Education is a major focus of Aaron Schulman, MD, an endocrinologist in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism and Director of the Endocrinology Fellowship Program at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell.

Laura C. Alonso, MD, a noted physician-scientist, has been appointed Chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at NYP/WCMC and Director of the newly established Joan and Sanford I. Weill Center for Metabolic Health at WCM.

Doctors at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia are looking to interventional endocrinology, an emerging specialty that uses percutaneous, image-guided, less-invasive procedures to address endocrine disorders that offers an alternative to surgery.

Under the direction of Dr. Thomas J. Fahey, III, researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have identified the use of gene expression analysis to discriminate benign and malignant thyroid nodules.