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Dr. Andrew I. Schafer, chairman of the Department of Medicine and The E. Hugh Luckey Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and physician-in-chief at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, has been elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies. Membership in IOM is one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine.

Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar (WCMC-Q) has celebrated its 10-year anniversary. Since it started academic operations in 2002, the college has created 112 new doctors, established a world-class biomedical team and contributed to further Qatar's goal of becoming a knowledge-based economy.

The Mimi Suico Summer Research Program at Weill Cornell Medical College just concluded its first program, giving three students the opportunity to pursue biomedical and translational research.

Awards, honors, prizes and achievements for the week of Oct. 5 - Oct. 12.

A new study by Weill Cornell Medical College researchers, published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, provides compelling evidence that electronic health records (EHRs) enhance the quality of patient care in a community-based setting with multiple payers, which is representative of how medicine is generally practiced across the United States.

For months, strains of Mozart's Requiem and a chorus of melodic voices have been heard at Weill Cornell Medical College, as dozens of dedicated musicians gathered weekly to rehearse for the Music and Medicine Initiative's largest performance to date.

Weill Cornell Medical College students David Roy, Sha-har Admoni, Nipun Verma and Andrew Ji were selected to participate in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Medical Research Fellows Program, which allows medical, dental and veterinary students to take a year off from school to pursue biomedical research.

Making the time to take care of your body and fulfill your needs becomes increasingly more difficult with the pressures and stresses of a demanding schedule, fast-paced job and the increasing number of distractions around us.

Weill Cornell Medical College researcher Dr. Shuibing Chen's pursuit of a treatment or cure for type 2 diabetes received a boost a few weeks ago after receiving one of 51 New Innovator awards from the National Institutes of Health.

Parents should not worry that proposed changes to the medical criteria redefining a diagnosis of autism will leave their children excluded and deemed ineligible for psychiatric and medical care, says a team of researchers led by psychologists at Weill Cornell Medical College.

A new study by Weill Cornell Medical College researchers shows that adolescents' reactions to threat remain high even when the danger is no longer present. According to researchers, once a teenager's brain is triggered by a threat, the ability to suppress an emotional response to the threat is diminished which may explain the peak in anxiety and stress-related disorders during this developmental period.

Crowded shopping centers, visits from long-lost relatives, and the pressure of preparing holiday meals can all summon one universal reaction: stress. The holidays may be the season of love and celebration, but sometimes festivities can become overwhelming.

Weill Cornell Medical College has started a new chapter in its history in the literal and literary sense with last week's release of its first humanities journal, Ascensus.

Dr. Laurie H. Glimcher, dean of Weill Cornell Medical College and provost for medical affairs of Cornell University, is the winner of the 2012 Ernst W. Bertner Memorial Award from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center for her distinguished contributions to cancer research.

A study from Weill Cornell Medical College researchers investigating the use of electronic health records in assessing clinical quality measures has recently been touted by a branch of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Ranjodh Singh was always passionate about medicine, but it wasn't until he spent the year after college working at Mazil, a youth empowerment and learning center in India, that he became committed to it.

Cindy Parra may only be a first-year medical student at Weill Cornell Medical College, but she's pretty sure of the kind of medicine she wants to practice -- at the very least, the patient population she wants to treat.

There are few people in the world whose lives have not been touched by medicine in some way. Weill Cornell Medical College M.D.-Ph.D student Andrew Milewski is no exception.

Chioma Enweasor never thought her move from her home country of Nigeria to the United States was a big deal until much later in life.

Every medical school class is diverse in its own way, and the Weill Cornell Medical College Class of 2016 is no exception.