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Commencement Honors Future Healthcare Leaders

December 10, 2018

For most of his life, Vishal Patel wanted to be a teacher. But midway through college, he discovered a love for medicine and realized he could combine those two passions by becoming a physician. That journey reached a milestone on May 31 with Dr. Patel’s graduation from Weill Cornell Medical College in front of his family—12 members in all—who celebrated his crossing Carnegie Hall’s iconic stage by brandishing large cardboard cutouts of his face.

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Measuring Brain Responses to Speech Provides Evidence of Cognition in Patients with Severe Brain Injury

November 21, 2018

Measuring brain activity in response to hearing a brief narrative can identify patients with severe brain injury who have preserved high-level cognition despite showing limited or no consciousness at the bedside, according to a study by Weill Cornell Medicine researchers.

The paper, published Nov. 21 in Current Biology, is the first to describe a method for measuring the delay in brain processing of...

Dr. Janet Braam Wins Weill Cornell Graduate School Alumni Award

June 4, 2018

Dr. Janet Braam accepting her award from Dr. Carl Nathan, dean of the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, on May 30. Photo credit: Studio Brooke.

Dr. Janet Braam, PhD ’85, chair of the department of biosciences at Rice University in Houston, has been awarded the Weill Cornell...