The Lisa Qian, M.D. '18, Memorial Garden, formerly known as the NYMC Community Garden, fosters an environment of sustainability, tranquility and creativity by growing flower, fruits and vegetables such as rhubarb, radish, tomatoes, cucumbers, yellow squash, zucchini, beets, arugula, German radishes, baby leaf spinach, toy choi, bok choy, winterbor kale to name a few.
In 2018, the SOM Class of 2018 dedicated the garden to the memory of Lisa Quan, a fourth year medical student who passed away at the start of her last year of medical school at NYMC; she was posthumously awarded her medical degree during the 2018 commencement.