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Dr. Roboz Publishes Key Finding in NEJM on Oral Azacitidine as Maintenance Therapy for AML

Dr. Gail Roboz, Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, WDOM, has published a paper in The New England Journal of Medicine (December 2020) that has revealed a key finding on using oral azacytidine for patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML).It was found that patients with AML strongly benefit from taking a pill form of azacytidine as a maintenance treatment for AML based on results from an international Phase 3 clinical trial at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-... Read More

Dr. Safford and Colleagues Publish Pivotal Paper in Circulation: Social Determinants to Prevent Fatal Heart Attacks

Dr. Monika Safford, the John J. Kuiper Professor of Medicine, and Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine, WDOM, and colleagues have published a paper in Circulation that has uncovered seven social determinants to prevent fatal heart attacks.Through analyzing data from the Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) Study, which tracked cardiovascular-related health outcomes in more than 20,000 people for a decade, the researchers determined adverse social... Read More

Dr. Dadhania Appointed to Medical Director of the Adult Kidney Pancreas Transplant Program at NYP/WCM

Dr. Darshana DadhaniaDr. Darshana M. Dadhania, Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, WDOM, has been appointed as Medical Director of the Adult Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Program at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine. Dr. Dadhania has made significant contributions to the Transplant Program as a leader, investigator, and mentor to trainees and junior faculty. She has become nationally recognized through her role as the Chair of the American... Read More

Dr. Mark Reisman – Renowned Leader in Structural Heart Disease – Recruited to Weill Department of Medicine

The Weill Department of Medicine (WDOM) has recruited Dr. Mark Reisman, a nationally and internationally recognized authority on structural heart disease, to the Division of Cardiology. Dr. Reisman will serve as Director of Structural Heart Disease at NYP/Weill Cornell Medicine and as Co-Director of Structural Heart Disease for NYP/Queens and NYP/Brooklyn Methodist Hospital.Before joining the WDOM, Dr. Reisman served as an Attending Physician, Clinical Professor of Medicine, and was the David... Read More

Lisa Rachmuth Appointed to Executive Director of the New York City Elder Abuse Center at Weill Cornell Medicine

Lisa RachmuthThe Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine has announced the appointment of Lisa Rachmuth as Executive Director of the New York City Elder Abuse Center (NYCEAC), a nationally and internationally renowned program devoted to the eradication of elder abuse in collaboration with many governmental and NGO partners.Since its establishment in 2010, the NYCEAC’s leadership has been housed in the Weill Department of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine where faculty have made... Read More

Dr. Calfee Named Editor-in-Chief of Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology

Dr. David P. CalfeeDr. David Calfee, Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, WDOM has been named the sixth Editor-in-Chief of the journal Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.A clinician and dedicated researcher in healthcare epidemiology, infection prevention, and antibiotic stewardship, Dr. Calfee has served as an associate editor of the journal over the past several years. He will begin to transition into his new... Read More

Findings on a Key Genetic Driver of Lymphomas Published in Nature

Dr. Ari MelnickDr. Ari Melnick, the Gebroe Family Professor of Hematology and Medical Oncology and a member of the Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center at Weill Cornell, and colleagues have published breakthrough findings that show certain histone H1 mutations are drivers of lymphoma.Several years ago, Dr. Melnick and Dr. Ethel Cesarman, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and a pathologist at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell, and their teams conducted... Read More

Dr. Czaja Receives M. Powell Lawton Award from the Gerontological Society of America

Dr. Sara J. CzajaDr. Sara J. Czaja, Professor of Gerontology in Medicine, Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, WDOM, has received the 2020 M. Powell Lawton Award from the Gerontological Society of America (GSA).The GSA held its Annual Scientific Meeting in November of 2020 where Dr. Czaja was honored with the prestigious award that recognizes outstanding contributions from applied gerontological research that have benefited older people and their care. The award is given to an... Read More

NIAID Renews HIV Clinical Trials Unit (CTU) Grant: Advancing Prevention and Treatment Research for HIV

Dr. Roy M. GulickDr. Roy M. Gulick, Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases, WDOM, and colleagues have received a renewal from the NIAID in support of their HIV CTU grant in the amount of $18.9 million through 2027. The renewal provides funding for both the AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG) and the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN).Led by Principal Investigator Dr. Gulick, the Rochelle Belfer Professor in Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, the research team is housed within the Weill Cornell... Read More

Dr. Scherl Receives Prestigious Rosenthal Humanitarian Award from the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation

Crohns and Colitis Foundation "Great Gutsby" invitation

On November 12, 2020, Dr. Ellen Scherl, the Jill Roberts Professor of Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, WDOM, was honored with the Rosenthal Humanitarian Award from the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation.Dr. Ellen ScherlPhoto credit: Nancy Scherl As part of the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation’s 53rd Annual Gala – known as “The Great Gutsby” – Dr. Scherl’s distinguished career and pioneering advances in IBD were celebrated in a virtual event. Her outstanding... Read More