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Dr. Duncan Hau will serve as a co-investigator of the recently launched study, “Smart Discharges in children over 5: Expanding a personalized public health approach to improving discharge care in resource-limited settings,” sponsored by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

Led by Principal Investigator, Dr. Matthew Owen Wiens of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver BC, Canada, and co-investigators from Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and the United States, including Weill Cornell Medicine investigators Dr. Duncan Hau, in the Department of Pediatrics, and Dr. Robert Peck and Dr. Radhika Sundararajan of the Center for Global Health, the study aims to expand Smart Discharges in Uganda to other East African countries to improve child survival.

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 Catherine McGuinn, M.D. to Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, effective January 1, 2023.

Dr. Catherine McGuinn is an associate professor of pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at Weill Cornell Medicine and an assistant attending pediatrician at NewYork -Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. Dr. McGuinn is board certified in Pediatrics. She is the Program Director of the Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Fellowship Program.

Dr. McGuinn completed her undergraduate work at Yale University receiving a Bachelor of Arts with a focus in History. A native of New York City, she returned to New York where she received her medical degree from New York University's School of Medicine and completed her internship and residency in Pediatrics at NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital at the Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. McGuinn remained at Columbia for her fellowship training in Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, where she selected as Chief Fellow and recognized as Fellow of the Year in 2010.

Dr. McGuinn's clinical interests include the diagnosis and management of children with hematologic and oncologic disorders, with a special interest in disorders of thrombosis and hemostasis, bone marrow failure syndromes, hemoglobinopathies, vascular tumors and benign hematology.