Obstetrics & Gynecology

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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.

Research Shows the Value of COVID-19 Boosters for Those Pregnant, Trying to Conceive

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Pregnant individuals who had a previous COVID-19 infection and received a full course of COVID-19 vaccination and a booster have the strongest immune protection from the disease – and pass that protection along to their unborn babies, according to a new study from Weill Cornell Medicine and The Rockefeller University investigators.

The researchers, whose study published Aug. 10 in Nature Communications, examined pregnant patients who either had a history of vaccination or infection or both. They found that patients who had a history of vaccination with a booster and a previous infection had the highest neutralizing antibodies against COVID-19 variants including omicron.

The findings suggest that a patient’s hybrid immunity, plus booster, provides the strongest protection for both patient and the unborn baby. This is significant because pregnant people can help protect themselves and their unborn child by getting boosted if they haven’t already, said study co-senior author Dr. Yawei Jenny Yang, who was an assistant professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and a pathologist at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center at the time she conducted the research.

Healthcare Leadership Fellows Program Has Built “Leaders of Tomorrow” for More than a Decade

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Today, Weill Cornell Imaging at NewYork-Presbyterian’s radiology consultation service is a much-used resource among Weill Cornell Medicine physicians. But little more than a decade ago, this program—in which imaging experts provide real-time imaging ordering assistance and oncology-related consultations—was just a back-of-the-envelope idea that Dr. Keith Hentel (M.D. ’98) hoped to explore.

Now executive vice chair in the Department of Radiology at Weill Cornell Medicine and vice-president of Weill Cornell Imaging at NewYork-Presbyterian, Dr. Hentel designed and implemented the radiology consultation service for his capstone project of the Healthcare Leadership Fellows program inaugural class in 2012-2013.

13 Female Physicians Cemented into Weill Cornell Medicine History Thanks to Special Archive Project

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Weill Cornell Medical College student Pauline Flaum-Dunoyer is a natural storyteller and historian.

Since she was 10 years old, she has considered what it means to preserve history in a respectful way. She recalls visiting her great-uncle, a historian with expertise in the West African countries of Mali and Togo, and looking with fascination at the wooden masks on his wall. She understood then the trust that was placed in him to care for the culturally significant relics.

As a college student, her curiosity about the past and how it shapes the present led her to study religion and “examine patterns in religious doctrine that have influenced culture and society,” she said.

With a passion for understanding who and what preceded us, Flaum-Dunoyer attended a history of medicine lecture in 2019 as a first-year medical student at Weill Cornell Medicine and immediately realized that it seemed incomplete. She wondered: What about the work of women and people of color?

“People of color have contributed to medicine in this country, sometimes to the detriment of their own community,” said Flaum-Dunoyer, now a graduating fourth-year student. 

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