At Weill Cornell, where Dr. Leonard N. Girardi and his team of cardiac and thoracic surgeons have demonstrated time and time again that by combining their expertise in the OR they can successfully and completely remove the tumor.

A Focus on Faculty: Highlighting a Range of Expertise in Rehabilitation Medicine

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a recessively inherited motor neuron disease characterized by progressive muscle weakness and atrophy, is one of the most devastating neurological diseases of childhood. Until recently, there was no treatment.

More doctors are prescribing exercise for patients. But it’s not just for high blood pressure or diabetes. Physiatrists at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center are offering an exercise training intervention for patients with spinocerebellar ataxia.

Neuroscientists at Columbia University Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco, have found in mice that certain brain cells in the hippocampus fire when the animal is anxious, triggering anxiety-related behaviors.

Researchers at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia have found opioid overdose survivors are at great risk of dying from respiratory diseases, viral hepatitis, and suicide in the year after an overdose, according to a report published in JAMA Psychiatry.

As drug overdoses continue to rise in the United States, doctors and policymakers search for solutions to stem the tide of opioid-related deaths. Researchers at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell are studying the efficacy of statewide online databases to track prescriptions.

A Focus on Faculty: Highlighting a Range of Expertise in Orthopedics