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Nick Rosenfeld’s passion for medicine is profoundly personal, as is his desire for cultivating enduring relationships with patients.

In the summer of 2019, Rosenfeld was preparing to start his freshman year at Loyola University Chicago—the first in his family to attend college. He had a nagging cold that he simply couldn’t shake and grew increasingly concerned when he started to shed weight. Then, toward the end of summer, he coughed up blood. His parents rushed him to the emergency room where he was initially diagnosed with pneumonia. He received antibiotics and thought that was the...

Dr. Greta Strong, an assistant professor of community outreach teaching in the Department of Neurology at Weill Cornell Medicine, received the U.S. Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of thousands of hours of volunteer service in the health care education arena.

The distinction is part of the President’s Volunteer Service Award (PVSA), which was established by President George W. Bush to honor civilians who volunteer to serve people in need. The Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award represents the highest level of the PVSA, given to individuals who contribute...

Weill Cornell Medicine has been awarded the Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award by INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine for the fifth year in a row, recognizing the institution’s exceptional commitment to diversity and inclusion. 

INSIGHT Into Diversity, the largest and oldest diversity-centered publication in higher education, plans to highlight the award winners in its December issue. The HEED Award is presented annually to U.S. health professional schools and other medical organizations that exemplify outstanding leadership in diversity and...

Dr. Dakotah Lane, M.D. '13, and Dr. Cristina Toledo-Cornell, M.D. '13, have spent the pandemic partnering to reduce the toll of COVID-19 in one Native American tribal community, their efforts helping to minimize hospitalization and death and encourage high vaccination rates among the Lummi Nation of Northwest Washington State.

Dr. Lane, director of the tribe’s health clinic, and Dr. Toledo-Cornell, public health director of the Lummi Tribal Health Center until July 2021, returned to Weill Cornell Medicine to...

Dr. Winston Price, M.D. ’74, a Georgia pediatrician and the president and chair of the National African American Drug Policy Coalition, has been named the National Medical Association’s 2021 Practitioner of the Year.

The annual award recognizes Black physicians who have made major contributions in support of the mission of the NMA, which advocates for the elimination of health disparities and the advancement of the art and science of medicine for people of African descent.

Dr. Price, who served as the organization’s president in 2004-2005, has been involved with...

Building on their longtime commitment to social justice, equity and diversity, Louise and Leonard Riggio have made a $5.6 million gift to Weill Cornell Medicine to establish a scholarship for Black medical students with financial need. The Holcomb-Riggio scholarship – named in honor of Dr. Kevin Holcomb, associate dean for admissions and professor of clinical obstetrics and gynecology – will be awarded to two enrolled students each year and will cover the full cost of attendance for all four years of medical school.

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The COVID-19 Community Education and Empowerment Internship, led by Dr. Susana Morales, Director, Diversity Center of Excellence, WCM, and Vice Chair for Diversity, WDOM, has received a gift of $200,000 from the Weil, Gotshal & Manges Foundation.

Dr. Morales’s work in leading the Internship, which is held virtually, was highlighted in Milestones (December edition). More than 1,000 students, including high school and college, from New York City, across the United States, and abroad have completed the internship. Trainees become “vaccine ambassadors” who provide valuable...

Weill Cornell Medicine has been awarded the Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award by INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, making it the fourth year in a row the institution has received the accolade for its exceptional commitment to diversity and inclusion.  To further recognize that commitment, INSIGHT Into Diversity named Weill Cornell Medicine a Diversity Champion, an honor bestowed on institutions who rank in the top tier of HEED awardees.

INSIGHT Into Diversity, the largest and oldest diversity-centered publication in higher education, is set to...

As part of Dean Augustine Choi’s commitment to strengthening the culture of diversity and inclusion at Weill Cornell Medicine, the Office of Diversity and Inclusion will host its 4th Annual Diversity Week event that will take place during week of April 25th to April 29th, 2022.  An array of events will take place throughout the week featuring two Keynote Lectures, Diversity Grand Round talks from experts in their fields, health disparity and mentoring in medicine symposiums, paneled events centered around work-life balance, women in science, and LGBT issues in medicine, among...