April 23, 2024
The Department will have a robust presence at the SAEM Annual Meeting, held from May 14-17 in Phoenix, AZ. 22 faculty members are presenting a total of 27 didactics, oral presentations, and poster presentations. A total of 20 faculty members and 5 staff are contributing as co-authors to presentations. A complete schedule of all WCM EM presentations at the conference is available...
April 22, 2024
Would you recognize the symptoms of heat stroke if you were suffering from it? More importantly, would your doctor?The answer may be, “no”. And delays in even the simplest of treatments to help reverse the effects of heat-related illnesses can mean the difference between life and death.Illnesses like heat stroke and heat exhaustion occur when body temperatures fluctuate by even a few degrees above 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit and the body is unable to properly cool itself. As average temperatures...
April 2, 2024
Rahul Sharma, M.D., Chair of
Emergency Medicine, surrounded by Weill Cornell Medicine leaders, faculty and staff, as well as Board Members, donors and esteemed guests, celebrated the Emergency Medicine Department’s first endowed professorship, the Barbara and Stephen Friedman Professorship of Emergency Medicine. The Friedman Family Foundation and the Weil, Gotshal & Manges Foundation established...
February 16, 2024
Welcome to the Winter 2024 edition of the
Department of Emergency Medicine newsletter.As we begin 2024, I want to thank our faculty, clinicians and administrative staff whose dedication and tireless efforts made the past year an extraordinary one. In 2023 we celebrated a significant milestone: our fifth anniversary as an academic department within Weill Cornell Medicine. Our Department’s growth...
February 8, 2024
We are excited to announce that the
Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research has just ranked our department 14th nationally in National Institute of Health (NIH) research funding for 2023. Aside from the fact that this is our highest ranking to date, this is a notable milestone for our department because we were...
December 4, 2023
The Department of Emergency Medicine, in partnership with the Cornell Tech Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute, is proud to announce a new fellowship focused on innovation. The Innovation Fellowship in Emergency Medicine will teach the skills needed for emergency medicine physicians to become clinical leaders in the digital transformation of healthcare. Fellows will be trained in all aspects of the innovation pipeline including ideation, design, intellectual property, financing, and strategic...
November 21, 2023
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Neil Patel on being named one of the 2023 New York American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Unsung Heroes.Dr. Patel, Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine, has had a profound and multi-faceted impact on the Department of Emergency Medicine. As a full-time nocturnist, he has not only consistently delivered exemplary patient care but has also taken on the role of a clinician-educator with remarkable dedication. Dr. Patel goes beyond the...
November 1, 2023
The Department of Emergency Medicine has made tremendous strides since 2018, when Weill Cornell Medicine elevated it to a full academic department, an achievement that underscores the department’s mission to provide exceptional patient care.“The past five years have been a period of exceptional growth and achievement and were also marked by unprecedented challenges,” said Dr. Rahul Sharma, chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine. “COVID-19 changed the way we...
October 20, 2023
It is our great pleasure to announce that Andrew Jacobowitz, M.S., P.A.-C., C.A.Q.-E.M. has been appointed Quality and Patient Safety Specialist within the Department of Emergency Medicine.Andrew is a graduate of the University of Buffalo and the Pace University-Lenox Hill Hospital Physician Assistant (PA) Program. He completed his physician assistant residency in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, before being hired full-time in 2016. He was promoted to Associate...
October 20, 2023
Mental health crises among children and adolescents requiring emergency department care skyrocketed during the pandemic and have stayed elevated despite a return to normalcy, according to a study by Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian investigators.The
study, published in the journal Pediatrics on Oct. 20, compared rates of pediatric...
