Dr. Timothy C. Wang, chief of the Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center and the Dorothy L. and Daniel H. Silberberg Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, has received the 2019 William Beaumont Prize in gastroenterology from the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA).

NewYork-Presbyterian recently celebrated the launch and expansion of the Pilar Crespi Robert and Stephen Robert Center for Community Health Navigation at three of its campuses: NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital, NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, and NewYork-Presbyterian Queens.

Matthew Laghezza, chief physician assistant in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and the Lisa Perry Emergency Center at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, was named 2018 Emergency Medicine Physician Assistant of the Year by the Society of Emergency Medicine Physician Assistants.

A newly available drug may improve the effectiveness of immunotherapy in hard-to-treat cancers of the upper urinary tract, suggests a study published by Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian investigators.

NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital has been verified as a Level I Children’s Surgery Center by the American College of Surgeons’ (ACS) Children’s Surgery Verification Committee.

LIFE, a monument consisting of two sculptures, 10 and 18 feet high, stands firmly outside the entrance of NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center’s Emergency Department on East 68th Street.

Ji Young Chong, MD, has been named Associate Chief of Neurology and Director of the Stroke Program at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital. She arrives from NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital, where she served as the Site Chief of Neurology and the Director of the Stroke Center.

NewYork-Presbyterian recently held a dedication ceremony to celebrate the establishment of The Hauser Institute for Health Innovation, in recognition of the visionary philanthropy of longtime supporters Rita E. Hauser and Gustave M. Hauser. The Hausers have given more than $50 million to NewYork-Presbyterian in support of the Hospital’s innovation programs in health information technology and telemedicine since 2011.