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.

New Strategy May Enable Cancer Monitoring from Blood Tests Alone

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A new, error-corrected method for detecting cancer from blood samples is much more sensitive and accurate than prior methods and may be useful for monitoring disease status in patients following treatment, according to a study by Weill Cornell Medicine and New York Genome Center investigators. The method, based on whole-genome sequencing of DNA, also represents an important step toward the goal of routine blood test-based screening for early cancer detection.

In the study, published Apr. 11 in Nature Methods, the researchers benchmarked the cancer-detection performance of a new commercial sequencing platform from Ultima Genomics. They demonstrated that a low-cost platform such as this one enables a very high “depth” of coverage—a measure of the sequencing data quality—allowing investigators to detect extremely low concentrations of circulating tumor DNA. Adding an error-correcting method greatly improved the accuracy of the technique.

Awards Recognize Diversity Champions Across Weill Cornell Medicine

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Weill Cornell Medicine’s Celebration of Diversity honored leaders who go beyond their official roles, dedicating time, energy and empathy to build inclusive environments. The ceremony, part of the institution’s seventh annual Diversity Week, was held April 7 in Griffis Faculty Club.

“This is one of the most important evenings of the year at Weill Cornell Medicine,” said  Dr. Robert A. Harrington, the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medicine in opening remarks. “We are here to recognize the people who tirelessly throughout the year make sure that we are a community that has as one of its core values a real commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, justice and belonging.”

Dr. Etingin Diversity Award

Left to right: Dr. Rache Simmons, Dr. Orli Etingin and Dr. Robert Harrington

Acknowledging Diversity Empowers Solutions for Society’s Pressing Problems

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Diversity is a tool for truth, not political agendas, said Vincent D. Rougeau,  president of the College of the Holy Cross, in his keynote address April 7 for Weill Cornell Medicine’s seventh annual Diversity Week. 

Rougeau delivered the Elizabeth A. Wilson-Anstey, EdD Lecture, “Why Commitment to Diversity Still Matters,” in Uris Auditorium as part of the annual celebration of Weill Cornell Medicine’s commitment to greater equity, diversity and inclusion in academic medicine and health care.    

“We’re living in a moment in which it feels rather fraught to acknowledge the things that we know are true,” said Rougeau, a lawyer who in 2021 became the first Black president of Holy Cross, the nation’s only undergraduate Jesuit liberal arts college. “I see diversity as a reality check. It’s engaging the world as it is. Acknowledging its importance allows us to solve real problems.”

In his deeply personal speech, Rougeau drew from his family’s civil rights history and experience as a legal scholar to reinforce the concept that diversity is about understanding people, not just representation. Indeed, diversity is essential for effective health care, education and leadership, he said, because it ensures we understand and care for people as they truly are, not as abstractions.

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