scholarly journals THE ALZHEIMER’S PREVENTION CLINIC AT WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE / NEW YORK - PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL: RISK STRATIFICATION AND PERSONALIZED EARLY INTERVENTION

2015 ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
A. Seifan ◽  
R. Isaacson
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Clinical Care ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cognitive Testing ◽  
Medical College ◽  
Preventative Measures ◽  
Weill Cornell Medical College ◽  
Ad Prevention ◽  
Prevention Clinic

In July 2013, Weill Cornell Medical College founded the first Alzheimer’s Prevention Clinic (APC) in the United States, providing direct clinical care to family members of patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) as part of the Weill Cornell Memory Disorders Program. At the APC, patients seeking to lower their AD risk undergo a comprehensive assessment, receive a personalized plan based on rapidly evolving scientific evidence, and are followed over time using validated as well as emerging clinical and research technologies. The APC approach applies the principles of pharmacogenomics, nutrigenomics and clinical precision medicine, to tailor individualized therapies for patients. Longitudinal measures currently assessed in the clinic include anthropometrics, cognition, blood biomarkers (i.e., lipid, inflammatory, metabolic, nutritional) and genetics, as well as validated, self-reported measures that enable patients to track several aspects of health-related quality of life. Patients are educated on the fundamental concepts of AD prevention via an interactive online course hosted on Alzheimer’s Universe (www.AlzU.org), which also contains several activities including validated computer-based cognitive testing. The primary goal of the APC is to employ preventative measures that lower modifiable AD risk, possibly leading to a delay in onset of future symptoms. Our secondary goal is to establish a cohort of at-risk individuals who will be primed to participate in future AD prevention trials as disease-modifying agents emerge for testing at earlier stages of the AD process. The clinical services are intended to lower concern for future disease by giving patients a greater sense of control over their brain health.

scholarly journals Glaucoma Pediatric Corneal Disease—Special Considerations

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (01) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Gerald W Zaidman ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
The United States ◽  
Corneal Transplant ◽  
Extensive Experience ◽  
Medical College ◽  
Department Of Ophthalmology ◽  
Guest Lecturer ◽  
Laser Vision

Dr Gerald W Zaidman is Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology, Director of the Cornea Service, and Vice-Chairman and Director of the Department of Ophthalmology at the New York Medical College, Westchester Medical Center. Dr Zaidman has published over 50 peerreviewed articles and has presented at numerous meetings as a named lecturer on issues pertaining to cornea/external diseases, keratorefractive surgery, and pediatric corneal diseases. He has received both an honor award and a senior honor award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology. He has received seven research grants. He has traveled to many regions of the United States, Europe, and Asia as an invited guest lecturer. He has extensive experience in laser vision correction and corneal transplant surgery and has lectured at and moderated many national eye meetings. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus and is a reviewer for all the major journals in ophthalmology. Dr Zaidman is the founder and president of the Pediatric Keratoplasty Association.Through this society, Dr Zaidman has organized and promoted pediatric keratoplasty, an area of extreme difficulty and complexity.

Theobald Smith, 1859-1934

1935 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 514-521
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
School Teacher ◽  
Medical Practitioner ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
Medical College ◽  
Short Course ◽  
Albany Medical College

Theobald Smith, son of Philip Smith by his wife Theresa nee Kexel, was born at Albany, New York, on July 31, 1859. He was educated at public schools there and afterwards went to Cornell University, where he graduated as B.Phil. in 1881. His material circumstances being small, and failing to obtain a post as school teacher, he resolved to study medicine and went to Albany Medical College of Union University whence he graduated as M.D. in 1883, after attending the very short course then prevailing in some medical schools in the United States. He was studious and already widely read as a youth. Being possessed of the good judgement which characterized him throughout life, he was clear in his mind that his training was insufficient to qualify him as a medical practitioner. At Cornell, he worked under two remarkable teachers, Professors Gage and Wilder, with great benefit as he afterwards acknowledged.

ABRAHAM JACOBI ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SYSTEMATIC INSTRUCTION IN THE DISEASES OF CHILDHOOD IN THE UNITED STATES

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-357
Author(s):  
T. E. C.
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
The United States ◽  
Systematic Instruction ◽  
York Medical College ◽  
Medical College ◽  
The University ◽  
Future Practice ◽  
Number Of Branches

As a specialty, pediatrics, or "pediatry" or "pedology," as it was called in the nineteenth century, was introduced to America by Abraham Jacobi (1830-1919).1 He wrote: There never was any systematic instruction in the diseases of children, by a teacher appointed for that branch of medicine exclusively, until (in 1860) I established a weekly children's clinic in the New York Medical College, at that time on East Thirteenth Street. That was the first of its kind in the United States. When the college ceased to exist (in 1865) I established a children's clinic in the University Medical College and in 1870 in the [Columbia] College of Physicians and Surgeons. In both these institutions, as also in the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, such clinics have existed since, and a number of the medical schools of the country have imitated the example. In them, a single hour weekly, during the regular courses of the winter, is given to the student of medicine for the special study of the diseases of children, who will, in his future practice, form the majority of his patients. In the course of four so-called years, which the legislatures of our States pronounce sufficient for the attainment of all medical knowledge required for the welfare of a country, the student is pressed very hard for time. There are a number of branches which he is taught to deem worth his while and attention, by being told that he will be examined in them before obtaining his diploma; but the diseases of children are not now among these.

Marcus E. Raichle

1996 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-195 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Cognitive Neuroscience ◽  
Brain Function ◽  
The United States ◽  
Brain Circulation ◽  
Aerospace Medicine ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
Medical College ◽  
The University ◽  
Washington University

Marc Raichle is a Professor in the Departments of Radiology, Neurology, and Neurobiology at the Washington University School of Medicine. He is also a Senior Fellow in the McDonnell Center for Studies of Higher Brain Function at Washington University. He received a B.S. and M.D. from the University of Washington in Seattle and his training in neurology at the New York Hospital-Cornell University Medical College where he was introduced to research on brain circulation and metabolism by Fred Plum and Jerry Posner. He joined the faculty of Washington University in 1971 after serving 2 years in the United States Air Force at the School of Aerospace Medicine. His research has focused, broadly, on studies of the brain circulation and metabolism as a means of understanding human brain function in health and disease. He has been active in the development of cognitive neuroscience, serving since its inception as an advisor to the McDonnell-PEW Program in Cognitive Neuroscience. In his spare time he is an amateur oboe/English horn player, sailor, and recreational high-altitude physiologist.

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