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Streamlining Patient Care: 4 ways my MBA made telemedicine possible in the ED

Photo credit: John Abbott

Business and management competencies are essential to leadership roles in healthcare, especially if you wish to foster sustainable change. Healthcare is increasingly recognized as a business and its changes are becoming more complex. While initiatives will always be patient centered, today’s healthcare landscape demands understanding and navigation of additional issues, such as costs, third-party payers, regulatory review, patient...

Convocation Recognizes Outstanding Students

On the eve of their commencement, students from Weill Cornell Medical College and Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences were recognized for their outstanding achievements.

More than 100 medical and graduate students received special awards, prizes, certificates and the Weill Cornell seal during two ceremonies on May 31 in Uris Auditorium. The awards acknowledge the students' exceptional academic achievement, scholarship, research, teaching and service. The ceremony also...

Neel Madhukar. Photo credit: John Abbott.

Running the Numbers

Growing up in Knoxville, Tennessee, Neel Madhukar always assumed he would become a physician. That’s what he told his high school teachers, and he pursued a premed track as an undergraduate at Emory University. But that plan shifted after his grandfather, to whom he had long been close, received a devastating diagnosis of liver cancer when Madhukar was a freshman. “There wasn’t that much they could do for it,” says Madhukar, now a fourth-year doctoral candidate in the Weill Cornell Graduate...

Two Graduating Computational Modeling Students Find Early Success in a Rare Partnership

Graduating computational modeling students Neel Madhukar and Katie Gayvert, both members of the Elemento Lab, featured in a recent WCM video highlighting the accomplishments of their collaborative and individual efforts to better science and biomedical research. Both students were featured in Forbes 2016 30 under 30 under Healthcare.

Watch the video here.

Leadership Appointments in Academic Integration and the Graduate School

Dear Weill Cornell Medicine Community,

I am writing to inform you of several exciting leadership appointments at Weill Cornell Medicine that will keep us at the forefront of biomedical graduate education and research.

Dr. Gary Koretzky

Igor Tulchinsky, Christopher Mason and Olivier Elemento

WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction Established at Weill Cornell Medicine

NEW YORK (April 28, 2017) – Weill Cornell Medicine today announced a gift made by WorldQuant, LLC (“WorldQuant”) and Igor Tulchinsky that will further realize the promise of precision medicine. The $5 million gift establishes a new initiative that will use predictive tools to enhance Weill Cornell Medicine’s capability to diagnose and treat a variety of illnesses, with the goal of improving outcomes for patients.

The WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction brings together...

Dr. Elizabeth Wilson-Anstey and Dr. Marcus Lambert Appointed Assistant Deans of Diversity and Student Life

Dear Weill Cornell Medicine Community,

I am pleased to announce the creation of two new leadership positions to support our students and enhance our climate of diversity. Dr. Elizabeth Wilson-Anstey and Dr. Marcus Lambert have both been appointed to the role of assistant dean of diversity and student life. Together they will lead a revitalized effort to ensure that the needs of our diverse medical and graduate student populations are met.

Diversity is one of Weill Cornell...

Weill Cornell Medicine Graduate School intercampus collaboration

Intercampus Collaboration Enables Graduate Student Scientists to Learn from One Another

Milka Doktorova realized early into her PhD research that she might need to work in two different labs, hundreds of miles apart. It was the only way she could validate simulations and examine in atomic detail the way our cell membranes function – information that could ultimately lead to developing effective medications. Until now, most studies on how medications affect membrane barriers and the proteins that live in them have been performed with artificial symmetric membranes, even though...

Dr. Carol Storey-Johnson Wins Distinguished Educator Award

Dr. Carol Storey-Johnson, senior advisor for medical education and a professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, has won the 2017 Distinguished Educator Award from the Northeast Group on Educational Affairs (NEGEA).

The NEGEA is a regional group of the Association of American Medical Colleges’ Group on Educational Affairs, tasked with promoting excellence in education through the collegial exchange of ideas and professional development programs. The Distinguished Educator Award...

Students learn to commercialize medical technologies

As an undergraduate student, Du Cheng invented a laboratory camera adapter that allowed scientists to capture images with an iPhone and view them through a microscope. Although he figured out how to manufacture his technology, Cheng, a fourth-year M.D.-Ph.D. student at Weill Cornell Medicine, needed help turning his product into a viable business.