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Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition 2017

Weill Cornell Medicine Graduate School Science & Society Series

Science & Society Series Links Students to Unfamiliar Fields

In an age of overabundant and accessible information, when evidence-based research is devalued, how can scientists and journalists work in concert to rightfully inform the public of medical progress?

That was the focus of a presentation given by ABC News Medical Unit Managing Editor Dan Childs Oct. 18 during the inaugural event of a lecture series called “Science and Society” presented by the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences.

Childs emphasized the need for...

WCGS Science and Society Series

2017 Tri-Institutional Minority Society Summer Scholars Research Program (TIMSSSRP) participants

Tri-Institutional Minority Society (TIMS) Summer Scholars Research Program Completes Second Successful Summer

Last month, 7 students graduated from the Tri Institutional Minority Society Summer Scholars Research Program (TIMS SSRP) in a short ceremony followed by a poster session in Griffis Faculty Club at Weill Cornell.

An unprecedented effort supported collectively by Rockefeller University, Weill Cornell and the Sloan Kettering Office of Diversity, the goal of the TIMS SSRP is to increase minority recruitment and retention in the sciences. Specifically, the program provides cutting edge...

Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Leader Lauded with Career Honor

Dr. Olaf Andersen was honored in July with the Bert I. Shapiro Award from the National Association of MD-PhD Programs for his work as director of the Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program, a collaborative effort between Weill Cornell Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and The Rockefeller University, and his accomplishments as president of the association.

Dr. Andersen, a professor of physiology and biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine, received the award July 18 at the annual...

Dr. Christine Salvatore Named Chief of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at NewYork-Presbyterian and Weill Cornell Medicine

Dr. Christine Salvatore has been named chief of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases in the Department of Pediatrics at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center and Weill Cornell Medicine. An expert in general pediatric infectious diseases, Dr. Salvatore is leading an expansion of the division’s clinical, research and education programs.

In her new role, Dr. Salvatore will recruit two new faculty members with varied backgrounds and interests in order to grow and...

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.