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Powerful Lasers Damage Kids' Eyes
In kids, eye damage from high-power lasers can masquerade as genetic diseases, Columbia ophthalmologists find.
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Severe Obesity Costs Medicaid $8 Billion/Year
With one in seven adults severely obese, overall medical costs reached an estimated $69 billion for obesity-related health issues.
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 Schizophrenia Linked to Untimely Death
Young and middle-aged people with schizophrenia die at 3.5 times the rate of peers in the general population, says an NYSPI study.
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It's hard to believe we only broke ground for the new Columbia Nursing building in early 2015, and already the structure is almost at full stature. The building's topping off ceremony will be on Dec. 3, 2015.
Submit a photo of the week by email and find more community photos on our Instagram feed @ColumbiaMed.
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Featured Events
Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize Lectures with S. Lawrence Zipursky, PhD
• Lecture 1: "A Fly's Eye View of Neural Circuit Development"
11/12/15, 10 a.m., Room 412, Schapiro Center, 530 W. 120th St.
• Lecture 2: "Molecular Diversity, Cell Recognition, and the Assembly of Neural Circuits"
11/12/15. 3:30 p.m., Alumni Auditorium, 650 W. 168th St., First Floor
CUMC Symphony Orchestra Performance
11/15/15, 3 p.m., Alumni Auditorium, 650 W. 168th St., First Floor
For questions or more information, email cumc.symphony@gmail.com
InnovateMED 2015
11/20/15, 1:30-4 p.m., Alumni Auditorium, 650 W. 168th St., First Floor
RSVP here.
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Announcements
The University is undergoing its 10-year reaccreditation by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE). As part of this process, Columbia is undertaking discussion and self-study to explore the topic of the globalization of a Columbia education. The Office of the Provost invites feedback about the draft of the self-study. The draft and feedback forms are both available here. Feedback is due by tomorrow, Nov. 10, 2015.
CUMC benefits-eligible employees must enroll in 2016 benefits by Nov. 20. Those who do not make elections for 2016 will be automatically re-enrolled in current 2015 elections for medical, vision, dental, Transit/Parking Reimbursement Program (T/PRP).
Flu vaccination is offered for free to faculty and staff through Workforce Health & Safety. CUMC faculty, staff, and volunteers who work in NYP hospital space who are considering declining the vaccination will be required to take an educational course about influenza, and those who choose to decline after the course must sign a declination form. The deadline for being vaccinated or signing a declination is Nov. 20, 2015.
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