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Congratulations to our 2025 Fund for the Future Awardees

The Fund for the Future award supports selected junior faculty during a crucial period in their career development - the completion of their research training into the early years of their first faculty position at Weill Cornell Medicine. Backed by the generosity of donors to the Weill Department of Medicine (WDOM) and Iris Cantor Center for Women’s Health, funding is based upon academic progress and a competitive training award (such as an NIH K) application timeline within 18 months of... Read More

A Crucial Step to Improve Care in Heart Failure: Integrating Home Health Care into Learning Health System

Dr. Madeline Sterling, Associate Professor of Medicine and Dr. Lisa Kern, Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine, emphasized in a recent viewpoint the importance of integrating home health care into the learning health system (LHS) to strengthen care delivered to patients with heart failure. Though LHS gathers data throughout the entire care process and leverages it to optimize treatments in real time, integration with home health care services remains... Read More

New Grant May Accelerate Research into Microbiota and Human Health

Dr. David Artis, director of the Jill Roberts Institute and the Michael Kors Professor in Immunology, along with Dr. Chun-Jun Guo, an associate professor of immunology in medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology and a scientist at the Jill Roberts Institute for Research in Inflammatory Bowel Disease at Weill Cornell Medicine, and Dr. Frank Schroeder, a professor at the Boyce Thompson Institute and a professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology in the College... Read More

Medicine Grand Rounds Spotlights Hospital Medicine Clinical Scholars Program and Professional Identity Formation

The Hospital Medicine Clinical Scholars Program (CSP) in the Division of General Internal Medicine, a renowned faculty-led initiative with an outstanding 97% retention rate, is excited to welcome its largest-ever cohort for 2025-2026, with 11 new clinical scholars joining the program.Pictured left to right: Drs. Justin Choi and Alice TangRecently highlighted during a Medicine Grand Rounds, Dr. Alice Tang, Assistant Chief for Hospital Medicine Education, Co-Director of the Clinical Scholars... Read More

New Strategy May Enable Cancer Monitoring from Blood Tests Alone

A new, error-corrected method for detecting cancer from blood samples is much more sensitive and accurate than prior methods and may be useful for monitoring disease status in patients following treatment, according to a study by Weill Cornell Medicine and New York Genome Center investigators. The method, based on whole-genome sequencing of DNA, also represents an important step toward the goal of routine blood test-based screening for early cancer detection.In the study, published Apr. 11 in... Read More

Head-to-Head Trial Compares Weight Loss Drugs

A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine led by Dr. Louis Aronne, director of the Comprehensive Weight Control Center and the Sanford I. Weill Professor of Metabolic Research in the division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, shows tirzepatide (trade name Zepbound) promoted greater weight loss in individuals with obesity than did semaglutide (trade name Wegovy) in a 72-week clinical trial that compared the safety and efficacy of the injectable drugs. When both drugs are... Read More

The 8th Annual Primary Care and Hospital Medicine Innovations Symposium Highlights Healthcare Innovation in Action

Pictured left to right: Drs. Kenneth Goodman, Monika Safford, Fred PelzmanThe Division of General Internal Medicine’s 8th Annual Primary Care and Hospital Medicine Innovations Symposium opened with a call to action: the pursuit and defense of scientific knowledge is more important than ever. Dr. Robert A. Harrington, the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean and Dr. Myles Wolf, Chair of Medicine, delivered opening remarks that underscored the importance of innovation in healthcare. Dr. Fred Pelzman,... Read More

Dr. Warren Johnson Honored with Weill Award

Dr. Warren Johnson, a professor emeritus of medicine and founding director of Weill Cornell Medicine’s Center for Global Health, has been awarded the institution’s Joan and Sanford I. Weill Exemplary Achievement Award.Weill Cornell Medicine established the Weill Award in 2018 in honor of the institution’s preeminent benefactors, Joan and Sanford I. Weill, and to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the institution’s renaming. The award, which carries a $50,000 cash prize, is presented to an... Read More

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 of 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