A clean room is a very good option for people at high risk from exposure to polluted air, says Stephanie Lovinsky-Desir, director of pediatric pulmonology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
At the student-run Q Clinic, Columbia medical students provide free health care for underinsured LGBTQ+ people and prioritize developing personal relationships with each patient.
Christopher Tedeschi, emergency medicine physician at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University, talks about the health implications when the air is this smoky.
Columbia stem cell researchers opened up their labs for one day to dozens of 8th to 10th grade girls to inspire the next generation of female scientists.
Rita Charon founded this influential program, which is now practiced widely in the United States and abroad, at Columbia University's Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.
In a field that relies heavily on studies of male patients, Columbia interventional cardiologist Margaret McEntegart is working to improve outcomes for women with heart disease.
“She was the first person I ever saw as a patient,” said Sander Markx, director of precision psychiatry at Columbia University, who was still a medical student in 2000 when he first encountered April.
The Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia began hosting a donor gratitude ceremony in the late 1970s, said Paulette Bernd, who runs the school’s clinical gross anatomy course.
