Sam Prince, who received a heart transplant at Columbia at age 8, combines a passion for the New York Giants with his mission to save more lives through organ donation.
Columbia’s cell therapy lab, which creates customized cell therapies, is testing its first product, T cells trained to fight dangerous infections in transplant patients.
Dean Chou, MD, a renowned neurosurgeon who specializes in minimally invasive and complex spine surgery, has been named chief of the spine division in the Department of Neurological Surgery.
Cardiac surgeons from NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center are now seeing patients at ColumbiaDoctors’ multispecialty location in White Plains, New York.
Christopher Ahmad, Columbia orthopedic surgeon and Yankees team physician, says sports medicine can help all patients—not just athletes—return to their desired level of physical activity.
Having a rapport with kids is a critical part of the job for James Church and other Columbia colorectal surgeons who treat people with hereditary colon cancer.
When Bisant Labib needed surgery to remove a large tumor growing in her spinal cord, all the doctors she consulted recommended the same neurosurgeon—Paul McCormick.