Weill Cornell Medicine

{{Short description|Medical school of Cornell University}} {{About|the medical school|the hospital|Weill Cornell Medical Center|the graduate school for biomedical science|Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox university | name = Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image = Weill Cornell Medicine at 1300 York Avenue NYC.jpg | image_upright = | image_alt = | caption = The York Avenue entrance to Weill Cornell Medicine in December 2021 | latin_name = | other_name = | former_names = Cornell University Medical College, Weill Cornell Medical College | motto = | motto_lang = | mottoeng = | top_free_label = | top_free = | type = Private medical school | established = {{start date|1898}} (as Cornell University Medical College)<ref name=ourstory>{{cite web |url=https://weill.cornell.edu/our-story/about-weill-cornell-medicine/history |title=History |publisher=Weill Cornell Medicine |access-date=May 20, 2019}}</ref> | closed =  | founder = | parent = Cornell University | affiliation = NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center<br>Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar | academic_affiliation = | endowment = | budget = | dean = Robert A. Harrington<ref>{{cite web | url=https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2023/06/dr-robert-harrington-named-dean-weill-cornell-medicine | title=Dr. Robert Harrington named dean of Weill Cornell Medicine }}</ref> | academic_staff = | administrative_staff = | students = 414<ref name="usnews">{{Cite web |date=2023 |title=2023-2024 Best Medical Schools: Research |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-medical-schools/research-rankings |access-date=Nov 25, 2023 |website=U.S. News & World Report}}</ref> | faculty = 1,814<ref name=faculty>{{cite web |url=https://faculty.weill.cornell.edu/about-us/about-our-faculty |title=About our Faculty |publisher=Weill Cornell Medicine |access-date=May 20, 2019}}</ref> | other = | city = 1300 York Avenue, New York City, U.S. | state = | country = | postcode =  | coordinates = {{coord|40|45|52.38|N|73|57|14.93|W|region:US|display=inline,title}} | campus = | language = | free_label = | free = | free_label2 = | free2 = | colors =  | athletics = | sports = | athletics_nickname =  | sporting_affiliations = | mascot =  | sports_free_label = | sports_free = | sports_free_label2 = | sports_free2 = | website = {{URL|weill.cornell.edu}} | logo = Weill Cornell Medicine logo.png | logo_size = | logo_alt = | footnotes = }}

'''Weill Cornell Medicine''' ({{IPAc-en|w|aɪ|l}}; officially '''Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University<ref name=":1" />'''), originally '''Cornell University Medical College''', is the medical school of Cornell University, located on the Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, New York, United States.

The school and its 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.<ref name="ourstory" /> Since 2004, Weill Cornell has also been affiliated with Houston Methodist Hospital.<ref name="ourstory" />

In 1991, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Rockefeller University joined Weill Cornell to establish the Tri-Institutional MD–PhD Program.<ref name="ourstory" /> In 2001, the school opened the Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, a medical school in Qatar. ==History== ===19th century=== {{see also|History of Cornell University#Medical education}} {{Multiple image | header = Weill Cornell Medicine | align = right | direction = | total_width = 250 | perrow = 1/1 | image1= Weill Cornell Medicine (48064045073).jpg | caption1 = Weill Cornell Medicine's facade on the East River | image2 = Cornell - Stimson Hall 1910.jpg | caption2 = Cornell Medical College's Stimson Hall on the main campus in Ithaca in 1910 }} The Cornell Medical College was founded on April 14, 1898, with an endowment by Col. Oliver H. Payne. The college was established in New York City because Ithaca, where the Cornell main campus is located, was deemed too small to offer adequate clinical training opportunities. James Ewing was the first professor of clinical pathology at the school, and for a while the only full-time professor.<ref name=BrandBio>{{cite journal |last1=Brand |first1=RA |title=Biographical sketch: James Stephen Ewing, MD (1844-1943). |journal=Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research |date=March 2012 |volume=470 |issue=3 |pages=639–41 |doi=10.1007/s11999-011-2234-y |pmid=22207564 |pmc=3270161}}</ref><ref name=NASbio>James B. Murphy [http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/ewing-james.pdf James Ewing Biographical Memoir] National Academy of Sciences Washington D.C., 1951.</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Register|date=1915|publisher=Cornell University|page=110|edition=Volumes 15-18}}</ref>

