Dr. Grieco’s Bequest Will Support Future Scholarships at NYUGSOM
Associate Dean of Alumni Affairs at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine Anthony J. Grieco, MD'63, came to NYU as a student in the late 1950s and has been at the institution ever since. Dr. Grieco also serves on the faculty of the Department of Internal Medicine and is a beloved teacher and mentor to generations of NYU medical students and alumni. "He is a living archive on the institution and the people who have walked its halls," says Senior Division Director of Alumni Relations at NYU Langone Valerie T. Broadie.
"NYU is responsible for my personal happiness and my professional happiness," says Dr. Grieco, who met his wife Audrey shortly after entering medical school in 1959. They were married in June 1963, a few days after receiving their degrees—hers in education and his in medicine.
Dr. Grieco has given back to NYUGSOM over the years with several gifts. He has also made a planned gift through a bequest in his will to support scholarships. "Medical students are the future of medicine," he says. "I want to provide for that critical future by ensuring that scholarship support is available that will reduce the burden on students. I feel that it is my duty to leave a legacy at this place that has been such a central part of my life."
Dr. Grieco says that he has been privileged to be a physician at NYU Langone.
"The institution is unique in the healthcare space because of the diversity of the people it serves, the diseases it treats, and the research it conducts at our various locations throughout the region. That uniqueness provides our students with a special kind of training that imparts a breadth of knowledge, along with a depth of caring and compassion, that truly make the institution world class."
Whether thinking about other alumni, grateful patients, or friends of NYU Langone Health, Dr. Grieco encourages others to consider the critical importance of leaving a legacy that will support future generations of excellent healthcare providers like the young people who are trained at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine.