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While they learn to be doctors, some VP&S medical students also train to become researchers in Columbia’s MD-PhD program.
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Margaret Morgan Lawrence, MD’40, the first African American woman psychoanalyst, developed some of the first child therapy programs in schools, day care centers, and hospitals in New York.
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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.
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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.
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- March 30, 2018
Though far from the most common form of cancer, brain cancers are uniquely difficult to treat. Columbia scientists are researching multiple new ways to attack the tumors.
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- March 28, 2018
Columbia neurologist William Kreisl, MD, explains the potential uses—and limitations—of a smell test in sniffing out Alzheimer's disease risk.
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- March 27, 2018
Psychiatrist Mayumi Okuda, MD, director of the Columbia Gambling Disorders Clinic, says problematic gambling can be detected in as few as two questions.
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- March 26, 2018
On average, patients see more than eight physicians before being diagnosed with a mitochondrial disease, a new CUIMC study finds.
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- March 23, 2018
A stroke education program that uses hip hop music increased stroke awareness among economically disadvantaged minority children and their parents.
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- March 21, 2018
In obese mice, the liver increases production of an enzyme, DPP4, that promotes diabetes by increasing inflammation in abdominal fat.
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- March 20, 2018
Velocity: Columbia's Ride to End Cancer is a cycling event launched in 2017 to benefit precision medicine at the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at CUIMC.
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- March 19, 2018
A new study finds that young Americans had a sharply higher risk of suicide in the months after surviving a deliberate self-harm attempt.
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- March 16, 2018
On Match Day, 156 students at P&S learned which residency program they will attend for their medical training after graduation.
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- March 12, 2018
Four researchers at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons have been named 2018 Schaefer Research Scholars: Alberto Ciccia, PhD, Harris Wang, PhD, Baojie Li, PhD, and Maria Concetta Miniaci, MD.
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