The NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is a nonprofit academic medical center in New York City affiliated with two Ivy League medical schools,Cornell University and Columbia University. The hospital comprises seven distinct campuses located in the New York metropolitan area. The hospital's two flagship medical centers are Columbia University Irving Medical Center and Weill Cornell Medical Center,situated on opposite sides of Upper Manhattan.
Weill Cornell Medical Center,previously known as New York Hospital or Old New York Hospital or City Hospital,is a research hospital in New York City. It is part of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and the teaching hospital for Cornell University.
Jack David Barchas is an American psychiatrist who is the Barklie McKee Henry Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University and the Psychiatrist-in-Chief of the New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center and the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic. He was formerly the Nancy Friend Pritzker professor in psychiatry at Stanford University and dean of research and neuroscience at the University of California,Los Angeles School of Medicine.
Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) is a hospital in New York City that specializes in orthopedic surgery and the treatment of rheumatologic conditions.
Richard Alan Friedman is professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College,attending psychiatrist at NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital and director of Psychopharmacology at the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic. He is an expert in the pharmacologic treatment of personality,mood and anxiety disorders,obsessive–compulsive disorder,PTSD and refractory depression.
The Joan &Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University is Cornell University's biomedical research unit and medical school in New York City. It is affiliated with NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital,Weill Cornell Medical Center,Hospital for Special Surgery,Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center,and Rockefeller University,all of which are located on or near York Avenue and Sutton Place.
Ashutosh K. Tewari is the chairman of urology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. He is a board certified American urologist,oncologist,and principal investigator. Before moving to the Icahn School of Medicine in 2013,he was the founding director of both the Center for Prostate Cancer at Weill Cornell Medical College and the LeFrak Center for Robotic Surgery at NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Tewari was the Ronald P. Lynch endowed Chair of Urologic Oncology and the hospital's Director of Robotic Prostatectomy,treating patients with prostate,urinary bladder and other urological cancers. He is the current President of the Society for Urologic Robotic Surgeons (SURS) and the Committee Chair of the Prostate Program. Dr. Tewari is a world leading urological surgeon,and has performed over 10,000 robotically assisted procedures using the da Vinci Surgical System. Academically,he is recognized as a world-renowned expert on urologic oncology with over 250 peer reviewed published papers to his credit;he is on such lists as America's Top Doctors,New York Magazine's Best Doctors,and Who's Who in the World. In 2012,he was given the American Urological Association Gold Cystoscope Award for "outstanding contributions to the field of urologic oncology,most notably the treatment of prostate cancer and the development of novel techniques to improve the outcomes of robotic prostatectomy."
The Rogosin Institute is an independent,not-for-profit treatment and research center with facilities throughout New York City that treat patients with kidney disease,including dialysis and kidney transplantation;lipid disorders;and hypertension. It is affiliated with NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital,Weill Cornell Medical College and is a leader in research programs for cancer and diabetes.
Louis J. Aronne is an American physician and author who is an obesity medicine specialist. He is quoted in the news media as an expert in the field of weight research. He is perhaps best known for diagnosing David Letterman's heart condition in 2000. His book,released in 2009,The Skinny on Losing Weight Without Being Hungry is a NY Times best-seller. His book,The Change Your Biology Diet:The Proven Program for Lifelong Weight Loss with a foreword by David Letterman was published on January 5,2016.
Neal Flomenbaum is an emergency physician,author,editor,and an expert in emergency medicine and clinical toxicology. He is emergency physician-in-chief at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center;medical director of the NewYork-Presbyterian Emergency Medical Service;and professor of clinical medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University.
Lewis C. Cantley is an American cell biologist and biochemist who has made significant advances to the understanding of cancer metabolism. Among his most notable contributions are the discovery and study of the enzyme PI-3-kinase,now known to be important to understanding cancer and diabetes mellitus. He is currently Meyer Director and Professor of Cancer Biology at the Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City. He was formerly a professor in the Departments of Systems Biology and Medicine at Harvard Medical School,and the Director of Cancer Research at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center,in Boston,Massachusetts. In 2016,he was elected Chairman of the Board for the Hope Funds for Cancer Research.
Dr. Dattatreyudu Nori is a noted Indo-American radiation oncologist. He was once named one of the top doctors in America for the treatment of cancers in women by the women's magazine Ladies' Home Journal.
Connie Myers Guion was an American professor of medicine. She was influential in developing health care systems for the poor in New York City and training programs for new health care professionals at Cornell Medical Center. She founded the Cornell Pay Clinic,which supported the poor in the city and brought in training. She was the first woman to be named professor of clinical medicine,and in 1963 became the first living woman physician to have a building named after her. Up until her death,she made many house calls and ran her own private clinic.
Michael A. Perelman is an American psychologist. He is a Clinical Professor Emeritus of Psychology in Psychiatry and former Clinical Professor of Reproductive Medicine,and Urology at Weill Cornell Medicine. Perelman is the co-director of the Human Sexuality Program,Payne Whitney Clinic of the NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital.
William A. Zoghbi is a Lebanese-American cardiologist. He is Professor of Medicine at the Houston Methodist Institute for Academic Medicine,in Houston Texas,and Weill Cornell Medical College. He holds the Elkins Family Distinguished Chair in Cardiac Health at the Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart &Vascular Center. Zoghbi is the Chairman of the Department of Cardiology at Houston Methodist Hospital. He is a Master of the American College of Cardiology and served as its president in 2012.
Bruce B. Lerman is a cardiologist. He is the Hilda Altschul Master Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College,and was chief of the Division of Cardiology and director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratory at Weill Cornell Medicine and the New York Presbyterian Hospital.
Sallie Robey Permar is the pediatrician-in-chief at NewYork-Presbyterian / Weill Cornell Medical Center and the chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine. Her research focuses on infections affecting newborns.
Mark Pochapin is a gastroenterologist and educator whose work is focused on the prevention,early detection,and treatment of gastrointestinal cancers.
Rainu Kaushal is an American information scientist and health services researcher. She is the Senior Associate Dean of Clinical Research,Chair of the Department of Population Health Sciences,and the Nanette Laitman Distinguished Professor of Population Health Sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine. She is also the Physician-in-Chief of Population Health Sciences at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center.
Mario F.L. Gaudino,MD,PhD,MSCE,FEBCTS,FACC,FAHA is an Italian cardiothoracic surgeon who is the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Professor in Cardiothoracic Surgery (II) and Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Health Services Research at Weill Cornell Medicine and an attending cardiac surgeon at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical Center. He is an expert in coronary revascularization and clinical trialist. He is known for conducting the PALACS trial,which demonstrated that posterior pericardiotomy at the time of cardiac surgery reduced the incidence of post-operative atrial fibrillation and pericardial effusion.
