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  Columbia University Medical Center
Columbia to Award 2007 Horwitz Prize to Three Generations of Teacher-Student Scientists
College of Physicians and Surgeons honors clinicians with more than 25 years of service
Comprises roughly half of Columbia University's nearly $2.4 billion annual budget.
cpmcnet.columbia.edu   (146 words)

  
  Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2.2 Merger with the College of Physicians and Surgeons
King's College remained closed until 1784 when the school was reopened as Columbia College and in December of that year the faculty of the medical school were re-instated.
Merger with the College of Physicians and Surgeons
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 Columbia University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Columbia University is a private university in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City and a member of the Ivy League.
College walk is the part of 116th street that passes through campus, and it was closed to the public while Dwight D. Eisenhower was university president in 1953.
Columbia's fencing team in the late 20th century was one of the nation's most successful, with NCAA team championships in 1987, 1988, 1989, 1992 and 1993.
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 Changing the Face of Medicine | Dr. Virginia Apgar
Virginia Apgar was the first woman at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons to be named a full professor.
In 1938, Dr. Apgar returned to Columbia University as the director of the division of anesthesia and as an attending anesthetist.
Surgeons did not accept anesthesiologists as equals, and the pay for the less well-respected specialty was low.
www.nlm.nih.gov /changingthefaceofmedicine/physicians/biography_12.html   (713 words)

  
 About Us
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University was one of eight medical schools nationally to receive funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Program "Preparing physicians for the future.
In 2000, the College of Physicians and Surgeons was one of 21 medical schools in the United States to be awarded a Nutrition Academic Award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the NIH.
Thus, Columbia University has emerged as a leader in linking cardiovascular disease research to nutrition with excellent opportunities for collaborative research and a high degree of interaction.
www.columbia.edu /itc/hs/medical/nutrition/about/about.html   (1008 words)

  
 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, NY
In 2002, she was appointed assistant clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
She is a junior fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and is interested in all aspects of general obstetrics and gynecology, including operative gynecology and laparoscopy.
www.nywomenshealth.com /gynecology/physicians.html   (4848 words)

  
 For the First Time in Medical History Newly Developed Robot Assists Doctors and Nurses in Operating Room
Penelope is easy to use, allowing surgeons and nurses to interact with her as if they were interacting with a person.
All Allen Pavilion physicians are part of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and members of the faculty of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Columbia University Medical Center is an international leader in basic, pre-clinical and clinical research, patient care, and medical education.
news.med.cornell.edu /nyp/nyp_2005/06_16_05.shtml   (1107 words)

  
 Graduate Programs at Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York's M.A. program in Anthropology is designed for those who wish to improve their particular professional competence, but who intend only to pursue the M.A. degree.
The various disciplines comprising Jewish studies at Columbia University are based in four departments: Jewish history in the Department of History; Hebrew language and literature in the Department of Middle East Languages and Cultures; Yiddish studies in the Department of Germanic Languages; and the study of Judaism in the Department of Religion.
Columbia's M.A. in modern art in critical studies is designed to explore issues of historical and critical method by focusing on them through the lens of a particular area of concern within the modernist field.
schools.gradschools.com /graduate-schools/Columbia-University.html   (2985 words)

  
 Apple - Education - Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons p.2
Surgeons are even taking the time to write their own voice-over scripts, to ensure the videos contain the most factual information possible.
Laptop in hand, she visits the surgeon who will be performing the procedure in the video, showing him or her the script and making any necessary revisions on the spot.
When the surgeon reaches one of these points during the procedure, he or she can then signal me so I can make sure I zoom in to get it on tape.
www.apple.com /education/profiles/columbia/index2.html   (493 words)

  
 $25 Million NIH Grant Funds New Technologies For Rapid Mass Screening Of Radiation Exposure   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Columbia University Medical Center has been awarded a major grant of $25 million to lead a consortium developing new technologies to rapidly screen large numbers of people for radiation exposure in the event of a terrorist attack on a nuclear facility or the detonation of a radiological “dirty bomb”.
The eight institutions involved in the research consortium are: Columbia University (lead institution); Harvard University School of Public Health; Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute; the National Cancer Institute; University of Pittsburgh Medical Center; Translational Genomics Research Institute; Sionex Corporation; and the City of New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
With a strong history of discovery in health care, Columbia University Medical Center researchers are leading the development of novel therapies and advances to address a wide range of health conditions.
www.medicalnewstoday.com /medicalnews.php?newsid=30518   (1031 words)

