Lewis C. Cantley, Ph.D. Meyer Director of the Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center at Weill Cornell Medical College/Ronald P. Stanton Clinical Cancer Program at NewYork-Presbyterian, Professor of Cancer Biology in Medicine When were you recruited to New York State? I was recruited to Weill Cornell Medicine from Harvard in 2012 and have created a… Read More
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Andre Bryan grew up in the Bronx. This summer, after he graduates from NYU School of Medicine and Stern School of Business with a dual MD/MBA degree, he’ll head back to his home borough to begin his residency at Montefiore Medical Center. The road to this residency was paved by diversity in medicine pipeline programs… Read More
MONTEFIORE & BLOOMBERG INTELLIGENCE PRESENT: CLINICAL AND CARE POLICY DEVELOPMENTS IN ALZHEIMER’S AND RELATED DEMENTIAS World-Renowned Physician Scientists and Policy Experts on Aging to Lead Discussion on Alzheimer’s Diagnostics, Treatments and Government Initiatives Aimed at Advancing Care for the Aging Montefiore Health System and Bloomberg Intelligence will host a luncheon focusing on theoretical/hypothetical, clinical and… Read More
Statement from Associated Medical Schools of New York (AMSNY) President Jo Wiederhorn about the Accreditation of New Medical School at CUNY Kudos to Governor Cuomo on his announcement today about a new medical school to be located at the CUNY City College (CCNY) campus in Harlem. CUNY School of Medicine at City College will help… Read More
A few years ago, the Association of American Medical Colleges encouraged medical schools to adopt a holistic approach to admissions, the goal being the acceptance of students who might bring a different kind of intelligence to medicine beyond that which can be measured by the usual metrics of grades and MCAT scores. What is that… Read More
Without sustainable federal investment in medical research, innovation in the field will be stunted say academic leaders. Colleagues from across the country join in their appeal to Congress. New York med school administrators join 17 others in a recent open letter in the Journal Science Translational Medicine. The letter says unstable funding for biomedical research… Read More
She calls them her “miracle men and women,” the Weill Cornell doctors who saved her from a stroke and figured out how to manage her recovery as she grappled with other, longstanding health issues. But Jennifer Harmon knew that her experience in the healthcare system had provided her with equally important wisdom – that of… Read More
Neuroscientist BJ Casey takes a decidedly maternal approach to mentoring the students and postdoctoral fellows in her lab, so watching them rotate through her lab is bittersweet. In the case of one mentee, Assistant Professor Conor Liston, Dr. Casey hasn’t had to say goodbye; Dr. Liston chose Weill Cornell for his M.D.-Ph.D. studies more than… Read More
When graduate student Sarah Bettigole approached Dr. Laurie H. Glimcher to work in her lab, she felt as though she were proposing marriage. The analogy made sense: In Dr. Glimcher, now the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medical College, Dr. Bettigole saw her ideal, an experienced and wise mentor who modeled infinite… Read More
At Weill Cornell Medical College, mentorship isn’t a luxury. The opportunity to learn from and collaborate with one’s colleagues and patients is intrinsic to the medical college’s culture, an essential ingredient of excellent healthcare, research and education. These relationships take many forms, formal and informal. But all are powerful, fostering nurturing and often long-term alliances… Read More
