CUIMC Update - October 12, 2022
CUIMC Update is a weekly e-newsletter featuring medical center news and the accomplishments of our faculty, staff, and trainees. Please send your news, honors, and awards to cuimc_update@cumc.columbia.edu. Grants are provided by the Sponsored Projects Administration office.
NEWS
7 Questions for the Yankees Team Doctor
Christopher Ahmad, MD, chief of sports medicine at VP&S and the Yankees team physician, says sports medicine can help all patients—not just athletes—return to their desired level of physical activity. Read more and watch this video with Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman, who describes what Dr. Ahmad’s expertise means for his players and their families.
Wafaa El-Sadr Wins American Public Health Association 2022 Award for Excellence in Public Health
Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, University Professor and founder and global director of ICAP at the Mailman School of Public Health, will receive the American Public Health Association Sedgwick Memorial Medal for Distinguished Service in Public Health on Tuesday, Nov. 8, during APHA’s 2022 annual meeting in Boston. Read more.
Elaine’s Story: Beating Back Breast Cancer, Times Three
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Columbia patient Elaine Alden shares her story of overcoming triple-negative breast cancer with the hope of helping and supporting other patients and their families who are affected by cancer. Read more.
Call for Nominations: VP&S Martha A. Hooven Awards for Excellence
Each year, VP&S recognizes the outstanding performance of individuals and groups with the Martha A. Hooven Awards for Excellence. Nominate colleagues or groups for a 2022 Award for Excellence by Monday, Oct. 31.
Columbia Nursing Welcomes New Faculty
Eight new academic and research faculty have joined the School of Nursing, representing a broad spectrum of the profession and bringing an array of academic and research expertise. Read more.
EVENTS
Public Health Equity Week
Oct. 10-14, Mailman School of Public Health
Read more.
CUIMC EnERGize: Inaugural Staff DEIB Summit
Oct. 13, 9 a.m., all day, School of Nursing 7th floor
Read more.
Achieving Equity in Cancer Pain Management in the Context of Opioid Crisis: Lessons for Converting Policies into Practice
Oct. 13, 12 p.m., online
Register here.
Dean’s Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities presented by Carol Becker, PhD
Oct. 27, 4:30 p.m., Alumni Auditorium, William Black Medical Research Building
Read more.
Emerging and Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases in Children and Adolescents Webinar
Nov. 1, 6 p.m., online
Register here.
Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Day
Nov. 5, 1 p.m., Vivian and Seymour Milstein Family Heart Center
Register here.
Distrust and Disparities in Healthcare: Unraveling the Complexity
Nov. 9, 4 p.m., CUIMC Faculty Club and online
Register here.
Archives & Special Collections Exhibit: "New Old Things: Recent Accessions, Archives & Special Collections, 2012-2022"
Through Dec. 16, 2022
Hammer Health Sciences Center, Lower Level 2
For more events, visit the CUIMC Events listing.
GRANTS
MAILMAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Miriam Rabkin, MD, ICAP: $24,580,535 over five years from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for “The CQUIN Learning Network: Phase Two.”
VAGELOS COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS
Mohammed AlQuraishi, PhD, Systems Biology: $1,545,747 over four years from Interline Therapeutics for “Interline-AlQuraishi Lab Collaboration on Protein-Peptide Interactome.”
Sabrina Alves Simoes Spassov, PhD, Taub Institute: $2,231,998 over four years from the National Institute on Aging for “Targeting Endosomal dysfunction as a new source of biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease.”
Andrew Bomback, MD, Medicine: $525,008 over five years from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for a subaward of “The Impact of Diabetes on Patients with Glomerular Disease: CureGN-Diabetes.”
Peter Canoll, MD, PhD, Pathology & Cell Biology: $541,702 over five years from the National Cancer Institute for a subaward of “Lentiviral-Induced Swine Model of Spinal Cord Glioma.”
Adolfo Ferrando, MD, PhD, Institute for Cancer Genetics: $250,000 over two years from Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation for “A leukemia organoid platform for dissection and targeting of tumor-niche interactions.”
Trevor Fidler, PhD, Medicine: $330,912 over two years from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for “Mechanisms of Atherogenesis in Clonal Hematopoiesis.”
David Ho, MD, Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center: $745,296 over three years from the Army Medical Research and Materiel Command for a subaward of “HIV Immunoprophylaxis with bispecific antibody.”
Christina Hoven, DrPH, Psychiatry: $1,317,182 over five years from the Fogarty International Center for “Guyana Research on Injury and Trauma Prevention Training (GRITT) Program.”
Sivan Kinberg, MD, Pediatrics: $600,000 over two years from Takeda Pharmaceutical for “The GUTSY Program (Gaining Understanding of Transition in Short bowel syndrome to Young adulthood): Optimizing Transition of Care in Short Bowel Syndrome through Collaborative and Comprehensive Care.”
Shaun Liu, PhD, Physiology & Cellular Biophysics: $491,163 over two years from PhiFund for “Decoding the Epigenome to Explore Therapeutic Opportunities for Neurological Disorders.”
Amy Rumora, PhD, Neurology: $747,000 over three years from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for “Sphingolipid and Fatty Acid Biology in Prediabetes and Neuropathy.”
Melodie Winawer, MD, Sergievsky Center: $470,500 over one year from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for “Single Nucleus Transcriptional Profiling of Intractable Focal Epilepsy.”
HONORS
VAGELOS COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS
J. John Mann, MD, Psychiatry, received the Colvin Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Mood Disorders Research from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation for his presentation, “Unlocking the Mysteries of Mood Disorders by Science Instead of Guesswork.” Read more.
SOCIAL MEDIA SNAPSHOT
IN THE NEWS
The New York Times
Well: Hang-xiety? How a Night of Drinking Can Tank Your Mood.
Oct 6, 2022 - The first thing to know about alcohol is that it does many things to the body. “It really causes profound physical effects across a variety of different systems,” explained Dr. Carl Erik Fisher, an addiction psychiatrist at Columbia University.
Bloomberg News
Is Covid Getting Less Deadly?
Oct 2, 2022 - “I want to believe future strains will cause a milder form of Covid, especially given how many people now have infection- and/or vaccine-related immunity,” says Jessica Justman, an infectious diseases specialist and epidemiologist at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
Los Angeles Times
Suicide Is Complicated. So Is Prevention.
Oct 2, 2022 - Sometimes survivors can experience complicated grief, which is defined by the continued interference of the healing process, like a wound never allowed to heal, according to M. Katherine Shear, the Marion E. Kenworthy Professor of Psychiatry at the Columbia University School of Social Work and the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.