Distinguished Associates

New York College is proud to have a group of prominent and distinguished associates who may participate in seminars, publications, continuing education, the development of new programs and/or advisement to the College.

Michael Balboni, Executive Director & Chairman, Greater New York Health Care Facilities Association
Former New York State Deputy Secretary for Public Safety, former New York State Senator from the 7th Senate District in Nassau County, Long Island (1997 - 2006) and before that served eight years in the state Assembly; chaired the Senate Committee on Veterans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs; also served on the standing Senate committees on Aging, Environmental Conservation, Higher Education, Insurance, Judiciary and Labor; earned his Juris Doctor from St. John’s University School of Law; was counsel to former Senator John R. Dunne and the New York State Senate Judiciary Committee and counsel to the deputy majority leader of the Senate; was appointed Deputy County Attorney in Nassau County; has authored several Law Review articles and is an adjunct professor of political science at Adelphi University.

James Edward Cheek, Ph.D., President Emeritus Howard University
Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and History, Shaw University; Masters of Divinity, Colgate Rochester University; Ph.D. Drew University; honored with Colgate Rochester Fellowship, a Rockefeller Doctoral Fellowship and a Lily Foundation Fellowship; President of Shaw University; President of Howard University for twenty years; named Washingtonian of the Year in 1980 and 1983; awarded the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom; recipient of hundreds of awards and nineteen honorary degrees; serves or served as a board member of several colleges and universities including the University of Miami, Drew University, Colgate Rochester University, New York Institute of Technology, Benedict College, Florida Memorial College, Fisk University and Howard University; Presidential appointments include the Board of Foreign Scholarships, National Advisory Council to the Peace Corps, UNESCO, Commission on Selection of White House Fellows and the President’s Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

Robert Duarte, M.D., Certified Acupuncturist
Doctorate of Medicine Ponce School of Medicine; Associate Attending in Neurology; Long Island Jewish Medical Center; Director, Long Island Jewish Medical Center Pain & Headache Treatment Center; Medical Director; Transitions of Long Island Rehabilitation for Head Injury; Pain Clinic Coordinator; Board Certified in Pain Management; Board Certified Neurologist; Certified Medical Acupuncturist; Assistant Professor of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; American Pain Society; International Association for the Study of Pain; American Headache Society; American Academy of Neurology; Advisory Board Member; Glaxo-Smith Kline, Merck, Astra-Zeneca and Janssen.

Laurie Giandomenico, Ph.D.
B.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Connecticut ; Masters of Arts in Archaeology, Cornell University ; Ph.D. in Nutrition and Anthropology, Cornell University; academic research at Pompei and Thera; Management Consultant, McKinsey & Co.; Chief Operating Officer, Fahrenheit 212 a division of Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising.

Richard Karpinski, M.D.
Doctorate of Medicine Harvard Medical School; surgical residencies Boston City Hospital, New England Deaconess Hospital and New York University Medical Center, Institute of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery; served as Chief, General Surgery Service and a Major in USAF; Board Certified in Plastic Surgery and General Surgery; Fellow of American College of Surgeons; member American Society of Plastic Surgeons, New York County Medical Society, Medical Society of the State of New York; affiliated with St. Lukes/Roosevelt Hospital; faculty appointments - Teaching Fellow and Instructor in Anatomy, Harvard University, Tutor in Surgery, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, Clinical Fellow in Surgery, Harvard University, Clinical Instructor in Surgery, Creighton University, Clinical Instructor in Plastic Surgery, New York University, Instructor in Plastic Surgery, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, Assistant Clinical Professor, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons; committee memberships – New York County Medical Society, St. Lukes/Roosevelt Hospital; member Board of Directors, Medical Liability Mutual Insurance Co.; papers – “MISAR: A Miniature Information Storage and Retrieval System” and “A Prospective Trial Comparing Biobrane, Duoderm and Xeroform for Skin Graft Donor Sites”; book chapter – “Surgical Treatment of Axillary Hyperhidrosis”; presentations – “Facial Embryology”, “Flap Operation for Medical Patients”, “Limb Salvage:microsurgery”, “Breast Reconstruction”, Surgical treatment of Decubitus Ulcers”, “An Approach to Treating Wounds”, “Axillary Hyperhidrosis: Treatment by Excision or by Suction Adenectomy”, and “How to Make a Skin Graft Fail”.

Bertram Spector, Ph.D.
Ph.D., Medical Sciences; Cornell University Graduate Medical School; Master of Arts and Sciences; Hunter College of the City University of New York;  Bachelor of Electrical Engineering; City College of the City University of New York; Vice President, Dean of Academic Affairs, Professor of Life Sciences and Engineering, twenty-five year tenure; New York Institute of Technology; Vice President of Research, Seversky Corp.; Consultant, Bendix Aviation Corp.; Division Head, Bureau of Aeronautics; Division Head, DeMornay Budd; Electronic Engineer, ITT.