===20th century=== The college founded the medical fraternity, Phi Delta Epsilon, on October 13, 1904.<ref>{{Cite web |title=History |url=https://phide.org/PhiDEPublic/PhiDEPublic/History.aspx |access-date=2024-04-08 |website=phide.org |language=en}}</ref>

A branch of the medical school operated in Stimson Hall on the main campus. The two-year Ithaca course paralleled the first two years of the New York school. The Ithaca location closed in 1938 due to declining enrollment.

The school became affiliated with New York Hospital, now NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital, in 1913.<ref name=ourstory/> The institutions opened a joint hospital-educational campus in Yorkville in 1932.<ref name=ourstory/>

In 1927, William Payne Whitney's $27 million donation led to the building of the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic, which became the name for Cornell's large psychiatric effort. Its Training School for Nurses became affiliated with the university in 1942, operating as the Cornell Nursing School until it closed in 1979.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1979-05-24 |title=Last Class Leaves Cornell Nursing School (Published 1979) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/05/24/archives/last-class-leaves-cornell-nursing-school-sorrow-for-its-passing.html |access-date=2025-07-29 |language=en}}</ref>

In 1936, the Swiss professor and psychiatrist Oskar Diethelm<ref>{{cite journal | url= | first = Henry R. | last = Rollin | title = Demonic Possession—the Psychiatry of the Past | journal = Br Med J | date = May 27, 1972 | volume = 2 | issue = 5812 | page = 539 | doi = 10.1136/bmj.2.5812.539 | oclc = 677166716 | pmc = 1788353}}</ref> contributed a collection of more than 10,000 titles related to the history of psychiatry, helping to build up the Oskar Diethelm Historical Library.<ref>{{cite book | url = https://archive.org/details/cornelluniversit1970corn/page/n13/mode/2up| title = Cornell University Medical College Announcement | year = 1970 | publisher = Cornell University | page = 12 | archive-url = https://archive.today/20201030151945/https://archive.org/stream/cornelluniversit1970corn/cornelluniversit1970corn_djvu.txt | archive-date = October 30, 2020 | url-status = live}} at the Internet Archive.</ref> <ref>{{cite journal | title = Medical Dissertations of Psychiatric Interest Printed before 1750 | first = Richard |last= Hunter | journal = Med. Hist. | doi = 10.1017/S0025727300017907 | date = July 1, 1972 | volume =16 | issue = 3 | page = 30 | pmc = 1034996 | oclc = 679362370| issn = 0025-7273 }}</ref>

The Cornell University Medical College was renamed the "'''Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University'''" after then-Citigroup chairman Sanford I. Weill pledged a $100 million donation to Cornell University for its biomedical research in 1998.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Arenson |first=Karen W. |date=1998-05-01 |title=$100 Million Donation Set For Cornell Medical School |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/01/nyregion/100-million-donation-set-for-cornell-medical-school.html |access-date=2024-05-21 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

===21st century=== In 2015, the school was renamed '''Weill Cornell Medicine'''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-10-07 |title=Weill Cornell Medical College Rebrands - The Cornell Daily Sun |url=https://cornellsun.com/2015/10/06/weill-cornell-medical-college-rebrands-reemphasizes-discovery-teaching-patient-care/,%20https://cornellsun.com/2015/10/06/weill-cornell-medical-college-rebrands-reemphasizes-discovery-teaching-patient-care/ |access-date=2024-04-08 |website=cornellsun.com |language=en-US}}</ref>

