August 07, 2008

NEW YORK, NY - August 7, 2008 - Lisa J. Silverman has been appointed vice president for development and alumni affairs at NYU Langone Medical Center. Ms. Silverman comes to NYU from the consulting firm Community Counselling Service (CCS) Fundraising where she had been vice president for the past five years.

"In the past 10 months that Lisa has been interim vice president of development, NYU Langone Medical Center has experienced unprecedented growth in philanthropy," said Harold S. Koplewicz, M.D., vice dean for external affairs, "We look forward to successful future growth with her help."

At CCS Fundraising Ms. Silverman's clients included City College of New York, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and Hebrew Union College, as well as NYU Langone Medical Center.  In a prior position with the United Jewish Communities (UJC), she was responsible for donor acquisition and retention, conducting strategy consultations and training sessions with professionals and volunteers in 200 federations nationwide. 

Ms. Silverman brings to her role a unique international perspective.  At UJC's Jerusalem-based General Assembly conference, she managed a team that coordinated logistics and security for 3,000 international delegates seeking to experience life in Israel.  She also spent two years as a community consultant, organizer and educator in the former Soviet Union.

The department she assumes leadership for is charged with helping to actualize new Dean and CEO Robert I. Grossman, M.D.'s vision of expansion and innovation at the recently renamed NYU Langone Medical Center. Plans include building a new hospital pavilion as part of an overall campus transformation and focus on key areas of strategic excellence in clinical and research science. Ms. Silverman will expand department staffing and help foster an enhanced culture of philanthropy at the Medical Center.

"We will engage our Trustees to partner with us in an exceptional way and will identify new friends to help us develop our institution," said Ms. Silverman. "Additionally, our Medical School alumni have a wonderful culture of community and we look forward to encouraging their investment in their alma mater for the benefit of future graduates."

"I appreciate working for an organization like NYU Langone Medical Center where there is impressive leadership and great vision," Ms. Silverman commented. "It's exciting to be able to help an organization grow in this era of advances in medicine and scientific research, particularly at a time of declining healthcare funding."

Ms. Silverman received a master of business administration degree from NYU's Leonard N. Stern School of Business, where she was named a Stern Director's Fellow and Schering-Plough International Scholar, and a bachelor of science in public administration from the University of Arizona, where she was a Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Distinguished Leadership Awardee.

Contact:
Lorinda Klein
NYU Langone Medical Center
Media Relations
212.404.3555
Email: Lorindaann.klein@nyumc.org

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ABOUT NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER

One of the world's premier academic medical institutions for more than 167 years, NYU Langone Medical Center continues to be a leader in patient care, physician education and scientific research.  NYU Langone Medical Center is internationally renowned for excellence in areas such as cardiovascular disease, pediatrics, dermatology, neurosurgery, urology, cancer care, rehabilitation, plastic surgery, minimally invasive surgery, transplant surgery, infertility, and women's health.