A leading authority in infectious diseases, Lawrence R. Stanberry, M.D., Ph.D., has been named chair of the Department of Pediatrics of Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons and pediatrician-in-chief of Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian.

Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian is the first hospital in the United States to offer the Sneaky Chef's meals to its young patients, providing the healthy ingredients children's bodies need in the foods they already love. Missy Chase Lapine—a.k.a. the Sneaky Chef—adds vegetable and fruit purees that boost the nutrient quotient of the dishes while remaining completely imperceptible in taste and texture.

More than 3,000 lives have been saved through the kidney transplant program at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center and its medical partner The Rogosin Institute.

After getting their tonsils out and going home from the hospital, along with ice cream, young children must take pain medication until their throat heals. But parents often have a tough time getting them to take their liquid pain medication. A new alternative method of administering the medication rectally has been shown to be safe and effective, according to a new study by physician-scientists at Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian and Columbia University Medical Center. The findings were presented on January 21 at a meeting of the Eastern Section of the Triological Society in Toronto.

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia announced today the groundbreaking for its new, state-of-the-art Vivian and Seymour Milstein Family Heart Center in Washington Heights in a ceremony attended by Former President Bill Clinton. The Heart Center will occupy a 142,000-square-foot freestanding building designed by award-winning architects, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners. The new six-level facility, made possible by a $50 million gift from the Vivian and Seymour Milstein family foundations, represents the largest single gift in the hospital's history.

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center performed 118 heart transplants in 2005, a one-year record for any U.S. medical center in the history of heart transplantation. NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia has the largest heart transplant program in the country, having performed more than 1,700 transplants since the inception of its heart transplant program in 1977.

An esteemed cardiologist and pioneering advocate for the benefits of information technology in medicine, Dr. Joseph G. Hayes has been named the recipient of the 27th annual Maurice R. Greenberg Distinguished Service Award, the highest honor bestowed by NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center on a member of its professional staff.

World-renowned cardiothoracic surgeon and educator, Dr. O. Wayne Isom has been named the recipient of The 24th Annual Maurice R. Greenberg Distinguished Service Award, the highest honor bestowed by NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center on a member of its professional staff.