Women make up only 6.1% of US orthopedic surgeons. The Columbia University Department of Orthopedic Surgery partnered with The Perry Initiative to host an outreach program for 39 high school students to increase the pool of women who might be interested in the field.

In recent years it has been shown that younger athletic adults are also prone to hip problems that were once considered merely groin or muscle injuries. At the Center for Athletic Hip Injuries and Hip Preservation at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia, doctors are focused on providing joint-preserving treatment for young, active adults.

With the support of a major award from The Brown Foundation, Dr. Jeffrey M. Liebmann and his team have launched the Brown Glaucoma Genetics Initiative, a continuum of investigative and therapeutic projects with the aim of developing treatments for specific subtypes of the disease.

For more than two decades, Dr. Manuel Hidalgo has pursued laboratory and clinical research with a major focus on drug development in pancreatic cancer.

Anil K. Rustgi, MD, a preeminent cancer physician-scientist, has been appointed Director of the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Chief of the Cancer Service, NYP/Columbia, and Irving Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean of Oncology at Columbia University.

Dr. Catherine Monk, a clinical psychologist, brings together the fields of psychopathology, developmental neuroscience, and perinatal psychiatry to understand the earliest influences — those that happen in utero — on developmental trajectories of children and how to intervene to prevent mental health problems.

Eloise Chapman-Davis, whose career has long focused on bringing advanced medical care to the underserved here and around the world, in collaboration with Monika M. Safford, are developing a web-based intervention to educate and motivate women to continue with follow-up care.

From the genome to the microbiome and several omics in between, data are being generated that can provide significant biological insights into the disease.