Dr. Rainu Kaushal, chair of the Department of Healthcare Policy and Research at Weill Cornell Medicine and physician-in-chief of healthcare policy and research at NewYork Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) for her outstanding achievements and exceptional service in medical sciences, healthcare and public health.

It’s becoming well established that maternal stress during pregnancy can affect fetal and child development as well as birth outcomes, and a new study from researchers at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and NewYork-Presbyterian now identifies the types of physical and psychological stress that may matter most.

Major strides have been made to improve maternal safety in the United States, but these achievements will have to be sustained and expanded to successfully reduce maternal mortality, according to a report by experts at NewYork-Presbyterian, Columbia University Irving Medical Center and other organizations.

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is ranked No. 5 in the nation and No. 1 in New York, according to U.S. News and World Report’s annual survey of “Best Hospitals,” published online today. This is the 19th consecutive year NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is the top-ranked hospital in New York.

Renowned immunologist Joshua Milner, MD, named chief of pediatric allergy, immunology, and rheumatology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital.

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death and the second most common cancer among both men and women in the United States, according to the CDC. In recognition of Lung Cancer Awareness Month this November, Dr. Benjamin Lee, chief of thoracic surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian Queens, shares tips on how to prevent and detect lung cancer and other respiratory diseases.

Personalized medical interventions to improve cardiovascular, metabolic and other modifiable risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease may improve cognitive function, according to a study led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian. If confirmed with larger studies, the researchers’ approach could become a common way of extending cognitive health, which may reduce risk of Alzheimer’s dementia in late life.

Dr. Anna Penn, a renowned neonatologist and developmental neuroscientist whose research is aimed at understanding the role of the placenta in preterm brain development and injury, has been named chief of neonatology at NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital and chief of the Division of Neonatology in the Department of Pediatrics at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, where she will also serve as associate professor of pediatrics.