Spring/Summer 2021

VP&S News

Gentle Persistence

2021 Marks Centennial of First Six Women to Earn a Columbia MD

Up until 1917, Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons—by then 150 years old—had admitted no women.
P&S Class of 1921

Class of 2023 Begins Major Clinical Year

The second-year medical students in the Class of 2023 celebrated their transition to patient-centered training at a ceremony on Jan. 7.
Class of 2023 on a zoom call

VP&S in Top Five of New Rankings

In two national rankings announced this year, VP&S reached the top five, its best showing in both rankings...

COVID-19 News: COVID Vaccination Program Reaches Health Care Workers, Faculty, Staff, Trainees, and Community

From mid-December 2020 through mid-April 2021, Columbia and NewYork-Presbyterian vaccinated 150,000 New Yorkers, including Columbia faculty, staff, students and community members.
A community member gets vaccinated in April 2021 at a pop-up vaccination site at Columbia’s Community Wellness Center on the Manhattanville campus

COVID-19 News: “COVID-19 Fog” in Mild Cases

When COVID-19 patients started inundating New York City hospitals in March 2020, Anna Nordvig, MD, a neurologist and postdoctoral clinical and research fellow who specializes in cognition...
Illustration of a human brain