P&S Annual Report
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Columbia University 
George Rupp, Ph.D., president 
Jonathan Cole, Ph.D., provost 

Columbia University Trustees Committee on the Health Sciences 
Stephen Friedman, chairman (Trustee term ends in 2001) 
Walter Burke 
Jerome A. Chazen (1999) 
Maureen A. Cogan (1998) 
Henry L. King 
Marilyn Laurie (2001) 
Alfred Lerner (1997) 
Marylin Levitt, D.S.W., ex-officio (1998) 
Margaret Mahoney 
Mathy Mezey, Ed.D. (1998) 
Arnold Relman, M.D. 
David Stern (1997) 
Clyde Wu, M.D. (2002) 
Lionel I. Pincus, ex-officio (1997) 
George Rupp, Ph.D., ex-officio 
Herbert Irving, advisory member 
Judith Sulzberger, M.D., advisory member 

Columbia-Presbyterian Health Sciences Advisory Council 
Barry Alperin 
Jeremiah A. Barondess, M.D. 
Robert Berkley 
Page Morton Black 
Frederic A. Bourke 
Tove Brown 
Nicholas P. Christy, M.D. 
Thomas L. Chrystie 
Maureen Cogan 
Ron Cohen, M.D. 
Stephen Cohen, M.D. 
Robin Cook, M.D. 
Ursula Corning 
Robert Dresing 
Richard Elias, M.D. 
Gloria Farber, Ed.D. 
Phyllis Farley 
James W. Fordyce 
Louis R. Gary 
Sandra O. Gold, Ed.D. 
Ruth Guttmann, M.D. 
Edgar Haber, M.D. 
Daniel Hauser, Ph.D. 
Bonnie Burke Himmelman 
Herbert Irving 
Robert E. Jacoby 
Barbara Jonas 
Vera Joseph, M.D. 
Henry L. King, chairman 
Mathilde Krim, Ph.D. 
E. Peter Krulewitch 
William F. Laporte 
Burton J. Lee III, M.D. 
Deanna Levine 
Constance Lieber 
Mary Ann Liebert 
David J. Mahoney 
John H. Manice 
David I. Margolis 
Paul A. Marks, M.D. 
William F. May 
Guri McKinnell 
Seymour Milstein 
S. Leslie Misrock 
Shelby Modell 
Joseph M. Murphy 
Emanuel M. Papper, M.D. 
Gordon B. Pattee 
Ponchitta Pierce 
John Pinto 
William S. Robertson 
E. Robert Roskind 
Edward Schlesinger, M.D. 
Peter Schweitzer 
Richard L. Scott 
Pearl Seiden 
Betty Shabazz, Ph.D. 
John R. Stafford 
Judith Sulzberger, M.D. 
Jeff C. Tarr 
Doris F. Tulcin 
P. Roy Vagelos, M.D. 
Audrey Weiderlight 
Sidney J. Weinberg Jr. 
Dayna J. Wilkinson 
Joseph D. Williams 
Ruth A. Wooden 
Clyde Wu, M.D. 

Administration, Health Sciences Division, Columbia University 
Herbert Pardes, M.D., Vice President for Health Sciences and Dean, Faculty of Medicine 
Allan J. Formicola, D.D.S., Dean of the School of Dental and Oral Surgery 
Mary O. Mundinger, Dr.P.H., Dean of the School of Nursing 
Allan Rosenfield, M.D., Dean of the School of Public Health 

