Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine Elected President-elect of Wilderness Medical Society
Dr. Jay Lemery, assistant professor in emergency medicine and director of Wilderness and Environmental Medicine in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Weill Cornell
Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine Elected President-elect of Wilderness Medical Society Dr. Jay Lemery, assistant professor in emergency medicine and director of Wilderness and Environmental Medicine in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Weill Cornell, was elected president-elect of the Wilderness Medical Society. His term will begin in July.
Founded in 1983, the Wilderness Medical Society is the world's leading organization dedicated to wilderness medical challenges. Dr. Lemery, who is also an assistant attending physician at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell, was previously the society's secretary.
This is but one of Dr. Lemery's recent accomplishments. He has also joined the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a consultant for its Climate and Health Program, established in 2009 to lead efforts to prevent and adapt to the anticipated health impacts associated with climate change.
He has also become an official contributing editor to Health and Human Rights: An International Journal, the flagship publication of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health. The journal provides intellectual leadership in the global effort to realize the right to health, especially for children and other vulnerable groups. Founded in 1993, the academic center is the first of its kind to focus exclusively on the practical dynamic between the issues of health and human rights.
In addition, Dr. Lemery was invited to join the Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research and Medicine, which addresses current and emerging issues in environmental health through discussions related to the state of the science, research gaps, and policy implications.
Lastly, Dr. Lemery was elected into the Council of Foreign Relations' Stephen M. Kellen Term Member Program, which encourages promising young leaders in government, media, nongovernmental organizations, law, business, finance, and academia to engage in a sustained conversation on international affairs and U.S. foreign policy. The Council, an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank and publisher, is comprised of more than 4,500 people — including Brian Williams, Fareed Zakaria, Angelina Jolie, Chuck Hagel and Erin Burnett.
In recent months, Dr. Lemery has been working with Dr. Neal Flomenbaum, professor of clinical medicine at Weill Cornell and emergency physician-in-chief at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, on a new model for a two-year Wilderness Medicine and Rural Health fellowship designed in part to address the severe shortage of physicians in rural areas surrounding the Adirondack wilderness in New York state.
Dr. Masri Awarded Fellow Status from National Lipid Association
Dr. Bassem Masri, the Daisy and Paul Soros/Racanati Kaplan Professor of Cardiac Prevention and Helen and Stephen Appel Lipid Scholar Award Chair at Weill Cornell Medical College.
Dr. Bassem Masri, the Daisy and Paul Soros/Racanati Kaplan Professor of Cardiac Prevention and Helen and Stephen Appel Lipid Scholar Award Chair at Weill Cornell Medical College, was recently awarded Fellow status with the National Lipid Association. He will receive the award during the association's Annual Sessions May 31-June 1 in Scottsdale, Arizona. Dr. Masri joins more than 200 physicians and allied health care professionals from across the nation to achieve this prestigious credential.
The association awards Fellow status to those who have distinguished themselves amongst their colleagues and who have satisfied the requirements established by the association for recognition: good standing with the organization, possess a professional degree, be nominated by at least two other Fellows of the National Lipid Association, be recognized by peers for contributions to the field of clinical lipidology and have demonstrated a significant commitment to the association at the national or regional level.
Dr. Masri established the lipid clinic and Cardiac Prevention Center at Weill Cornell in 1999, when he joined the Medical College, taking referrals for difficult to treat patients with lipid disorders as well as diagnosing and managing care of patients with cardiovascular disease, diabetes, carbohydrate and lipid metabolic disorders. He also conducts clinical research and clinical trials on lipids, hypertension and diabetes and metabolism.
The National Lipid Association is a nonprofit, multidisciplinary medical society with nearly 3,000 members dedicated to reducing the morbidity and mortality from dyslipidemia and strengthening cardiovascular disease prevention.
Additional Awards and Honors
Dr. George S. Alexopoulos, the Stephen P. Tobin and Dr. Arnold M. Cooper Professor in Consultation Liaison Psychiatry, professor of psychiatry, professor of psychiatry in integrative medicine and director of the Weill Cornell Institute of Geriatric Psychiatry, was recognized by the American Psychiatric Association this year as a Distinguished Fellow.
Dr. Holly S. Andersen, clinical associate professor of medicine in the Division of Cardiology, became a member of the Dartmouth Medical School Board of Overseers this year.
