An authority in quality improvement and medical error reduction, Dr. Meridith Sonnett has been appointed director of the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian, a position she has held in an acting capacity for over a year. Additionally, Dr. Peter Dayan, a leader in the principles of evidence-based medicine, has been named the Division's associate director.

By fine-tuning "fine-needle aspiration" biopsies with a super-fast genetic microarray technology, a team of surgeons from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City says they can greatly enhance the accuracy of these tests.

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical College have established the Center for Prostate Cancer at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, a comprehensive center dedicated to research into and the treatment of prostate cancer.

Hudson Valley Hospital Center and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital have established a new relationship aimed at increasing access to state-of-the-art care for residents of the Hudson Valley and Westchester County. Hudson Valley Hospital Center has been renamed NewYork-Presbyterian/Hudson Valley Hospital.

A painless, 20-second test could save more than 100,000 lives annually in the United States by detecting lung cancer at an early, curable stage, say researchers. Their dramatic findings show that low-dose CT (low radiation dose computed tomography) can find lung tumors long before they appear on traditional chest x-rays.

Doctors treating localized prostate cancer have long been frustrated by not knowing which patients will or will not respond to radiation therapy. A significant proportion of patients fail therapy due to rising post-treatment prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels. To solve this dilemma, researchers at Weill Medical College of Cornell University examined two genetic markers, bcl-2 and p53 in prostate biopisies, and developed a model that will help predict who will fail radiation therapy prior to the onset of treatment.

With the nation's busiest burn center and the metropolitan area's largest hospital Emergency Medical Services (EMS) fleet, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital rescued and treated many survivors of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center. A new study published by NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center in the September issue of the Journal of Burn Care and Research looks at the Hospital's disaster preparations -- especially as they address the challenges of communication and patient triage that occurred on that day.

A new technique for repairing aneurysms in the largest artery of the body has a better survival rate and a speedier recovery time than traditional open surgery to repair the weak blood vessel, researchers from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital report in this month's issue of the Journal of Vascular Surgery.