Administration, Health Sciences and College of Physicians and Surgeons 
Herbert Pardes, M.D., vice president and dean 
Thomas Q. Morris, M.D., senior associate vice president and vice dean 
Donald F. Tapley, M.D., senior deputy vice president 
Joan Leiman, Ph.D., executive deputy vice president 
Morton Grusky, deputy vice president for budget and finance 
Kathleen O'Donnell, deputy vice president for medical center affairs and associate dean 
William A. Polf, Ph.D., deputy vice president for external relations and strategic programs 
Eileen Willner, deputy vice president for Health Sciences development 
James S. Lieberman, M.D., assistant vice president and senior associate dean for clinical services 
Gerald E. Thomson, M.D., assistant vice president and senior associate dean 
Philip Feigelson, Ph.D., assistant vice president and associate dean for graduate affairs 
Pat Molholt, Ph.D., assistant vice president and associate dean for scholarly resources 
Bonita Eaton Enochs, assistant vice president, external relations 
Galene Kessin, assistant vice president, human resources 
Robert Lemieux, assistant vice president for facilities management 
Anthony O'Toole, assistant vice president for financial systems and services 
Kathleen Savolt, assistant vice president for financial planning 
Jeffrey Szmulewicz, assistant vice president for biomedical communications 
Frederic Kass, M.D., senior associate dean for clinical affairs 
Anke Nolting, Ph.D., associate dean for development and executive director for alumni relations 
Richard Sohn, Ph.D., associate dean for research administration and director of grants and contracts 
Ronald Drusin, M.D., associate dean for curricular affairs 
Edward B. Healton, M.D., senior associate dean for Harlem Hospital Affairs 
Brian F. Hoffman, M.D., associate dean 
Donald Kornfeld, M.D., associate dean 
Linda D. Lewis, M.D., associate dean for student affairs 
Edgar M. Housepian, M.D., special advisor for international affiliations to the vice president and dean 

Executive Committee of the Faculty Council 
Linda J. Addonizio, M.D., associate professor, pediatrics 
Terri F. Apfelbaum, M.D., assistant professor, clinical medicine 
Mitchell C. Benson, M.D., professor, urology 
Darryl C. DeVivo, M.D., professor, pediatrics and neurology 
Jay F. Dobkin, M.D., associate professor, clinical medicine 
Elsa-Grace V. Giardina, M.D., professor, clinical medicine 
Hanina H. Hibshoosh, M.D., assistant professor, clinical pathology 
Aaron P. Mitchell, Ph.D., associate professor, microbiology 
Timothy A. Pedley, M.D., professor, clinical neurology 
David Schachter, M.D., professor, physiology and cellular biophysics 
Robert L. Siegel, M.D., assistant professor, pediatrics 
Thomas C. Wright, M.D., associate professor, pathology 

Department Chairs 
Anatomy & Cell Biology: Michael D. Gershon, M.D. 
Anesthesiology: Margaret Wood, M.D. 
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics: David I. Hirsh, Ph.D. 
Dermatology: David R. Bickers, M.D. 
Genetics & Development: Claudio Stern, Ph.D. 
Medical Informatics: Paul D. Clayton, Ph.D. 
Medicine: Myron Weisfeldt, M.D. 
Microbiology: Saul Silverstein, Ph.D. (acting) 
Neurological Surgery: Donald O. Quest, M.D. (acting) 
Neurology: Lewis P. Rowland, M.D. 
Obstetrics & Gynecology: Rogerio A. Lobo, M.D. 
Ophthalmology: Stanley Chang, M.D. 
Orthopaedic Surgery: Harold M. Dick, M.D. 
Otolaryngology/Head & Neck Surgery: Lanny Garth Close, M.D. 
Pathology: Michael Shelanski, M.D./Ph.D. 
Pediatrics: John M. Driscoll Jr., M.D. 
Pharmacology: Robert S. Kass, Ph.D. 
Physiology & Cellular Biophysics: Samuel C. Silverstein, M.D. 
Psychiatry: Herbert Pardes, M.D. 
Radiation Oncology: Peter B. Schiff, Ph.D./M.D. 
Radiology: Philip O. Alderson, M.D. 
Rehabilitation Medicine: James S. Lieberman, M.D. 
Surgery: Eric Rose, M.D. 
Urology: Carl A. Olsson, M.D. 

Directors of Centers, Institutes, and Programs 
Rosenthal Center for Alternative/Complementary Medicine: Fredi Kronenberg, Ph.D. 
Institute of Cancer Research: Max E. Gottesman, M.D./Ph.D. 
Columbia Genome Center: Isidore S. Edelman, Ph.D. 
Institute of Comparative Medicine: Dennis Kohn, D.V.M./Ph.D. 
Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center: Karen Antman, M.D. 
Center for Family Medicine: Christopher Wang, M.D. 
Institute of Human Nutrition: Richard Deckelbaum, M.D. 
Irving Center for Clinical Research: Henry N. Ginsberg, M.D. 
Center for Molecular Recognition: Arthur Karlin, Ph.D. 
Center for Neurobiology & Behavior: John Koester, M.D. (acting) 
Programs in Occupational Therapy: Cynthia Harris, Ph.D. 
Program in Physical Therapy: Joan Edelstein 
Center for Population & Family Health: James McCarthy, Ph.D. 
Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research: Roger MacKinnon, M.D. 
Center for Radiological Research: Eric J. Hall, D.Phil./D.Sc. 
Center for Reproductive Sciences: Rogerio A. Lobo, M.D. 
Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center: Richard Mayeux, M.D. 
Center for the Study of Society & Medicine: David J. Rothman, Ph.D. 
Morris W. Stroud III Center for Studies on Quality of Life: Barry Gurland, M.D. 
Taub Center for Alzheimer's Disease Research: Michael Shelanski, M.D./Ph.D. 

