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.

Medical Students Celebrate Their Future with Match Day Successes

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Video of Match Day 2025 at Weill Cornell Medicine

Abhinav Pandey started his education at Weill Cornell Medical College with an open mind, mulling potential careers in emergency medicine or critical care. But during his general surgery rotation he met a resident who suggested that he instead consider neurosurgery. The thought stuck with Pandey, who had previously worked in neurosurgeon Dr. Jeffrey Greenfield’s lab. He took an elective in the specialty and discovered a love for it.

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Abhinav Pandey, center, celebrates his match to the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for neurosurgery with his parents.

Click the photo to view the full Match Day Flickr gallery

Telehealth Restrictions May Limit Opioid Use Treatment

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Weill Cornell Medicine researchers found that restricting telehealth prescriptions for opioid use disorder could keep thousands from accessing buprenorphine, a medication that helps people recover from addiction. The study, published March 3 in JAMA Network Open, warns that requiring in-person visits—as had been proposed by the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)—may undo the progress made during the COVID-19 pandemic when telehealth increased access to this life-saving treatment. Previous studies show telehealth buprenorphine prescriptions improve treatment use and reduce overdose rates.

Before the pandemic, federal law required doctors to examine patients in person before prescribing controlled substances. This rule was suspended temporarily in March 2020, allowing doctors to prescribe buprenorphine through online telehealth visits, which made receiving treatment for opioid use disorders easier, especially for those in rural areas or without reliable transportation.

Lowering Bioenergetic Age May Help Fend Off Alzheimer’s

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A person’s “bioenergetic age”—or how youthfully their cells generate energy—might be a key indicator of whether they’re at risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, new research from Weill Cornell Medicine shows. The study, published Feb. 24 in Nature Communications, suggests healthy living can turn back the bioenergetic clock for some people, helping them fend off Alzheimer’s as effectively as a new drug called lecanemab.

“That’s quite big because it means some people can lower their risk without the uncertain side effects of current treatments,” said senior author Dr. Jan Krumsiek, associate professor of physiology and biophysics and computational genomics in the Institute for Computational Biomedicine at Weill Cornell Medicine.

The study’s first author, Dr. Matthias Arnold, is head of the computational neurobiology team at Helmholtz Munich. This work was a collaboration with the Alzheimer’s Disease Metabolomics Consortium.

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