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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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VP&S faculty received year-end awards during graduation for teaching, humanism, and clinical and basic research.
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The brainchild of Vibhu Krishna, a medical student at Columbia’s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, "Faces of the Frontline," shares stories on Instagram from the COVID-19 front line.
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Columbia medical students celebrated early graduation in a web event on April 15. Among the 139 students, 84 will start work at NewYork-Presbyterian to provide support during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- April 4, 2018
VP&S researchers will investigate macular degeneration, motor neuron differentiation, loss of tactile acuity, and other topics with funds from the New York State Stem Cell Science program.
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- April 3, 2018
Columbia medical student Caroline Park recounts her experiences playing on the Korean women’s ice hockey team at the PyeongChang 2018 Olympics in South Korea.
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- April 2, 2018
Student research topics ranged from machine learning to identify stroke patients to the effect of race & socioeconomic status on outcomes after pediatric allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation
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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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