P&S Faculty 1995-96 Full-time: 1,705 Part-time: 2,717 

Enrolled Students 1995-96 
M.D. Program: 604 
Ph.D. Program: 330 
M.D./Ph.D. Program: 75 
Occupational Therapy: 86 
Physical Therapy: 89 
M.S. in Nutrition: 20 

Tuition 1995-96 
M.D. Program: $23,740 
Ph.D. Program: $19,936 
M.D./Ph.D. Program: $23,740 
Occupational Therapy: $8,640/semester 
Physical Therapy: $564/credit 
M.S. in Nutrition: $20,285 

Degrees granted in 1996 
M.D.: 137 
Ph.D.: 39 
M.D./Ph.D.: 6 
Occupational Therapy: 43 
Physical Therapy: 43 
M.S. in Nutrition: 22 

Living alumni 7,285 

Affiliated Hospitals  (in addition to Presbyterian Hospital and the New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center)  
Bassett Healthcare, Cooperstown, N.Y. 
Harlem Hospital Center, New York City 
Helen Hayes Hospital, West Haverstraw, N.Y. 
Horton Memorial Hospital, Middletown, N.Y. 
Lawrence Hospital, Bronxville, N.Y. 
Manhattan Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital, New York City 
New Milford Hospital, New Milford, Conn. 
Overlook Hospital, Summit, N.J. 
St. Francis Hospital, Roslyn, N.Y. 
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York City 
Valley Hospital, Ridgewood, N.J. 
White Plains Hospital Center, White Plains, N.Y. 

Sources of Operating Funds, 1995-1996 $528.6 million
 --$210.1 million from clinical practice (40%)
 --$111.7 million from sponsored research (21%)
 --$86.1 million from affiliations (16%)
 --$44.5 million from indirect cost recovery (9%)
 --$21.9 million from tuition (4%)
 --$54.3 million from other sources (10%)

Uses of Operating Funds, 1995-96
 --$206.9 million for clinical practice (39%)
 --$171.6 million for academic programs, including research, education, financial aid, and departmental administration (33%)
 --$86.1 million for affiliates (16%)
 --$38.1 million for Health Sciences common services and school administration (7%)
 --$17.7 million for University common services (3%)
 --$8.2 million for debt service (2%)

Of the $528.6 million operating budget, $431 million is in restricted funds primarily controlled by departments and $97 million in unrestricted funds controlled by the dean. The dean's central budget, known as the engine that drives the campus, is used to recruit new faculty and departmental chairs, support academic projects in departments, provide student financial aid, finance debt service on long-term capital investments, and support Health Sciences administration.

Endowment 1996 $550 million  

Number of Endowed Chairs 70

Research Funding 1995-96 
$122 million in government funds 
$27 million in non-government funds 

Specialized Clinical and Research Programs
Arteriosclerosis Research Center
Center for Advanced Technology
Center for AIDS Research
Center for Alzheimer's Disease Research
Center for Child Adolescent Health
Center for Urban Health Policy Studies
Center for Women's Health
Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center
Eleanor and Lou Gehrig MDA/ALS Research Center
Harlem Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Heart Institute
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Program in Molecular Neurobiology
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Program in Structural Biology
Metabolic Bone Diseases Program
National Center for Children in Poverty
Orthopaedic Research Laboratory
Public Health Institute for AIDS Prevention, Training and Research
Public Health Nutrition Program
Regional Bone Center
Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Center for Alternative/Complementary Medicine
Stroke Center

