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Weill Cornell Medicine

The Joan & Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University [5] (/waɪl/) is Cornell University's biomedical research unit and medical school in New York City.

Former names

Cornell University Medical College, Weill Cornell Medical College

Private medical school

1898 (1898) (as Cornell University Medical College)[1]

Cornell University

NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center
Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar

Dr. Robert A. Harrington[2]

1,814[3]

414[4]

1300 York Avenue, New York City, U.S.

40°45′52.38″N 73°57′14.93″W / 40.7645500°N 73.9541472°W / 40.7645500; -73.9541472

weill.cornell.edu

The school and associated research organization is affiliated with several hospitals and medical centers including NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical Center, Hospital for Special Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Rockefeller University, all of which are located on or near York Avenue and Sutton Place.[1] Weill Cornell has also been affiliated with Houston Methodist Hospital since 2004.[1]


In 1991, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Rockefeller University joined Weill Cornell to establish the Tri-Institutional MD–PhD Program.[1] In 2001, the school opened a campus in Qatar.[6]

pediatric cardiologist

Iqbal Mahmoud Al Assad

creator of the Atkins Diet

Robert Atkins

professor of psychiatric neuroscience

Hilary Blumberg

physician and scientist

Carlos Cordon-Cardo

physician and testicular cancer researcher

John P. Donohue

cardiac surgeon and coronary revascularization expert

Mario Gaudino

former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease[19]

Anthony Fauci

psychotherapist; author; former Johns Hopkins University Medical School professor; founder or dutytowarn.org PAC

John Gartner

inventor of the cardiac artificial pacemaker

Wilson Greatbatch

physician and journalist

Iser Ginzburg

physician and former U.S. Representative

Nan Hayworth

physician and namesake of the Heimlich maneuver

Henry Heimlich

oncologist, lung cancer researcher, and academic at Yale Cancer Center and Yale School of Medicine

Roy S. Herbst

surgeon and writer

Richard Hooker

scientist, pediatrician, advocate in the fields of global health and vaccinology

Peter Hotez

pediatrician

John Howland

former astronaut

Mae C. Jemison

former Surgeon General

C. Everett Koop

scientist and HIV/AIDS researcher

Bonnie Mathieson

scientist and HIV/AIDS researcher

Alton Meister

president of Brigham and Women's Hospital

Elizabeth Nabel

cancer researcher at the Dan-Farber Cancer Institute

Utthara Nayar

former United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs

James Peake

endocrinologist at the National Institutes of Health

Jacob Robbins

medical missionary in India

Ida S. Scudder

(see below)

Ruth Westheimer

Meyer Director and Professor of Cancer Biology at the Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center at Weill Cornell Medicine

Lewis C. Cantley

professor of cardiothoracic surgery, principal investigator of the ROMA trial, a multinational trial of radial artery grafting in CABG

Mario Gaudino

cardiologist and dean emeritus

Antonio Gotto

obstetrician and gynecologist

Amos Grunebaum

dean emeritus, Professor and Professor of Pathology and Biochemistry, and the Frank Rhodes Distinguished Professor of Cardiovascular Biology and Genetics

David P. Hajjar

Richard P. Cohen, M.D. Professor of Medical Education and the senior associate dean for education

Yoon Kang

Professor of Medicine, founder of the Tropical Medicine Unit, chief of the Parasitology Laboratory at New York Hospital, and personal physician to the Shah of Iran, whose health and treatment was a factor in the Iran Hostage Crisis[20]

Ben Kean

psychiatrist

Otto F. Kernberg

Professor of Psychiatry and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and inaugural Jimmie C. Holland Chair in Psychiatric Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

David Kissane

cardiologist, the Hilda Altschul Master Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, and Chief of the Division of Cardiology and Director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratory at Weill Cornell Medicine and the New York Presbyterian Hospital

Bruce Lerman

Lewis Atterbury Stimson Professor and Chairman of the Department of Surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine

Fabrizio Michelassi

virologist and professor at Weill Cornell Medicine[21]

John P. Moore

Former professor of clinical anatomy at Cornell University Medical College, inventor of the Pap test[22]

Georgios Papanikolaou

professor, administrator, scientist, and the Burke Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medicine[23]

Rajiv Ratan

surgeon, medical researcher and Clinical Director of Urologic Oncology at Weill Cornell Medicine[24]

Douglas Scherr

Nobel Prize-winning scientist and the Lewis Thomas University Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine[25]

Harold E. Varmus

Professor and Chief, Laryngology and Voice Disorders[26]

Radu Lucian Sulica

(born Karola Siegel, 1928; known as "Dr. Ruth"), German American sex therapist, talk show host, author, professor, Holocaust survivor, and former Haganah sniper

Ruth Westheimer

List of Ivy League medical schools

Tri-Institutional MD–PhD Program

Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences

Gotto, Antonio M. et al. eds. Weill Cornell Medicine : A History of Cornell's Medical School (Cornell University Press, 2016) ; also see online book review

online

Gotto, Antonio M., and Jennifer Moon. "Walter Niles and the Cornell Pay Clinic." Transactions of the American Clinical and Climatological Association 128 (2017): 243+.

online

Official website