Dr. Craig Smith’s 2024 commencement address at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine is both a call to usefulness and a meditation on what it means to practice medicine at its most human level.
Learn how Columbia’s Surgical CVRI supports cutting-edge cardiac surgery research, biobanking, AI, and innovation in organ preservation and device development.
As we enter the second quarter of the 21st century, we posed a question to our doctors:
"What is the single most futuristic thing we're doing in surgery today?" Read what they had to say.
From robotic uniport surgery to same-day lung cancer diagnosis, Dr. Joshua Sonett shares how Columbia’s thoracic team is transforming the future of chest care—while bringing world-class treatment closer to home.
At 495 pounds, David Diaz feared he might not live to see his daughter grow up—then a conversation with his doctor set him on a path that changed everything.
From groundbreaking tissue engineering to spontaneous healing in newborns, Dr. Middlesworth shares how pediatric surgery is redefining what’s possible—one tiny patient at a time.
