News and Highlights

Tracking a Protein’s Fleeting Shape Changes

High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy allowed the characterization of the entire landscape of structural shapes that the amino acid transporter could adopt (yellow-red area with population density lines) between its open (A,B,C) and closed (D,E) states. The molecules in one corner of the conformational landscape (top right, red) were found to be trapped in an inactive state. Credit: Scheuring lab.

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have developed a powerful, new technique to...

Read More

Global Health Elective Resumes in Rwanda

Teaching in Rwanda

The Department of Anesthesiology's Global Health Elective has resumed! Dr. Sheida Tabaie and CA-3 resident Dr. Ryan Ference traveled to Rwanda in March for the department's first Global Health elective post-pandemic. An integral part of the residency's Global Health program, the elective is run in collaboration with the American Society of Anesthesiologists' Committee on Global...

Read More

NIH Grant Awarded for Innovative Study of Key Membrane Proteins

Dr. Alessio Accardi

Dr. Alessio Accardi, professor of physiology and biophysics in anesthesiology at Weill Cornell Medicine, has been awarded a five-year, $2.7 million grant by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), for fundamental research on cell membrane proteins that have critical roles in biology and are involved in numerous human diseases.

The grant...

Read More

Contact Us

Dept. of Anesthesiology
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medicine
525 East 68th Street, Box 124
New York, NY 10065

Office of the Chair
Phone: (212) 746-2962
E-mail:  Office of the Chair, anesthesiology-chair@med.cornell.edu

Residency and Fellowship Education
Direct all inquiries to:
Phone: (212) 746-2941
E-mail: anes-programs@med.cornell.edu
For trainee verification inquiries: anes-verification@med.cornell.edu

Patient Billing Inquiries
Phone: (646) 962-5700