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$1 Million Gift from Joachim Silbermann Family Funds Clinical Scholar NEW YORK (June 13, 2006) — A $1 million gift from the Joachim Silbermann Family has created the Joachim Silbermann Family Scholar in Geriatric Palliative Care. Dr. Manney Carrington Reid...

Dr. Antonio Gotto and Dr. Stephen Woods, professor of psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati, at the 2006 Irving Weinstein Symposium. The feeling of craving food is well-known—that almost insatiable desire for chocolate or a soft drink that seems...

Dean Gotto Presents 10th Annual State of the Medical College and Graduate School of Medical Sciences Dean Antonio Gotto speaks to a capacity-filled Uris Auditorium for the State of the Medical College and Graduate School address. Weill Cornell faculty...

NEW YORK (June 12, 2006) — Noted psychiatrist Dr. David Hamburg has been appointed by Secretary General Kofi Annan to chair the newly formed United Nations Advisory Committee on Genocide Prevention. The committee will provide guidance and support to the...

New Book Shines Light on Mammography Controversy NEW YORK (June 12, 2006) — The subject of changing public advice over the years, mammography and the controversy over its use continue to cause confusion in the minds of many women. A...

Dr. Bruce Ballard Dr. Antonio Gotto, dean of the Medical College, presents to Dr. Ballard a Tiffany clock engraved with Dr. Ballard's name and titles. After 30 years of outstanding service and commitment to medical education, equal opportunity and...

NYPress, the newsletter for employees and friends of Weill Cornell Medical College's primary health-care partner, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, has recently undergone exciting changes. In addition to increasing publication to every month, it now features the previously separate newsletters "The Green...

The Rockefeller University, one of Weill Cornell Medical College's Tri-Institutional partners, is defined not only by its history of biomedical research, but also in part by its location. Founded by John D. Rockefeller, a capitalist and philanthropist closely associated...

Benjamin Franklin Scientist, inventor, statesman, printer, philosopher, musician, author and economist... Benjamin Franklin's status as a revolutionary-era Renaissance man has become mythological; in the modern era he is perhaps at least as well known for his diversity of interests...

Facility Seeks Cure for Antibiotic-Resistant TB and Malaria NEW YORK (June 5, 2006) — A $7.25 million gift to Weill Medical College of Cornell University will establish the Abby and Howard P. Milstein Chemistry Core Facility and the Abby and...

Health Policy Division Renamed; Formerly, Health Services and Policy Research NEW YORK (June 1, 2006) — Dr. Bruce R. Schackman has been named chief of the Division of Health Policy in the Department of Public Health at Weill Medical College...

Kristine Alpi, associate director in the Wood Library and Starr Biomedical Information Center and lecturer in the Department of Public Health, has been published in the April 2006 issue of Journal of the Medical Library Association for her study,...

Dr. Antonio Gotto Dr. Antonio Gotto, provost for medical affairs and dean of Weill Cornell Medical College, will give his annual presentation on the "State of the Medical College and Graduate School of Medical Sciences" on Wednesday, June 7,...

On May 17, Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences of Cornell University presented five awards to 26 graduates and students during the school's Convocation ceremonies, the largest in the school's history. "Our growth has been spectacular, and as a...

Weill Cornell graduates and faculty were honored at the 2006 Convocation ceremonies, a celebration that awards outstanding graduates, other medical students, faculty and staff for distinguished achievement, dedication to scholarship and research, devotion to teaching or service, or demonstration...

The graduating Class of 2006 take the Hippocratic Oath. Hunter Rawlings, interim president of Cornell University. Dean Antonio Gotto Dr. Emilio Emini, recipient of the Graduate School Alumni Award of Distinction. Dr. George McCracken, recipient of the Medical College...

Community-Based WIN-R Study Shows Significantly Better Outcomes with Weight-Based Dosing LOS ANGELES (May 24, 2006) — Researchers who participated in the WIN-R trial, the largest hepatitis C study ever conducted in U.S. patients, reported key factors affecting treatment outcomes in...

NEW YORK (May 23, 2006) — Physician-scientists from Weill Medical College of Cornell University and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center are presenting significant research at the 101st Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Urological Association from May 20 to May...

Drs. Emilio A. Emini and George H. McCracken Jr. Honored with Alumni Distinction Awards NEW YORK (May 18, 2006) — One hundred and one newly minted M.D.'s — a diverse group with international experience and a socially committed outlook —...