Video of White Coat Ceremony Highlights 2026 | Weill Cornell Medicine
When Kiran Abraham-Aggarwal started his undergraduate studies at Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR), he assumed it would lead to a career in economic development or perhaps law, like many of his classmates. With an interest in advocacy and policy reform, these disciplines felt like a fit. But then, in his sophomore year, he attended his parents’ class reunion at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. Included on the schedule was a tour of the anatomy lab and an opportunity to view a cadaver—a person affected by black lung disease. Abraham-Aggarwal studied the condition in one of his ILR classes, learning about coal miners in West Virginia, but seeing it up close changed his whole perspective.
