August 7, 2025
The real world may be a better testing ground than an actual laboratory for understanding the side effects of drugs, discovering new drugs, and repurposing existing drugs. Traditional clinical trials are the cornerstone of medical research, but, by design, do not capture the complexity of real-life behavior, such as how people actually take medications. This mismatch between “best case” and “actual use” has far-reaching implications; promising treatments may fail in practice, and valuable...
June 30, 2025
Dr. Joseph Fins, chief of the Division of Medical Ethics and the E. William Davis, Jr. M.D. Professor of Medical Ethics, served as commencement speaker for the Class of 2025 on May 8 at Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin, delivering a talk entitled “A Leaven of Science.” In addition, Dr. Fins was the commencement speaker for Medical College of Wisconsin on May 16, during which he received an honorary Doctorate of Medical Science...
June 26, 2025
Academic medical centers could transform patient care by adopting principles from learning health systems principles, according to researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine and the University of California, San Diego. In this approach, information from electronic health records, clinical trials and day-to-day hospital operations is analyzed in real-time to uncover insights that continuously improve patient care.The
perspective,...
May 27, 2025
Dr. Rahul Sharma has been re-elected to continue serving as the Full-time Faculty Representative to the Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM) Board of Fellows. His new three-year term will begin on July 1.The WCM Board of Fellows is responsible for the general supervision of the programs and operations of the Medical College and Graduate School. Among other responsibilities, the Board oversees academic, financial and other program planning, approves...
May 5, 2025
New research by Pediatric Emergency Medicine physician, Deborah Levine, M.D., and published in the Pediatric Emergency Care Journal, focuses on improving the diagnosis and management of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in early childhood patients, an age group particularly vulnerable to this type of injury.“[Children under five are] probably the most underdiagnosed patient population when it comes to concussions, often due subtle post-concussive symptoms, to the reliance on parental reports and the...
April 29, 2025
Dr. Rahul Sharma with the 2025 Roger Schenke Award.
Rahul Sharma, M.D., the Barbara and Stephen Friedman Professor and Chair of Emergency Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, and Emergency Physician-in-Chief at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, has been recognized with the 2025 Roger Schenke Award by the American Association for Physician Leadership (AAPL).AAPL is a...
April 21, 2025
Drs. David Bodnar and Matthew T. Nguyen have been named the 2025 Physician of the Year at NYP-Weill Cornell Medical Center and NYP-Lower Manhattan Hospital respectively.The annual award is presented by Departments of Nursing across all of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital’s main campuses. It celebrates collegiality, collaboration, and physicians’ contributions to NYP’s nursing practice. The award is given to physicians who show competence and compassion in the clinical setting and cooperate with...
April 8, 2025
The Department will have a robust presence at the SAEM Annual Meeting, held from May 13-16 in Philadelphia. 19 faculty members are presenting a total of 31 didactics, oral presentations, and poster presentations. A total of 7 faculty members and 12 staff are contributing as co-authors to presentations. A complete schedule of all WCM EM presentations at the conference is available...
February 25, 2025
The Department of Emergency Medicine is pleased to announce that it has been ranked 10th in National Institutes of Health (NIH) research funding for 2024 by
Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research. This is a tremendous milestone for the department, which was unranked in 2019, climbed to #14 in 2023 and rose four more spots to our highest...
February 17, 2025
We are excited to announce four new leadership appointments within the Department of Emergency Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM), effective May 1, 2025.Elisa Aponte, M.D.Dr. Aponte is an assistant professor of clinical emergency medicine and the assistant director of clinical services for the NYP-Weill Cornell Medical Center Emergency Department.As assistant director of clinical services she is actively involved in managing the daily operations of the department and has worked on various...
