CUIMC Update - September 18, 2024

September 18, 2024

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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

This is Your Future Health Care on AI
Columbia researchers and clinicians are studying how to use artificial intelligence to help doctors provide better, more personalized patient care. Read more in the latest issue of Columbia Medicine magazine.

Chemo Care Package Drive Collecting Items for Cancer Patients
The Department of Radiology's breast imaging program and the Department of Surgery’s breast care program are collecting items for their second annual Chemo Care Package Drive. Donations can be made through Sept. 30. 

NIH Award Creates Columbia-Led Exposomics Coordinating Center
The center will organize and stimulate research on the human exposome, the cumulative measure of environmental exposures and corresponding biological responses.

Columbia School of Nursing Dean Lorraine Frazier Visits China
Dean Lorraine Frazier visited leading medical institutions in Beijing to discuss expanding student exchange programs and equipping students to provide care in a globalized health care environment.

Events

Grants

Mailman School of Public Health

  • Zhonghua Liu, Biostatistics
    $2,602,614 over five years from the National Institute on Aging for "Robust Mendelian Randomization Framework with Multi-Omics Data for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias."
  • Nour Makarem, Epidemiology
    $399,939 over one year from the American Heart Association for "Enhancing, Culturally Adapting, and Expanding Medically Tailored Meals Programs to Promote Cardiovascular Health Equity."

School of Nursing

  • Stephen Ferrara
    $283,292 over four years for a subaward from the Health Resources and Services Administration for "Advanced Nursing Education Nurse Practitioner Residency Fellowship Program (ANE-NPRFP)."

Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

  • Michael Lipton, Radiology
    $718,498 over four years for a subaward from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for "Characterizing persistent subclinical neurobehavioral effects of COVID-19 in a diverse urban population."
  • Rachel Marsh, Kate Fitzgerald, and David Pagliaccio, Psychiatry
    $1,805,208 over two years from the National Institute of Mental Health for "Cognitive control targets for the treatment of obsessive compulsive disorder in young children."
  • Kapil Ramachandran, Taub Institute
    $300,000 over one year from the Esther A. & Joseph Klingenstein Fund for "Establishing a new principle of neuromodulation through neuroproteasomes."
  • Tristan Sands, Neurology
    $432,288 over one year from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for "Therapeutic Targeting of KCNQ3 in KCNQ3 Gain-of-Function Disorder."
  • Hynek Wichterle, Pathology & Cell Biology
    $599,734 over one year from the Milken Institute for "Modulation of protein surveillance mechanisms in sporadic and familial forms of ALS."

Honors

School of Nursing

Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

Social Media Snapshot

 

Columbia Medicine (@ColumbiaMed)

Dr. Joseph Alukal of @ColumbiaUrology, who also leads #ColumbiaMed's Men’s Health Program, notes that his younger male patients are more proactive about fitness and diet. He believes both younger and older generations can learn from each other.

In the News Highlights

Sterilizations Among Women Rose After Roe Was Overturned, Study Finds
Sep 11, 2024
The New York Times
A new study found an increase in the use of tubal sterilization, in which women have their fallopian tubes tied or removed to permanently prevent pregnancy, in the six months after the June 2022 Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade. The study suggests that the Dobbs decision affected not just abortion access, but “decisions women are making about contraception as well,” said Xiao Xu, an associate professor of reproductive sciences at Columbia University and the study’s lead author.

Health Alert: Mammogram Results to Include Breast Density
Sep 11, 2024
ABC News (video)
The FDA will now require mammograms to include breast density results. High density breasts can make it more difficult to spot tumors. “You want to catch [tumors] as early as you can,” says Lorraine Frazier, Dean of Columbia School of Nursing and a breast cancer survivor.

An OB-GYN Fact-Checks Trump’s Claims About Abortion During the First Presidential Debate
Sep 10, 2024
VOGUE
It’s difficult for even the most prepared debater to fight a flowing tide of misinformation that—even for Trump—tends to have little to no basis in reality. To that end, Vogue reached out to Holli Jakalow, MD, an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, for a fact-check on some of Trump’s more outlandish claims relating to reproductive autonomy.