Maria Diaz, MD , Assistant Professor of Neurology at CUIMC, and five other scholars were the inaugural recipients of Columbia’s Clinical Trialist Scholars Award.
CUIMC news team spoke with several Black CUIMC faculty members and asked them what Black History Month means to them, including Michelle W. Bell, MD, an assistant professor of neurology.
Joshua Z. Willey, MD, an Associate Professor of Neurology at CUIMC, spoke about the emergent nature of the transient ischemic attacks are also commonly referred to as “ministrokes.”
Of all the possible contributors, intense physical activity was the likely disease-modifying factor, Davangere Devanand, MD, of CUIMC, and co-authors wrote in Alzheimer's & Dementia
“One of the things that we want to do is create a consciousness around the power of music as a therapeutic foundation for mental health,” says Dr. Olajide Williams, a professor of neurology at CUIMC
Many factors affect stroke risk, and it is hard to separate the importance of food swamps from those other variables, said lead researcher Dr. Dixon Yang, a postdoctoral neurology fellow at CUIMC.
"That's really young," said lead study author Dr. Eliza Miller, an assistant professor of neurology at Columbia University in New York City. "These women are still in their prime working years."
Dr. Jason Carmel, associate professor of neurology, is developing a nerve stimulation therapy at Columbia that may eventually allow people with spinal cord injuries to regain function of their arms
