The American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP®) has recognized NewYork-Presbyterian Queens and NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center as two of 88 ACS NSQIP participating hospitals that have achieved meritorious outcomes for surgical patient care in 2018.

Dr. Bo Shen, an internationally renowned innovator in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), has been named section head and medical director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center in the Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center and professor of medicine (in surgery) and vice chair for innovation in Medicine and Surgery at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Dr. Vivian J. Bea, an expert in breast cancer disparities, has been named section chief of breast surgical oncology at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital. She also serves as an assistant professor of surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine.

A new study from Columbia University and NewYork-Presbyterian provides physicians with valuable information on how the heart adapts to intense physical training for elite female athletes in the WNBA.

During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, health care workers on the front lines had high levels of acute stress, anxiety, and depression, a study by researchers at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian has found.

A study of nearly 400 pregnant women in New York City is among the first to show that lower neighborhood socioeconomic status and greater household crowding increase the risk of becoming infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

For the 14th year in a row, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital ranks among the best in the nation for children’s care in U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals.” Additionally, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is New York’s No. 1 children’s hospital, according to the New York Daily News based on an analysis of the U.S. News & World Report’s rankings. The 2020-21 rankings are published online today.

In two new papers, pediatricians from Columbia University Irving Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital describe two types of serious, but rare, COVID-19 disease that can occur in children.