WCM/Internal Programs
This intense, hands-on program works directly with up to 10 teams of entrepreneurial scientists and clinicians to develop business plans around their Cornell-patented intellectual property. The program culminates in a final pitch competition with venture capitalist judges who award up to $100K in cash prizes. Teams must apply to be selected to participate in this program. A call for applications is typically made in the first quarter of each calendar year.
Selected faculty-led teams complete 10 weeks of rigorous instruction by life science professionals and startup experts. With the help of over two dozen industry mentors (serial entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and corporate executives), the teams create initial business plans by the end of the program. Past Business Plan Challenge participants have successfully raised external funding, received federal grants, or obtained industry awards for their startups.
This program is offered by the BioVenture eLab, a part of WCM Enterprise Innovation. Please contact eLab director Loren Busby at lob4002@med.cornell.edu for additional information.
The Clinical Research Methodology Certificate Program is now accepting applications for the 2024-2025 academic year. This educational program is conducted at MSKCC and is supported by the Clinical and Translational Science Center at Weill Cornell Medicine. The didactic program targets trainees and junior faculty by providing a core set of didactic lectures and interactive seminars to help train individuals dedicated to academic careers.
One-Day Symposia
- Conducting Clinical Investigations in the Modern Era: Ethical Conduct, Regulations Involving Human Subject Research, Data Management,Reporting Responsibilities, and Institutional and Cooperative Group Oversight (September 30, 2024)
- Clinical Trials Design: Phase I, II, III trials, Integrating Biological Correlates (October 29, 2024)
- Drug and Medical Device Development: From Pre-Clinical Testing to FDA Approval (November 13, 2024)
- Clinical Research in Outcomes Analysis, Psychometric Measurements, Clinical Genetics, Biological Markers, Early Detection, Epidemiology, and Chemoprevention (December 11, 2024)
Multisession Courses
- Clinical Epidemiology (TBD)
- Biostatistics in Clinical Research (Winter 2025)
- Grant Writing Workshop (TBD)
- AI Seminar
Web-Based Certification
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Requirements for Researchers in Medicine; Human Subjects Research
For more information, please contact Meghan Bohan at bohanm@mskcc.org.
The Cornell-Hunter Health Equity Research Fellowship under the Weill Cornell Medicine Division of General Internal Medicine, in collaboration with CUNY-Hunter College, is uniquely designed to deepen trainees’ understanding of health care, local and international healthcare delivery systems, epidemiology of disease, and interventions to improve health outcomes. We offer four focus areas:
- Primary Care
- Health System Redesign
- Community-Partnered Research
- Global Health
It offers a two to three-year fellowship duration, depending on prior training and experience. Eligible applicants have MD, DO, DNP, PsyD, PharmD, MBBS, MB ChB, or PhD with a strong commitment to pursuing independent research careers. Clinicians must have completed clinical training. Physician fellows will supplement their research training with up to 20% of their time devoted to clinical practice in inpatient or outpatient internal medicine. Training in academic skills including leadership and mentoring is also provided. Applicants with prior research experience or with a Master's or PhD in addition to their clinical degree are encouraged to apply; the program can be adapted to provide them with more advanced training. U.S. citizens and Permanent Residents only. Women and minorities are strongly encouraged to apply.
Application Requirements:
1. Personal statement outlining your research interest, experience, and career goals and objectives
2. Curriculum Vitae
3. Letters of recommendation
Rolling admission; early applications are strongly encouraged. Applications will be reviewed once all required materials have been uploaded to the online application. For more information, visit the website or contact the Program Coordinator, Grace Figuereo (grf7002@med.cornell.edu).
It’s the only program of its kind in the Ivy League. You’ll graduate with two prestigious degrees from Cornell University: an MBA and an MS in healthcare leadership.
Two powerhouses in graduate education—the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management and the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences—have partnered to create a dual-degree program that focuses on building general management skills and developing a deeper understanding of the healthcare industry. This two-year executive program will advance your career and strengthen your ability to drive meaningful change in healthcare.
- Two degrees in two years
- Located in New York City
- Program Format - Classes every other Saturday and half-day Sunday on the Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island, with residential sessions in Ithaca, NY, and the greater NYC area
Applications for the Executive MBA/MS program are accepted and evaluated on a rolling basis. For further information, and to access the pre-assessment and application, please visit Johnson EMBA Admissions.
For more information, please contact us at mbams@med.cornell.edu or visit our website.
The Faculty Advancement & Research Mentorship (FARM) program is a college-wide training and mentorship program for junior faculty at Weill Cornell Medicine. Since 2015, FARM faculty mentors have been working side-by-side with junior faculty as they write their first successful R01 or equivalent grant. The goal of this program is to support early-stage investigators in building their own fully funded, sustainable, and independent research program. Participants are provided longitudinal support from a committee of faculty mentors over the course of 12-18 months. To date, more than 160 junior faculty from 35 Departments, Divisions and Institutes, across Weill Cornell Medicine have participated in the program. Our approach is trainee-centered and considers the inherent iterative nature of the writing practice.