On September 16, 2019, Augustine M.K. Choi announced Weill Cornell Medicine would make the cost of attendance free for all students who qualify for financial aid, made possible by a $160 million gift from The Starr Foundation, directed by Weill Cornell Medicine overseer Maurice R. Greenberg, in partnership with gifts from Joan and Board of Overseers Chairman Emeritus Sanford I. Weill.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Hassan |first=Adeel |date=2019-09-16 |title=Cornell's Medical School Offers Full Rides in Battle Over Student Debt |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/16/us/weill-cornell-free.html |access-date=2023-01-25 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

In March 2024, Augustine M.K. Choi, professor and former Dean of Weill Cornell Medicine, was accused of altering data for two decades in his research on animals.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cefola |first=Marisa |date=20 March 2024 |title=Former Weill Cornell Medicine Dean Allegedly Faked Data for Two Decades — Now PETA Is Going After Him |url=https://cornellsun.com/2024/03/20/former-weill-cornell-medicine-dean-allegedly-faked-data-for-two-decades-now-peta-is-going-after-him/,%20https://cornellsun.com/2024/03/20/former-weill-cornell-medicine-dean-allegedly-faked-data-for-two-decades-now-peta-is-going-after-him/ |access-date=2024-04-17 |website=The Cornell Daily Sun |language=en-US}}</ref>

==Notable alumni== {{Further|List of Cornell University alumni}} [[File:White House Coronavirus Update Briefing (49809803361).jpg|thumb|Anthony Fauci, a 1966 Weill Cornell Medicine alumnus<ref name="Rosenbaum" />]] [[File:Nabel in her lab at the NHLBI.jpg|thumb|Elizabeth Nabel, a 1981 Well Cornell Medicine alumnus]] *Iqbal Mahmoud Al Assad, pediatric cardiologist *Robert Atkins, creator of the Atkins Diet *Hilary Blumberg, professor of psychiatric neuroscience *Carlos Cordon-Cardo, physician and scientist *John P. Donohue, physician and testicular cancer researcher *Mario Gaudino, cardiac surgeon and coronary revascularization expert *Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease<ref name="Rosenbaum">{{cite news |last1=Rosenbaum |first1=Emma |title=How Cornell's Dr. Anthony Fauci Became America's Most Trusted Disease Expert |url=https://cornellsun.com/2020/03/23/how-dr-anthony-fauci-m-d-66-became-americas-most-trusted-disease-expert/ |access-date=2 August 2020 |publisher=The Cornell Daily Sun |date=23 March 2020}}</ref> *John Gartner, psychotherapist; author; former Johns Hopkins University Medical School professor; founder or dutytowarn.org PAC *Wilson Greatbatch, inventor of the cardiac artificial pacemaker *Iser Ginzburg, physician and journalist *Nan Hayworth, physician and former U.S. Representative *Henry Heimlich, physician and namesake of the Heimlich maneuver *Roy S. Herbst, oncologist, lung cancer researcher, and academic at Yale Cancer Center and Yale School of Medicine *Richard Hooker, surgeon and writer *Peter Hotez, scientist, pediatrician, advocate in the fields of global health and vaccinology *John Howland, pediatrician *Mae C. Jemison, former astronaut *Amy Kelley, geriatrician and palliative care specialist, deputy director of the National Institute on Aging *C. Everett Koop, former Surgeon General *Bonnie Mathieson, scientist and HIV/AIDS researcher *Alton Meister, scientist and HIV/AIDS researcher *Elizabeth Nabel, president of Brigham and Women's Hospital *Utthara Nayar, cancer researcher at the Dan-Farber Cancer Institute *James Peake, former United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs *Jacob Robbins, endocrinologist at the National Institutes of Health *Ida S. Scudder, medical missionary in India *Ruth Westheimer, sex therapist and talk show host

