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Dr. Mohammad Arifuzzaman, a postdoctoral associate in the Jill Roberts Institute for Research in Inflammatory Bowel Disease, part of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, at Weill Cornell Medicine, has been awarded a 2024 Tri-Institutional Breakout Award for Junior Investigators.

Weill Cornell Medicine, The Rockefeller University and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center present the awards annually, recognizing exceptional investigators for their remarkable research...

Home health aides (HHAs) are vulnerable to stress, isolation and depressive symptoms, which impact their own health as well as their patients’ desire to age in place, according to Weill Cornell Medicine researchers. HHAs are a rapidly growing workforce trained and certified to provide personal and medical care, as well as emotional support, in the home.

“As a doctor, I’ve learned that home health aides are a critical part of patients’ well-being,” said senior author Dr....

Dolores T. Reynolds, R.N., a Research Administrator in the Division of Cardiology, won the Lifetime Achievement Award at Weill Cornell Medicine’s recent second annual nursing awards, held in Belfer Research Building on May 8.

After studying nursing in her native Ireland and training in London, Ms. Reynolds came to the United States in 1993 to pursue a nursing career in the New York City area. She came to Weill Cornell Medicine in 1998, where she worked in the Cardiac Catheterization...

Recently on Vitals, Dr. John Leonard welcomed Dr. Shira Sachs, a hospitalist and Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine, and Dr. Laura Kirkman, Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases. 

Dr. Sachs discussed her work as a hospitalist and expressed particular fondness for her experience as a mentor for trainees, particularly as an associate program director of our Department’s residency program. 

Dr. Kirman...