CUIMC Replace is a weekly e-newsletter that includes medical heart information and the accomplishments of our college, workers, and trainees. Please ship your information, honors, and awards to [email protected]. Grants are offered by the Sponsored Tasks Administration workplace.

NEWS

Obligatory On-line Compliance Coaching
This morning you could have acquired an electronic mail from Sabacloud asking you to finish compliance coaching. To see what programs are assigned to you and full your coaching, log in together with your UNI and password to the College’s studying administration system (ELM) and click on on “My Studying Plan.” Be taught extra.

Methods to Journey with a Power Situation
Dwelling with a persistent situation could make journey appear daunting, however assets can be found to assist vacationers proceed medical care. Seth Feltheimer, MD, shares suggestions for planning your journey when you’ve a persistent situation. Learn extra.

Rally for Medical Analysis in Washington, D.C.
CUIMC Authorities & Neighborhood Affairs invitations you to take part within the 2023 Rally for Medical Analysis on Thursday, Sept. 14, in Washington, D.C., to induce Congress to supply sturdy, sustainable, and predictable will increase in NIH funding in 2024 and past. Register right here.

Charting the Harmful Energy of Hurricanes
As local weather change warms the oceans, hurricanes just like the one which fueled lethal wildfires in Maui are more and more widespread. A Mailman Faculty of Public Well being research analyzing hurricanes affecting america finds that almost all of associated deaths passed off lately in socially weak counties. Learn extra.

Why Do Your Palms Get Chilly?
When your fingers are at all times chilly, you would possibly assume it is due to poor circulation, however it may be an indication of a extra critical well being situation. Columbia vascular surgeon Nicholas Morrissey, MD, shares what you need to learn about chilly fingers. Learn extra.

EVENTS

Request for Purposes: TL1 Postdoctoral Fellow Program
Aug. 31, on-line
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Request for Purposes: Attain for the First R01 Workshop
Sept. 1, on-line
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ColumbiaDoctors Outreach With Nurse Practitioner Group
Sept. 5, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Haven Plaza, Haven Avenue between Fort Washington Avenue and 169 Avenue
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Honest Entry and Fairness of Individualized Interventions for Ultrarare Genetic Circumstances
Sept. 8, 12 p.m., on-line
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CUIMC Open Discussion board
Sept. 11, 8 a.m., Black Constructing, 650 W. 168 St., Alumni Auditorium
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Why is Group Science so Onerous? The Influence of Tutorial Tradition on Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Sept. 12, 4 p.m., on-line
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“Beneath the Belt: The Final Well being Taboo” Movie Screening & Panel
Sept. 14, 5:30 p.m., Black Constructing, 650 W. 168 St., Alumni Auditorium and Schaefer Awards Gallery
Register right here.

Bioethics in Movie: From Display to Seminar – “The Silent Youngster”
Sept. 19, 12 p.m., on-line
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GRANTS

MAILMAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Ruby Fayorsey, MD, ICAP: $1,140,548 over 5 years for a subaward from the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention for “Delivering Complete and Sustainable HIV/AIDS Scientific and Neighborhood Providers to Obtain HIV Epidemic Management in Subnational Models in Nigeria beneath the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Reduction (PEPFAR).”

Muhammad Parvez, DrPH, Environmental Well being Sciences: $2,157,462 over three years from the Nationwide Institute of Environmental Well being Sciences for “Developmental Publicity to Arsenic: Pneumonia, Immunity, and Microbiome (DEAPIM).”

VAGELOS COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS

Vivette Denise D’Agati, MD, Pathology & Cell Biology: $403,025 over 5 years for a subaward from the Nationwide Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Ailments for “The position of Vpr-mediated cell cycle dysregulation in HIV-associated kidney illness.”

George Hripcsak, MD, Biomedical Informatics: $551,048 over one yr for a subaward from the Workplace of the NIH Director for “All of Us Analysis Program Knowledge and Analysis Middle.”

Adam Mor, MD, PhD, and Robert Winchester, MD, Medication: $3,688,360 over 4 years from the Nationwide Institute of Allergy and Infectious Ailments for “A scientific strategy to uncover the essential mechanisms of checkpoint inhibitor immune associated antagonistic occasions.”

George Musa, PhD, Psychiatry: $572,018 over 5 years for a subaward from the Nationwide Institute of Psychological Well being for “Uncovering the Invisible Dangers for Suicide: Nationally Consultant Samples of Youth in Guyana.”

Reem Waziry, PhD, Neurology: $261,684 over two years from the Nationwide Institute on Growing older for “Organic Growing older, the Proteome, and Cognitive Resilience amongst Ischemic Stroke Survivors.”

Howard Worman, MD, Medication: $1,387,558 over 5 years for a subaward from the Nationwide Institute on Growing older for “Position for prelamin A in untimely and physiological getting older.”

HONORS

VAGELOS COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS

Yasmine El-Shamayleh, PhD, Neuroscience, and Vikram Gadagkar, PhD, Neuroscience, have been recipients of 2023 McKnight Scholar Awards.

Nina Yoh, MD, Neurosurgery, acquired the 2023 Conquer Most cancers’s Sontag Basis Younger Investigator Award.

SOCIAL MEDIA SNAPSHOT

IN THE NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

USA TODAY
Gender-Affirming Surgical procedures Almost Triple as States Enact Restrictions
Aug 23, 2023 – Dr. Jason D. Wright, the research’s lead creator and an affiliate professor of gynecologic oncology at Columbia College, stated the aim of the research was to get an correct depend on such operations at hospitals and outpatient surgical procedure facilities. “Extra sufferers have had entry to those procedures,” Wright stated. “Not solely are most of those procedures very protected from a complication standpoint, however they’re additionally related to favorable outcomes with comparatively excessive charges of affected person satisfaction.”

The New York Occasions
A First Look From NASA’s New Air Air pollution Satellite tv for pc
Aug 24, 2023 – One of many locations scientists are gathering knowledge at a granular native degree is New York Metropolis. “We’re hoping to have higher fashions and higher prediction on the road degree,” stated Yoshira Ornelas Van Horne, a professor of environmental well being at Columbia College and one other TEMPO collaborator.

Fox Information On-line
Look Who’s Experimenting With Marijuana At the moment Extra Than Any Different Age Group
Aug 19, 2023 – “For seniors, experimenting with marijuana for the primary time is pushed” by a number of components, Dr. Elie G. Aoun, habit and forensic psychiatrist at Columbia College in New York Metropolis, informed Fox Information Digital. These embody “a mixture of bodily illnesses, the elevated cultural acceptance of marijuana, and the advertising and marketing efforts aimed toward selling marijuana as a therapeutic agent,” added Aoun, who can also be a member of the American Psychiatric Affiliation board of trustees.