December 8, 2008
Dr. Ralph Nachman served as the chairman of the Department of Medicine at Weill Cornell from 1990 to 2007 and is presently the Lewis Thomas University Professor of Medicine and the Associate Dean for Clinical Research. To honor his remarkable career, the department, on behalf of its chairman Dr. Andrew Schafer, assembled a scientific tribute to its former chief, held on Nov. 20 in Uris Auditorium.