Dr. Antonio Gotto, the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medical College and professor of medicine, presented the inaugural Antonio M. Gotto Jr., M.D. Symposium on the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, sponsored by the Continuing Medical Education Resources and The Methodist Hospital in Houston, on October 8 in Houston. The symposium was established in Dr. Gotto's name to honor his leadership both nationally and internationally in the field of lipid chemistry and the role of lipoproteins in cholesterol metabolism to prevent heart disease. The inaugural meeting highlighted Dr. Gotto's initial research on cholesterol and its continued impact on emerging therapeutic targets. His lecture was on "The Role of LDL and ApoB Lipoproteins in Atherosclerosis and Cardiovascular Disease."
Bill Clinton holding a copy of AIDS Patient Care and STDs, a clinical journal by editor-in-chief Dr. Jeffrey Laurence.
Dr. Jeffrey Laurence, professor of medicine, published an interview with former President Bill Clinton in the September issue of AIDS Patient Care and STDs, of which Dr. Laurence is editor-in-chief. Dr. Laurence was given special thanks for providing specific questions for the former president, who is also a subscriber to the journal.
Three major articles by Weill Cornell faculty are published in the December 1 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine: "Antiretroviral Therapy in a Thousand Patients with AIDS in Haiti" by Dr. Daniel Fitzgerald, Dr. Jean Pape, Dr. Warren Johnson, Dr. Roy Gulick, Dr. Macarthur Charles and Dr. Erik George; "Patent Foramen Ovale in Young Adults with Unexplained Stroke" by Dr. Richard Devereux and Dr. Jorge Kizer; and "Messenger RNA for FOXP3 in the Urine of Renal-Allograft Recipients" by Dr. Manikkam Suthanthiran, Dr. Sandip Kapur, Dr. Surya Seshan, Dr. Vijay Sharma, Dr. Bao Gui Li, Dr. Jun B. Lee, Catherine Snopkowski, Dr. Ruchuang Ding, Dr. Darshana Dadhania and Dr. Thangamani Muthukumar.
Photo courtesy of Dr. Jeffrey Laurence.