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NewYork Weill Cornell's Spring 2003 Health and Wellness Seminar Series has three weekly seminars remaining. The free seminar series, a community education program organized by the Office of Public Affairs, is held on Tuesday evenings at 6:30 p.m. in...

Dr. Ernest Ring The late Dr. John A. Evans Dr. Ernest Ring, professor of radiology at the University of San Francisco, will be the guest of Weill Cornell's Department of Radiology as the John A. Evans Memorial Lecturer on...

Dr. Ralph Nachman Dr. Ralph Nachman, chairman of the Department of Medicine and the E. Hugh Luckey Distinguished Professor of Medicine, will be honored as the 23rd recipient of NewYork Weill Cornell Medical Center's Maurice R. Greenberg Distinguished Service...

Dr. Joseph Loscalzo Dr. Isadore Rosenfeld Dr. Joseph Loscalzo, the Wade Professor and chairman of the Department of Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine, will be the guest of Weill Cornell's Department of Medicine as the 2003 Isadore...

Best Scientific Method winners Eleanor Philips, Emma Katz, Joanna Chen and Nicholas Berkowitz. Best Scientific Method runner-ups Sophia Brault, Matthew Goldenberg, Ana Bowens and Yan Zhen Lin. Best Presentation winners Andrew Bulkin, Chloe Rosenberg, Ladan Haji-Mohamed and Caroline Curtin....

Catherine Grossman reaches for the envelope bearing her "match" results. She will remain at NewYork Weill Cornell for postgraduate training in general surgery. Jeffrey Liu gets a hug from a well-wisher. He will begin postgraduate training in otorhinolaryngology at...

Weill Cornell students sponsored their biannual blood drive on March 18. Many staff and students participated in the drive, a joint effort of Weill Cornell and the New York Blood Center. "Special thanks go to the staff, faculty and...

Jeanie Huang Weill Cornell's Department of Human Resources has announced the appointment of Jeanie Huang as manager of immigration. Ms. Huang will be responsible for administering the J-1 Exchange Visitors Program for research scholars and the H-1B visa status...

Dr. Karen Davis Dr. Karen Davis, president of the Commonwealth Fund, will be the guest of the Department of Public Health as the 2003 Lorraine and Ralph Lubin Visiting Professor (April 15-16). Dr. Davis will present the David Rogers...

Sharon Olds Weill Cornell's Department of Psychiatry will host "Some Poems About Birth, Sex, Love, Death: A Conversation with Sharon Olds," on April 9, as part of the 2002-2003 Dean's Hour Lecture Series. The program, which will begin at...

Improved Diagnosis and Potential Treatment Options Should End "Neglect Syndrome" New York, NY (April 1, 2003) — A physician-ethicist at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell Medical Center calls for enhanced research into severe brain injury in a paper in the April...

Multimodal Imaging Techniques May Lead to Changes in Clinical Practice for Severely Brain-Injured Persons New York, NY (March 31, 2003) — At the American Academy of Neurology meeting in Honolulu today, Dr. Nicholas Schiff of Weill Cornell Medical College will...

Dr. David Abramson (ophthalmology) was profiled by WABC-TV regarding the Oncology Center-Retinoblastoma Clinic. Dr. Nasser Altorki (surgery) was interviewed by Newsweek about a patient who responded positively to Celebrex treatment for non-small-cell lung cancer. Dr. Louis Aronne (medicine) appeared...

Dr. Antonio Gotto (left), dean of the Medical College, and Dr. Herbert Pardes (right), president of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, with speakers Dr. Felice Schnoll-Sussman and Dr. Ellen Scherl at the March 4 meeting of the NewYork Weill Cornell Council. The...

Weill Cornell and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital honored their dedicated staffs at "Employee Appreciation Day" on March 14. Employees, faculty and students enjoyed a brief tropical getaway as they were given leis, crowns and beads while enjoying the music of a...

National Cancer Prevention Newsletter and Web Site Debut New York, NY (March 17, 2003) — While the three decades since the start of the American "War on Cancer" have witnessed many innovative offensive strategies to treat the disease, a new...