News and Highlights

Making Green Choices in Anesthesiology

Dr. Deirdre Kelleher

Dr. Deirdre Kelleher has been an environmentalist since the third grade. She grew up in a home that was committed to recycling and avoiding waste.

So when she learned that the anesthetic gases she was using at work — notably, desflurane — were harmful to the environment, Dr. Kelleher, an assistant professor of clinical anesthesiology and chair of the department’s sustainability committee, took note.

“I personally...

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Tracking a Protein’s Fleeting Shape Changes

High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy allowed the characterization of the entire landscape of structural shapes that the amino acid transporter could adopt (yellow-red area with population density lines) between its open (A,B,C) and closed (D,E) states. The molecules in one corner of the conformational landscape (top right, red) were found to be trapped in an inactive state. Credit: Scheuring lab.

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have developed a powerful, new technique to...

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Global Health Elective Resumes in Rwanda

Teaching in Rwanda

The Department of Anesthesiology's Global Health Elective has resumed! Dr. Sheida Tabaie and CA-3 resident Dr. Ryan Ference traveled to Rwanda in March for the department's first Global Health elective post-pandemic. An integral part of the residency's Global Health program, the elective is run in collaboration with the American Society of Anesthesiologists' Committee on Global...

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