We are excited to announce that the application cycle for FARM 2024-2025 is currently open until September 6th, 2024. For more details about the program and how to apply, please see our most recent RFA here.
For more information, please contact:
Gordon J. Pherribo II, PhD gop4003@med.cornell.edu
Paraskevi (Evi) Giannakakou, PhD pag2015@med.cornell.edu
Dean Augustine M.K. Choi announces the eleventh year of the Healthcare Leadership Fellows Program aimed at identifying Weill Cornell’s “leaders of tomorrow”. Physician leadership is a scarce resource; the development of new leaders is becoming even more important, as health care reform attempts to drive value-based care and population health that has led to major changes in the ways that health care is paid for, organized, and delivered.
Sixty-eight Weill Cornell faculty members have been selected as Fellows during the first ten years of the program; many have assumed leadership roles within departments and on committees of Weill Cornell and NYP. The program provides funds to support leadership training/educational opportunities for Fellows. It also provides mentoring from the Fellowship Committee and others, small group meetings with nationally known leaders, and opportunities for discussion with current and past Fellows. Department chairs must promise 10% protected time for Fellows to spend on their Fellowship.
Please direct questions to Lawrence Peter Casalino (lac2021@med.cornell.edu) or Paul Casale (pnc9003@med.cornell.edu).
The Healthcare Leadership Fellows Program is generously supported by Michael J. Wolk, M.D. and the Michael Wolk Heart Foundation.
The Medical College and the Physician Organization invite faculty members to apply for the program by February 29, 2024 by submitting applications to Reekarl Pierre (rep4007@med.cornell.edu).
The Leadership Education and Development (LEAD) program at New York-Presbyterian Hospital (NYP) was launched in July 2017, in partnership with Columbia's Business School and the Department of Health Policy & Management (HPM). LEAD delivers strategic management and health policy training to rising-star physicians in the NYP health system.
The LEAD program provides a tailored, applied education for future physician leaders to gain competencies and capabilities valued by NYP and our medical partners, including respect-based leadership, management skills, team-building, healthcare policy, and applied business skills. In addition to coursework, participants complete a capstone project preparing them to effectively work and collaborate in our institutions, with a focus on addressing structural inequities in healthcare.
For information, please contact LEAD@nyp.org.
The new application is out, with a deadline of February 28, 2025. 2024_nyp_lead_program_guide.pdf
The Mentored Clinical Research Training Program (MCRTP) offers junior physicians at Weill Cornell and Houston Methodist a fast-track program to acquire the skillset to develop a clinical research project proposal and embark on a clinical research career pathway.
The MCRTP begins with an intensive, four-day workshop, held during July in NYC. Drawing on courses adapted from the Weill Cornell CTSC, the workshop provides an introduction to the foundations of clinical research, including research design and methodologies, data management and analysis, and the regulatory process. Following the workshop, trainees will develop their own clinical research projects with guidance from experienced clinical researchers at Weill Cornell and/or Houston Methodist.
Please direct questions to ctsc@med.cornell.edu.
In 2016, Quality University-Weill Department of Medicine (QUDoM) was the first program established at NYP/WCM to provide a pathway for junior faculty who are not traditional researchers to obtain mentorship and achieve academic scholarship while improving the quality and safety of hospital and ambulatory patient care. As of fall 2019, 14 WDOM physician and 4 nurses have graduated from the program. Fifteen projects have been completed across WCM uptown and Lower Manhattan campuses; 93% were integrated into standard practice with an additional two projects ongoing. Due to interest from other departments as well as NYP Nursing, we have expanded to include physician and nurse participants from the Departments of Pediatrics, Emergency Medicine, Anesthesiology, and Surgery starting with the Class of 2019.
Since the start of the program, faculty mentorship of residents in QI has increased by fivefold in the Weill Department of Medicine. In addition, more than a third of the sponsored projects have included a total of 24 residents and fellows which help our department meet the CLER program core competency for direct faculty and resident project participation in quality improvement.
As of 2019, QUDoM has expanded across Weill Cornell Medicine as part of the College’s larger faculty development and mentorship efforts. It has been rebranded as Quality Improvement Academy-Weill Cornell Medicine (QIA-WCM) to reflect involvement of all departments. QIA-WCM will continue to prioritize the quality and safety goals of WCM and NYP while increasing the productivity and visibility of the institution’s commitment to high value, high quality care as a high reliability organization.
Contact Dr. Jennifer I. Lee (Vice Chair), Ericka Fong (Program Manager), Sawilda Worley (Administrative Specialist) via QIA-DOM@med.cornell.edu
Now Accepting Applications for Quality Improvement Academy Class of 2026!