Biography
A graduate of Swarthmore College (Highest Honors, 1958) and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeone (AOA, 1963), Dr. Weksler trained in internal medicine at Albert Einstein Medical Center and Georgetown University Hospital before specializing in Hematology at New York Hospital and joining the faculty at Cornell Medical College where she became full Professor of Medicine in 1981 with an active research program for over 35 years first in platelet biology and later in endothelial cell biology as well as clinical practice of hematology. She has held numerous positions on Councils of the American Heart Association and in the American Society of Hematology, where she chaired the Education Committee for five years and served on the Advisory Board of ASH.
Her clinical interests range widely in the field of hematology with special focus on diseases of platelets, bleeding and thrombotic disorders, sickle cell anemia and immunologically mediated blood disorders.
