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Dr. Arnab Ghosh Selected as an Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine Scholar

Dr. Arnab Ghosh, assistant professor of medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine, has been selected as an Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine Scholar. The program, part of the National Academy of Medicine, provides opportunities for future health care leaders to collaborate with its members and the other selected Scholars, address persistent challenges and drive transformative change.“Dr. Ghosh's multi-faceted expertise as a clinician, social scientist and policy-minded... Read More

Study Underscores the Case for Universal, Suicide-Specific Screenings for Young People

Dr. Alexandra HuttleDuring the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Alexandra Huttle, Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics in the Department of Pediatrics and an Instructor in Medicine in the Weill Department of Medicine, saw a striking number of her young patients presenting suicidal ideation (SI), notably three cases of recent suicide attempts (SA) by children under the age of 12 in a single week. Dr. Huttle was halfway through her pediatrics residency at NewYork-Presbyterian/... Read More

Annual Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Poster Symposium and Grand Rounds Celebrate Collaborative Innovation in Patient Care

Quality Improvement Academy Class of 2025The Annual Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (QIPS) Poster Symposium took place on May 21, 2025, at the Griffis Faculty Club. The event has brought together institutional leaders, clinicians, researchers and staff across all disciplines to celebrate the impactful and collaborative advancements in patient care for over a decadeThis year’s symposium was supported through the co-sponsorship of the Quality Improvement Academy (QIA) Weill Cornell... Read More

Dr. Arnab Ghosh Discusses Climate and Health Policy at Annual Colloquium

Pictured left to right: Drs. Arnab Ghosh, Oliver FeinAt the David Rogers Health Policy Colloquium, which is a forum for invited speakers to present their research, clinical programs, or demonstration projects, followed by a discussion with students, faculty and staff, Dr. Arnab Ghosh, an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine, gave a presentation titled “Climate and Health Policy: Where to from here?” urging policymakers, health professionals, and... Read More

Celebrating Match Day 2025!

Congratulations Class of 2025!The Weill Department of Medicine is thrilled to welcome 45 incoming residents this July! The Class of 2025 represents 34 different medical schools – with 6 from Weill Cornell Medical College. Match results this year were revealed simultaneously at noon Eastern time on March 21 to medical students nationwide. Nearly 47,200 graduating allopathic, international and osteopathic medical students from across the country (and Americans studying abroad) competed for 43,237... Read More

Upcoming symposium underscores crucial need to study women’s global health

The Women in Global Health Research’s upcoming intensive course on Global Infectious Diseases Across a Woman’s Lifespan, capped off by their 10th annual Scientific Symposium, takes place May 19-22, with the final day—May 22—open to the Weill Cornell Medicine community, including students and trainees. All are welcome to register.The selective four-day intensive course will include topics such as sex differences in global infectious diseases; host immunology across the woman's lifespan; and the... Read More

AI Meets Oncology: New Model Personalizes Bladder Cancer Treatment

Leveraging the power of AI and machine learning technologies, researchers co-lead by Dr. Bishoy Morris Faltas, the Gellert Family–John P. Leonard MD Research Scholar in Hematology and Medical Oncology in the division of Hematology & Medical Oncology, has developed a more effective model for predicting how patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer will respond to chemotherapy. The model harnesses whole-slide tumor imaging and gene expression analyses in a way that outperforms previous... Read More

Immune Complex Shaves Stem Cells to Protect against Cancer

A new preclinical study published Jan. 2 in Nature Immunology may lead to therapies that target the earliest stages of cancer, bolstering the idea the inflammasome has a dual role—that while promotes inflammation associated with poor outcomes in late cancer stages, early on it can help prevent cells from becoming cancerous in the first place.“What was striking was that the innate immune system, which includes the inflammasome, has a role beyond infection,” said lead author Dr. Julie Magarian... Read More

Islet Transplantation with Blood Vessel Cells Shows Promise to Treat Type 1 Diabetes

Findings published Jan. 29 in Science Advances from a team lead by senior author Dr. Shahin Rafii, chief of the division of Regenerative Medicine, found that adding engineered human blood vessel-forming cells to islet transplants boosted the survival of the insulin-producing cells and reversed diabetes in a preclinical study. The new approach, which requires further development and testing, could someday enable the much wider use of islet transplants to cure diabetes.Islets, found in the... Read More

Digging Into a Decades-Old Hepatitis B Mystery Suggests a New Potential Treatment

A new multi-institution study led in part by Dr. Robert Schwartz, a virologist and Assistant Professor of Medicine in the division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, is striving to answer a key biological question: how the hepatitis B virus (HBV) is able to establish infection in liver cells.The research – led in conjunction with teams lead by chemical biologist Dr. Yael David at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) and Dr. Viviana Risca at The Rockefeller University - identified a... Read More