Fall/Winter 2006 - University of Rochester Medical Center

One the strongest features of the Department of Pediatrics
and Golisano Children’s Hospital at Strong is the breadth
and depth of the services and specialties available to the
children of the Rochester-Finger Lakes region. Still, Schor
would like to expand outpatient services and improve
inpatient facilities.
The hospital’s new Pediatric Intensive Care Unit/Pediatric
Cardiac Intensive Care Unit and new Pediatric Surgical
Suite are state-of-the-art facilities that provide the
optimum in patient and family care and comfort. But the
hospital’s other inpatient units were last renovated 30 years
ago. Schor said no definitive plans have been made for the
units this early in her tenure, but updating is on the
hospital’s wish list.
perks of the profession
Patients will begin to notice some changes late this year in
Golisano Children’s Hospital’s method of educating
patients, ordering food and providing entertainment.
The hospital has contracted with GetWellNetwork, which
provides technology to learn more about chronic conditions,
to check hospital menus, to watch movies and check
e-mail, in one bedside system.
Schor’s passion to lead and to teach pulls together and drives
her diverse agenda. A routine day for Schor includes seeing
patients, working in her lab to check on research and
mentoring medical residents.
“ Teaching and mentoring,” she said. “What drives a physician
and scientist into the academic arena – and I am no exception
– is a passion for teaching. When a pediatrician guides a
child and family through the child’s entry into adolescence or
through a critical illness, that is teaching and mentoring.
When a researcher takes an undergraduate or graduate
student under his or her wing in the laboratory, that is
teaching and mentoring. When a physician or scientist
exudes and incites in a student, resident, or junior faculty
member a passion for his or her profession, that is teaching
and mentoring.”
Schor said that the only major and consistent perk of an
intense and sometimes exhausting job is seeing that passion
increase. And it is more than worth it.
“ Watching a child and family grow and successfully
approach adulthood together, seeing a student give his or
her first talk at a national meeting, learning something
brand new from a resident or fellow who has made the transition
to junior colleague – there’s nothing that equals the
pride and excitement that come from that!”
what drives a physician
and scientist into the
academic arena – and
I am no exception – is
a passion for teaching
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