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WDOM Faculty Receive 2022 Excellence in Medical Education Awards

The WDOM congratulates its faculty who received Weill Cornell Medicine’s 2022 Excellence in Medical Education Awards. These awards honor educators for their outstanding contributions to the Weill Cornell Medicine medical education program.Related LinksWCM Newsroom

Annual Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (QIPS) Poster Symposium: Continued Success

On May 25, 2022, the Annual Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (QIPS) Poster Symposium was held at the Harkness Courtyard. With ongoing support from Dean Augustine M.K. Choi and Dr. Anthony Hollenberg, this groundbreaking interdepartmental and interdisciplinary celebration of quality and patient safety initiatives and innovations is co-sponsored through Quality Improvement Academy-Weill Cornell Medicine (QIA), NYP Department of Nursing, and the Physician Organization’s Division of Quality... Read More

2022 David E. Rogers Memorial Research Award Winner Announced

Established in 1995, the David E. Rogers Memorial Research Award encourages medical residents to continue their investigative research in internal medicine. Each year, senior medical residents submit research abstracts, and finalists are chosen to present their work during Medicine Grand Rounds. This year's finalists were presented on June 15.The David E. Rogers Memorial Research Award was founded and is chaired by Holly S. Andersen, M.D., Director of Education and Outreach at The Ronald O.... Read More

WDOM Faculty Honored with Teaching Awards at Commencement 2022

The WDOM congratulates its faculty who received teaching awards at the Weill Cornell Medicine Class of 2022 commencement ceremony held on May 19, 2022.The Senior ListDr. Juliet AizerDr. Justin ChoiDr. Laura GreismanDr. Laura KolbeDr. Gregory MintsDr. Anthony OgedegbeDr. Tracy PaulDr. David ScalesSecond Year Teaching AwardDr. Juliet AizerThe Leonard P. Tow Humanism AwardsDr. Juliet AizerThe Elliot Hochstein Teaching AwardDr. Juliet AizerVolunteer Clinical Faculty Award of Alpha Omega AlphaDr.... Read More

Dr. Joseph J. Fins Honored at Wesleyan’s 190th Commencement: Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters

Dr. Joseph J. FinsDr. Joseph J. Fins, Chief, Division of Medical Ethics, WDOM, was honored at Wesleyan’s 190th Commencement as an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters.Dr. Fins ’82 provided remarks at Wesleyan’s 190th Commencement with a theme involving “The Humanities and Sciences are Better Together.” Dr. Fins has devoted his career to fostering a productive dialogue between the sciences and the humanities. A physician, bioethicist, academic, and champion of public health and the rights of people... Read More

WDOM Congratulates Dr. Jean Pape on Election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Dr. Jean PapeGHESKIO founder and the Howard and Carol Holtzmann Professor in Clinical Medicine, Dr. Jean Pape has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the most prestigious academies of its kind in the nation, recognizes accomplishments and leadership in academia, the arts, industry, public policy, and research. Dr. Pape was among 261 newly elected members announced on April 28, 2022.A pioneer in the fight against HIV/AIDS,... Read More

Dr. Desai Receives Ritu Banga Healthcare Disparities Research Award at Weill Cornell’s Celebration of Diversity Event

Dr. Pinkal DesaiThe WDOM congratulates Dr. Pinkal Desai who has been selected as a 2022 recipient of the Ritu Banga Healthcare Disparities Research Award, which recognizes the tremendous research conducted by WCM investigators to improve the health of underrepresented minorities and/or to reduce health disparities.Dr. Desai’s research project is focused on understanding racial and ethnic disparities in premalignant states in myeloid malignancies. The award provides Dr. Desai with a one-time... Read More

Fund for the Future (FFF) Awards Announced: Advancing Research Careers of Junior Faculty

The Weill Department of Medicine has announced five winners who will receive Fund for the Future (FFF) awards.The Joan and Sanford I. Weill Department of Medicine is committed to fostering the development of the next generation of physician-scientists and translational scientists during their training. The department’s FFF award program provides support for selected instructors and faculty interested in pursuing careers as physician-scientists and/or translational scientists. The overall goal... Read More

Dr. Van Besien Leads Novel Life-saving Bone Marrow Transplant Highlighted on NPR’s FRESH AIR

Dr. Koen van BesienAnother success story under Dr. Koen van Besien’s leadership of the Bone Marrow Transplantation Program in the Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, WDOM, has been highlighted on NPR.In an interview on NPR’s FRESH AIR, author-screenwriter Delia Ephron discussed her diagnosis of the blood disease, leukemia, as well as finding love and marriage with Dr. Peter Rutter during her treatment. Treatment began with chemotherapy, under the care of her physician, Dr. Gail Roboz,... Read More

Dr. Roboz and Patient Delia Ephron Interviewed on CBS News Sunday Morning: Leukemia, Loss, and Love

Interviewed by Dr. Jonathan LaPook of CBS News’s Sunday Morning, Dr. Gail Roboz’s patient, Delia Ephron, shared her experiences after learning she had leukemia in 2017.Delia Ephron and her sister, Nora Ephron, cowrote the 1998 romcom, “You’ve Got Mail.” Since that time, Delia has been living her own story line that has taken many turns: the loss of her sister, Nora, to leukemia in 2012, the loss of her husband, Jerome Kass, to cancer in 2015, and then learning of her own diagnosis of leukemia... Read More