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Department of Medicine Teaching Awards 2010

In keeping with our tradition of excellence in education, the Department of Medicine is pleased to announce the following Teaching Awards presented to our faculty, fellows, and residents at the 2010 Convocation Ceremony.Won KimHouse Staff Teaching AwardThis award was established by the Class of 1990 and the Alumni Association to honor the Weill Cornell-affiliated house officer who best demonstrates clinical excellence and dedication to teaching.Veronica E. LoFasoThe Leonard P. Tow Humanism... Read More

Dr. Schafer Elected President of APM

Dr. Andrew SchaferAndrew I. Schafer, M.D., Chair of the Department of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and Physician-in-Chief, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, has been elected President of the Association of Professors of Medicine (APM). He will take office July 1, 2010.APM is the organization of departments of internal medicine represented by chairs and appointed leaders at medical schools and affiliated teaching hospitals in the United States and Canada.... Read More

New Visiting Professorship: The Mark Pecker Clinical Master

Dr. Mark Pecker's former chief residents came together to create a visiting professorship to honor his unique contributions to his trainees and colleagues. The Mark Pecker Clinical Master spends a week with the Department of Medicine and is involved in many clinical activities including morning report, conferences, and rounds. There are also opportunities to interact with staff and residents.Mitchell H. Charap, M.D., the Abraham Sunshine Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at New York... Read More

GHESKIO Wins 2010 Gates Award for Global Health

GHESKIO, an institution in Haiti founded nearly three decades ago to fight HIV/AIDS, has been awarded the prestigious 2010 Gates Award for Global Health for its years of groundbreaking clinical service, research, and training to effectively treat and prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and other related illnesses. The group is led by Jean W. Pape, M.D., Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and a Haitian native, who has advanced AIDS patient-survival rates and treatment adherence... Read More

The Department of Medicine Welcomes Three Experts to the Division of Infectious Diseases

Dr. David CalfeeDavid Calfee, M.D., M.S. serves as the new Chief Hospital Epidemiologist at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. He earned his medical degree from West Virginia University School of Medicine in Morgantown and completed an internship and residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in infectious diseases at the University of Virginia. He also received a master of science degree in health evaluation sciences from the University of Virginia. After... Read More

Dr. Crow Appointed Division Chief of Rheumatology

Dr. Mary K. CrowWe are very pleased to announce that Mary K. Crow, M.D., has been appointed Chief of the Division of Rheumatology in the Department of Medicine. She has been concurrently appointed Physician-In-Chief and Chair of the Division of Rheumatology at the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS). Dr. Crow is an internationally recognized investigator and a leader in the field of rheumatology and autoimmunity research and clinical practice. She has been Associate Chief, Division of... Read More

Drug Designed by Weill Cornell to Kill Lymphoma Cells Goes to Clinical Trials

Dr. Ari MelnickResearchers from the Sackler Center at Weill Cornell Medical College (WCMC) have designed a new class of drugs that targets a master regulatory protein responsible for causing the most common type of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.Findings published April 14 in Cancer Cell show that an experimental compound designed by the researchers may effectively block the cancer-causing actions of the protein known as BCL6 by attaching to a critical "hot spot" on its surface, thus killing the cancer... Read More

Introducing Weill Cornell's Center for Sleep Medicine

The newly constructed, expanded, and relocated Center for Sleep Medicine opened its doors on March 25, 2010. This innovative, state-of-the-art center is a joint endeavor of the Departments of Medicine and Neurology and Neuroscience and the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. The cutting-edge facility consists of 8,000 square feet, including 12 hotel-quality sleep rooms with private bathrooms, cable TV, and WiFi. A multidisciplinary team evaluates the full range of sleep problems,... Read More

Anne Kastor, M.D., Appointed Director of Weill Cornell Community Clinic

Dr. Anne KastorAnne Kastor, M.D., has accepted the newly created position of Director, Weill Cornell Community Clinic (WCCC), effective March 1, 2010. WCCC is a Weill Cornell student initiative operating over the past several years to provide clinical care to patients who are under- or uninsured. WCCC operates out of the Weill Cornell Internal Medicine Associates (WCIMA) practice on Monday evenings. It has been a robust student service-learning activity that is sponsored by a faculty steering... Read More

President Clinton Visits GHESKIO

On Friday, February 5, former United States President Bill Clinton, founder of the William J. Clinton Foundation and United Nations Special Envoy for Haiti, visited GHESKIO in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to help begin the process of recovery and reconstruction, and to deliver relief supplies including water, food, solar flash lights, portable radios, generators, and approximately 1,900 lbs. of medical supplies. He discussed with Dr. Jean Pape and his team how to "ensure assistance continues to be... Read More