Obstetrics & Gynecology

News and Events

Programs and providers of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Weill Cornell Medicine are often the focus of news stories and features appearing in major national media. We invite you to review some stories that typify the breakthrough accomplishments of our remarkable team and highlight the impact our care has had on patient’s lives.

Grant Supports Studies to Improve and Personalize Bipolar Care

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A three-year, $4.5 million grant from BD²: Breakthrough Discoveries for thriving with Bipolar Disorder to Weill Cornell Medicine investigators, in collaboration with Stanford Medicine, will support a three-pronged research project to map the brain circuits that contribute to mood shifts in bipolar disorder and help develop personalized therapies for the condition.

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Dr. Charles Lynch

BD² is a $100+ million initiative dedicated to funding and advancing research to improve the lives of people living with bipolar disorder.

19th Annual Chanel Awards

On October 23rd, Dr. Allison Boester and Dr. Inna Landres were honored with the CHANEL Award for Excellence in Obstetrics and Gynecology. The award was presented at the 19th annual award event led by CHANEL and NewYork-Presbyterian.

Dr. Boester, an obstetrician-gynecologist, has served on our faculty for 20 years, and Dr. Landres, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist, has been part of our faculty for 10 years. Both are outstanding clinicians, educators, and leaders who exemplify excellence in women's health at Weill Cornell Medicine.

Recent recipients:

2024 Melissa Frey, MD, and Corrina Oxford-Horrey, MD

2023 Eloise Chapman-Davis, MD

2022 Yelena Havryliuk, MD, and Sidney Wu, MD

Past years' recipients:

2016 Patricia Yarberry-Allen, MD and Steven Hockstein, MD

2015 J. Milton Hutson, MD and Robin B. Kalish, MD

More Exposure to Mother’s Voice After Birth May Prevent Preemies’ Language Delays

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Among preterm newborns, greater exposure to the mother’s voice after birth appeared to speed up the maturation of a key language-related brain circuit, in a small clinical trial conducted by investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine, Burke Neurological Institute and Stanford Medicine. The finding provides direct experimental support for the idea that a mother’s voice promotes her child’s early language-related brain development. It also hints that boosting exposure to maternal speech might ameliorate the language development delays often seen among children born prematurely.

The study, published Oct. 14 in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, included 46 preterm infants who were born at just 24 to 31 weeks gestational age. Half received routine exposure to the mother’s voice, while the other half had routine exposure augmented with multiple daily audio recordings of the mother’s voice. Later MRI scans of the infants’ brains suggested significantly greater maturation in the left arcuate fasciculus, a brain circuit known to be involved in speech and language processing.

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