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Nolting, Anke
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Sino-Amercan Medical-Exchange Program: Program 2
CUMC Central Administration
None. . . . More »
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Nolting, Anke
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Sino-American Medical Exchange Program: Program 1
CUMC Central Administration
Development of educational and research exchanges between the above universities and the College of Physicians and Surgeons. . . . More »
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Department/Center
Center for Global Health and Economic Development (CGHED)
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Ruxin, Joshua
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The MacroHealth Initiative
The Earth Institute at Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health
The overall objective is to deliver strategic expertise to low-income countries for scaling up health expenditures by government and donors in order to fill serious gaps in the provision of essential . . . More »
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Department/Center
Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)
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Chen, Robert
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Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center
The Earth Institute at Columbia University
SEDAC archives and disseminates a wide range of socioeconomic and environmental data on all regions of the world, including specific collections related to the United States, Mexico, and China. Key . . . More »
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Department/Center
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology
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Pham, Tuan Duc
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Lectures on Human Anatomy
College of Physicians and Surgeons
During the Spring of 2002 and 2004, I was invited by Hanoi Medical School in Vietnam to lecture on Human Anatomy. In the spring of 2004, I was invited to Guangzhou Medical College in Guangzhou, China . . . More »
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Department/Center
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology
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Chiu, David
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Surgical Missions to China: Program 1
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Correction of surgical disabilities in Chinese orphans. Orthopedic, plastic, general pediatric, urological problems. . . . More »
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Department/Center
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology
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Chiu, David
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Surgical Missions to China: Program 2
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Medical mission to lesser-known area of China (Harbin). Target population: orphans. Objective: to provide surgical care for deformed children in the orphanage. . . . More »
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Department/Center
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology
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Chiu, David
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Surgical Missions to China: Program 3
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Medical missions to lesser-known area in China. Target population: orphans. Objective: to provide surgical care for deformed children in the orphanage. . . . More »
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Department/Center
Department of Environmental Health Sciences
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Manganese Occupational Exposure: Biological Monitoring, Prevention, and Mechanism Investigation
Mailman School of Public Health
Manganese has replaced lead as an additive to gasoline in Europe and North America. Environmental exposure to this toxic metal has recently become a major public-health concern. Occupational exposure . . . More »
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Department/Center
Department of Environmental Health Sciences
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Tang, Deliang, Perera, Frederica
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Prevention of Health Effects in Children from Energy-Related Air Pollution: An International Collaborative Project
Mailman School of Public Health
An international collaborative project on the prevention of health effects in children from energy-related air pollution. . . . More »
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Department/Center
Department of Epidemiology
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Wu, Ping
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Psychiatric Impact of Exposure to 2003 Outbreak of SARS on Youth in China
Mailman School of Public Health
The study will examine exposure to the 2003
SARS outbreak among children of medical
professionals in Beijing and assess Post-
Traumatic Stress Disorder (or PTSD
symptoms)and other psychiatric . . . More »
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Department/Center
Department of Epidemiology
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Hoven, Christina
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WHO/WPA Awareness Campaign
Mailman School of Public Health
On behalf of the World Psychiatric Association
(WPA) in collaboration with the World Health
Organization (WHO) the International
Association for Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry and Allied Professions . . . More »
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Department/Center
Department of Medicine
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Heymsfield, Steven
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Body Composition / Metabolism / Obesity: China
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Study of ethnicity, obesity, and their physiologic/metabolic features. . . . More »
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Department/Center
Department of Medicine
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Gallagher, Dympna
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Body Composition and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Tanner 1
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Study of body composition and cardiovascular risk factors in children. . . . More »
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Department/Center
Department of Medicine
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Weinstein, I
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Genetic Abnormalities in Esophageal Cancer
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Collaborative research on the causation and pathogenesis of esophageal cancer in a high-risk region of China. . . . More »
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Department/Center
Department of Medicine
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Bilezikian, John
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Metabolic Bone Diseases in China
College of Physicians and Surgeons
This project is a far-ranging international collaboration between the Metabolic Bone Diseases Unit at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center and our counterparts in Beijing (PUMC), Shanghai (Second . . . More »
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Department/Center
Department of Medicine
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Gallagher, Dympna
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Skeletal Muscle and Bone Mass in Women Throughout the Age Range
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Dr. Ai-jun Sun was a visiting scholar at our center from October 2001 to April 2002. He is Dr. Shouging Lin's research fellow at Peking Union Medical College. Dr. Lin is also chair of the Chinese . . . More »
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Department/Center
Department of Orthopedic Surgery
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Roye Jr, David
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Children of China Pediatric Foundation: David Roye Jr.
