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NewYork-Presbyterian and Weill Cornell Medicine Awarded $2 Million Grant to Expand Innovative ED-Based Program that Identifies and Responds to Cases of Elder Abuse

July 23, 2019

NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center

NewYork-Presbyterian and Weill Cornell Medicine have received a grant for more than $2 million from the New York State Office of Victims Services to sustain and grow an innovative emergency department-based program that improves care for victims of elder abuse. The funds will support the Vulnerable Elder Protection Team (VEPT), primarily based at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center’s emergency department.

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Nothing Up His Sleeve

July 17, 2019

Seeing is Believing: Dr. Rosenkranz attired for his magic act working with a student.

By Alexandra Bond

Dr. Ricardo Rosenkranz is a successful professional magician—but one of his greatest feats is giving medical students valuable insights into the doctor-patient relationship. For the past decade, Dr. Rosenkranz M.D. '90—a neonatologist and assistant professor of clinical pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine—has tapped his prestidigitation skills to teach a course he designed entitled Medicine and Magic. Offered to first- and second-years...

Dr. Allan Ropper Wins Weill Cornell Medical College Alumni Award

May 31, 2019

Three people standing, one of whom is holding a plaque

Dr. Allan Ropper with Dr. Augustine M.K. Choi and Dr. Natasha I. Leibel, M.D. ’98, president of the Weill Cornell Medical College Alumni Association.

Dr. Allan Ropper, M.D. ’74, the Raymond D. Adams Master Clinician and executive vice chairman of...