Dr. Francis Collins, director of NIH's National Human Genome Research Institute, will address the "Medical and Societal Consequences of the Human Genome Project," on Monday, April 24, at 4 p.m., at the Alumni Auditorium of the Columbia University College...
Drs. Mark Lachs and Ronald Adelman, co-directors of Geriatrics and Gerontology at Weill Cornell, will present a talk on "Successful Aging: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Strategies to Age Well," on Tuesday, April 18, at 7 p.m., at Weill...
Dr. Gunter Blobel, last year's Nobel Prize Recipient for Medicine and professor of cell biology at The Rockefeller University, continues the prestigious Millennium Lecture Series"Revolutionizing Medicine in the 21st Century: The Impact of Genetics and Molecular Biology"on Tuesday, April...
A demonstration of InforMax's Vector NTI Suite Sequence Analysis Software for interested molecular biologists will take place on Monday, April 17, from 1 to 3 p.m., in Room A-126. This software package performs design of new cloning strategies, design...
The Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences will offer its annual writing course to graduate students, medical students and fellows, on Monday evenings from April 17 to June 19. The course will be held at 6:30 p.m. in...
The Echocardiography Laboratory in the Division of Cardiology invites you to attend its Second Annual Echocardiography Review Course, "Cornell Echo 2000," to be held April 14–16 in Weill Cornell's Uris Auditorium. This course is a 2 1/2 day comprehensive...
Dr. Samuel L. Katz, chairman emeritus of pediatrics at Duke, will discuss "Vaccines in the New Millennium" at the Dean's Hour on Wednesday, April 12, at 5 p.m., at the Weill Education Center Auditorium (C-200). This special presentation is...
Dr. Harold Varmus, the new president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and former director of the NIH, kicks off the Millennium Lecture Series "Revolutionizing Medicine in the 21st Century: The Impact of Genetics and Molecular Biology" on Tuesday, April...
Dr. Arnold J. Levine, president of The Rockefeller University, will present the Fourth Annual Nancy Pritzker Award Lectureship on Monday, April 10, at 9 a.m., in Weill Cornell's Uris Auditorium (1300 York Ave. @ 69th St.). Dr. Levine will...
The Office of Academic Affairs has appointed Cathie M. Currie, Ph.D., as associate director of the Office of Curriculum and Educational Development (OCED). She has also been appointed to the faculty as an assistant professor of psychology in the...
Weill Cornell's newest primary care practice siteCornell Medical Associates–East Sidehas opened at 201 E. 80th St. between Second and Third Ave. The practice includes five physicians in internal medicine, five pediatricians, and two ob-gyns. Dr. Adam R. Stracher, assistant...
The Cornell Science Challenge of the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences was prominently featured on three local New York television stationsChannel 4 (NBC), Channel 5 (FOX) and Channel 9 (WOR)on Tuesday night, April 4. The program, conceived...
The Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences will offer its annual writing course to graduate students, medical students and fellows, on Monday evenings from April 17 to June 19. The course will be held at 6:30 p.m. in...
New York, NY (March 31, 2000) — Dr. Antonio M. Gotto, Jr., Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of the Joan and Sanford Weill Medical College of Cornell University and a world-renowned authority in the field of cardiovascular medicine, was voted...
New York, NY (April 2000) — Herbert Pardes, M.D., President and Chief Executive Officer, has announced the appointment of William A. Polf, Ph.D., to the position of Senior Vice President for External Relations at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. In this capacity, he...
New York, NY (March 22, 2000) — Researchers at Weill Medical College of Cornell University may have at long last explained the higher incidence of hypertension in African-Americans as compared with Caucasian Americans. In a paper published in the March...
New York, NY (March 20, 2000) — In a recent journal article, "The Mind/Body Link in Essential Hypertension: Time for a New Paradigm," Dr. Samuel Mann, of New York Weill Cornell Medical Center, posits a new paradigm to explain the...
New Insights from Landmark Air Force/Texas Coronary Atherosclerosis Prevention Study (AFCAPS/TexCAPS) Anaheim, CA (March 14, 2000) — New data presented this week at the 49th Annual Scientific Session of the American College of Cardiology suggest that current guidelines for treating...
New Laparoscopic Technique Permits Shorter Hospital Stays With Less Pain and Scarring New York, NY (March 8, 2000) — Pediatric urologists at Weill Cornell Medical Center of New York-Presbyterian Hospital have performed among the first minimally invasive kidney removals in...
New York, NY (March 2000) — New York Weill Cornell Medical Center of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital has announced the appointment of two nationally recognized leaders in cardiology. Rubin S. Cooper, M.D., will head its Division of Pediatric Cardiology, and S. Chiu...
