Milestones

WCM Insights Webinar Series: Leading the Conversation on Healthcare

As one of the nation’s most prestigious academic medical centers, Weill Cornell Medicine is home to distinguished biomedical researchers, clinicians and other health professionals who are transforming the world of medicine.

Weill Cornell Medicine Responds to COVID-19

Standing at the epicenter of a devastating pandemic, Weill Cornell Medicine and its extraordinary front-line medical workers are battling COVID-19 with ingenuity, tireless labor and the support of generous donors throughout the world. This close and powerful collaboration is driving Weill Cornell’s successes against

$2 Million Gift from the Partners of Citadel and Citadel Securities to Fund New COVID-19 Advances at Weill Cornell Medicine

Support Weill Cornell’s COVID-19 Response Efforts

Ways to Give explores the many ways our donors help Weill Cornell Medicine advance breakthroughs in research, provide compassionate care to patients and educate the next generation of medical leaders. Through a variety of programs, every donor is able to make a powerful impact.

Student Response to COVID

Heeding the call for help in battling COVID-19, Weill Cornell Medicine medical students volunteered to graduate early to support their colleagues on the front lines of the pandemic

An Outpouring of In-Kind Gifts

Individuals, civic groups, companies and even musical artists have shown their support for Weill Cornell Medicine’s front-line healthcare workers with a wide range of in-kind gifts.

Saluting Scholarship Donors

We would typically be celebrating our students during this season of commencement, which is when we also hold our Salute to Scholarship event, an annual celebration that brings together medical students with the donors who support them.

From Our Dean

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, the Weill Cornell Medicine community has worked together, under extraordinary circumstances, to combat this virus and save lives. This ethos – that we are stronger when we work together – has long informed our culture at Weill Cornell Medicine.

Joan and Sanford I. Weill Exemplary Achievement Award

The third annual Joan and Sanford I. Weill Exemplary Achievement Award was presented on March 3 to Dr. Barbara Hempstead, dean of the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, the O. Wayne Isom Professor of Medicine and professor of neuroscience in the Feil Family Brain & Mind Research Institute.

Alumnus Establishes Neurosurgery Professorship

Inspired by his time at Weill Cornell Medicine as a medical student, graduate student and faculty member in the Department of Neurological Surgery, Dr. Robert Hariri (MD ’87, PhD ’87) and his wife, Margaret, have established the Margaret and Robert J. Hariri, MD ’87, PhD ’87 Professorship of Neurological Surgery with a generous $3 million gift to the institution.

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