Dr. Elizabeth Ross, director of the Center for Neurogenetics in the Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute and the Nathan E. Cumming Professor of Neurology at Weill Cornell Medicine, was named president-elect of the American Neurological Association. The association is a professional society of academic neurologists and neuroscientists devoted to advancing the goals of academic neurology; to educating neurologists and other physicians in the neurologic sciences; and to expanding both our understanding of diseases of the nervous system and our ability to treat them. Dr. Ross will serve a two-year term before becoming president in the fall of 2023.

Dr. Oliver Fein, professor emeritus of clinical medicine, has been awarded the 2021 Sedgwick Memorial Medal for Distinguished Service in Public Health from the American Public Health Association. This award is the association’s highest honor. Dr. Fein rec

Dr. Louis Aronne, the Sanford I. Weill Professor of Metabolic Research and a professor of clinical medicine, has been awarded the Clinician of the Year Award by the Clinical Management of Obesity Section of The Obesity Society. The Clinician of the Year Award signifies excellence in the practice of obesity medicine and distinguishes a physician as having achieved a high level of competency and understanding in obesity care.