As a follow-up to our interview with Dr. Melina Wald about the Gender Identity Program, we spoke to Christine Rohde, MD, Chief of the Division of Plastic Surgery about top surgery, the most common surgical component of gender affirmation care.
A conversation with Melina Wald, PhD, Clinical Director of the Gender Identity Program at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, on using an evidence-based approach to health care that is focused on instilling pride and celebration of gender diversity.
Phase 2 of a clinical trial studying the efficacy of the long-term naltrexone implant to curb opioid addiction and overdose will soon open for enrollment at Columbia. We spoke with Dr. Christine Rohde about the impact of this important new treatment.
If you asked, he would tell you it was the luck of the Irish. On March 17th (St. Patrick’s Day), Gary Quinlan, 61, of Pound Ridge, NY, successfully underwent the first lung transplant and triple coronary bypass at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia after several weeks battling COVID-19 infection.
