Alade McKen, chief diversity, equity, and inclusion officer for staff at CUIMC, discusses the top priorities for 2024 and the role DEI plays during moments of upheaval.
New faculty who joined VP&S in November 2023 include two who have an interest in organ transplantation in children: One is a pediatric psychologist, the other a pediatric cardiologist.
The study was designed to provide more comprehensive data about homicide rates among Black women, said Bernadine Waller, the paper’s lead author and a research fellow at Columbia University.
The Afternoon of Science series at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons continued Feb. 5 with presentations from Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics faculty.
“To find that Black women were murdered at a rate of six times that of white women was really pretty shocking,” says lead study author Bernadine Waller, a research fellow at Columbia University.
Kevin Gardner has been named chair of the Department of Pathology & Cell Biology at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and pathologist in chief of NewYork-Presbyterian.
“We're behind in people understanding and really recognizing that [long COVID] does actually happen in children,” said Dr. Melissa Stockwell of Columbia University, who co-authored the report.
A study led by Columbia and Cornell researchers finds, surprisingly, that anticoagulants do not prevent recurrent strokes in people with one type of heart condition.