Institute of Medicine Members at Columbia
Howard Bailit (since 1984)
Henrik H. Bendixen (1983)
Joseph A. Califano Jr. (1990)
Paul D. Clayton (1996)
John A. Downey (1991)
Isidore S. Edelman (1983)
Jack Elinson (1977)
Charles K. Francis (1990)
Kristine M. Gebbie (1992)
Harold S. Ginsberg (1981)
Eli Ginzberg (1972)
Margaret Hamburg (1994)
Margaret C. Heagerty (1983)
Eric R. Kandel (1988)
Michael Katz (1980)
Sidney Katz (1978)
Herbert D. Kleber (1996)
Robert Levy (1981)
James S. Lieberman (1995)
Paul Meier (1992)
Robert K. Merton (1973)
Mary O. Mundinger (1995)
Herbert Pardes (1992)
Allan Rosenfield (1991)
Lawrence A. Shepp (1992)
Samuel C. Silverstein (1996)
Mervyn W. Susser (1996)
Joseph V. Terenzio (1981)
Gerald E. Thomson (1996)
I. Bernard Weinstein (1979)
Myron L. Weisfeldt (1996)
Myrna M. Weissman (1996)

Nobel Prize Winners in Physiology or Medicine
1956 Andre F. Cournand, faculty member from 1935 to 1988, professor emeritus of medicine, and Dickinson W. Richards Jr., P&S Class of 1923 and faculty member from 1925 to 1973 (with Werner Forssman) for their discoveries concerning hearth catheterization and pathological changes in the circulatory system.

1976 Baruch S. Blumberg, P&S Class of 1951 (with D. Carleton Gajdusek) for discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases.

1989 Harold E. Varmus, P&S Class of 1966 (with J. Michael Bishop) for genetic research that demonstrated that normal genes controlling cell growth can undergo cancerous mutations, leading to the identification of more than 40 genes, called oncogenes, that cause cancer.

Measures of Distinction and Research Milestones
1920s The oxygen tent was invented at CPMC for early treatment of patients with severe heart and lung disease.
1926 Dr. William J. Gies, a professor of biological chemistry at P&S and one of the founders of the School of Dental and Oral Surgery, wrote the Carnegie Commission Report, which served as a blueprint for dental education for more than half a century.
1930s Faculty at the New York State Psychiatric Institute developed the scoring techniques for the Rorschach Test, a psychological test in which a subject reveals attitudes, emotions, and personality by reporting what he or she sees in inkblot pictures.
1930s P&S faculty were responsible for the first blood test for cancer.
1930s Cystic fibrosis was first identified and described at CPMC.
1930s Researchers discovered the life-saving effects of salt to treat Addison's disease.
1940 CPMC physicians were the first to test penicillin on patients.
1940s Researchers developed the powerful antibiotic bacitracin.
1940s Clinicians at CPMC were the first to successfully use a radioactive isotope to treat thyroid cancer.
1950s The first lithium clinic in the United States was opened at the Psychiatric Institute to treat manic-depression illness.
1950s The first successful shoulder prosthesis was developed at CPMC.
1950s Surgeons at CPMC performed the first carotid artery endarterectomy, an important surgical procedure to prevent stroke.
1952 The Apgar score, an international standard for assessing the health of newborns, was developed by Virginia Apgar, a longtime P&S faculty member and an alumna. She was the first professor of anesthesiology and the first woman to become a full professor at P&S.
1956 Two P&S researchers shared the Nobel Prize for their use of cardiac catheterization to study the function of healthy and diseased heart and lungs.
1960s The first amniocentesis procedure conducted in the United States was performed at CPMC.
1960s CPMC was the first to use laser beams for medical reasons.
1960s The first vaccine for Rh disease in the newborn was developed at CPMC.
1960s CPMC health care workers pioneered L-DOPA therapy to treat Parkinson's disease.
1970s Researchers developed the first successful transfer of genes from one cell to another.
1970s The intra-aortic balloon pump for cardiovascular surgery was developed at CPMC.
1979 Researchers laid the foundation for systematic screening (prenatal chromosomal) for Down's syndrome.
1980s The first "test tube" baby in New York City was born at CPMC.
1984 The first successful pediatric heart transplant was performed by surgeons at Columbia-Presbyterian. Presbyterian Hospital has the nation's largest heart transplant program.
1988 Columbia investigators were the first to link deletions of mitochondrial DNA to a specific clinical syndrome affecting the brain, the eyes, and muscle. This opened up a new kind of human genetics, a pattern called maternal inheritance.
1991  Columbia researchers isolated the first known odor receptors, a large family of genes in the nose, that enable humans to distinguish thousands of odors.
1993 Urologists developed a new blood test that can identify prostate cancer cells in the peripheral circulation and has led to the molecular staging for prostate cancer. The test can help predict the local extent of the primary prostate tumor, eliminating the need for radical surgery.
1994 Stroke researchers at CPMC were leaders in establishing the multicenter studies that demonstrated the efficacy of carotid endarterectomy in preventing recurrent stroke.
1994 CPMC researchers discovered a unique DNA sequence that may be a direct link between a new herpesvirus and Kaposi's sarcoma, possibly marking the end of a 20-year search for an infectious agent responsible for the cancer common among AIDS patients.
1994 Through an unprecedented partnership with Presbyterian Hospital, advanced practice nurses in the School of Nursing became the first in the country to form a faculty group practice with full admitting privileges to a major teaching hospital.
1995  Researchers found a genetic link for partial epilepsy, the most common form of epilepsy. It's the first clue that genetics plays a role in partial epilepsy, long thought to be caused by non-genetic events or disorders.
1995 Pathology and urology researchers identified a human prostatic carcinoma oncogene that could be used to develop a test for earlier and more effective diagnosis of prostate cancer.

