Recognizing the increasing importance of emergency medicine as an academic discipline, Weill Cornell Medicine has expanded the Division of Emergency Medicine into a comprehensive department effective July 1, the institution announced today. Dr. Rahul Sharma, who has led the Lisa Perry Emergency Center at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center as emergency physician-in-chief and served as division chief since 2016, has been appointed the inaugural chairman of the new academic Department of Emergency Medicine.

Cardiac arrest is the third leading cause of death in America - on average affecting at least one adult every two minutes. There are more than 356,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) annually in the U.S., nearly 90 percent of them fatal, according to the American Heart Association’s newly released “Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics 2018 Update.”

The NewYork-Presbyterian Social Media team was recently recognized as the No. 1 hospital in Convince & Convert’s comprehensive report on the “The Best of Social Media from America’s Top Hospitals.

More than 275 physicians affiliated with NewYork-Presbyterian have been recognized as among the best doctors in the New York metropolitan region in this year’s edition of New York Magazine’s “Best Doctors” issue.

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital has once again been recognized as one of “America’s Best Employers” by Forbes magazine for 2018, one of the few healthcare organizations in New York to rank on the prestigious annual list.

Dr. Laura Forese, executive vice president and chief operating officer of NewYork-Presbyterian, has once again been selected as one of the top 25 COOs in the country by Modern Healthcare. This distinguished list recognizes COOs from a wide range of healthcare organizations whose leadership has been pivotal in growing their respective institutions and who have made a sustained contribution to the healthcare industry.

NewYork-Presbyterian has named Dr. Katherine L. Heilpern senior vice president and chief operating officer of NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, effective in August. She joins from the Emory University School of Medicine and Emory Healthcare, where she served as chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine and held several other key leadership roles.

Gene mutations detected in blood may predict risk of one of the most common forms of adult leukemia a decade before patients are diagnosed with the disease, according to a new study by Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian investigators.