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Dr. Dhruv Khullar Named NAM Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine

May 13, 2026

Dr. Dhruv Khullar, an associate professor of population health sciences and of medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, has been selected as an Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine (ELHM) Scholar by the National Academy of Medicine.

The program, which launched in 2016, is designed to increase the organization’s engagement with outstanding interdisciplinary early- to mid-career professionals. NAM selects up...

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Should Medicaid Tie Drug Prices To What Other Countries Pay?

May 4, 2026

A pilot program aimed at reducing Medicaid drug spending has limitations, according to a multi-institutional research team including faculty from Weill Cornell Medicine.

Launched November 2025, the GENEROUS (GENErating cost Reductions fOr U.S. Medicaid) program asks drug manufacturers to voluntarily reduce Medicaid’s prices to those paid by a group of seven peer nations including Canada, France, and the United Kingdom — a model known as Most Favored Nation pricing. States would then...

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Primary Care Utilization Among Older Adults Experiencing Elder Mistreatment

April 30, 2026

As many as ten percent of community-dwelling older adults experience mistreatment by a trusted person each year. Such mistreatmentwhich includes neglect, financial exploitation, and other abuse, may lead to exacerbated chronic illness,...

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Grant Supports Efforts to Create Atlas of Medicaid Spending

April 27, 2026

Researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine and Boston University School of Public Health have been awarded more than $950,000 from Arnold Ventures to create a “Medicaid Atlas” — a national, data-driven web platform that will illuminate how health care use and spending vary across Medicaid programs, plans and populations. The...

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Physicians, Corporatization, and the Unmeasured Quality of Care

April 16, 2026

Society relies on clinicians and the organizations that employ them to provide high-quality services, even when it is difficult to measure or reward good performance. More ...

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