Columbia's Jocelyn Brown, MD, is among a small number of pediatricians in the US trained to evaluate potential child abuse patients, and her goal is not to find abuse but to protect the child.
After a nationwide search, the Department of Pediatrics announces the appointment of Patrisha Woolard, MD, PhD as pediatric residency program director at Columbia/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.
Columbia’s researchers have opened a trial of a noninvasive, focused ultrasound approach to open the blood-brain barrier, enabling higher concentrations of an effective drug to enter the brain.
Our state-of-the-art, 17-bed Infant Cardiac Unit is dedicated to infants up to three months old who undergo surgery for complex congenital heart disease. It is the first of its kind in the world.
Columbia researchers are working to determine the prevalence of autoimmune diabetes with a monogenic cause and the factors that can identify those most likely to have it.