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Letters from Home Annual Report

These Letters from Home prompted us to reach out to some of the patients and family members who have written recently. Behind each letter is a story, and in the pages that follow you will meet the patients and, in some cases, their families, as well as the Hospital staff who inspired them to write.

NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Physician-Scientists Present Findings at American Heart Association's Annual Conference

The American Heart Association (AHA) has selected numerous physician-scientists from Weill Cornell Medical College and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center to present their work at the AHA's Scientific Sessions 2004. The four-day conference began this weekend at the Morial Convention Center in New Orleans.

Cryoablation in Heart Surgery

Dr. Charles A. Mack, Dr. Karl H. Krieger, Dr. O. Wayne Isom, and several other physician-surgeons from Weill Cornell will present their findings on the safety of using cryoablation to treat atrial fibrillation during concomitant cardiac procedures.

Dr. Mack is assistant professor of cardiothoracic surgery at Weill Cornell Medical Medicine, and director of the robotic cardiac surgery program at Weill Cornell Medicine|NewYork-Presbyterianl and New York Hospital Queens. Dr. Krieger is the...