Dr. Eleni Andreopoulou, the Madeline and Stephen Anbinder Clinical Scholar in Hematology/Oncology and an assistant professor of clinical medicine, received the Archbishop Iakovos Leadership 100 Endowment Fund's Award for Excellence on Feb. 14. One of the most prominent charitable Greek organizations in America, the group was founded in 1984 to bring together Greek Orthodox leaders across many fields and to support the work of other community members. Michael Jaharis, a member of the Weill Cornell Board of Overseers, is also a founding member of the fund.
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 speech at Oregon Health & Science University's Stroke Conference on March 7. Dr. Iadecola's speech was titled "Neurovascular Pathways to Cognitive Impairment: Clinical Lessons from Animal Models." This one-day annual conference brought together the university's clinicians and scientists interested in stroke, cerebrovascular disease, and traumatic brain injury to share their expertise, report on scientific progress, and discuss research collaborations.
Dr. Anne Moore, a professor in clinical medicine, has won the 2015 Virginia Kneeland Frantz Distinguished Women in Medicine Award from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. This award is presented annually to an alumna who has outstanding career achievements and is named in honor of Dr. Virginia Kneeland Frantz, one of the first six women allowed admission to the previously all-male college. After graduation in 1922, Dr. Krantz went on to become the first woman ever to be accepted into what was then named Presbyterian Hospital's two-year surgical internship. Dr. Moore received the award during the college's reunion event on May 8.
Dr. Stefan Worgall, the Distinguished Professor of Pediatric Pulmonology and a professor of pediatrics and of genetic medicine, won the Klosterfrau Award for Research of Airway Diseases in Childhood from the Society of Pediatric Pulmonology Society in Germany. The annual award, which carries a 30,000 euro (approximately $33,000) prize, is bestowed upon a researcher or research team for outstanding new findings in childhood asthma research. Dr. Worgall was recognized for discovering that an overactive gene interrupts a crucial pathway that enables the synthesis of a small group of lipid molecules, called sphingolipids, which are tasked with signaling between cells and holding them together. The dysfunction of this process can create the genetic form of asthma.