Weill Cornell faculty are often in demand to comment on, and give interviews for, medical news stories reported by media outlets on a wide range of topics. Noted below is a sampling of recent contacts with the media.
Vice Presidential candidate Dick Cheney's hospitalization for a "mild" heart attack the day before Thanksgiving led to Weill Cornell cardiologists Dr. Antonio Gotto being interviewed by USA Today and Dr. Stephen Scheidt speaking to NBC Nightly News, Newsday and the Daily News.
The holiday and winter season gave rise to several interviews: Dr. Alan Manevitz (psychiatry) discussed holiday stress on WINS radio; Dr. David Bank (emergency medicine) spoke on children and cold weather; and Dr. Keith Roach (medicine) gave tips on how to survive the cold and flu season. Dr. Ann Beeder (public health and psychiatry) was interviewed by Oxygen-TV for a segment on holiday drinking. Dr. Roger Yurt (surgery) was interviewed by The New York Times about burn injuries and the holidays.
Dr. Kendall Smith (medicine) was cited by Reuters for his newly published studies on the use of Interleukin-2 to manage HIV infection and restore immune function. To U.P.I., he commented on studies of recombinant yeast as an antifungal vaccine for blastomycosis (from a paper in Journal of Clinical Investigation).
Dr. Margaret Polaneczky (obstetrics and gynecology) was interviewed on WABC-TV about a New England Journal of Medicine study on the correlation between tubal ligation and menstrual problems.
Dr. Andrew Dannenberg (medicine) was interviewed on Fox News Channel about the latest treatments for colon cancer.
Dr. Roy Gulick (medicine) was interviewed on WCBS-TV about the latest advances in AIDS treatment.
Dr. Steven Chasen (obstetrics and gynecology) spoke to WNBC-TV about the use of hypnotism in birthing. In an interview on WebMD, he discussed new prenatal testing for Down syndrome.
Dr. Zev Rosenwaks (obstetrics and gynecology) spoke about preimplantation genetic diagnosis and egg donation in interviews with Stern magazine (Germany) and The New Observer (France), respectively.
Dr. Craig Basson (medicine; cell biology and anatomy) was cited in the Medical Herald on his discovery reported in the Journal of Clinical Investigation of a genetic mutation linked to heart tumors.
Dr. Gianna Zuccotti (medicine) was interviewed by the Our Town/West Side Spirit community newspapers for a feature article on the history of treatment for infectious diseases.
Dr. John Moore (microbiology and immunology) was interviewed on WebMD about control of SHIV/AIDS infection in monkeys (based on an article in Science).
December 25, 2000
