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Helping Older Adults Manage Pain: Dr. Lisa R. Witkin Shares Knowledge in the Lower Manhattan Community

As we get older, we often face conditions where managing different types of pain becomes a necessity. Chronic conditions such as low back pain, joint pain, and spinal stenosis become everyday realities for both older men and women. While people often think they need surgery to solve these problems, Dr. Lisa Witkin, Instructor of Anesthesiology, Division of Pain Management, has endeavored to educate patients and their...

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Dr. Alex Proekt is Part of Team to Publish New Insights into How the Brain Recovers from Anesthesia

How do we “wake up” after being given an anesthetic? Scientists had assumed that the process was a gradual one of the brain returning to full activity as anesthetic drugs dissipated (washed out) through the body. Research conducted by a team at the Donald Pfaff Laboratory at Rockefeller University, including lead author Alex Proekt, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at Weill Cornell Medical College, and former Van Poznak Research Scholar...

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Weill Cornell Anesthesiology Honors Graduating Residents, Fellows at 2014 Graduation Ceremony

The Department of Anesthesiology held its annual Resident Graduation Ceremony on the evening of Friday, June 6, 2014. The Department honored the Resident Class of 2014, named numerous award winners, and also honored several classes of Fellows completing their Fellowships in 2014. The ceremony was held at Guastavino’s banquet hall in Manhattan. The event was well-attended by the...

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