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New faculty who recently joined VP&S include hospitalists, a doctor at the new ColumbiaDoctors Lincoln Center location, and an emergency medicine doctor also board-certified in sports medicine.
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People who donate their bodies to medical school anatomy courses provide an unparalleled training opportunity for future physicians.
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Virginia Apgar, creator of the Apgar Score, made contributions beyond the score that has been used for seven decades to assess the health of newborns.
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New faculty who joined VP&S in April and June include an emergency medicine doctor and a radiologist who has helped translate state-of-the-art imaging techniques.
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Latest News
- March 25, 2020
Poh Lian Lim, MD ’91, directs an isolation unit of the National Centre for Infectious Diseases in Singapore and is a consultant in the Communicable Disease Division of the Ministry of Health there.
- March 24, 2020
Match Day celebrations were held online this year, but the tradition of Columbia University medical students matching to stellar residencies held strong.
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- February 7, 2020
A recent report about a fleeting fitness craze from the 70s may have revealed the identity of the first African American physician at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.
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- January 29, 2020
Five employees and a student group were recognized for their contributions to the medical school's workplace and community.
- January 8, 2020
The fall/winter 2019 issue of Columbia Medicine magazine explores the epidemic of suicide, which is the 10th leading cause of death in the United States.
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- January 8, 2020
Columbia medical students and faculty started a clinic to address the lack of comprehensive primary care services that are sensitive to the unique and diverse needs of those who identify as LGBTQI+.
- January 3, 2020
Columbia scientists are using and refining CRISPR to provide insights to health.
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- January 2, 2020
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons has launched new initiatives to expand the number of women and underrepresented minorities among the medical school's faculty and leadership.
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- October 28, 2019
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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- August 19, 2019
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.
