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A Celebratory Match Day at Weill Cornell Medicine

March 18, 2022

a group of students together celebrating during the annual Match Day

Video of Match Day 2022 at Weill Cornell Medicine

Yuna Oh has called Weill Cornell Medicine home for the past five years, discovering a passion for dermatology through her medical studies, her professors and a year dedicated to research. On March 18, the 28-year-old graduating student was thrilled to discover that her journey with the institution will extend another four years, now as a dermatology...

National Medical Association recognizes Dr. Winston Price, M.D. ’74

February 4, 2022

Dr. Winston Price, M.D. ’74, a Georgia pediatrician and the president and chair of the National African American Drug Policy Coalition, has been named the National Medical Association’s 2021 Practitioner of the Year.

The annual award recognizes Black physicians who have made major contributions in support of the mission of the NMA, which advocates for the elimination of health disparities and the advancement of the art and science of medicine for people of African descent.

Dr....

Weill Cornell Medicine Alumni Lead Washington State Tribe’s COVID Response

February 1, 2022

Dr. Dakotah Lane, M.D. '13, and Dr. Cristina Toledo-Cornell, M.D. '13, have spent the pandemic partnering to reduce the toll of COVID-19 in one Native American tribal community, their efforts helping to minimize hospitalization and death and encourage high vaccination rates among the Lummi Nation of Northwest Washington State.

Dr. Lane, director of the tribe’s health clinic, and Dr. Toledo-Cornell, public health director of the Lummi Tribal Health Center until...