Dr. Peter Schlegel

Dr. Larissa V. Rodríguez, a distinguished physician-scientist and urologic surgeon who specializes in female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery, has been named chair of the Department of Urology at Weill Cornell Medicine and urologist-in-chief at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center

Dr. Geraldine McGinty, an esteemed clinical operations strategist, administrator and radiologist, has been appointed senior associate dean for clinical affairs at Weill Cornell Medicine

Awards, honors, prizes and achievements for the month of March.

Dr. Laura Alonso has been named chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, effective Sept. 1. Dr. Alonso will also lead the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Center for Metabolic Health at Weill Cornell Medicine.

Awards, honors, prizes and achievements for the month of July.

Dr. Alfred C. Winkler has been named chief of urology at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital. Dr. Winkler, who is also an assistant professor of clinical urology at Weill Cornell Medicine, was most recently chief of urology at NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital.

Dr. Manuel Hidalgo, a leading physician-scientist who specializes in pancreatic cancer and drug development, has been named chief of the Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology in the Weill Department of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, effective June 1. 

Dr. Dolores Lamb has been awarded the Endocrine Society’s Outstanding Mentor Award and the Society of Women in Urology’s Christina Manthos Mentoring Award for her work mentoring trainees.

Awards, honors, prizes and achievements for the month of October.

To expand access to life-saving liver transplants for those in need, NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center and Weill Cornell Medicine have unveiled a new living donor liver transplant program. It performed its first such transplant with success in late January.

Dr. Michael G. Stewart is taking on an expanded role as vice dean at Weill Cornell Medicine, and Dr. Peter N. Schlegel has been appointed senior associate dean for clinical affairs.

Dr. Costantino Iadecola, director of the Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, the Anne...