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Pam Bennett-Santoro, '77 (left), president of the School of Nursing Alumni Association; Doris Glick, '66 (center), vice president for patient services and chief nursing officer for NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital; and Linda Saal, vice president of the Alumni Association and program...

First-year medical student Rene Rivera helps his mother Fredeswinda Ferrer in a demonstration of problem-based learning. The Medical College hosted its annual "Family Day" on May 4, welcoming medical students' parents, brothers, sisters and significant others for an afternoon...

Dr. Stephen Katz, director of the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases. Dr. Stephen Katz, director of the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, will be the guest of the Department of Dermatology...

Dr. Antonio Gotto, the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Medical College, will present a report on the "State of the Medical College and Graduate School of Medical Sciences" on Monday, May 21, at 5 p.m. in Uris...

Dr. D. Jackson Coleman and Jane Coleman (center) with Greenberg Award co-chairs Bernadette Castro Guida and Dr. Peter Guida (left) and Myra and Arthur Mahon (right). At a gala award celebration held at The Plaza on May 2, Dr....

Third-year medical students Natasha Herron (left) and Quanjing Liu use the Library's new Macintosh iBooks to work on a project. The Medical College Library has acquired 10 Macintosh iBooks to supplement the 24 networked computers provided for Library users....

Thomas Lee Jr., '79, Donald Goldstein, '57, and Dean Gotto. Allan Ropper, '74, Frederick Basilico, '76, John Nagurney, '72, and Judith Basilico, '74. Maureen Tierney, '83 and Richard Lee, '83. Continuing a series of regional alumni gatherings, Dean Antonio...

The 91 Weill Cornell clinical faculty named below were selected for listing in the recently published update of America's Top Doctors, a widely distributed consumer-information guide published by Castle Connolly (2001). The specialty designations are those used in the...

At a luncheon held on April 10, Lisa and Sanford Ehrenkranz were honored for their generous pledge to endow a new professorship to be called the Lisa and Sanford B. Ehrenkranz Professorship in Women's Health. In attendance were Dr....

Advances & Controversies in the Management of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms: An Update on Endovascular Repair and New Medical Treatments May 10, 6–8:30 p.m., Griffis Faculty Club For more information, call Deborah Carson at (212) 746-5007. Valves in the Heart...

Dr. Selina Chen-Kiang (pathology) will be profiled on WNBC-TV for the station's Asian Heritage Month. Dr. Bassem El-Masri (medicine) was interviewed by the New York Post for a feature on clinical trials. Dr. Mitchell Gaynor (medicine) was interviewed for...

Dr. Daniel Alonso was interviewed by University Business about the new Medical College in Qatar. Dr. Craig Basson (medicine) was interviewed by New Scientist on the importance of the number of genes in the human genome. Dr. Sandra Belmont...

In March and April, Weill Cornell students and faculty reached out to public schools in the community in organizing three special programs. During Brain Awareness Week (March 12–18), Weill Cornell's Department of Neurology and Neuroscience participated in Family Science...

Dr. David M. Clayson (1934–2001) Dr. Clayson receives the Dean's Award for Lifetime Achievement in Teaching presented by Dean Antonio Gotto (right) and Dr. Jack Barchas (left), chairman of the Department of Psychiatry, at the award reception on Feb....

Congratulations to Dr. Antonio Gotto, dean of the Medical College and professor of medicine (cardiology), who has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the prestigious, 221-year-old honor society whose mission is "to cultivate...

Dr. Joseph Schlessinger Dr. Joseph Schlessinger, the Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Professor and chairman of pharmacology at New York University Medical Center and director of NYU's Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, will be the guest of the Department...

Dr. Lee Reichman Dr. Lee Reichman, executive director of the National Tuberculosis Center at the New Jersey Medical School, will be the guest of the Department of Medicine on May 3 as the 2001 Donald Zucker Visiting Professor. He...