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On the afternoon of Jan. 12, 2010, Dr. Patrice Severe, a physician at the GHESKIO clinic in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, found himself dodging falling rubble as he crawled onto a nearby soccer field. The GHESKIO clinic where Dr. Severe worked was just 16 miles from the epicenter of a magnitude 7.0 earthquake that shook Haiti that afternoon, and the soccer field on which Dr. Severe found himself would quickly become a refugee camp for roughly 7,000 Haitians who lost their homes in the quake.

In those first few moments, just before 5 p.m. on Jan. 12, when the devastating earthquake struck about 10 miles outside of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Dr. Patrice Severe found himself working off his most basic instincts. "My first thought was...

Imagine that you've been asked to run a primary care clinic in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, the poorest area in the western hemisphere with the highest rate of HIV/AIDS. The Haitian Ministry of Health wants you to provide AIDS care for...

Brooklyn bus driver Pete Pizzuti was the first patient to receive a liver transplant through NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell's newly established Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation. The life-saving procedure was led by Dr. Daniel Cherqui, who was recently appointed professor...

Weill Cornell Medical College Studies Lay Groundwork for New Treatments for Regenerating Liver and Bone Marrow NEW YORK (Nov. 11, 2010) — The liver's unique ability among organs to regenerate itself has been little understood. Now Weill Cornell Medical College...

The New York Times, on Tuesday, Nov. 9, selected Drs. John Boockvar and Howard Riina's experimental work with malignant brain tumors for its watch list of noteworthy advances in 2011.

NEW YORK (Nov. 9, 2010) — Weill Cornell Medical College announced today that it was awarded two $100,000 grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as part of the next phase of Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative to encourage...

Dr. Schneider Is One of Only a Few Physicians Formally Trained in Both Vascular Surgery and Interventional Radiology NEW YORK (Nov. 5, 2010) — One of only a handful of physicians with formal training in both vascular surgery and interventional...

Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the comprehensive health care reform law act enacted in March 2010, Medicare will launch a shared savings program for groups of health care providers that join forces, with or without hospitals...

Dr. Jean Pape speaking at the Clinton Global Citizen Award ceremony, Sept. 23. Dr. Jean Pape, founder and director of GHESKIO in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, received a Clinton Global Citizen Award...

Weill Cornell Researchers Uncover Value of "Invisible Work" of Primary Care Physicians NEW YORK (Nov. 4, 2010) — Patient care coordination performed outside of office visits takes a considerable amount of a physician's time, but physicians perceive that it might...

Weill Cornell Medical College Researchers Identified Secondary Mutations That Make Some Variations of Prostate Cancers More Lethal Discovery May Lead to Tests Better Than PSA at Detecting Clinically Significant Prostate Cancer NEW YORK (Nov. 3, 2010) — Scientists at Weill...

Weill Cornell Researchers Report on Targeted Therapy to Repress Protein Mutations in Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphomas NEW YORK (Nov. 3, 2010) — Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is a type of aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma that accounts for approximately 40 percent...

Outcomes Achieved Regardless of Race or Stage of Liver Disease Overall Rates of Discontinuation for Side Effects Were Lower Than in the Earlier Studies NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell's Dr. Ira Jacobson Presents Pivotal Results at Annual Meeting of American Association for the...

Dr. Jerry L. Halpern Dr. Jerry L. Halpern was presented with the Presidential Achievement Award at the 92nd Annual Meeting, Scientific Sessions and Exhibition of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, held Sept. 29, 2010, in Chicago....

Finding May Also Lead to New Treatments for Measles, Mumps and Influenza NEW YORK (Oct. 28, 2010) — Scientists at Weill Cornell Medical College have identified a potential new treatment for the Nipah and Hendra viruses, two lethal and emerging...

New Program Is Among Nation's Largest, Encompassing Two Major Medical Centers: NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia and NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell NEW YORK (Oct. 22, 2010) — Dr. Jeffrey W. Moses, an internationally recognized leader in clinical innovation and research, is assuming an expanded role as...

Educational Tool Helps Ob-Gyns Reach Out to Women About Colon Cancer Albany, NY, October 21, 2010 — The New York State Chapter of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, District II (ACOG) has partnered with the Jay Monahan Center...

NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Paper Reports That Restoring a Crucial Gene in a Tiny Area of the Brain Reverses Depression-Like Behavior in Mice; Human Data Backs Up the Promise of Such Therapy NEW YORK (Oct. 20, 2010) — In a report published...

It was a scene in a supermarket in Doha that could have taken place anywhere. The difference here is that three young medical students decided to investigate what was happening. WCMC-Q students Sanah Sadiq, Arnab Chowdhury and Abdulhadi Al...