Dr. Shuibing Chen, assistant professor of chemical biology in surgery and assistant professor of chemical biology in biochemistry, was awarded the American Diabetes Association's Junior Faculty Award in January. This award provides $342,000 over three years to support Dr. Chen's research on the disease modeling of maturity onset diabetes of the young 1 (MODY1) using human induced pluripotent stem cells. The models established in this study can also be used to examine the role of genetic factors in the progression of type-2 diabetes.
Dr. Gregory DiFelice, assistant professor of orthopaedic surgery, received the 2011 CORR Multimedia Award for his article "Surgical Technique: When to Arthroscopically Repair the Torn Posterior Cruciate Ligament." The CORR Multimedia Award, an annual prize of $5,000 for the best multimedia award, is bestowed by the journal Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, in conjunction with the Association of Bone and Joint Surgeons and Springer. The award is given to articles showing unique and/or distinct observations and illustrations with video clips that complement and reinforce information published in print.
Dr. Joshua S. Dines, clinical assistant professor of orthopaedic surgery, received a Scientific Exhibit Award of Excellence for the exhibit "Managing Bone Loss in Anterior Instability" from the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons in February. That same month, he was also named social media editor for the Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery.
Jan Dlabal, a summer student from the Lycée Français de New York, was selected Jan. 11 as a semi-finalist in the 2012 Intel Science Talent Search for work on the determination of large-scale genomic structure performed in the lab of Dr. Olivier Elemento, assistant professor of physiology and biophysics and assistant professor of computational genomics and computational biomedicine.
Dr. Dmitriy N. Feldman, assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Cardiology, was elected a member of the Peripheral Vascular Disease Committee in the Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions last year.
Dr. Daniel Gardner, professor of physiology and biophysics and professor of physiology and biophysics in neuroscience, will receive an Excellence in Teaching Award from Weill Cornell. The award will be presented at the annual Celebration of Teaching dinner June 19.
Dr. Mehmet R. Genc, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology, was named chairman of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine's Reproductive Immunology Special Interest Group. In addition, he was appointed associate editor of the Journal of Perinatal Medicine.
Jeanette Gerould, a member of the Weill Cornell Master of Science in Health Sciences for Physician Assistant Program Class of 2012, became in January the first recipient of the Bettye Epstein Beaton Memorial Scholarship. The scholarship is the first that Weill Cornell's physician assistant program has offered to recognize an outstanding student who demonstrates financial need and an interest in pursuing a surgical specialty. The scholarship honors Bettye Epstein Beaton, who graduated from the second class of the surgical assistant program at the former New York Hospital. She worked in plastic surgery and became clinical director of the surgical assistant program. Her husband, Dr. Howard Beaton, family and friends established the scholarship in her memory after she lost her battle with acute myeloid leukemia last year.
Dr. Daniel W. Green, associate clinical professor of orthopaedic surgery, became president of the New York County Medical Society for a one-year term beginning in 2011. He is also a new at large member of American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons' Communications Cabinet for a two-year term commencing in 2012. In addition, he last year was named a medical officer for the National Disaster Medical System in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response.
Dr. Xavier Keutgen, a resident in the Department of Surgery, won the New York Surgical Society 2011-2012 Henry Sands Award for best paper presentation, titled, "A Panel of Four MicroRNA's accurately differentiates malignant from benign indeterminate thyroid lesions on fine needle aspiration."
Dr. Mario Lacouture, associate professor of dermatology, received the 2012 Boyer Award in Clinical Research from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, which honors the Center's physicians and scientists under the age of 40 who have demonstrated great promise and accomplishment in clinical and laboratory investigations.
Dr. Fabrizio Michelassi, The Lewis Atterbury Stimson Professor of Surgery at Weill Cornell and surgeon-in-chief at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell, was appointed president of the New York Surgical Society this year. He was the invited lecturer for the first annual Keith A. Kelly MD Lectureship and Visiting Professorship at the Mayo Clinic, hosted Feb. 10 in Phoenix, Ariz. The grand rounds lecture was titled, "Management of Complex Small Bowel Crohn's Disease." In addition, he gave the annual Jameson Chassin Visiting Professor Lecture at NewYork Queens Hospital April 18 about "Management of Complex Small Bowel Crohn's Disease."
