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WCM-Q Celebrates Class of 2018 at Commencement

May 10, 2018

Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar welcomed 34 new doctors, including 13 Qatari nationals—a landmark for the institution—into the medical profession during commencement on May 2.

The graduates in the Class of 2018 received their Cornell University medical degrees during a ceremony at the Sheraton Hotel in Doha, in front of family, friends and WCM-Q faculty and staff. WCM-Q, under the patronage of the Qatar Foundation, has now graduated 335 doctors since the first class of medical students...

Teaching Global Health: Dr. Gunisha Kaur

April 27, 2018

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Dr. Gunisha Kaur, B.S. ’06, M.D. ’10, understands first-hand what it means to be a refugee: Some 30 years ago, she and her family came to the United States as refugees, escaping political violence in India. Now an anesthesiologist and human rights researcher, Dr. Kaur is...

A group of people at an awards ceremony.

GHESKIO Founder Awarded Inaugural Joan and Sanford I. Weill Exemplary Achievement Award

March 29, 2018

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Dr. Jean William “Bill” Pape, the Howard and Carol Holtzmann Professor in Clinical Medicine and the founder and director of GHESKIO in Haiti, has been awarded the inaugural Joan and Sanford I. Weill Exemplary Achievement Award from Weill Cornell...

Zan Huang, David Cohen, Hongliang Li, Yan-Xiao Ji, Xiaozhan Wang and Xia Yang

Scientists Identify Potential New Treatment Strategy for Fatty Liver Disease

January 4, 2018

A key enzyme in liver cells may provide physicians with a new strategy for treating a liver disease often linked to overeating, obesity and diabetes, according to a new study from Weill Cornell Medicine, NewYork-Presbyterian and Wuhan University in China.

In the study, reported online Jan. 1 in Nature Medicine, scientists found that the anti-inflammatory enzyme CYLD is depleted in liver cells in patients with nonalcoholic fatty...

Fitzgerald Named Director of Center for Global Health

November 3, 2017

Dr. Daniel Fitzgerald, an international leader in infectious diseases, has been named director of the Center for Global Health at Weill Cornell Medicine.

Dr. Fitzgerald will build upon Weill Cornell Medicine’s legacy of global engagement, which is reflected in more than 20 global health programs spanning six continents. Under Dr. Fitzgerald’s leadership, the Center for Global...

Haitian AIDS Patients' 10-year Survival Equal to American Patients

January 27, 2016

One of the first groups of AIDS patients to receive free HIV drugs in a public health setting in the developing world is living as long as those in the United States, according to research conducted by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators.

In a research letter published Jan. 27 in the New England Journal of Medicine, Drs. Samuel Pierre, Deanna Jannat-Khah, ...

A ribbon-cutting ceremony on March 23 commemorates the opening of GHESKIO's new tuberculosis hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

GHESKIO Opens New Tuberculosis Hospital in Haiti

March 27, 2015

A ribbon-cutting ceremony commemorates the opening of GHESKIO's new tuberculosis hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

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Robert McCune's tuberculosis research laboratory at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell

Weill Cornell at the Forefront of Groundbreaking TB Research

February 20, 2015

Dr. Carl Nathan

Tuberculosis is an evasive disease...

NIH Awards Seven-Year Grant to Weill Cornell Medical College to Tackle Global Tuberculosis Epidemic

February 18, 2015

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Weill Cornell to Co-Lead Tuberculosis Research Unit

Effort Will Seek Improved Treatments and Enhanced Understanding of Deadly Infection

NEW YORK (February 18, 2015) — In an effort to stop tuberculosis (TB) from becoming progressively less treatable worldwide, the National Institutes of Health has awarded Weill Cornell Medical College more than $6.2 million in first-...

Dr. Michael G. Stewart, course director of the Salzburg Weill Cornell Seminar in otorhinolaryngology, with Weill Cornell faculty and his class

Celebrating 20 Years of Educating International Doctors through the Salzburg Weill Cornell Seminars

December 4, 2013

Dr. Peter Krcho's hometown of Kosice, Slovakia is known for many things: The second largest city in the nation, Kosice is the economic and cultural center of eastern Slovakia, a hub of education and industry. It also has one of the highest neonatal and infant mortality rates among European cities.

Dr. Krcho, a neonatologist, has always been passionate about changing that sobering statistic. But Communist rule over the former Czechoslovakia stifled medical advances — until the Velvet...