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We are very pleased to announce the promotion of Snezana Nena Osorio, M.D., M.S. to Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine. Dr. Osorio, who serves as Vice Chair for Quality and Patient Safety in the Department of Pediatrics, leads the Department’s Quality and Patient Safety initiatives, provides clinical care in the Division of General Academic Pediatrics, and serves as an educator in the Department. She is also an Attending Pediatrician at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.

Since joining the Department of Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine, Dr. Osorio helped to develop the Patient and Family-Centered care (PFCC) Program, including the formation of the Komansky Children’s Hospital Family Advisory Council (KCH FAC) and introducing Family Centered Rounds. She serves as a Quality and Patient Safety Chair for the Department of Pediatrics and in this role she leads the Quality Council and co-leads the monthly safety event reviews.

We are pleased to welcome Dr. Jamie Palaganas as Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine and Assistant Attending Pediatrician at NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center and the Phyllis and David Komansky Children’s Hospital.

Her clinical expertise is in general child neurology including pediatric epilepsy, tics, headache, and hypotonia.  As a pediatric neurohospitalist at the NYP Komansky Children’s Hospital, she focuses on providing high quality care to acutely ill children, improving the transition from inpatient to outpatient care and cultivating interdisciplinary teams to best care for patients in all aspects of their life with neurologic conditions.  

Dr. Palaganas completed her medical degree (M.D.) at the University of Buffalo. Following her residency in Pediatrics at Women and Children’s Hospital of Buffalo, she went on to complete a residency in Child Neurology at Boston Children’s Hospital.  She is board certified in pediatrics and neurology with special qualifications in child neurology. 

Dr. David Lyden, the Stavros S. Niarchos Professor in Pediatric Cardiology and a professor of pediatrics and of cell and developmental biology and Dr. John Blenis, the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Professor in Cancer Research and a professor of pharmacology are this year's recipients of the Siegel Family Award for Outstanding Medical Research. They were recognized for their exceptional professional achievement and scientific innovation, as well as a commitment to positively impact future generations of researchers.

Dr. Lyden, who is also affiliated with the Gale and Ira Drukier Institute for Children's Health at Weill Cornell Medicine, received the National Cancer Institute's Outstanding Investigator Award in 2018. 

Visit Dr. Lyden's research profile page to learn more about his publications and innovative research.

On the eve of commencement, students, alumni, faculty and staff from Weill Cornell Medical College and Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences were recognized for their outstanding achievements with special awards, prizes, certificates and the Weill Cornell seal during three ceremonies on May 29 in Uris Auditorium and Griffis Faculty Club. The awards acknowledge exceptional academic achievement, scholarship, research, teaching and service.  

A number of Pediatric faculty and staff were recognized.  See below for the full list of award recipients.

Weill Cornell Medical College

Student Awards

The Clarence C. Coryell Prizes in Surgery and Medicine
Elizabeth Gardner Gilbert

Coryell Prize in Medicine
Cody Patrick Nolan

The Alfred Moritz Michaelis Prize in Medicine
Yunan Nie

The Oskar Diethelm Prize for Excellence in Psychiatry
Zhenzhen Shi

The Joan Severino Parisi Prize in Internal Medicine
Lee Solomon Gotesdiener

The David and Gladys Drusin Memorial Prize
Caitlin Krystyna Gribbin

The T. Campbell Thompson Prize for Excellence in Orthopedic Surgery
Tyler James Uppstrom

The Mitchell Spivak Memorial Prize in Pediatrics
Micha Virginia Thompson

The James A. Moore Scholarship
Aaron Bamberger Oswald