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Dr. Emilie K. Grasset, assistant professor of immunology in pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine, has been awarded an NIH R21 award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) for her study, “Bacterial translocation to mesenteric adipose tissue drives pathogenic stromal-B cell interactions leading to inflammatory IgG.”

 Crohn’s disease is an inflammatory bowel disease that has no cure and often leads to disease complications requiring bowel resection surgery. Crohn's disease can also affect children, and antimicrobial antibodies in pediatric patients are predictive of a faster disease progression. Dr. Grasset believes that understanding how antimicrobial antibodies arise will help identify therapeutic targets for treatment of Crohn’s disease.

This article was original published in the WCM Newsroom.

NEW YORK (Feb. 23, 2023)—Dr. Omar Abdul-Rahman, a leading specialist in pediatric genetic medicine, has been named chief of the Division of Medical Genetics in the Department of Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian Komansky Children’s Hospital, effective March 1.

The Division of Medical Genetics provides inpatient and outpatient consultation and medical care for children and adolescents with common and rare genetic conditions, including screening and counseling for inherited disease risk during pregnancy. Dr. Abdul-Rahman, who was recruited to Weill Cornell Medicine as the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Professor of Pediatrics, succeeds Dr. Christopher Cunniff, who has led the division since 2014 and remains on the institution’s voluntary faculty as a clinical professor of pediatrics.

The Department of Pediatrics is pleased to announce the promotion of Jennie Ono, M.D. M.S. to Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, effective January 1, 2023.

Dr. Jennie Ono is an associate professor of clinical pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine and associate attending physician at NewYork-Presbyterian Komansky Children's Hospital. She is the Medical Director for Inpatient Pediatrics and Program Director of the New York Children’s Asthma Program for Innovation Research and Education (NYC ASPIRE), a collaborative program between the Pediatric Asthma Program at Weill Cornell Medicine and the Asthma Center at NewYork-Presbyterian Queens. Dr. Ono is board certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Hospital Medicine.

Dr. Ono received her B.A. from Vassar College. She attended the State University of New York at Buffalo where she received her M.D. from the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and later completed her M.S. at the Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences of Cornell University.  She came to New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center for residency training where she remained as Chief Resident, joining the faculty in 2010 in the division of General Academic Pediatrics.

We are pleased to announce the appointments of Adin Nelson, M.D., MHPE and Melissa Rose, M.D. as Associate Directors of the Pediatric Residency Program. In these roles, Dr. Nelson and Dr. Rose will serve as resident advisors and assist in curriculum development and the operations of the pediatric residency program to maintain and elevate the high-quality training of the residents.