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NEWS

Boosting Variety in Scientific Trials
When Desirée Walker was identified with breast most cancers, she joined the Herbert Irving Complete Most cancers Heart’s affected person advocacy board as a voice for ladies of colour, advocating for higher range in medical trials by lowering obstacles and constructing neighborhood belief within the medical institution. Learn extra.

Feminine Athletes and Sports activities Accidents
Girls who play sports activities are at higher danger for damage than their male counterparts, and sports activities accidents are occurring to youthful and youthful sufferers. Columbia orthopedic surgeon Lauren Redler, MD, and Columbia obstetrician-gynecologist Tal Sarig-Meth, MD, share among the causes feminine athletes could also be at increased danger for damage and provide prevention and administration methods. Learn extra.

A Profitable Transplant Affected person, 20 Years Later
When Ethan Glaser wanted a liver transplant as a toddler, his mother and father sought care from the specialists at NewYork-Presbyterian/CUIMC and his father, Chad, stepped as much as turn out to be his dwelling donor. Twenty years later, Ethan is flourishing. Learn extra.

Mailman Survey Reveals Impression of Mentorship
A Mailman Faculty of Public Well being research based mostly on surveys from college students within the Mentoring of College students and Igniting Neighborhood (MOSAIC) program discovered that mentorship for BIPOC and first-generation college students can enhance their experiences and should assist them meet their academic {and professional} targets. Learn extra.

What to Know About Children’ Summer time Pores and skin Care
Summer time is the time for publicity to issues that makes children’ pores and skin itch, sting, and burn, like solar, salt, chlorine, sweat, bugs, and vegetation. Christine Lauren, MD, a Columbia pediatric dermatologist, discusses the very best sunscreen for youths and extra. Learn extra.

EVENTS

Request for Nominations: Mentor of the Yr Award
Aug. 3, on-line
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ColumbiaDoctors Outreach With Dentistry and Youngsters’s Well being
Aug. 8, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Haven Plaza, Haven Avenue between Fort Washington Avenue and 169 Road
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Our Well being at 1.5 Levels and Past
Aug. 11, 11:15 a.m., Black Constructing, 650 W. 168 St., Room 16-419
Register right here.

ColumbiaDoctors Outreach With Dentistry and Radiology
Aug. 15, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Haven Plaza, Haven Avenue between Fort Washington Avenue and 169 Road
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GRANTS

COLLEGE OF DENTAL MEDICINE

Ellen Spilker: $1,646,821 over one yr from the Well being Assets and Providers Administration for “HPSL – Dentistry.”

MAILMAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Jessica Justman, MD, ICAP: $342,734 over three years for a subaward from the Nationwide Institute of Allergy and Infectious Ailments for “Utilizing geospatial science to maximise the chance to entry ART in Africa.”

VAGELOS COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS

Donna Farber, PhD, Microbiology & Immunology: $729,588 over three years for a subaward from the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Belief for “Human Atlas of Neonatal Growth and Early Life-Immunity (HANDEL-I).”

Pamela Good, MD, Pediatrics: $663,324 over 4 years from the Nationwide Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Ailments for “Mobile and Molecular Response to Gentamicin-Induced Damage in Underdeveloped Kidneys.”

Jose Luchsinger, MD, Drugs: $649,000 over 5 years for a subaward from the Nationwide Institute on Growing old for “Section II randomized managed trial of benfotiamine in early Alzheimer’s Illness.”

Alexander Sobolevsky, PhD, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics: $2,302,505 over 5 years from the Nationwide Most cancers Institute for “Construction and performance of Transient Receptor Potential channels.”

Mary Sublette, MD, PhD, Psychiatry: $620,020 over 5 years for a subaward from the Nationwide Institute of Psychological Well being for “Dietary deficiency and dopamine: A neurodevelopmental research of hunger results in adolescent anorexia nervosa.”

Stavros Thomopoulos, PhD, Orthopedic Surgical procedure: $2,513,675 over 5 years from the Nationwide Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Pores and skin Ailments for “Biomimetic approaches for enthesis tissue engineering.”

HONORS

MAILMAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Kara E. Rudolph, PhD, Epidemiology, received the 2023 Rothman Epidemiology Prize for the very best article printed within the journal Epidemiology

Silvia Martins, MD, PhD, Epidemiology, was elected as a senior board member for IAPHS.

SCHOOL OF NURSING

Ashley Graham-Perel, EdD, has been named a Nationwide Black Nurses Affiliation 2023 Beneath 40 awardee.

VAGELOS COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS

Pavi Guttipatti obtained the Glorney-Raisbeck Medical Scholar Grant in Cardiovascular Analysis from the New York Academy of Drugs.

SOCIAL MEDIA SNAPSHOT

IN THE NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

The New York Instances
For Adults With No Coronary heart Assault or Stroke Historical past, Proof Says To not Begin Child Aspirin
Jul 26, 2023 – Dr. Joshua Willey, an affiliate professor of neurology and a stroke specialist on the Columbia College Vagelos School of Physicians and Surgeons, stated the risk-benefit calculation would additionally differ for every affected person, relying on how lengthy they’d been on aspirin and why their physician really helpful the capsule within the first place.

CNN On-line
With Local weather Change, Well being Care Suppliers Ought to Be Extra Aware of Warmth-Associated Sickness, Docs Say
Jul 27, 2023 – Warmth stroke is just not an precise stroke. It’s when the physique rapidly overheats and might not use its standard methods like sweat to chill itself down. Suppliers want to chill the individual rapidly, ideally throughout the first half-hour of signs. Usually, although, with out an alert system like they may have for normal stroke, emergency room staffers are scrambling to assist these sufferers, in line with Dr. Cecilia Sorensen, an emergency room physician who’s director of the World Consortium on Local weather and Well being Training at Columbia College.

Fortune
How Late within the Day Can You Drink Espresso? What Time You Can Have Your Final Cup and Nonetheless Fall Asleep at Night time
Jul 25, 2023 – The half-life for caffeine is roughly 4 to 6 hours, which implies half of the dosage of caffeine continues to be in your system 4 to 6 hours after consumption. Nevertheless, some folks turn out to be extra delicate to caffeine as they become old and might have greater than eight hours to course of caffeine, in line with Dr. Marie-Pierre St-Onge, an affiliate professor of dietary drugs at Columbia College Irving Medical Heart.