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An emergency medicine doctor interested in the genomics of deafness and a pediatrician who hopes to use new redox therapies are among the full-time faculty who joined VP&S in August 2023.
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A surgeon with a graduate degree in medical education and an emergency medicine physician with an interest in virtual reality research are among the new full-time faculty who joined VP&S in July 2023.
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Experts in disciplines ranging from anesthesiology to urology are among the new full-time faculty members who joined VP&S from January through June 2023.
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Incoming medical students at Columbia are assigned to one of six “houses,” each named after a Washington Heights thoroughfare, to cultivate community.
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- May 14, 2021
David Alvarez Cespedes, who graduates from VP&S with an MD and an MS in biomedical engineering, is headed for an internship in preliminary medicine, followed by a dermatology residency.
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- May 14, 2021
During medical school, Andrew Sudler has worked on behalf of marginalized communities, through research and advocacy, and spent a year working at a public interest law firm.
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- May 14, 2021
At Columbia, Lauren Fields has delved deep into medical training to find an interest in psychiatry while nurturing a love of poetry. She is among the first cohort of VP&S Equity and Justice Fellows.
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- May 14, 2021
Stephanie Granada is the first in her family to graduate from college and medical school. She was drawn to Columbia by a desire to be a doctor-in-training in an urban, Spanish-speaking community.
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- March 19, 2021
On Match Day, 154 VP&S students learned where they will start their medical training after graduation and safely celebrated their residencies at a physically distanced event.
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- February 19, 2021
Monica L. Lypson, MD, has been named vice dean for education and Jonathan Amiel, MD, has been appointed senior associate dean for innovation in health professions education.
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- December 23, 2020
When the virus arrived in New York City, VP&S clinicians were redeployed to areas in need, researchers pivoted to COVID research, and students graduated early to help “bend the curve.”
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- December 16, 2020
As VP&S begins implementing an action plan for anti-racism in medical education, students and faculty share their own perspectives on the intersection of COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter.
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- August 13, 2020
The 140 members of the Class of 2024 marked the start of medical school at the White Coat Ceremony, an annual tradition that was virtual for the first time this year.
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- May 27, 2020
Lauren Fields was awarded a 2020 International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry & Medicine for her poem, “A Laying on of Hands in the OR.”
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