Moments

Summer 2026

Marking celebratory events in the lives of our students and alumni, including Match Day and Commencement.

Alumni Website

Thank you!

Thank you to all alumni who have given their time and energy to advance Weill Cornell Medicine’s alumni programs!

For information about how you can connect with our current students and your fellow alumni while making a difference for your alma mater, please:

Call the Office of Alumni Relations
646-962-9560

Email
alumni@med.cornell.edu

Or visit the alumni website
www.alumni.weill.cornell.edu.

Match Day Successes

  • A group of male and female medical students celebrate.
  • Dr. Joseph Safdieh, left, and Dean Robert A. Harrington, M.D., right, with male student.
  • A female medical student celebrates her residency match with family.
  • A smiling Asian female student holds up her residency match letter to show a woman on a video call.
  • A smiling Black female student holds up a sign showing where she will be a medical resident.
  • Medical students at a table with match letters inside of envelopes.
    Members of the Weill Cornell Medical College Class of 2026 learned on national Match Day where they will be doing their internship and residency training — setting the stage for the next several years of their medical careers and lives. Forty-five students are remaining in metropolitan New York. Nineteen students matched to NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center and another seven students to other NewYork-Presbyterian campuses and Weill Cornell Medicine-affiliated hospitals. Some 34 students will pursue residencies in internal medicine, family medicine, pediatrics, or obstetrics and gynecology. Photos by Reece Taylor Williams; Studio Brooke

Thank you

Thank you to all members of the Alumni Giving Society, whose generosity and leadership help advance the mission of Weill Cornell Medicine. Your support strengthens the future of medical excellence and makes a lasting impact. We invite you to continue your support — or join the Society with a gift of $1,000 or more annually.

Congratulations to the 2026 Alumni Award recipients!

Award of Distinction
David A. Asch, M.D. ’84
Ruth E. Atherton, Ph.D. ’99, J.D.

Special Achievement Award
Bruce Siegel, M.D. ’86, M.P.H.
Jonathan P. Melk, M.D. ’03, F.A.A.P.

Honorary Fellowship Award
Dana L. Gurvitch, M.D.
Andrea Card, M.D.

Please visit alumni.weill.cornell.edu/nominate or submit your nomination for the 2027 Alumni Awards to alumniawards@med.cornell.edu.

The Alumni Awards Committee is dedicated to furthering Weill Cornell Medicine’s goal of excellence in medicine. We look forward to receiving your submissions and recognizing the extraordinary achievements of those within the alumni community!

Commencement

  • Doctoral students in red robes with black trim, left, and Master’s students in black robes with red and yellow trim, right, all wearing mortarboards, line up for graduation May 14 at Carnegie Hall.
  • On left: A white man, Dean Robert A. Harrington, M.D., with a white woman, Weill Cornell Graduate School Dean Barbara Hempstead, both wearing red robes with green trim and black mortarboards; on right: three female physician assistant graduates, all wearing black robes and mortarboards and holding yellow trim, line up for a processional.
  • A woman, on left, and two men in red graduation robes with green trim hold up their right hands as they swear the Hippocratic Oath.
  • A group of medical college graduates celebrate convocation with Dean Robert A. Harrington, M.D. and Senior Associate Dean for Education Dr. Joseph Safdieh
  • Red and green robed medical college graduates standing shoulder to shoulder hold their right hands up as they swear the Hippocratic Oath.
    Doctoral students, left, and Master’s students, right, line up for graduation May 14 at Carnegie Hall; Dean Robert A. Harrington, M.D., with Weill Cornell Graduate School Dean Barbara Hempstead, M.D., Ph.D., right; physician assistant graduates line up for the processional; new physicians swear the Hippocratic Oath; medical college graduates celebrate convocation with Dean Harrington; and some 52 graduates of Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar celebrated Commencement on May 5. Photos by Reece Taylor Williams; Studio Brooke.

Summer 2026 Front to Back

  • From the Dean

    Message from the Dean

    At Weill Cornell, we are building on our excellence to create new gold standards for care.
  • Features

    Set Up For Life

    Caring for women in the ‘fourth trimester.’
  • Features

    Cooling the City

    Protecting health with strategically planted trees.
  • Features

    A Cryptic Culprit

    Closing in on an immune-eluding parasite.
  • Notable

    Dateline

    Dr. Junaid Razzak builds and studies emergency care systems in Pakistan.
  • Notable

    Overheard

    Weill Cornell Medicine faculty members are leading the conversation about important health issues across the country and around the world.
  • Notable

    News Briefs

    Notable faculty appointments, honors, awards and more — from around campus and beyond.
  • Grand Rounds

    A Second Chance

    A bystander saves a life after attending a Weill Cornell Medicine-led community Narcan training.
  • Grand Rounds

    News Briefs

    The latest on teaching, learning and patient-centered care.
  • Discovery

    Promoting Preemies

    New research shows parental touch and speech improves preterm babies’ outcomes.
  • Discovery

    Pain-Sensing Neurons Kick-Start Immune Responses

    A new study examines the connections between inflammatory immune responses and allergic diseases.
  • Discovery

    Findings

    The latest advances in faculty research, published in the world’s leading journals.
  • Alumni

    Profiles

    From innovating primary care to practicing the “Peace Corps of psychiatry,” our alumni are making an impact.
  • Alumni

    Notes

    What’s new with you?
    Keep your classmates up to date on all your latest achievements with an Alumni Note.
  • Alumni

    In Memoriam

    Marking the passing of our faculty and alumni.
  • Alumni

    Moments

    Marking celebratory events in the lives of our students and alumni, including Match Day and Commencement.
  • Second Opinion

    Cancer Screening

    How can we better catch and combat cancers that are increasing in people who don’t have known or established risk factors?
  • Exchange

    Placing Trust

    Weill Cornell Medicine’s chairs of pediatrics and of obstetrics and gynecology discuss the impact of the CDC’s changes to vaccine recommendations for children and adults.
  • Muse

    Changing Tunes

    Dr. Guinevere Lee keeps a piano in her lab to play when she (or a colleague) needs a break.
  • Spotlight

    Medicine Without Margins

    Dr. Glen Davis (M.D. ’04) delivers psychiatric care outside of the traditional healthcare system.