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  WCMC-NY students converse with WCMC-Q students (on screen) via videoconference. On Sunday, Nov. 16, at 9:30 a.m. EST (5:30 p.m. Qatar time), history was made when the first-ever overseas student government meeting between Weill Cornell Medical College in New...

House Calls Program at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Helps City's Elderly New York, NY (December 16, 2003) — Run by the Wright Medical Center on Aging at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, House Calls is a program that brings physicians to the...

NYC teachers simulate the spread of HIV virus in the HIV Transmission lab. NYC teachers perform restriction enzyme digests during the DNA Profiling lab. NYC teachers study different anatomical and functional regions of the sheep brain. NYC teachers utilize...

From left: Dr. Michel Gagner, Dr. William Stubenbord, Dr. Antonio Gotto and Dr. Alfons Pomp. The Department of Surgery hosted a cocktail reception for the new "Weill Cornell Weight-Loss Surgery Program" on Nov. 25, in the Griffis Faculty Club....

Dr. David Abramson, clinical professor of ophthalmology and director of the Robert M. Ellsworth Ophthalmic Oncology Center at Weill Cornell, delivered the 5th Annual Philip P. Ellis Lecture on Sept. 19, at the Rocky Mountain Lions Eye Institute of...

From left: Dr. Louis Aronne; Dr. Herbert Pardes; Myra Mahon and Joan Weill (Co-chairs); Dr. Orli Etingin; Dr. Lisa Callahan; and Dr. Neil Kavey. On Oct. 22, the twenty-first annual Women's Health Symposium, sponsored by NewYork Weill Cornell Medical...

From left: Dr. Patricia Allen (Journal Co-chair); Douglas McIntyre (Journal Co-Chair); Anita Gotto; Dr. Antonio Gotto; Bunny Koppelman (Cabaret Co-Chair); Charles Koppelman (Cabaret Co-Chair); Lisa Ehrenkranz (Cabaret Co-Chair); Sanford Ehrenkranz (Cabaret Co-Chair); Dr. Nancy Wexler; Dr. Herbert Pardes; and...

The 13th Medical Complex Art Show, sponsored by the Weill Cornell Medical Library, attracted a wide range of creators—from the artistically inclined to the budding neophyte. But regardless of how one's work was judged on the artistic totem pole,...

Steven Rosalie (Dean's Executive Office) - 10 yrs. Dana Fulmore (Academic Affairs) - 10 yrs. Nicole Miller (Public Health) - 10 yrs. Kathleen Stenger (Human Resources) - 5 yrs. At an awards presentation held in the Griffis Faculty Club...

Pictured with Dr. Gotto and Mr. Rosalie is Susan Zakoian, of the Department of Finance, who has served the Medical College for 45 years. Dr. Isadore Rosenfeld (Medicine) - 45 yrs. Dr. Peter Wilson (Psychiatry) - 45 yrs. Dr....

Dr. Victor Dzau The Department of Medicine will host Medicine Grand Rounds with Dr. Victor Dzau as the 2003 Dr. Aaron Feder Visiting Professor, on Thursday, Nov. 20, at 11 a.m. in Uris Auditorium. Dr. Dzau will present a...

The new WCMC-Q building features lecture halls, laboratory facilities, and an electronic library. The new building of Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar (WCMC-Q), a remarkable structure that houses state-of-the-art facilities and resources, was celebrated during a unique ribbon-cutting...

Dr. Antonio Gotto, dean of the Medical College, and Cornell University's 11th president, Jeffrey Lehman, at inaugural ceremonies at the Weill Cornell campus. Photo by Shonda Prince-Hall. Jeffrey Lehman was inaugurated as Cornell University's 11th president during an unprecedented,...

Study Suggests Importance of Early Detection, Need for Further Substaging in Lung Cancer New York, NY (November 10, 2003) — Tumor size can predict the survival of a patient with the most common type of lung cancer, according to physician-scientists...

Dr. Benjamin H. Kean Dr. Henry Murray,'72, Mrs. Collette Kean and Dr. Stephen Hoffman, '75, at the commemorative dinner. Weill Cornell's Office of Alumni Relations hosted the Symposium on Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases on Monday, Oct. 20, in...

Dr. George Alexopoulos (psychiatry) discussed geriatric depression on White Plains Cable TV's "Views from the Pews" and on Westchester Cable. Dr. Louis Aronne (medicine) was interviewed by the Houston Chronicle about the epilepsy drug topiramate (Topamax) used to help...