==Notable faculty== * David H. Abramson, ophthalmic surgeon * Jonathan Avery, addiction psychiatrist * Lewis C. Cantley, Meyer Director and Professor of Cancer Biology at the Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center at Weill Cornell Medicine * Olivier Elemento, Director of the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine * Mario Gaudino, professor of cardiothoracic surgery, principal investigator of the ROMA trial, a multinational trial of radial artery grafting in CABG * Antonio Gotto, cardiologist and dean emeritus * Amos Grunebaum, obstetrician and gynecologist * David P. Hajjar, dean emeritus, Professor and Professor of Pathology and Biochemistry, and the Frank Rhodes Distinguished Professor of Cardiovascular Biology and Genetics * Allan McLane Hamilton, Professor of Psychiatry at Cornell Medical College * Yoon Kang, Richard P. Cohen, M.D. Professor of Medical Education and the senior associate dean for education * Ben Kean, 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<ref>[https://library.weill.cornell.edu/sites/default/files/personal_papers/bkean.pdf] Benjamin H. Kean Papers, Weill Cornell Medical College</ref> * Otto F. Kernberg, psychiatrist * David Kissane, 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 * Bruce Lerman, 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 * Fabrizio Michelassi, Lewis Atterbury Stimson Professor and Chairman of the Department of Surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine * John P. Moore, virologist and professor at Weill Cornell Medicine<ref>{{Cite web |title=Moore, John P |url=https://vivo.weill.cornell.edu/display/cwid-jpm2003 |access-date=2024-06-06 |website=vivo.weill.cornell.edu}}</ref> * Georgios Papanikolaou, Former professor of clinical anatomy at Cornell University Medical College, inventor of the Pap test<ref>{{Cite web |title=George Papanicolaou: Biography {{!}} Weill Cornell Medicine Samuel J. Wood Library |url=https://library.weill.cornell.edu/archives-blog/george-papanicolaou-biography |access-date=2023-09-01 |website=library.weill.cornell.edu}}</ref> * Rajiv Ratan, professor, administrator, scientist, and the Burke Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medicine<ref>{{Cite web |title=A New Strategy for Protecting the Brain After Strokes |url=https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2019/05/a-new-strategy-for-protecting-the-brain-after-strokes |access-date=2024-06-06 |website=WCM Newsroom |language=en}}</ref> * Douglas Scherr, surgeon, medical researcher and Clinical Director of Urologic Oncology at Weill Cornell Medicine<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dr. Douglas Scherr, MD: Urologist - New York, NY |url=https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/provider/dr-douglas-scherr-1114014206 |access-date=2024-06-06 |website=Medical News Today |language=en}}</ref> * Harold E. Varmus, Nobel Prize-winning scientist and the Lewis Thomas University Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-08-06 |title=Harold E. Varmus, M.D. |url=https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/nih-almanac/harold-e-varmus-md |access-date=2024-06-06 |website=National Institutes of Health (NIH) |language=EN}}</ref> * Radu Lucian Sulica, Professor and Chief, Laryngology and Voice Disorders<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dr. Lucian Sulica, MD: Otolaryngologist - New York, NY |url=https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/provider/dr-radu-sulica-1750365441 |access-date=2024-06-06 |website=Medical News Today |language=en}}</ref> * Ruth Westheimer (born Karola Siegel, 1928; known as "Dr. Ruth"), German American sex therapist, talk show host, author, professor, Holocaust survivor, and former Haganah sniper

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Further reading==

* Gotto, Antonio M. et al. eds. ''Weill Cornell Medicine : A History of Cornell's Medical School'' (Cornell University Press, 2016) [https://books.google.com/books?id=Wu0_DwAAQBAJ&dq=Cornell+Medical+School&pg=PP1 online]; also see [https://muse.jhu.edu/article/665509 online book review] * Gotto, Antonio M., and Jennifer Moon. "Walter Niles and the Cornell Pay Clinic." ''Transactions of the American Clinical and Climatological Association'' 128 (2017): 243+. [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5525401/ online]

==External links== * [https://www.med.cornell.edu/ Official website]

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