Dr. Teresa Milner, professor of neuroscience, was the guest editor of a special issue of Brain Research titled, "Window of Opportunity: Menopause, Estrogen and the Brain," published on March 16, 2011 in vol. 1379 of the journal. This issue was a collection of 23 multidisciplinary articles presenting the proceedings and discussions that ensued from a "Window of Opportunity" workshop hosted in January 2010. The theme of the issue is translational — from human observation, to the laboratory bench and finally, to clinical trials. In addition to soliciting articles and handling the reviews for each article, her lab contributed four studies to this special issue.
Sayan Mondal, a graduate student in the Physiology, Biophysics and Systems Biology program working in Dr. Harel Weinstein's lab, won the Student Research Achievement Award at the Biophysical Society's 2012 annual meeting Feb. 28 for his poster on the interaction of G protein coupled receptors with the membrane.
Dr. Monn Myat, associate professor in cell and developmental biology, won the Charles Frueauff Foundation Award, which carries a cash prize of $30,000 in January. The Charles A. Frueauff Foundation strives to improve the lives of those in need by awarding grants to non-profit organizations in the areas of education, human services and health and hospitals.
The NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Kidney Transplant Program is one of just eight national kidney transplant programs to receive a 2012 HealthGrades Kidney Transplant Excellence Award. This award is given to transplant programs with statistically significantly higher three-year survival rates as well as waitlist mortality that was either not significantly different than expected or was significantly lower than expected based on SRTR calculations. HealthGrades is the leading provider of information to help consumers make an informed decision about a physician or hospital.
Dr. Michelle Sahai, a postdoctoral associate in Dr. Harel Weinstein's lab, was awarded March 30 a three-year Canadian Institutes of Health Research Fellowship for her research on "Molecular Mechanisms of the Dopamine Transporter Function: The Effects of Drugs of Abuse." Dr. Sahai will receive a stipend of $45,000 and a research allowance of $5,000 per annum.
Dr. Arash Salemi, assistant professor of cardiothoracic surgery, received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association 2011 Young Heart Award for Achievement in Cardiovascular Science and Medicine as well as the American Heart Association Cardiology Fellows Society of Greater New York Award for Outstanding Support of Cardiovascular Education and Research.
Dr. Jane E. Salmon, professor of medicine and professor of medicine in obstetrics and gynecology, received the Virginia Kneeland Frantz '22 Award for Distinguished Women in Medicine May 4. This award represents the highest honor the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Alumni Association can bestow in recognition of outstanding accomplishments.
Dr. Eduardo A. Salvati, professor of clinical orthopaedic surgery, was named honorary member of the Spanish Society of Orthopedics and Traumatology. He will be recognized during the Society's annual meeting Oct. 3 in Malaga, Spain, during which he will also give an honorary lecture.
Dr. Dikoma C. Shungu, professor of physics in radiology, was appointed chair of the Research Scientists Committee in the American Society of Neuroradiology for a two-year term beginning in 2013. Dr. Shungu is also a new chartered member of the Center for Scientific Review's Neural Basis of Psychopathology, Addictions and Sleep Disorders Study Section at the National Institutes of Health for a three-year term beginning this year.
The Weill Cornell Physician Organization primary care practices received certification as a Level 3 Patient-Centered Medical Home effective March 2012 to July 2013, from the National Committee for Quality Assurance, a private, 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving health care quality. The committee's patient-centered medical home certification is an innovative program for improving primary care.
Dr. Daniel Wellner, professor emeritus of the Department of Biochemistry, received a certificate of recognition from the American Chemical Society congratulating him for 50 years of service to and membership in the society.
Dr. Peter G. Wilson, professor of clinical psychiatry, gave a special invited talk for the Heberden Society lecture series March 20 titled "220 Years of Psychiatry at the NYPH-WCMC." The Heberden Society was established at the former New York Hospital, now known as NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, in 1975 by a group of medical interns and residents who were interested in promoting the history of medicine.
Dr. Jonathan Zippin, the Clinique Clinical Scholar in Dermatology and an assistant professor of dermatology, received a special invite to attend the 2012 American Academy of Dermatology's Leadership Forum in Arizona April 13-15. The forum is attended by 30 young dermatologists and designed to train the next generation of leaders in the field of dermatology.