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May 2013. Dr. Emily DiMango is the recipient of this year's Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award. This award, which is one of the highest honors that the medical school bestows, is given annually to a physician "who has demonstrated compassionate and devoted patient care, and who has served as a humanistic role model for students and young physicians."
March 2013. In commemoration of World TB Day, Dr. Neil Schluger published an opinion paper in the Financial Times entitled "Institutional complacency raises threat". In this special report, he highlights the need to remain vigilant in the fight against MTB.
March 2013. Congratulations to Dr. Daniel Brodie who received the New York-Presbyterian Patient-Centered Care Physician Champion Award for CUMC on 3/12/2013. This award is to recognize a Physician who has shown exemplary dedication to providing patient centered care and excellent service.
January 2013. Congratulations to Dr. Byron Thomashow who was selected to receive the 2013 ATS Public Advisory Roundtable Excellence Award. This award is an honor given to a person who embodies many criteria including, passion for patients, innovative spirit and outstanding leadership skills.
January 2013. Dr. David Chong was appointed as Medical Director, Critical Care Services.
January 2013. Dr. Daniel Brodie was appointed as the Director of the Medical Intensive Care Units and Medical Critical Care Service. This role also encompasses all of our divisional critical care activities including critical care consultation, ventilator management services and our MICUs.
October 2012. Dr. Kashif Raza joined the Lung Transplant Team.
October 2012. MICU B staff were awarded the QPStar Award from NYPH in recognition of their contributions improving patient care in the MICU.
October 2012. Drs. Jeanine D’Armiento and Lynne Johnson were awarded a 3-year new R01, from NIH/NHLBI entitled “Imaging RAGE Pro-inflammatory Signaling and Cellular Apoptosis in Emphysema”
August 2012. Kristin Burkart was elected to the Training and Transitions Committee for American College of Chest Physicians commencing 11/2012. This committee is dedicated meeting the needs of ACCP Affiliate (fellows-in-training) members.
August 2012. Daniel Brodie was elected co-chairman of the Protocols Committee for Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO) and Cara Agerstrand was elected co-chairman of the ELSO Sub-Committee on Education.
July 2012. Keith Brenner joined the Columbia Pulmonary Associates Practice providing pulmonary consultative services. Matthew Baldwin studies critical care outcomes and attends on our Critical Care Services. Cara Agerstrand attends on the Critical Care & ECMO services
June 2012. Congratulations to Fleischner Society new member R. Graham Barr, MD, DrPH and member-elect Neil Schluger, MD.
June 2012. Congratulations to Roger Maxfield, Joshua Sonett and Byron Thomashow, who were featured in 2012 New York Magazine Top Doctors.
June 2012. Congratulations to Dr. Chun Yip for being recognized for excellence in clinical teaching as a senior attending at this year's Internal Medicine Housestaff Commencement Ceremony.
June 2012. Congratulations to Dr. Rachel Miller who was awarded a R21 grant from NIAID titled, "Mouse Allergen Intervention and DNA Methylation of Asthma Regulatory Genes".
May 2012. Congratulations to the following investigators who have been awarded NIH-subcontracts: Emily DiMango, David Lederer and Rachel Miller.
May 2012. Congratulations to Sunita and Jahar Bhattacharya for their Nature Medicine Paper, "Mitochondrial transfer from bone-marrow-derived stromal cells to pulmonary alveoli protects against acute lung injury".
April 2012. Dr. David Lederer was awarded an R01 grant from NHLBI to study subclinical interstitial lung disease in the MESA cohort.
April 2012. Dr. Sanja Jelic was awarded an R01 grant from NHLBI to study vascular endothelial activation in sleep apnea.
April 2012. Dr. Rachel Miller was awarded an R01 grant from NIEHS to assess the role of short-term black carbon exposure, nickel and vanadium on DNA methylation and airway inflammation and obstruction in inner city children age 9 to 13 years
March 2012. Dr. Natalie Yip received the NewYork-Presbyterian Patient-Centered Care Physician Champion Award for CUMC on March 5, 2012.
December 2011. Congratulations to Selim Arcasoy, Roger Maxfield, Rachel Miller, Kenneth Prager, Neil Schluger, Byron Thomashowand Chun Yip for being selected as one of U.S. News & World Report’s Top Doctors in 2011.
December 2011. Dr. Byron Thomashowco-chaired the COPD7USA conference in Washington, D.C, in December 2011.
November 2011. Drs. Daniel Brodie and Matthew Bacchetta launched the Center for Acute Respiratory Failure in November, 2011. They also published a review article on ECMO in the New England Journal of Medicine in November.
October 2011. Dr. Kenneth Prager was on the Dr. Oz Show 10/19/11 discussing end of life decisions.
October 2011. The World Lung Foundation’s Chief Scientific Officer, Dr. Neil Schluger, is interviewed on WNYC's The Leonard Lopate show about tuberculosis' devastating effects around the world.

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