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New Training Program in ER Focuses on Healthcare Leadership and Management

L to R: Dr. Mary Mulcare, Dr. Rahul Sharma, and Weill Cornell medical students Sapir Nachim and Shokhi Goel. Photo by Travis CurryFounded and directed by Dr. Rahul Sharma, a new summer program is enabling Weill Cornell medical students to learn about the intersection between medicine and business. The students are exposed to leadership and management activities over 8 weeks, including hospital administration, finance, patient safety, research projects, and more. The new program has been... Read More

Dr. Niederman Honored with the Murray Kornfeld Memorial Founders Award

Dr. Michael Niederman, Clinical Director in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, WDOM, has been honored with the Murray Kornfeld Memorial Founders Award from the American College of Chest Physicians. Dr. Niederman is an internationally recognized authority on the treatment and management of pneumonia. This prestigious award highlighted his particular expertise in infection and inflammation as related to pneumonia.Related Links:WCM Newsroom

Dr. Rosen Receives Development Award for Elder Abuse Research

Dr. Tony Rosen, an Instructor in Medicine in the Emergency Division, has received the Paul B. Beeson Emerging Leaders Career Development Award in Aging from the National Institute on Aging and the American Federation for Aging Research for his groundbreaking research on elder abuse. Specializing in geriatric emergency medicine, Dr. Rosen has been awarded $800,000 over the next five years to study injury patterns and forensic biomarkers in victims of elder abuse, as compared to victims of... Read More

Former Chair of Medicine Wins Prestigious ASH Mentorship Award

Dr. Ralph L. Nachman, former Chairman of the Weill Department of Medicine and currently a Professor Emeritus of Medicine, has received the 2016 Mentor Award from the American Society of Hematology (ASH). This prestigious award reflects Dr. Nachman’s decades-long devotion to the training and mentoring of early-career hematologists. One of only two hematologists to receive this award for 2016, Dr. Nachman will be honored at ASH’s 58th annual meeting and exposition held on December 4.Related Links... Read More

Dr. Blander Brings Expertise on Innate Immune System to Jill Roberts Institute for Research in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Dr. Julie Magarian BlanderDr. Julie Magarian Blander, an expert on the innate immune system, has been recruited to the WDOM as of November 1, 2016. Dr. Blander is an Assistant Professor of Immunology in Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology and will be carrying out critical new research at the Jill Roberts Institute for Research in Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Dr. Blander is the recipient of significant funding from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious... Read More

Inaugural Weill Department of Medicine Research Retreat: Fostering the Next Generation of Researchers

Chaired by Dr. Augustine M.K. Choi, John P. Leonard, and Steven M. Lipkin, the first Weill Department of Medicine Research Retreat was held in the Belfer Research Building on October 7, 2016. The conference, which included residents and post-doctoral trainees, was designed to achieve several goals: to highlight research programs within the Department, to expand scientific collaborations, to promote the exchange of knowledge between trainees and senior investigators, and to foster the... Read More

Dr. Yoon Kang Appointed Associate Dean for Program Development and Operations of Medical Education

Dr. Yoon Kang, the Richard P. Cohen, M.D. Associate Professor of Medical Education, Division of General Internal Medicine, has been promoted from Assistant Dean for Clinical Curriculum to the newly created position of Associate Dean for Program Development and Operations of Medical Education. Dr. Kang is also the Director of the Margaret and Ian Smith Clinical Skills Center at Weill Cornell Medicine. She has received numerous teaching awards at Weill Cornell.Related Links:WCM Newsroom

Dr. Zappetti Named Associate Dean for Student Affairs

Dr. Dana Zappetti, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, has been appointed to Associate Dean for Student Affairs at WCM. Dr. Zappetti is also the Program Director for the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship; Assistant Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell; and Course Director for the Subinternship in Medicine at the Medical College.Related Links:WCM Newsroom

Dr. Kahaleh and Team Honored with a 2016 Plenary Session Award from the ASGE for STER

Dr. Michel KahalehAt the forefront of noninvasive procedures for GI conditions, Dr. Michel Kahaleh and his team from the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology have received a 2016 Video Plenary Session Award from the ASGE. This award was given in appreciation of their outstanding work utilizing a procedure known as STER (submucosal tunneling endoscopic resection) for the treatment of gastrointestinal submucosal tumors.Over the past several years, Dr. Kahaleh has been leading an effort in... Read More

Dr. Rajwani Receives Physician of the Year Award

Dr. Kapil RajwaniDr. Kapil Rajwani has received the Physician of the Year Award from the Department of Nursing. The Department of Nursing bestows this award to physicians who consistently practice with Nursing, as well as their support staff, in a collaborative, collegial, and respectful manner. Dr. Rajwani was noted for exemplifying the spirit of this award and for his devotion to the well-being of patients at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.An Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of... Read More