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Appointment to Professor Aihao Ding, Ph.D., Professor of Microbiology and Immunology. Promotions to Professor Hiram Sedgwick Cody III, M.D., Professor of Clinical Surgery. (Dr. Cody is on staff at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.) Joseph J. Fins, M.D., Professor of...

Dr. George Papanicolaou Weill Cornell's Department of Cell and Developmental Biology and The Hellenic Medical Society of New York will present the George N. Papanicolaou, M.D., Ph.D. Symposium on Thursday, May 13, at the Weill Education Center. The event,...

Dr. Joseph Fins Dr. Joseph Fins, chief of the Division of Medical Ethics at the Medical College, delivered an informative keynote address on "Back to the Future: Cultures of Death and Dying in America" on February 19, at Cornell...

Nathaniel Dayes and Simi Gupta, '06, staff the "Parenting" table. On March 13, the 2004 Healthy People Community Health Fair for women, men and children was held at the Hans Christian Anderson Complex (P.S. 242). The all-day, free-admission event,...

Dr. Joel Pardee and Dr. Max Gomez with 7th-grade student winners of the Most Creative Award: Daniel Vithlani, Zann Isacson, Emily Melas, Gaurav Saharia, and Salem Gutic. The Seventh Annual Cornell Science Challenge, a joint effort of Weill Graduate...

President Bush greets Dr. Jean Pape. At a special meeting held early last year at the White House, Dr. Jean Pape, professor of medicine at Weill Cornell and director of GHESKIO in Port-au-Prince, Haiti (Groupe Haitien d'Etudes du Sarcome...

Dr. Nathaniel Hupert introduces the case and assignments to the Class of 2006. The Medical College staged an innovative bioterrorism exercise on March 25 in Weill Auditorium for the Class of 2006. The session, led by Weill Cornell faculty...

Christopher Towe (left) celebrates his match with two friends. He will be a resident at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell, with a specialty in general surgery. More than 100 medical students packed Archbold Commons Student Lounge on March 18 for "Match," the...

Laser Treatment Eliminates Varicose Veins in Minutes New York, NY (May 3, 2004) — Summertime is almost here and that means it is time to pull out the Bermuda shorts and mini-skirts, but for many Americans summertime fashion can be...

New York, NY (May 1-6, 2004) — Experts in the field of psychiatry from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital will present new developments in the areas of education, clinical care and research at the 157th annual American Psychiatric Association meeting beginning May 1....

55th Annual Award for Research Recognizes Innovations of NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Psychiatry Chairman and Psychiatrist-in-Chief New York, NY (May 2004) — World-renowned neuroscientist, psychiatrist, and innovative researcher in brain metabolism, Dr. Jack D. Barchas has received the 2004 American Psychiatric Association...

24th Annual Award Honors NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Cardiothoracic Chairman and Surgeon-in-Chief New York, NY (April 29, 2004) — World-renowned cardiothoracic surgeon and educator, Dr. O. Wayne Isom has been named the recipient of The 24th Annual Maurice R. Greenberg Distinguished Service...

Weill Cornell Medical College to Receive $3.6 Million for CT Screening Research New York, NY (April 26, 2004) — A new screening technology that could detect lung cancer much earlier than ever before was funded today through matching grants of...

Inhibitor Is Engineered That Prevents Nerve Cell Death in Laboratory-Grown Cells Data Suggest Potential Target for Alzheimer's Disease Treatments New York, NY (April 16, 2004) — Researchers from Weill Cornell Medical College and Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons...

Dr. Andrew Dannenberg, the Henry R. Erle, M.D.-Roberts Family Professor of Medicine, professor of medicine in surgery, and co-director of the Cancer Prevention Program at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, served as co-chairman of the 95th Annual Meeting of the American Association...

Dr. O. Wayne Isom Dr. O. Wayne Isom, the Terry Allen Kramer Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery and chairman of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, has been named the recipient of the 2004 Maurice R. Greenberg Distinguished Service Award. He...

Dr. Clive Svendsen Dr. Clive Svendsen, director of the Stem Cell Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Waisman Center, will be the guest of Weill Cornell's Department of Neurology and Neuroscience as the William D. Stubenbord Visiting Professor....

Dr. Ralph D. Feigin Dr. Ralph D. Feigin, the J.S. Abercrombie Professor and chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine (Houston), will be the guest of Weill Cornell's Department of Pediatrics as the William D....