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Each year the Society welcomes new graduates from the Department of Surgery’s training programs (general residency, cardiothoracic residency, plastic and reconstructive residency, as well as fellows graduating from Breast, GI/Endo, Pediatric, Transplantation and Vascular Fellowships) with a letter from the President and a gift from the Department of “A Proud Heritage: An Informal History of Surgery at Columbia”. Some graduates return to join the Columbia faculty while others spread their talents across the US.

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Many clinical trials don’t account for racial diversity, yet they are still used to determine FDA approvals for new cancer drugs. A recent study shows one-third of all clinical trials that led to government-approved cancer drugs in the last decade didn’t report on race.

A few highlights from around the web that made it into our feeds this week.

Lung, heart, and colon surgery are highlighted as part of NYP/Columbia’s top-scoring performance in 2019’s US News & Word Report Best Hospitals rankings.

Columbia’s heart surgery team has been recognized for its unparalleled quality with the highest ranking available to any center.

Learning your child needs aortic valve surgery can fill your mind with “what ifs.” Suddenly, you must absorb gobs of complicated medical information and make crucial decisions about their health and future. The circumstances require a crash course in anatomy and cardiology; you must become an expert in conditions and treatments, read up on state-of-the-art advancements.

Three main issues plague the way we treat kidney disease in the United States: the business of dialysis, access to kidney transplants, and monetary barriers that stand in the way of donating a kidney to someone in need.

The NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital (MSCHONY) at Columbia University Irving Medical Center has been named the Northeast’s only Level I Pediatric Surgery Center, has been named the Northeast’s only Level I Pediatric Surgery Center, according to the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Children’s Surgery Verification Committee. This distinction is rare - only 18 hospitals in the United States have reached Level I status.

The importance of sleep has been well studied, it’s necessary for healing. Yet fractured and broken sleep is expected, even normalized, in the hospital—the place where it’s needed most.