Memorial honors Farmingdale basketball player
Dominic Murray's mother Melinda founded the Dominic A. Murray 21 Memorial Foundation, a Queens-based non-profit dedicated to raising the awareness of sudden cardiac arrest. Murray was seven weeks into his freshman year when he went into sudden cardiac arrest during a pickup basketball game at the school. Credit: Handout
Farmingdale State College held a memorial Tuesday to honor Dominick Murray, the 17-year-old student who died suddenly during an informal basketball game at the college a year ago.
Dr. Sean Levchuck, chairman of pediatric cardiology at St. Francis Hospital, The Heart Center, gave a discussion on the work he is doing with Dominic’s mother, Melinda Murray, to help prevent sudden cardiac arrest deaths through the Dominic A. Murray 21 Foundation.
The foundation was created by Melinda Murray earlier this year.
Additionally, Levchuck and St. Francis plan to offer free cardiac screenings and CPR training courses to educate student athletes.
Here’s the tentative schedule:
Oct. 15
CPR training
Monsignor McClancy HS, Maspeth, Queens
Oct. 17
Cardiac screening
St. Francis Hospital’s DeMatteis Center, Greenvale
Oct. 29
CPR training
Farmingdale State College
Jan. 30
Cardiac screening
St. Francis Hospital’s DeMatteis Center, Greenvale
March 20
Cardiac screening
St. Francis Hospital’s DeMatteis Center, Greenvale
For more information, call St. Francis Hospital’s Community Outreach Program at (516) 629-2038, or visit the program’s web site.
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