Events

Past Event

17th Annual Steve Miller Medical Education Day

October 14, 2026
8:00 AM - 1:00 PM
America/New_York
William Black Medical Research Building, 650 W. 168 St., New York, NY 10032 Alumni Auditorium

Please join us for the 17th Annual Steve Miller Day to be held on October 14 from 8:00 am to 1:00 pm. 

Schedule of Events: 

  • 8:00 - 9:30 am, Chasing Cures: One Doctor’s Race to Save His Own Life--and Others - Alumni Auditorium  (Webinar Link Available)
    • David Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA, MSc, Co-Founder, Every Cure, Associate Professor of Medicine (Translational Medicine & Human Genetics), Perelman School of Medicine

  • 10 - 11:10 am, Expert Panel: Bench to Bedside to Community: Continuing Meaningful Translational Research in an Era of Mistrust - Faculty Club 

    • Katrina Armstrong, MD, Director, Vagelos Institute, Harold & Margaret Hatch Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons

    • Dusan Bogunovic, PhD, Vice Chair, Basic Science Research, Director, Center for Genetic Errors of Immunity, Department of Pediatrics CUIMC

    • David Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA, MSc

    • Jennifer Posey, MD, PhD, Division Chief, Clinical Genetics in the Department of Pediatrics, Inaugural Chief Genomics Officer of CUIMC

    • Jonathan Steinman, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Division of Pediatric Endocrinology Program Director, Pediatric Scientist Physician Training Program

  • 11:15 - 11:45 am, Department of Pediatrics Artist in Residence - Faculty Club

    • Benjamin Schwartz, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Chief Creative Officer for the Department of Surgery CUIMC 

  • 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm, Lunch and Steven Z. Miller Student Fellowship Presentations - Faculty Club

    • Isaac Hughes, VP&S Class of 2027 & Hawley Brown, VP&S Class of 2028, Building Competency in Substance Use Care: Institutional Integration of a Longitudinal SUD Curriculum

    • Joi Haskins, VP&S Class of 2028, Fostering Humanism in Medicine Through Stories of Washington Heights’ Housing Insecure Community (Voices of the Heights)

If you would like to make a donation to support Steve Miller Medical Education Day, please visit: https://medicine.givenow.columbia.edu/?alloc=31707#

Contact Information

Amanda Lebron