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ABC 7 and the Beverly Press/Park Labrea News recently interviewed Nicholas Nissen, MD, surgical director of the Liver Transplant Program at Cedars-Sinai, and Dechu Puliyanda, MD, director of Pediatric Nephrology at Cedars-Sinai Guerin Children’s, …

This week’s edition of Faculty Publications includes Cedars-Sinai studies that were published April 25-May 2. If you have a published paper from this period that does not appear on this list, please contact Sue Marone.Biomedical …

What can a Jewish hospital learn from World War II-era medical experiments carried out by Nazis?A lot, as it turns out.When the Center for Medicine, Holocaust and Genocide Studies was created at Cedars-Sinai two years ago, founding Director Sari J. …

Paul Noble, MD, professor of Medicine at Cedars-Sinai and a leading physician-scientist in pulmonary fibrosis, recently began his one-year term as president of the highly regarded Association of American Physicians (AAP) at the group’s annual …

The Cedars-Sinai Accelerator and Technology Ventures teams, together with Coronet Ventures (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., a subsidiary of Cedars-Sinai Intellectual Property Company, will host 11 startup companies from Singapore during the Singapore …

Physician-scientists from the Department of Urology at Cedars-Sinai will be attending the American Urological Association (AUA) Annual Meeting May 3-6 in San Antonio, Texas, and are available to discuss the latest research and innovations in …

The Angeles Clinic and Research Institute, an affiliate of Cedars-Sinai Cancer, is teaming up with the AIM at Melanoma Foundation for the 14th year to host a free melanoma symposium for patients, caregivers and clinicians. Melanoma, which originates …

Artificial intelligence experts at Cedars-Sinai and the Smidt Heart Institute created a dataset with more than 1 million echocardiograms, or cardiac ultrasound videos, and their corresponding clinical interpretations. Using this database, they …

Research Town Hall Spotlights New Human Microbiome Research Institute, Access to EIS ProgramsMore than 100 faculty members who attended Cedars-Sinai’s April Research Town Hall—hosted by Jeffrey A. Golden, MD—learned how to best collaborate with the …

Oprah Winfrey entrevistó a la doctora Amanda Velázquez, directora de Medicina de la Obesidad en el Departamento de Cirugía de Cedars-Sinai, sobre el impacto global que los nuevos medicamentos recetados para adelgazar están teniendo en la atención …

Cedars-Sinai Guerin Children’s pediatric oncologist Leo Mascarenhas, MD, MS, has been reelected as Children’s Oncology Group (COG) voting body chair for a second five-year term.“It’s an honor to continue to serve COG, a research network that has …

ABC 7 recently interviewed Priya Soni, MD, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Cedars-Sinai Guerin Children’s, about the rise in measles cases in the U.S. and California because of declining vaccination rates for the disease.Soni told ABC 7 …

Charles Schulz and his wife, Flor, sat in their living room on New Year’s Eve 2023, watching TV and counting down the seconds until the ball dropped in New York’s Times Square. After the clock struck midnight, the couple kissed and Flor said to her …

CBS Evening News and ABC 7 recently featured Ellyannah Lopez, the smallest baby ever treated at Cedars-Sinai, who went home from the hospital after a 10-month stay in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Cedars-Sinai Guerin Children’s.In …

Un nuevo estudio realizado por investigadores de Cedars-Sinai ha descubierto que el bloqueo de una proteína denominada interleucina-1-beta mejora la disfunción cardiaca y las arritmias en la enfermedad de Kawasaki, una enfermedad rara que afecta a …

This week’s edition of Faculty Publications includes Cedars-Sinai studies that were published April 18-25. If you have a published paper from this period that does not appear on this list, please contact Sue Marone.Biomedical SciencesModulation …

Cedars-Sinai is marking Patient Experience Week 2024 with activities to honor team members and the impact they make in the lives of patients every day. The medical center’s Patient Experience Team was formed in 2016 to create a unified approach to …

NBCNews.com recently interviewed Martha Gulati, MD, director of Preventive Cardiology in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai, about a study that found a potential link between heart disease and tiny plastic fragments accumulating in the body …

More than 100 faculty members who attended Cedars-Sinai’s April Research Town Hall—hosted by Jeffrey A. Golden, MD, executive vice dean of Research and Education and director of the Burns and Allen Research Institute at Cedars-Sinai—learned how to …

Surgeons from the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai will be attending the American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) Annual Meeting April 27-30 in Toronto and are available to discuss the latest cardiac surgery news and …

Cedars-Sinai estrena un nuevo programa de ejercicios para personas mayores y los beneficios van mucho más lejos que la masa muscular.Llamado Forever Fit, el programa de fitness integral basado en pruebas, está organizado e impartido por …

Investigators in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai and colleagues report that women with Type 2 diabetes diagnosed with hypertension before age 50 may benefit from intensive blood pressure treatment.The findings, published in Diabetes Care, …

Ageless and evergreen: The signature lyric that sums up Robin Lipman’s reverence for one of the most iconic entertainers of our time. That epic level of fan appreciation would manifest in a fundraising campaign to benefit the Barbra Streisand …

The “Healthcare Disrupters” podcast recently interviewed David Marshall, JD, DNP, RN, senior vice president and chief nursing executive at Cedars-Sinai, about how nursing and technology have evolved during his 40-year career, leading to improved …

A recent study designed and implemented by investigators at Cedars-Sinai found that artificial intelligence (AI) can accurately evaluate cardiovascular risk during a routine chest computed tomography (CT) scan without contrast. This imaging method, …

Two powerhouse leaders from the worlds of entertainment and sports were this year’s distinguished honorees at the Cedars-Sinai Board of Governors Sunset Soiree.Bela Bajaria runs the show at Netflix. Gillian Zucker holds court for the Los Angeles …

Cedars-Sinai is saluting its 3,700 volunteers this week, as part of National Volunteer Appreciation Week. Among the volunteers being celebrated are three generations of one family whose individual members have been wearing the Cedars-Sinai light …

Some soft tissue sarcomas, a rare type of cancerous tumor, are resistant to immunotherapy and chemotherapy treatment. But Cedars-Sinai Cancer investigators, in a study published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Communications, have identified a …

This week’s edition of Faculty Publications includes Cedars-Sinai studies that were published April 11-18. If you have a published paper from this period that does not appear on this list, please contact Sue Marone.AnesthesiologyUse of Herbal …

Cedars-Sinai investigators have identified significant variations in the microbes of the small bowel (small intestine) are strongly associated with various body weights, from a normal body mass index, or BMI, to having obesity.The gut microbiome …