Dr. Augustine M.K. Choi

A $20 million gift from Andrew H. ’71 and Ann R. Tisch will foster engagement and collaboration between Cornell Tech and Weill Cornell Medicine, catalyzing new discoveries at the intersection of health and technology.

Dr. Augustine M.K. Choi, the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medicine and provost for medical affairs of Cornell University, plans to return to his research at the end of the calendar year, following his tenure as dean. In this Q&A, Dr. Choi discusses the ways the institution had evolved under his six years of leadership.

Robert J. “Bob” Appel ’53, a vice chair of Weill Cornell Medicine’s Board of Fellows, Cornell trustee emeritus and presidential councillor, died Nov. 19 in New York, at age 91.

The sixth annual Symposium on Entrepreneurship and Academic Drug Development, hosted Nov. 14, showcased Weill Cornell’s rich array of programs for supporting faculty who want to bring their discoveries to the health care marketplace.

The Cornell Board of Trustees and Weill Cornell Medicine Board of Fellows approved the appointment of Dr. Lee, effective Jan. 1.

After a 16-year tenure leading Weill Cornell Medicine’s finances and operations and overseeing a dynamic expansion across New York City, Stephen M. Cohen on Sept. 30 retired as the institution’s executive vice provost.

The Drukier Prize honors an early-career pediatrician whose research promises to make important contributions toward improving the health of children and adolescents.

Weill Cornell Medicine has been awarded the Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award by INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine for the fifth year in a row, recognizing the institution’s exceptional commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Weill Cornell Medicine was awarded a $61.9 million grant from the National Institute of Health’s National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) to continue funding its Clinical and Translational Science Center (CTSC) until 2027.

Rana Barghout didn’t realize the power of her story until she shared it. It had been five years since she experienced homelessness, living in a car for months with her two younger siblings after a tragic house fire left her parents in the hospital. 

Dr. Jedd Wolchok, an internationally acclaimed medical oncologist whose innovations in immunotherapy have revolutionized melanoma treatment, has been recruited as the Meyer Director of the Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center at Weill Cornell Medicine, effective Sept. 12.

With a generous gift of $10 million from Board of Fellows member Alan Hartman and his wife, Kim, Weill Cornell Medicine will establish a multidisciplinary research institute to advance organ regeneration and repair.

More than 400 students celebrated a milestone on May 19: graduating from Weill Cornell Medical College and Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences. 

Weill Cornell Medical College recognized students in the Class of 2022 for their outstanding achievements on May 18.

Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar awarded Cornell University medical degrees to 41 new doctors on May 11 during the college’s first graduation ceremony held in person since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Weill Cornell Medicine honored a dozen faculty, trainees, students and staff April 25 for their outstanding service and leadership in promoting diversity at the academic medical institution.

Focus on your top priorities, build a community of support around you and empower others to also succeed, said Dr. Carol R. Bradford, dean of The Ohio State University College of Medicine, in her keynote address on April 27 for Weill Cornell Medicine’s fourth annual Diversity Week. 

The COVID-19 pandemic revealed vast disparities in how the virus impacted people of color, with inequalities in exposure and treatment that persist two years later, said New York State Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett in her Population Health Sciences Grand Rounds address, hosted virtually on April 20 by Weill Cornell Medicine.

All of the 116 students in Weill Cornell Medical College’s Class of 2022 who entered the match this year secured postgraduate residency positions, 87 percent of which at institutions ranked in the top 50 by U.S. News and World Report.

In his new role, Puccino will financially lead a global health care enterprise embarking on a strategic expansion that will advance the institution’s tripartite mission to care, discover and teach.