prize for a significant contribution to the fields of physics or chemistry.

It comprises a number of schools:

New York State / American Program

The Sackler School of Medicine New York State/American Program, located at Tel Aviv University, is chartered by the Regents of the University of the State of New York and is accredited by the State of Israel. The New York State Education Department reported that the program “meets or exceeds accepted standards of academic quality.”

Established in 1976, the New York State/American Program is taught in English, and has approximately 250 students enrolled. The program is specifically for qualified students who are citizens or permanent residents of the United States or Canada.

The goal of the program is to provide graduates with a comprehensive academic foundation in the science of human disease and with the clinical skills to translate this knowledge into accurate diagnoses and treatment. Equally important, Sackler strives to cultivate and nurture in its graduates the qualities that foster an empathetic, ethical doctor-patient relationship. Graduating physicians are encouraged to foster their own career-long commitment to professional self-assessment and continuing education in order to keep abreast of the rapid changes in medicine.

Its curriculum and teaching methods are modeled after those of U.S. medical schools. Classes are small. Classroom, laboratory and clinical sessions are supplemented by self-study and by tutoring and seminars in small groups. Clinical clerkships begin in the third year. At the beginning of the fourth year, students take 16 weeks of electives at U.S. medical institutions.

Israeli teaching institutions affiliated with Sackler include seven major medical centers, seven psychiatric hospitals, 20 research institutes and a large rehabilitation center.

Graduates of Sackler’s New York State/American Program consistently secure residency positions through “the Match” that are equal to those graduating from medical schools in America.[1]

Sackler Family & US Opioid Crisis

The Sackler family is listed on Forbes 2015 list of America’s Richest Families comes in at a stunning $14 billion. The Sackler family, which owns Stamford, Conn.-based Purdue Pharma, flew under the radar when Forbes launched its initial list of wealthiest families in July 2014, but this year they crack the top-20, edging out storied families like the Busches, Mellons and Rockefellers.[2]

The Sackler family made their wealth in large part by selling the most popular and controversial opioid of the 21st century — OxyContin.

All of the company’s profits — totaling billions of dollars alone from OxyContin — go to Sackler family trusts and entities. Nine members of the family are on the Purdue board. The family name has been highlighted and celebrated in the world of philanthropy, where the extended Sackler family has donated hundreds of millions of dollars. Museums, hospitals, and other institutions across the world carry the Sackler name as a result. These include the Serpentine Sackler Gallery in London; the Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian Museum, and the Sackler School of Medicine at Tel Aviv University in Israel.

Dr. Richard Sackler, a board member and past president of Purdue Pharma and according to public records is listed as a Trustee of the New York State / American Program.[3] Richard Sackler was deposed last year by the Kentucky attorney general’s office as part of a state lawsuit alleging that Purdue illegally marketed the potent opioid painkiller OxyContin.[4] Secret documents about the marketing of the potent pain pill OxyContin will be unsealed next month under an order issued on May 11 by a Kentucky judge.[5]

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References

  1. ↑ http://sacklermedicine.us
  2. ↑ Morrell, Alex. "The OxyContin Clan: The $14 Billion Newcomer to Forbes 2015 List of Richest U.S. Families". Forbes. Retrieved 2016-05-13.
  3. ↑ ProPublica, Mike Tigas, Sisi Wei,. "Nonprofit Explorer - ProPublica". ProPublica. Retrieved 2016-05-13.
  4. ↑ "Richard Sackler, the man at the center of secret OxyContin files". STAT. 2016-05-12. Retrieved 2016-05-13.
  5. ↑ "Kentucky judge orders release of secret OxyContin records". STAT. 2016-05-11. Retrieved 2016-05-13.

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