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And the Envelope, Please...

In an annual rite of passage shared by nearly 45,000 medical students around the country, Weill Cornell Medicine’s Class of 2024 gathered on March 15 to open envelopes to learn where they matched to do their internship and residency training.

Dr. Robert A. Harrington, the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medicine and provost for medical affairs of Cornell University, addressed the class at the celebratory Match Day event. “At Weill Cornell Medicine, we talk about the tripartite mission of academic medicine — to care, discover and teach,” he said. “We are a medical college, and there is no more important part of our mission than to teach. And this is a special day in the world of education.”

A New Partnership for Cancer Research

Weill Cornell Medicine is now part of the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy’s (PICI) network of preeminent academic and medical research institutions at the forefront of cancer research. Under the agreement, Weill Cornell Medicine will establish a PICI immuno-oncology research center in New York co-directed by Dr. Jedd Wolchok, the Meyer Director of the Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center, and Dr. Taha Merghoub, Meyer Cancer Center deputy director.  

PICI funding will facilitate recruitment of world-class cancer immunology researchers; enable high-risk, high-reward cancer research studies; support training and development of the next generation of elite cancer clinician-researchers; and contribute to health equity and community outreach programs in the New York area.

New Division Chiefs

Adult cardiac surgeon Dr. Iosif Gulkarov, associate professor of clinical cardiothoracic surgery, has been appointed chief of cardiothoracic surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian Queens after serving as vice chief.

Hospitalist Dr. Maya Hogg has been appointed chief of medicine at NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital and vice chair in the Weill Department of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine.

A physician-scientist who specializes in heart regeneration, Dr. Bernhard Kühn has been named chief of the Division of Cardiology in the Department of Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian Komansky Children’s Hospital.

Dr. Jennie G. Ono, a leading pediatrician who focuses on inpatient care, newborn medicine and pediatric asthma, has been appointed chief of pediatrics at NewYork-Presbyterian Queens. She will continue to grow its pediatric primary care, subspecialty and inpatient programs, and increase access to high-quality, comprehensive pediatric care for patients and their families in the borough.

Dr. Juan Pascual, a leading pediatric neurologist, has been appointed chief of the Division of Child Neurology in the Department of Pediatrics at NewYork-Presbyterian Komansky Children’s Hospital and Weill Cornell Medicine. He  will oversee the child and neonatal neurology divisions with a focus on increasing access to high-quality care, expanding scientific research, and recruiting and developing faculty, clinicians and researchers.