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...
January 9, 2025
When
Dr. Tamatha Fenster received a call from a young patient requesting a refill on her Oxycodone for pelvic pain, she was faced with a dilemma: letting the patient remain in pain or refill a prescription and perpetuate an opioid dependency.With few other pain-relief options, she refilled the prescription. “I had to think of an alternative for pelvic pain for women,” said Dr. Fenster, assistant professor of clinical obstetrics...
December 9, 2024
Though using large language models (LLM) that drive artificial intelligence (AI) to draft patient notes show promise in saving physicians time, they will still need to review and edit these summaries for accuracy, according to researchers and colleagues at Weill Cornell Medicine. Their findings suggest that as the LLM system is refined to handle documentation more accurately, physicians will have more time to focus on patient care, if they only need to review AI-generated notes versus manually...
November 27, 2024
On Friday, November 15, 2024, Weill Cornell Medicine’s Center for Virtual Care (CVC) hosted their 7th Annual Virtual Healthcare in the Mainstream Symposium and Research Forum.The continued growth in both the global acceptance of virtual care, and the technology that supports digital health and telemedicine initiatives have made these conferences and discussions increasingly important. And with the highest in-person and virtual attendance in the history of the event, the medical community is...
November 14, 2024
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Wallace Carter, Vice Chair of Clinical & Faculty Affairs and Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine, has been appointed to the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education’s (ACGME) Board of Directors. His 6-year term begins in February 2025.The ACGME is a not-for-profit organization that accredits residency and fellowship programs for almost 1,000 sponsoring institutions and 165,000 residents and fellows each year. Dr. Carter recently completed...
October 16, 2024
While most states have legalized or decriminalized marijuana, regulation is limited, and products range in form from leaves to vapes to edibles and can carry far higher concentrations of psychoactive ingredients than were typical decades ago. How can medicine and public health best address these largely unregulated, readily available and potentially harmful products?
Dr. Brian...
October 9, 2024
Joining just a handful of other institutions in the United States, investigators from Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, and SUNY Upstate have established a multidisciplinary, translational Resuscitation Science laboratory to study human cardiac arrest and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR).Cardiac arrest is the abrupt cessation of cardiac activity that quickly leads to a complete loss of blood flow and represents a leading cause of death in the U.S. and worldwide. Only one out of...
