Dr. Gunisha Kaur, B.S. ’06, M.D. ’10, understands first-hand what it means to be a refugee: Some 30 years ago, she and her family came to the United States as refugees, escaping political violence in India.
Weill Cornell Medicine honored 18 faculty, trainees, students and staff April 23 for their outstanding service and leadership in promoting diversity at the academic medical institution.
Academic medical institutions must champion faculty diversity if they are to improve outcomes for patients, according to a National Institutes of Health diversity leader who delivered the keynote address at Weill Cornell Medicine’s inaugural Diversity Week.
Today, NewYork-Presbyterian celebrated the opening of the NewYork-Presbyterian David H. Koch Center, a world-class ambulatory care center that combines innovative clinical approaches and cutting-edge technology to provide exceptional care and a seamless patient experience. A multidisciplinary team of specialists will begin seeing patients at the center, starting April 30.
Astrid was just 18 months old when her parents realized that her speech was delayed: she babbled and responded to sound, but wasn’t speaking or developing language as she should have.
A rare inherited gene mutation predisposes people to developing a form of blood cancer called multiple myeloma, according to a new study by a multicenter research team led by Weill Cornell Medicine scientists.
A multi-campus study of lymphoma shows that certain cell mutations in tumors can cause the cancer to be resistant to chemotherapy, with biophysical forces such as fluid flow playing a key role.
For Dr. Ernie Esquivel, director of Weill Cornell Medical College’s internal medicine clerkship, there are few things more gratifying than watching medical students succeed in their training.
In college, I wasn’t certain that I wanted to become a physician. But as a Peace Corps volunteer, I worked as a community health promoter in a small village in Nicaragua and realized that I could have a real impact on people’s lives.
Dr. Virginia Pascual is on a mission to help sick kids. As the Drukier Director of the Gale and Ira Drukier Institute for Children’s Health at Weill Cornell Medicine—a premier, cross-disciplinary institute dedicated to understanding the underlying causes of diseases that affect children—that means fostering a passion for unconventional thinking. Kids are not little adults.
Among the vast portfolio of research at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), its new director is paying close attention to advances in precision medicine and immunotherapy—two approaches that have the potential to reshape the way physicians treat cancer.
Dr. Jean William “Bill” Pape, the Howard and Carol Holtzmann Professor in Clinical Medicine and the founder and director of GHESKIO in Haiti, has been awarded the inaugural Joan and Sanford I. Weill Exemplary Achievement Award from Weill Cornell Medicine.
Some students enter the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences straight from undergrad; others spend a few years working in a lab before applying to master’s or doctoral programs. But it’s safe to say that few, if any, have taken the same route as Dr. Virginia Pedicord—a path traced by dramatic, rhythmic steps set to music.
Dr. Babacar Cisse immigrated to the United States from Senegal with just $26 in his pocket and a lesson from his parents to always give back. Now a neurosurgeon, Dr. Cisse heeds those words in every interaction with his patients.
Hispanics and women are at the greatest risk for leaving surgical residency prior to completion, according to a new study conducted by Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian investigators.
