Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to share that Kathleen Sikkema, PhD, Stephen Smith Professor and chair of the department of Sociomedical Sciences, has agreed to serve as interim dean of the Columbia ...

In the News Highlights Is There Really a Chronic Disease Epidemic? It’s Complicated. May 22, 2025 The New York Times Six in 10 Americans have at least one chronic disease, and four in 10 have two ...

The AI at VP&S Initiative aims to advance patient health, support health care workers, and push forward biomedical sciences through AI innovation. While the initiative officially launched this year, ...

Approximately 125 employees attended the event, either as nominees or to support their colleagues. The high level of participation in the campaign and the event showed the community’s resilience ...

Gokhan L. Akfirat, MD, Neurology: Akfirat is a board-certified neurologist at NewYork-Presbyterian Medical Group Westchester specializing in dementia, epilepsy, and headache. Jorge Delgado, MD, ...

The College of Dental Medicine, the Mailman School of Public Health, the School of Nursing, and the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons celebrated their 2025 graduating classes last week. Take ...

Dear CUIMC community, As we end the academic year, we would like to express our deepest gratitude and admiration for our shining graduates and for all members of our remarkable community. During a ...

In the News Highlights When They Couldn’t Get Benzos Anymore, Quitting Was Torture May 14, 2025 The New York Times “Benzos generate as much anxiety in the prescriber as they do in the patient,” said ...

Another patient, a man in his mid-30s, was asymptomatic when he began treatment, but tests of electrical activity in his muscles indicated that symptoms would likely emerge soon. In three years of ...

Michel Sadelain, the Herbert and Florence Irving Professor of Medicine, has been awarded the 2025 Richard N. Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology for developing chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell ...

Physician-scientist Jay Vyas was initially surprised when he was approached about becoming director of the medical residency program at Mass General nearly a decade ago. The position is usually held ...

The Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons Class of 2025 celebrated graduation with friends and families on May 21. The ceremony honored 136 students who received MD degrees ...