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Participated and organized pediatric care for group traveling to various locations in China to perform orthopedic surgery, urological surgery and plastic-surgery procedures on Chinese orphaned . . . More »
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Department/Center
Department of Pediatrics
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Deckelbaum, Richard
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Body Composition / Comorbidity of Obesity in Chinese Children
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Project in collaboration with Dr. Dympna Gallagher, Obesity Research Center, St. Luke's Hospital. Correlating differences in body composition with comorbidity of childhood obesity in Chinese . . . More »
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Department/Center
Department of Pediatrics
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Biagas, Katherine
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Children of China Pediatric Foundation: Katherine Biagas
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Participated and organized general pediatrics care for group traveling to Harbin, China, to perform orthopedic and plastic-surgery procedures on Chinese children. The above-named foundation provides . . . More »
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Department/Center
Department of Pediatrics
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Deckelbaum, Richard
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Disease Risk Nutrition Study
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Secular trends in adult-disease risk factors and nutrition in children, a five-country comparison. In collaboration with Ehime University (Japan), Beijing Children's Hospital (China), and Mahidol . . . More »
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Department/Center
Department of Pediatrics
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Cooper, Louis
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Improving Immunization toward Elimination of Measles and Rubella in WPRO countries
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Expanding policy and programs for measles and rubella immunization in WHO/WPRO countries to match WPRO goal of measles elimination in the region. Focus is on Japan and China as key leaders. . . . More »
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Department/Center
Department of Psychiatry
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Clark, Wilder
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Cross-Cultural Differences in the Report of Pain and Emotion: China
College of Physicians and Surgeons
The Multidimensional Affect and Pain Survey (MAPS) is a 101-item questionnaire suitable for administration to patients with acute and chronic pain. To date, it has been administered to patients . . . More »
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Department/Center
Department of Psychiatry
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Quitkin, Frederic
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Development of an Algorithm for Unipolar Depression, Institutional Mental Health, Peking
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Developing an algorithm for unipolar depression for the Chinese government . . . More »
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Department/Center
Department of Psychiatry
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McKinnon, Karen
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HIV Mental Health Training Project
College of Physicians and Surgeons
The project provides free training on the latest developments in mental health aspects of the AIDS epidemic. Since 1992 we have trained both health care and mental health care providers throughout . . . More »
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Department/Center
Department of Psychiatry
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Terwilliger, Joseph
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Korean Diaspora Project-Gene-Environment Interaction: China
College of Physicians and Surgeons
We are examining interactions between genetic and environmental factors as they influence quantitative trait variation by studying these traits in large families of overseas Koreans in Almaty and . . . More »
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Department/Center
Department of Psychiatry
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Terwilliger, Joseph
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Korean Diaspora Project-Gene-Environment Interaction: Multinational
College of Physicians and Surgeons
We are examining interactions between genetic and environmental factors as they influence quantitative trait variation by studying these traits in large families of overseas Koreans in Almaty and . . . More »
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Department/Center
Department of Psychiatry
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Mantell, Joanne
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Training Service Providers in Dual Protection Counseling in China
College of Physicians and Surgeons
In response to China's concurrent HIV and STI epidemics, the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies at the New York State Psychiatric Institute / Columbia University and the Nanjing College . . . More »
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Department/Center
Department of Psychiatry
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Murray, Laura
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World Psychiatric Association (WPA)/World Health Organization (WHO) Services Taskforce on Children's Mental Health
College of Physicians and Surgeons
The World Psychiatric Association (WPA)
Presidential Program on Child Mental health
has developed a Comprehensive System for Child
and Adolescent Mental Health consisting of
three programs: Community . . . More »
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Department/Center
Department of Radiation Oncology
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Hei, Tom K
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Biological Effectiveness of a Single Alpha Particle
College of Physicians and Surgeons
To help train graduate students (Ph.D. and M.Sc.) for the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Department of Ion Beam Bioengineering, to be proficient in cellular and molecular biology. To collaborate in . . . More »
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Department/Center
Department of Radiation Oncology
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Hall, Eric
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Experiments with the Single Particles Generated with the Microbeam
College of Physicians and Surgeons
The problem of lung cancer induced by radon progeny is a single-particle problem, since in a domestic situation, the cells lining the lung will never be exposed to more than one particle during a . . . More »
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Department/Center
Department of Radiation Oncology
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Hei, Tom K
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Malignant Transformation of Human Bronchial Epithelial Cells by Tobacco Nitrosamine and Radon Alpha Particles
College of Physicians and Surgeons
To examine the cellular and molecular mechanisms of neoplastic transformation of immortalized human bronchial cells by the tobacco-specific nitrosamine NNK, either alone, or in combination with radon . . . More »
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Department/Center
Department of Radiation Oncology
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Hei, Tom K
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Mechanisms of Environmental Carcinogensis
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Provide training opportunity for junior staff of the Laboratory of Industrial Hygiene in molecular carcinogenesis studies. . . . More »
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Department/Center
Department of Radiation Oncology
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Hall, Eric
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To Determine the Mutagenic / Carcinogenic Effects of Tobacco Products in Combination with Other Agents
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Smoking is on the increase in China, and there is great interest in the mutagenic/carcinogenic effects, particularly the interaction of tobacco products with other environmental pollutants. We are . . . More »
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Department/Center
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine
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Kronenberg, Fredi
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Center for Traditional Chinese Medicine and Women's Health
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is a codified,
literature-based medical system with a professional
class of physicians and an extensive materia medica
of herbal treatments. TCM has been used . . . More »
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Department/Center
Department of Surgery
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Ascherman, Jeffrey A
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Children of China Pediatric Foundation: Jeffrey Ascherman
College of Physicians and Surgeons
The foundation organizes and makes trips to China to operate on orphans with a variety of surgical problems, including cleft lip and palate, orthopedic anomalies, and urologic abnormalities. . . . More »
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Department/Center
Department of Surgery
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Roser, Steven
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Medical Missions Abroad: China
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Once or twice a year, a team of surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, and others travels to a host country to perform surgery for children with cleft lip/palate deformities. The team brings its own . . . More »
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Department/Center
Department of Surgery
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Schullinger, John
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Multidisciplinary Surgical Mission: Program 1
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Correction of surgical disabilities in Chinese orphans. Orthopedic, plastic and reconstructive, urological, eye, and general pediatric problems. . . . More »
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Department/Center
Department of Surgery
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Schullinger, John
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Multidisciplinary Surgical Mission: Program 2
Columbia University Medical Center
Correction of surgical disabilities. Orthopedic, plastic-and-reconstructive, urological, eye, and general pediatric surgical problems. . . . More »
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Department/Center
Department of Surgery
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Schullinger, John
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Multidisciplinary Surgical Mission: Program 3
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Correction of surgical disabilities. Orthopedic, plastic and reconstructive, urological, eye, and general pediatric surgical problems. . . . More »
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