The new internship will give LaGuardia students experience in clinical research and create a pipeline of trained research professionals from diverse backgrounds.
“Our study shows strong links between losing loved ones across the life course and faster biological aging in the U.S.,” said lead researcher Allison Aiello of Columbia University.
Editor's Note: Robert Klitzman, author of this opinion piece, is a professor of psychiatry at the the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
“We eagerly await the results of the other studies,” Jason Zucker, assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, who was not involved in the trial, said in an email.
But Dr. Ragy Girgis, a professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University, said he worried that frequent drills of any kind might normalize violence.
New faculty who joined VP&S in April and June include an emergency medicine doctor and a radiologist who has helped translate state-of-the-art imaging techniques.
