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Recognizing members of the Columbia University Irving Medical Center community who died this year.

“When you think about a growing uterus pressing on the diaphragm and lifting it upward, in general, it’s harder to breathe when you’re pregnant,” said Dr. Cynthia Gyamfi-Bannerman of NYP/Columbia.

"I was a student at the time—and they were heady times," recalls Scott Small, director of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at Columbia University. "We thought we had it all figured out."