  
 Changing the Face of Medicine | Dr. M. Irené Ferrer
As a young physician, Dr. Irené Ferrer was the first woman to serve as chief resident at Bellevue Hospital, where she was given a prestigious opportunity: to work with a leading team of cardiologists who were developing the cardiac catheter.
She received her M.D. from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1941, and completed her internship at Columbia University's Bellevue Hospital in 1943.
Special among her many honors is the M. Irené Ferrer Professorship in Gender-specific Medicine at Columbia University, for which the Partnership for Gender-Specific Medicine, founded and directed by Dr. Marianne Legato, is raising funds.
www.nlm.nih.gov /changingthefaceofmedicine/physicians/biography_110.html   (670 words)

  
 Joint Reconstruction and Replacement Directory at OAP
Endrizzi graduated from Columbia University and the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (New York).
McGrory graduated from Cornell University (New York) and the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University (New York).
McGrory is a clinical associate professor at the University of Vermont College of Medicine and the author or co-author of many medical journal articles dealing with osteotomies and hip and knee replacement surgery.
www.orthoassociates.com /recon_dir.htm   (610 words)

  
 Research and Clinical Trials - New York Presbyterian Hospital
Our dedicated research physicians and surgeons, all of whom are on the faculty of either Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons or Weill Medical College of Cornell University, have made extraordinary contributions.
Columbia's Irving Center for Clinical Research, in particular, provides first-class facilities and services to clinical investigators working on the frontiers of modern medicine.
The physicians and scientists of Weill Medical College of Cornell University are engaged in both basic and clinical research in such cutting-edge areas as genetics and gene therapy, neuroscience, structural biology, AIDS, cancer, and psychiatry.
www.nyp.org /research   (405 words)

  
 ED.gov   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Rather than overloading the curriculum, Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons used a new strategy for teaching the basic sciences that deliberately reduces the volume of core material and engages students in learning through electronic means.
The faculty response to presentations of the new curriculum at the college has been overwhelmingly positive, as has the national response of medical organizations such as the American Physiological Society and the Basic Sciences Educational Forum, a group of science teachers from 120 U.S. medical schools.
As part of the college's home page for the new basic medical science core curriculum, a help page with special search engines directs students to course materials and histology slides pertinent to 26 microscopy labs.
www.ed.gov /about/offices/list/ope/fipse/lessons4/columbia.html?exp=0   (919 words)

  
 Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons receives $2.4 Million grant from Howard Hughes Medical Institute
The award will allow Columbia to hire new assistant professors who will use the tools of molecular biology and genetics to address questions in tissue differentiation, neuronal connectivity, organogenesis, and pathophysiology.
Professor and Chairman of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and interim dean for research, is the principal investigator for the Columbia grant.
Columbia, like other academic medical institutions, is committed to helping young faculty members start their laboratories and begin experiments in promising fields of science.
www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2000-01/CUCo-CUCo-1801100.php   (293 words)

  
 Columbia University College of Physicians and... - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 Apgar, Virginia, Finding Aid
She trained at the University of Wisconsin and Bellvue Hospital and became a board-certified anesthesiologist in 1937; she began teaching anesthesiology at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center before she had completed her training.
From 1966-1971 Apgar was an alumna trustee of Mount Holyoke College.
Other diaries, correspondence, reports, notebooks, financial records, a scrapbook and photographs concern her education and training at Mount Holyoke College (1925-1929), Columbia University and Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center (1929-1935), the University of Wisconsin (1936-1937) and Johns Hopkins University (1959), and her work as an anesthesiologist, administrator, and professor at Columbia-Presbyterian (1938-1958) and Johns Hopkins (1972-1973).
www.mtholyoke.edu /lits/library/arch/col/msrg/mancol/ms0504r.htm   (721 words)

