Dr. Costantino Iadecola, director of the Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, the Anne Parrish Titzell Professor of Neurology and a professor of neuroscience, gave the keynote address at the 11th International Symposium on Resistance Arteries hosted on Sept. 7-11 in Banff, Alberta, Canada. He spoke on "Cerebrovascular Regulation and the Pathology of Ischemic Brain Injury." Dr. Iadecola was also the keynote speaker for the American Heart Association High Blood Pressure Research Conference, hosted on Sept. 9-12 in San Francisco. For this conference, his keynote was on "The Key Role of Hypertensive Microvascular Dysfunction in Stroke and Cognitive Impairment."
Dr. Anne Moore, a professor of clinical medicine, was honored at the 11th annual A Second Helping of Life event hosted on Sept. 22 in Chelsea Piers. Dr. Moore was recognized for her support of and commitment to SHARE, a survivor-led organization based in New York City that provides support, information and resources to women affected by breast and ovarian cancer. Its mission is to help women and their families address the emotional and practical issues that arise from a cancer diagnosis and to provide the support these women need to feel less isolated, better informed and more empowered as health care consumers.
Dr. Daniel M. Stein, an assistant professor of healthcare policy and research, was selected on Sept. 22 for the 2014-2015 Leadership in Academic Medicine Program, a year-long faculty development program for junior faculty at Weill Cornell Medical College. This year's class comes from 18 different departments. The program's monthly seminars introduce participants to the fundamentals of career planning, self-management and leadership skills. The skills and understandings developed in this program are intended to provide faculty with tools that will enable them to accomplish their primary career goals and aspirations.
Dr. Manikkam Suthanthiran, the Stanton Griffis Distinguished Professor of Medicine and a professor of medicine, of medicine in surgery and of biochemistry, was recognized by the American Society of Transplantation with the AST Mentoring Award, which is given to an expert in the field of transplantation whose dedicated leadership and contributions have shaped the careers of people he or she trained. Dr. Suthanthiran accepted the award at the annual World Transplant Congress on July 29 hosted in San Francisco, where he was also a distinguished speaker, lecturing on "The Immune Response to the Allograft: What We Still Do not Understand," and "State of Urinary-Cell mRNA Profiling."