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Pulmonary Celebrates the Career of Dr. King and Announces a New Fund to Continue his Legacy

Dr. Thomas K.C. KingOn October 2, 2019, the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine celebrated the life and career of one of their own, Dr. Thomas K.C. King. A tribute to Dr. King’s legacy was held at the Griffis Faculty Club as part of the division’s Briscoe-King Lung Club. The event commenced with opening remarks by Dr. Fernando J. Martinez, Division Chief, and Dr. Augustine M.K. Choi, the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medicine, and was attended by members of Dr.... Read More

Dr. Fins Receives Brain Initiative Grant from the NIH

Dr. Joseph FinsDr. Joseph J. Fins, E. William Davis, Jr., Professor of Medical Ethics, Professor of Medicine, and Chief of the Division of Medical Ethics, has received a RO1 grant from the NIH BRAIN Initiative entitled “Cognitive Restoration: Neuroethics and Disability Rights.” The grant seeks to understand the opportunities and challenges posed by cognitive restoration for people with severe to moderate traumatic brain injury in the context of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Dr. Fins’s... Read More

New Weill Cornell Medicine Video on Health Equity through Diversity Initiatives

Under the leadership of Dr. Susana Morales, the Health Resources & Services Administration funded the newly launched Weill Cornell Medicine Diversity Center of Excellence. The Center, which serves as the Education Core of the campus-wide Cornell Center for Health Equity, has launched programs and initiatives fostering excellence and support for underrepresented minorities. A new video presented by Weill Cornell Medicine highlights leaders in diversity and future strategies.

Dr. Guo Receives Prestigious NIH Director’s New Innovator Award: Gut Microbes and Human Health

Dr. Chun-Jun (C.J.) Guo, Assistant Professor of Immunology in Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, has received the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, which is part of the NIH Common Fund. This prestigious award supports “exceptionally creative early-career investigators who propose innovative, high-impact projects.” Dr. Guo, a scientist at the Jill Roberts Institute for Research in Inflammatory Bowel Disease, WCM, is an expert on the genetic manipulation of gut microbes. The... Read More

Dr. Suthanthiran Delivers Oration at the 16th Congress of the Asian Society of Transplantation

Dr. Manikkam Suthanthiran, Chief, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, and the Stanton Griffis Distinguished Professor of Medicine, delivered the Dr. Vidya Acharya Oration at the 16th Congress of the Asian Society of Transplantation (AST) 2019. Held in Delhi, India, the event unites regional and world leaders to review clinical and scientific advances in transplantation and meets every two years in one of the countries in Asia. It is attended by leading transplant physicians and transplant... Read More

Melnick Laboratory: Critical Advances for the Treatment of non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Published in Cancer Cell

Dr. Ari Melnick, the Gebroe Family Professor of Hematology/Oncology, Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, and colleagues have published critical findings on non-Hodgkin Lymphoma in Cancer Cell. Diffuse large B cell lymphomas (DLBCLs), which account for approximately one third of all non-Hodgkin lymphomas, were found to be addicted to an enzyme called SIRT3. It was discovered that this enzyme turbo-charges a metabolic process that supports the rapid growth of DLBCLs. In response to this... Read More

Dr. Sara Czaja Leads New Center for Aging and Behavioral Research

Dr. Sara Czaja, an internationally recognized behavioral scientist with a background in engineering, has been serving as the Director of the newly launched Center on Aging and Behavioral Research at Weill Cornell Medicine since her recent recruitment to the Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine. Under Dr. Czaja’s direction, the new center is achieving major breakthroughs in research in applied gerontology. Advances at the center are rapidly creating a better quality of life for an ever... Read More

Breakthrough on Cell-free DNA Published in PNAS: Dr. Dadhania, Co-senior Author

Dr. Darshana DadhaniaDr. Darshana Dadhania, Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, served as co-senior author on a breakthrough paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (August 2019) that has deciphered a new role for cell-free DNA (dead fragments of DNA) in identifying viruses and bacteria and associated damage in the human body. Dr. Dadhania collaborated with Dr. Manikkam Suthanthiran (Division Chief) and Dr. John R. Lee (... Read More

The Weill Department of Medicine Remembers Esteemed Colleague and Friend Dr. Charles L. Christian

With profound sadness, the WDOM announces the passing of Dr. Charles L. Christian. Dr. Christian – a premier leader in the field of rheumatology – passed away on Sunday, August 11, 2019. He served as Physician-in-Chief of the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) for 25 years, and, on two occasions, as the Acting Physician-in-Chief (NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital) and as Chair of Medicine (Weill Cornell). Dr. Christian, who achieved major advances in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis and in... Read More

Dr. Laura Alonso Appointed to Chief of the WDOM’s Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism

Laura Alonso, M.D., ChiefAfter a national search, Dr. Laura Alonso will become the next Chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism as of September 1, 2019. She will also serve as the Director of the Weill Center for Metabolic Health. An accomplished physician-scientist, Dr. Alonso was previously the George F. and Sybil H. Fuller Term Chair in Diabetes and Director of Beta Cell Biological Studies at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Dr. Alonso received a B.A.... Read More