CUIMC Update - September 25, 2024

September 25, 2024

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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 State of School, Monday at 4 p.m.
All VP&S faculty, students, and staff are invited to attend the 2024 State of the School Monday at 4 p.m., presented by Katrina Armstrong, interim president of Columbia University, and James McKiernan, interim dean of VP&S. They will update the VP&S community on the school’s present and future strategic initiatives. In-person and virtual attendance is available.

Haven Plaza Event Taps into Young Students’ Scientific Curiosity
At the Curious Minds Science Zone, more than 1,280 elementary students from schools in Washington Heights had fun while learning about science and medicine from dozens of medical center volunteers.

Mailman Researchers Win Lasker Award
The 2024 Lasker-Bloomberg Public Service Award recognizes Mailman School of Public Health researchers Quarraisha Abdool Karim and Salim S. Abdool Karim for global contributions to the fight against HIV/AIDS.

Complete the 2024 Well-Being Survey
You are invited to complete the 2024 Well-Being Survey, a brief, anonymous survey open to all employees of CUIMC’s four schools and central administration. Anyone who completes the survey can enter for a chance to a win a complimentary prix-fixe lunch at the Faculty Club or a gift card for $25.

Columbia Announces 2024 Horwitz Prize Winners
The 2024 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize winners are Scott Emr and Wesley Sundquist for discovering the ESCRT (Endosomal Sorting Complexes Required for Transport) pathway and revealing how it works. 

Events

Grants

Mailman School of Public Health

  • Julie Franks, ICAP
    $410,000 over three years from the Clinton Health Access Initiative for "Strengthening the HIV Response with Precision Prevention (SHARP)."
  • Yuanjia Wang, Biostatistics
    $608,320 over four years for a subaward from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for "Statistical and Machine Learning Methods to Improve Dynamic Treatment Regimens Estimation Using Real World Data."

School of Nursing

  • Lusine Poghosyan
    $3,473,008 over five years from the National Institute on Aging for "Social Networks in Nurse Practitioner Teams Caring for Patients with Dementia and Impact on Racial and Ethnic Disparities."

Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

  • Jeremy Beitler, Medicine
    $3,040,313 over seven years for a subaward from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for "1/2 PREcision VENTilation to attenuate Ventilation-Induced Lung Injury (PREVENT VILI)."
  • Peter Canoll, Pathology & Cell Biology
    $2,477,676 over five years for a subaward from the National Cancer Institute for "Mathematical Oncology Systems Analysis Imaging Center (MOSAIC)."
  • Lei Ding, Rehabilitation & Regenerative Medicine
    $509,860 over three years for a subaward from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for "Developing Next Generation Genetics for Understanding Hematopoietic Stem Cell Biology."
  • Uma Reddy, Obstetrics & Gynecology
    $253,331 over three years for a subaward from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for "Arterial Stiffness and Wave Reflection: Physiological Contributors to CVD After Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes."
  • Tarjinder Singh, Psychiatry
    $290,079 over three years for a subaward from BD² for "Delineating causal mechanisms of bipolar disorder using scalable multiomic profiling and genome engineering in patient-derived neuron models."

Honors

Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

Social Media Snapshot

Columbia Nursing | Today, #ColumbiaNursing honored our first-year DNP students with their white coats. 🥼

In the News Highlights

  • Well+Being: Keeping Our Brains Healthy as We Age
    Sep 17, 2024
    The Washington Post (video)
    "Depression is something that affects about 20 percent of elderly people. And depression itself can lead to cognitive decline... it interferes with our ability to think," said Robert Klitzman in a video interview.
    Robert Klitzman is a professor of psychiatry at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
  • The Challenges Hospitals Face
    Sep 13, 2024
    Politico
    “Medications have the potential to reduce suffering, alleviate symptoms, prevent serious events, and help people live longer and healthier lives,” Gary Miller, the project’s principal investigator and professor of environmental health sciences at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, said in a statement.
  • What Not to Ask ChatGPT for Help With
    Sep 16, 2024
    Newsweek
    "These responses are textbook 101 for effective therapy: empathize with what the patient may be feeling, validate and normalize the problem, and support good judgment," said Daniel Kimmel, assistant professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University's Department of Psychiatry. However, Kimmel said it was missing the human element beyond understanding what a patient is saying to what isn't being said and needs to be teased out, a "process [that] requires an act of creativity, of imagination."