New faculty who joined VP&S in February and March include the chair of the Department of Radiology and the vice chair for basic research in the Department of Pediatrics.
New faculty who joined VP&S in recent months include a specialist in managing infections in immunocompromised patients and a researcher of precision cellular immunotherapies for autoimmunity.
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.
VP&S is among 11 medical schools from across the United States selected to participate in the project, which seeks to dismantle systemic racism and bias in medical education.
At the annual White Coat Ceremony, 140 members of the VP&S Class of 2025 donned their first white coats and recited an Oath written by the class to mark the beginning of their medical education.
In a commentary published in JAMA, the deans of the Columbia and Cornell medical schools write that Asian Americans are underrepresented in the highest ranks of academic medicine.
Columbia medical students used to experience emergency medicine briefly during other rotations, but now the specialty has its own clerkship in the second year, earlier than most other schools.
The CUIMC deans invite everyone in the CUIMC community to observe the Juneteenth holiday as a time of reflection and resolve and help our nation move toward a more equitable society.
Watch a video performance created by current medical students for Columbia’s newest MD students in the VP&S Class of 2025 as an introduction to the medical campus and its surrounding neighborhood.
A virtual ceremony on May 19 honored 156 students who received MD degrees from VP&S and 37 students who received PhD degrees from Columbia’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.