Residency Matches for 1996
Anesthesiology: 1
Emergency Medicine: 8
Family Practice: 10
Medicine: 30
Medicine-Primary Care: 6
Medicine-Pediatrics: 1
Neurology: 3
Neurosurgery: 7
Obstetrics & Gynecology: 7
Ophthalmology: 6
Orthopedic Surgery: 8
Otolaryngology: 2
Pathology: 1
Pediatrics: 8
Psychiatry: 5
Radiation Oncology: 1
Radiology: 8
Rehabilitation Medicine: 1
Surgery: 12
Surgery-Plastic: 2
Surgery-Preliminary: 4
Surgery Research: 3
Urology: 3
PGY-1 Deferred: 2

Where They Matched
Barnes Hospital
Barrow Neurological Institute
Beth Israel Medical Center
Boston University Medical Research Program
Brigham & Women's Hospital
Cambridge Hospital
The Children's Hospital--Boston
Children's Hospital Oakland
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center
Einstein/Jacobi Medical Center
Georgetown University Hospital
George Washington University
The Graduate Hospital--Philadelphia
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Harvard
Johns Hopkins/Wilmer Eye Institute
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Thomas Jefferson University
Lenox Hill Hospital
Maine Medical Center
Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat
Martin Luther King Jr./Drew
Massachusetts General Hospital
McGraw Medical Center/Northwestern University
Medical College of Pennsylvania
Memorial Sloan-Kettering
Mercy Medical Center
Methodist Hospital
Montefiore/Einstein Affiliated Hospitals
Mt. Auburn Hospital
Mt. Sinai Hospital
Mt. Sinai Medical Center
New England Deaconess Hospital
New York Hospital
New York University Medical Center
Pacific Presbyterian Medical Center
Providence Hospital, Washington, D.C.
Santa Monica Hospital Medical Center
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center
St. Margaret Memorial Hospital, Pittsburgh
St. Vincents Hospital
Stanford Affiliated Hospital
Strong Memorial Hospital
SUNY HSC Brooklyn, New York
Tufts University
UCLA Medical Center
University Health Center of Pittsburgh
University of Alabama
University of California--Davis Medical Center
University of California--San Francisco
University of Chicago Hospitals
University of Colorado School of Medicine
University of Florida Medical Center--Shands Hospital
University of Hawaii Integrated Transitional Program
University of Illinois
University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics
University of Kentucky
University of Maryland
University of Miami
University of Michigan Hospitals
University of Pennsylvania
University of Rochester
University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
University of Washington Affiliated Hospitals
U.S. Air Force, Wilford Hall, Texas
U.S. Army, Ft. Bragg, North Carolina
U.S. Naval Hospital, Bethesda
Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island
Wright Patterson Air Force Base
Yale-New Haven Hospital