Inspiring Stories

Five NewYork-Presbyterian Lang Youth Medical Program graduates share the lessons, memories, and mentorship that inspired them to pursue careers in medicine.

When a bungee cord snapped and struck her eye, nurse Irene Fico turned to the ophthalmology team at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center, hoping they could preserve her sight. After a series of surgeries, they gave her close to perfect vision and helped her maintain it over a decade of care.

A video featuring a teenage girl’s remarkable craniofacial surgery was recognized in the Health/Medical Short Form Content category.

Austin was climbing the career ladder in New York City until substance use and an untreated mental health disorder upended his life. After a suicide attempt in 2022, Austin decided to seek help, entering NewYork-Presbyterian Westchester Behavioral Health’s addiction rehabilitation program. Today, he lives a life of purpose in sobriety.

This story contains content about self-harm, suicide, addiction.

With a large mass growing in Finnley’s neck and chest and threatening to block his airway before he was born, specialists performed a rare EXIT procedure, partially delivering the baby and immediately beginning lifesaving treatment.

NewYork-Presbyterian was nominated in six categories, including for best single spot commercial, best commercial campaign and best short-form health and medical content.

In a rare procedure last year, a multidisciplinary transplant team at NewYork-Presbyterian performed the state’s first heart, double lung, and liver transplant.

A transplant surgeon explains how playing piano has taught him life lessons and helped shape his career in medicine.

The awareness campaign and social activation was honored in the Health and Wellness category for shining a global spotlight on the chronic condition that disproportionally impacts Black and Hispanic Americans.

This Doctor’s Day, Health Matters shares the story of a cardiologist who has learned lessons in leadership and problem solving from an unlikely place: herding sheep with his Border Collies.