Dr. Sergey Koyfman is serving his first term on the Monroe-Woodbury Board of Education. He is a head and neck surgeon and a partner at ENT and Allergy Associates LLP. He completed his residency training in ENT at Michigan State University and a fellowship in Head and Neck Oncology and Microvascular Reconstructive Surgery at Indiana University. He serves as a Medical Director of Head and Neck Oncology, Chairman of Department of Otolaryngology and Ophthalmology and member of Medical Executive Committee at Garnet Health. He also is an associate professor of Otolaryngology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Dr. Koyfman and his wife Edith are members of Columbia University Global Mental Health Council. He resides in Chester and has two children. His oldest son is a graduate of M-WHS. His youngest son is a M-WHS freshman.
Why do I do it: To children, education is an irreplaceable commodity that will follow them for the rest of their lives. It shapes them. We have a unique window of opportunity to introduce them to this world of knowledge and watch them become great.
The biggest challenge is to assure that the pandemic year does not have a long lasting profound negative impact on our children. We will need to bring them back not only physically but also emotionally and help them achieve.