Christine Kim Garcia, MD, PhD, joined NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center as Associate Chief of the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine in January 2019.

Dr. R. Kumar Kadiyala has been appointed Chief of Orthopedic Surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital.

Dr. Sallie Permar, the newly appointed chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine and pediatrician-in-chief at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian Komansky Children’s Hospital, received the 2020 Oswald Avery Award for Early Achievement from the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

The American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP®) has recognized NewYork-Presbyterian Queens as one of 89 ACS NSQIP participating hospitals that have achieved meritorious outcomes for surgical patient care in 2019.

ICAP at Columbia University and the Dalio Center for Health Justice at NewYork-Presbyterian announce the launch of the REACH (Responding to Epidemics and Crises in Health) Fellowship.

NewYork-Presbyterian Queens has earned a distinguished three-star rating – the top rating – from The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) for its patient care and outcomes in isolated coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) procedures.

Adam Bass, MD, a leading physician-scientist in the field of cancer genomics and gastrointestinal cancer, will join the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center (HICCC) at Columbia University and NewYork-Presbyterian as the founding director of the Center for Precision Cancer Medicine and director of gastrointestinal oncology.

Cardiovascular disease is now the number one cause of maternal mortality in the United States, but a new study suggests that care from a multidisciplinary cardio-obstetrics team may improve pregnancy outcomes and reduce hospital readmission rates.