Power People

Celebrating the Individuals Who Make Weill Cornell Medicine Great

Portraits by John Abbott

At Weill Cornell Medicine, people are the heart and soul of our institution. Our faculty and staff — the physicians, scientists and administrators who work so hard every day to fulfill our mission to care, discover and teach — make us who we are.

Orli Etingin

Dr. Orli Etingin

Lisa and Sanford B. Ehrenkranz Professor in Women’s Health; Professor of Clinical Medicine and of Medicine in Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology

“A lot of the work I do has to do with blood clotting problems in patients who are pregnant or recently postpartum, so there have been a lot of very gratifying moments when women who have had recurrent miscarriages were finally able to give birth successfully, or patients who had multiple complications were finally able to get through a pregnancy in a healthy way. I remember being in the delivery room 10 or 12 years ago with a patient who’d had multiple pregnancy losses, some of them in the much later phases, and watching her baby being born and being overwhelmed by that moment. We think about the science and the decision-making, but when we see that, it’s life changing. I had another patient who’d had about six miscarriages, and when I and her ob/gyn helped her get through a pregnancy safely, she had a son. Yesterday he came to me as a new patient; he’s 19 years old and I remember when he was born and being at their family celebration, the bris — that was pretty incredible. I took care of his grandparents and parents; he’s the third generation of this family I’ve had the privilege of taking care of. And that was just my life on a regular day. It’s pretty awe inspiring. It’s pretty good work.”