Dr. Phyllis August (medicine) was interviewed by Glamour magazine and by Healthscout.com about preeclampsia.
Dr. Philip Barie (surgery) was interviewed for a physicians' education video by Merck Drugs about the new Merck drug Invanz.
Dr. Barbara Bartlik (psychiatry) was interviewed by Glamour about sexual health myths.
Dr. Palmer Bessey (surgery) was interviewed by Voice of America, UPI, the Washington Post and Dallas Morning News about the Burn Center's role in the treatment of World Trade Center patients.
Dr. Marylene Cloitre (psychology in psychiatry) was interviewed by PBS's NewsHour with Jim Lehrer about coping with emotional trauma from the World Trade Center disaster.
Dr. JoAnn DiFede (psychiatry) was interviewed by Crain's New York Business and the Washington Post about post-traumatic stress and the fear of traveling.
Dr. Jay Edelberg (medicine), who was named a 2001 Paul Beeson Physician Faculty Scholar by the American Federation for Aging Research, was cited by the Medical Herald.
Dr. Neal Flomenbaum (emergency medicine) was interviewed by Health magazine about common ER injuries and their prevention.
Dr. Marc Goldstein (urology) was interviewed by Working Mother magazine about the relationship between nutrition and vitamins and male fertility.
Dean Antonio Gotto welcomed the Emir of Qatar who visited the Medical Center to convey his condolences to patient-victims of the World Trade Center attack and to present a donation of $1 million dollars to the Burn Center. A press conference also attended by Sanford Weill, chairman of Weill Cornell's Board of Overseers, Hunter Rawlings, president of Cornell University, and Dr. Herbert Pardes, president and CEO of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, was covered by WABC-TV, NY1 News, Fox News, New York Post, UPI, Crain's Health Pulse, Ithaca Journal, Cornell Daily Sun and the Cornell Chronicle. Later, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell mentioned the donation in an appearance with the Emir covered by the national media. On another front, Dr. Gotto, Mr. Weill, and Fr. Peter LeJacq, M.D., (CUMC '86) appeared in a fund-raising video, "Touching Tanzania," about three Tanzanian physicians studying medical education at Weill Cornell.
Dr. Jonathan Jacobs (medicine) was interviewed by WABC-TV about the overuse of antibiotics.
Dr. Alan Manevitz (psychiatry) was interviewed by CNN and by Inside Edition (WB-11) about coping with the WTC disaster.
Dr. Kutluk Oktay (obstetrics and gynecology) was interviewed by the Discovery Channel and by "Healthweek" (a Washington, D.C., PBS program) about his new ovarian tissue transplant technique to preserve ovarian function (published in the Sept. 26 JAMA). The research was also covered by The New York Times, the Toronto Globe & Mail, various outlets in the Turkish press, Healthscout.com and Kaisernetwork.org.
Dr. Michael Osborne (surgery) was interviewed by the CBS Early Show and by CBShealthwatch.medscape.com about preventive bilateral mastectomy.
Dr. Cynthia Pfeffer (psychiatry) was interviewed by Healthscout.com about the relationship between alcohol use and self-image in teenagers.
Dr. Richard Rivlin (medicine) was interviewed by the Ottawa Citizen about the benefits of garlic for the heart (published in Nutrition and Clinical Care).
Dr. E. Darracott Vaughan (urology), who was elected President of the American Urological Association, was cited by the Medical Herald.
Dr. Roger Yurt (surgery) was joined by Dr. Herbert Pardes, president and CEO of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Dr. John Daly (surgery) and Dr. Neal Flomenbaum (emergency medicine) at a press conference held for the first of the critically burned World Trade Center survivors, Manu Dhingra, to be discharged from the Burn Center. The press conference was carried live by CNN and NY1, and was covered by about two dozen national and local media outlets. In one 24-hour period from Oct. 2 to Oct. 3, the NewYork-Presbyterian and Weill Cornell Medical Center names were mentioned more than 432 times in broadcast media alone. Dr. Yurt was also interviewed about the Burn Center by News 12 (Westchester), by NPR's All Things Considered, by Bloomberg Radio, by ABC's Good Morning America, by Life Magazine, and by CNN's Larry King, who visited the Burn Center for a special segment of "Larry King Live." Lastly, Dr. Yurt was interviewed by Con Edison for a memorial video about retired Con Ed executive Dick Morgan, who died in the WTC disaster and who had raised funds for the Burn Center Foundation. The video will be shown at Dick Morgan's funeral service.
October 15, 2001