  
 Welcome to Lyme Disease Research Studies
A graduate of Harvard College, he obtained his M.D. degree from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, as well as a master's degree in public health epidemiology from Columbia University.
Harold Sackeim, PhD is Professor of Psychiatry and Radiology at Columbia University and Chief of Biological Psychiatry at the New York State Psychiatric Institute.
Sackeim is an international authority on the conduct and analysis of brain imaging studies, having conducted pioneering studies since 1982 of cerebral blood flow and metabolism in such disorders as depression, cerebrovascular disease, Alzheimer's disease, and Lyme disease.
www.columbia-lyme.org /flatp/staff.html   (540 words)

  
 Columbia University Health Sciences Library Archives & Special Collections: Databases
Most are for graduates of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (P&S).
The entries cover all issues of P&S, the quarterly journal of the Alumni Association of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, from its founding in June 1955 (as the P&S Alumni Association Bulletin) to the present.
Where it is unclear which degree was earned from Columbia, but the entry notes the year in which the degree was earned, it appears as ???1960 or similarly.
library.cpmc.columbia.edu /hsl/archives/archdbs.html   (304 words)

  
 MSPH Office of Student Life: Research News
This study was conducted by Ethel Siris, MD, Madeline C. Stabile Professor of Clinical Medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and director of the Toni Stabile Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Osteoporosis at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center.
Buck was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia when she and Dr. Axel jointly published the fundamental paper on the subject in 1991.
Richard Axel is University Professor, Columbia University, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Medical Center, Investigator, Kavli Institute for Brain Science at Columbia University, and Member of the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, Columbia University Medical Center.
www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu /studentlife/news/research.html   (1440 words)

  
 Biographical Information - 2002 Lienhard Award Recipient T. Berry Brazelton, M.D. - Institute of Medicine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
In 1990, Northeastern University awarded him the Doctor of Humane Letters degree, and in 1991, he received honorary degrees from Wheelock and Wheaton Colleges.
He is the recipient of the Gold Medal for Excellence in Clinical Medicine, from the Association of the Alumni, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University.
Increasingly, the NBAS is being used as an intervention to help parents understand and relate to their new babies, and new research is underway to study how it can be used to enhance early discharge from the newborn hospital.
www.iom.edu /CMS/28312/5010/5021/5029.aspx   (923 words)

  
 Columbia University - Center for Education Research and Evaluation (CERE): May 26, 2006
Columbia University - Center for Education Research and Evaluation (CERE): May 26, 2006
Drusin, R. E., Molholt, P., & Schmidt, H. (2000) Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Zeitschrift des GK fuer Kognitionswissenschaft (Journal of the Graduate College of Cognitive Science).
library.cpmc.columbia.edu /cere/web/publications/publications.cfm?cat=pub   (962 words)

  
 Weill Cornell Research
He pursued his medical education at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and completed his residency in both General Surgery and Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Columbia-Presbyterian campus of the New York Presbyterian Hospital.
He is a member of the Society for Thoracic Surgeons, The American Society of Transplant Surgeons, The International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation, and the New York Society of Thoracic Surgeons.
He is jointly appointed at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Children’s Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian.
www.med.cornell.edu /research/jonathanchen/biography.html   (336 words)

  
 CUBIC Columbia University Bioinformatics
CUBIC is located in the Black Building (BB) of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
The main entry to the Black Building is on 168th Street on the corner of Fort Washington Avenue and is thus southeast of the George Washington Bridge in northern Manhattan.
The college is a 25 minute commute from the midtown area by car, taxi, or express train from Columbus Circle.
cubic.bioc.columbia.edu /doc/get_here.html   (557 words)

  
 Stamford Health System   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
As part of our major teaching affiliation with Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons you will be working closely with medical students on a wide range of clinical rotations.
The project is presented at a Medical Grand Rounds conference at The Stamford Hospital and to the Connecticut Chapter of the American College of Physicians.
All Stamford Hospital residents are granted associate status in the American College of Physicians and participate in the academic functions of the Connecticut Chapter.
www.stamfordhospital.org /residency/medicine_pro.html   (684 words)

  
 Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons
The timeline for tenure is determined at the university level, though it impacts faculty in each school.
Mellman and Kelly met in October with newly-appointed Columbia University Vice Provost for Diversity Jean Howard to inform her of the Task Force’s work and invite her to represent the University as a presenter at the retreat described below.
The retreat was facilitated by Dean Darrell Kirch, Dean of Penn State College of Medicine and President of the AAMC Council of Deans.
www.columbia.edu /cu/senate/committees/commission/psfac.htm   (7413 words)

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