CUIMC Update - December 14, 2022
CUIMC Update is a weekly e-newsletter featuring medical center news and the accomplishments of our faculty, staff, and trainees. Please send your news, honors, and awards to cuimc_update@cumc.columbia.edu. Grants are provided by the Sponsored Projects Administration office.
NEWS
VP&S-Bassett Partnership Strengthens Clinical Care and Training
The partnership between VP&S and Bassett Medical Center in Cooperstown, New York, includes clinical clerkships for medical students, residency opportunities, and the use of digital technology to increase access to cardiovascular care in rural areas. Learn more.
NFL Raises Voices of Columbia Heart Transplant Patients
After Sam Prince received a heart transplant at Columbia at age 8, he’s been working to increase the number of people who register to donate organs. He has raised awareness through fundraising, outreach, and his relationship with the New York Giants. NFL Media recently profiled Sam and another Columbia heart transplant patient after the two were connected by Columbia pediatric transplant cardiologists Drs. Warren Zuckerman and Marc Richmond. Read more and watch the video.
Health Questions to Ask Your Family Over the Holidays
Knowing your family medical history gives you and your doctor a better sense of your health and can help you manage or prevent risks on the horizon, according to Columbia University medical geneticist Wendy Chung, MD, PhD. Read more.
Noémie Elhadad Appointed Chair of Department of Biomedical Informatics
Noémie Elhadad, PhD, associate professor of biomedical informatics at VP&S, will assume her role as chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics on Jan. 1. Read more.
CopeColumbia: The State Of Our Sleep And Strategies For Improving Sleep Quality
Join CopeColumbia for an expert panel discussion tomorrow at noon on the science of sleep, the state of sleep for health care workers, and what you can do about it. The discussion will address the impact of sleep on your health and offer practical strategies for improving sleep quality. Learn more and register.
EVENTS
Flip the Script: Disrupt Interruption & Build Belonging at CUIMC
Dec. 15, 12 p.m., online
Register here.
Chanukah Menorah Lighting
Dec. 19, 5 p.m., Haven Plaza, Haven Avenue between Fort Washington Avenue and 169th Street
Learn more.
Algorithmic Bias and Machine Learning in Health Care
Jan. 12, 2023, 4 p.m., online
Register here.
Data Science for Public Health Summit
Jan. 13, 2023, 8 a.m., Vagelos Education Center, 104 Haven Avenue, Room 401
Register here.
GRANTS
VAGELOS COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS
Dritan Agalliu, PhD, Neurology: $2,254,674 over five years from the National Eye Institute for "Neuronal Regulation of Vascular Development and Maturation in the Retina."
Remi Creusot, PhD, Medicine: $360,819 over one year from the Office of the NIH Director for "Five-laser Aurora spectral flow cytometer."
Donna Farber, PhD, Microbiology & Immunology: $11,717,740 over five years from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for "Human anti-viral immune responses in tissues and circulation."
Nahdia Jones, PhD, Medicine: $253,872 over four years from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for "Identification of High Fat Diet Induced Modulations of the Gut-Brain Pathways."
Rudolph Leibel, MD, Medicine; Dympna Gallagher, EdD, Medicine; and Laurel Mayer, MD, Psychiatry: $5,008,733 over four years from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for "Predictors of Recidivism to Obesity in Weight-Reduced Individuals."
Kenneth Olive, PhD, Medicine: $2,033,360 over five years from the National Cancer Institute for "Targeting cysteine import to induce ferroptotic cell death in pancreatic cancer."
Liza Pon, PhD, Pathology & Cell Biology: $2,640,000 over five years from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for "Mitochondrial inheritance and quality control."
Alice Prince, MD, Pediatrics: $336,000 over two years from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation for "CFTR modulator/potentiator therapy and susceptibility to S. aureus infection."
Uma Reddy, MD, and Ronald Wapner, MD, Obstetrics & Gynecology: $397,223 over five years for a subaward from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for "Pregnancy as a Window to the Future: Outcomes of Antihypertensive Therapy and Superimposed Preeclampsia in Pregnant Women with Mild Chronic Hypertension (CHAP Maternal Follow-up Study)."
Elizabeth C. Verna, MD, Medicine: $277,558 over four years for a subaward from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for "Blood Pressure as a Modifiable Risk Factor for Cardiovascular Events in Liver Transplant Recipients."
HONORS
CUIMC
The Columbia University Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research has recognized several CUIMC faculty members as Mentors of the Year. Delivette Castor, PhD, Medicine, received the Junior Mentor of the Year Award, and Rebecca Schnall, PhD, Nursing; Jennifer J. Manly, PhD, Neurology; and Cristiane S. Duarte, PhD, Psychiatry, all received Senior Mentor of the Year Awards.
Stephanie Lovinksy Desir, MD, Pediatrics in VP&S, and Virginia Rauh, ScD, Population and Family Health in Mailman, have been appointed to the EPA Children's Health Protection Advisory Committee for 2023-2026.
A study led by Columbia Psychiatry and Mailman School of Public Health researchers was selected as winner of the 2023 European Psychiatric Association’s Research Prize for the best scientific paper of the year. Co-authors include Melanie Wall, PhD; Lisa Dixon, MD; Roberto Lewis-Fernandez, MD; Ezra Susser, MD, DrPH; and Michael Compton, MD.
VAGELOS COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS
Sylvan Ryder, APRN, Pediatrics, has been selected for a fellowship by Zero to Three.
Benjamin Mantell, MD, PhD, Pediatrics, received the Colin Molloy Award from Colin’s Kids. Pediatric cardioogy fellows Stephen Bravo, MD; Sophie Hsein, MD; and William Patten, MD, also received the Andrew King Awards. Read more.
SOCIAL MEDIA SNAPSHOT
IN THE NEWS
Good Morning America Online (with embedded videos)
I'm a Pediatrician and a Mom: These Are the Precautions I'm Taking Amid the 'Tripledemic' of Flu, RSV, and COVID-19
Dec 6, 2022 - Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez is a pediatrician at Columbia University in New York and the mother of a 14-month-old son who had to be taken to the hospital earlier this year to be treated for pneumonia after having a viral illness. "It was really, really scary," Bracho-Sanchez told "Good Morning America" of her son William's illness, from which he eventually recovered.
TODAY Online
Flu Shot Rates Are Lagging in the Pregnant Population. Here's Why This Is Dangerous
Dec 7, 2022 - Dr. Noelia Zork suspects part of the explanation may be vaccination fatigue. But with flu cases skyrocketing, it’s important to get vaccinated if you're pregnant for a number of reasons, says Zork, a high-risk obstetrician and an assistant clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center. “Flu causes more severe disease in pregnant people,” Zork tells TODAY.com.
CBS 4 New Orleans (embedded video)
Pandemic May Have Increased Likelihood of Early Puberty Among Children
Dec 5, 2022 - “What we saw during the pandemic was a much more rapid advancement of puberty, and onset of puberty than we've seen,” Dr. Aviva Sopher, associate professor of pediatrics at Columbia University in New York, said.