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Cornell Tech and Weill Cornell Medicine Awarded Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Grant for Research on Technology and Home Health Aides

September 11, 2019

Cornell Tech and Weill Cornell Medicine have been awarded a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) grant that will fund interdisciplinary research on the role of technology among home health aides caring for adults with heart failure.

The two-year $358,636 grant, is part of an RWJF initiative exploring how technology’s impact on infrastructure could help or hinder efforts to improve health equity in the United States.

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Skills Building: Developing Resilience is the Best Antidote to Student Stress

September 11, 2019

Dr. Richard A. Friedman. Credit: John Abbott

These days, everyone seems to be talking about stress, burnout and wellness. Nowhere is this more a topic of conversation than in medical schools, and for good reason: medical students face unique stresses and suffer from higher rates of depression than their age-matched peers. For example, it’s estimated that up to 27% of medical students experience clinically significant depression, compared to nine percent among 18- to 25-year-olds in the general population.

What makes medical...

White Coat Ceremony Launches Medical School Journey for Class of 2023

August 22, 2019

Medical students in their white coats with Dean Augustine Choi

Indrani Guzman Das discovered a passion for medicine through her parents: her mom a nurse, her dad a doctor. They instilled in her the importance of giving back to the community and modeled healthcare delivery as one way to achieve that.

Guzman Das, 25, of New York City, also saw patient care first-hand. She lost her mom to cancer when she was 14, and her dad had a stroke while she was in college that forced him into early retirement. That experience—coupled with her very first job as...