Medical students at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons shared their research accomplishments and received awards at recent events.
Doctoral students from VP&S and Mailman participated in a university-wide competition designed to help students develop communication skills for future careers. Two shared top honors.
On her path to medical school, Catherine Jennings taught science to middle school students and more recently completed Columbia’s postbaccalaureate premedical program.
Lindsay Caprio is one of 12 students entering Columbia's MD-PhD program. During college, she worked in a laboratory to conduct research on the mechanism of cellular migration in neuroblastoma.
As a Mexican-American growing up in Texas, Cristian J. Peña developed an identity shaped by his culture. He aspires to make health care more accessible to people from diverse backgrounds.
Through APOYO, an adolescent pregnancy program in Washington Heights, Columbia medical students empower, educate, and offer emotional support to teenage girls on the verge of motherhood.
Meet some outstanding members of the Class of 2019, including a maternal medicine advocate, a leader of the Black and Latino Student Organization, a Lyme disease researcher, and a physician painter.
Classes across the entire medical center were cancelled on April 2 and replaced with workshops designed to foster teamwork and respect among all health care professionals.