Centers & Programs News

Breast

• Columbia University Breast Center at Palisades Offers Comprehensive Care at a Convenient Location
• Avon Breast Center Dedicated

Cardiac

• Center for Advanced Cardiac Care provides the most advanced medical and surgical options to patients with heart failure
• Vivian and Seymour Milstein Family Heart Center
• Joan and Michael Schneeweiss Center for Adult Congenital Heart Disease
• Columbia Cornell Pediatric Cardiovascular Center
• Syncope Center

Colorectal

NYP Minimal Access Surgery Center

Esophageal

The Center for Esophageal Disorders
The Center for Esophageal Disorders at Columbia University Medical Center, under formation in 2007, will advance the level of care for patients with esophageal cancer, achalasia, Barrett's esophagus, gastroesophageal reflux, and other esophageal disorders.

General Surgery

Anorectal Physiology Laboratory (ARP)
NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia's Anorectal Physiology Laboratory (ARP Lab), a state-of-the-art center, and one of only a few in metropolitan New York to offer a full complement of diagnostic and therapeutic tools for anorectal disorders.

Hernia

The Columbia Hernia Center offers patients the newest techniques and advances in treatment of all types of hernias.

Liver

The Division of Abdominal Organ Transplantation is a multidisciplinary treatment center offering the seamless integration of medical, surgical and radiologic expertise in caring for patients with liver disease. Clinical innovation and scientific progress are at the core of the Center's mission to treat and cure of disorders of the liver and biliary system in adults and children.

Minimal Access

NYP Minimal Access Surgery Center

Obesity

Adolescent Bariatric Surgery
The Center for Adolescent Bariatric Surgery at Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital offers a comprehensive, multidisciplinary weight management program that includes:

• health and metabolic screening
• nutritional guidance, dietary management, and education
• individualized exercise programs
• laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding
• ongoing follow-up

Pediatric Obesity Program
New multidisciplinary program helps adolescents lose weight with and without surgery

Center at Lawrence

Center at Valley

Pancreas

The Pancreas Center specializes in the detection, diagnosis and treatment of all disorders affecting the pancreas by combining the expertise of gastroenterologists and gastrointestinal surgeons, as well as anesthesiologists, radiologists, oncologists, nursing and rehabilitation specialists, and other intensive care staff.

John A. Chabot, MD, Director, Pancreas Center

• Pancreas Center Offers Specialized Care for Patients with Complex Pancreatic Diseases
  
  Patients visiting NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center will frequently see and hear the term "multidisciplinary center." While the significance of the term may go unrecognized by some, the presence of such centers can be vital, if not lifesaving, for conditions requiring comprehensive care across multiple specialties. Such is the case with the Pancreas Center. Directed by John A. Chabot, MD, FACS, this special team treats patients with pancreatitis, pancreatic and duodenal cancer, as well as precancerous conditions of the pancreas and duodenum.
• Intensive Protocols Advance the Treatment of Pancreatic Diseases
  
  Thirty-five percent of people who develop pancreatic cancer are considered inoperable because the cancer invades blood vessels surrounding the pancreas, such as the portal vein. At many hospitals, patients are turned down for surgery even though their cancer has not spread to other organs. Yet surgeons at the Columbia University Pancreas Center have developed special surgical protocols that enable them to successfully operate on the vessels to completely remove patients' cancer.

Pediatric

The Center for Prenatal Pediatrics: Help for Complex Pregnancies
The Center for Prenatal Pediatrics at Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital opened in January 2004 with the aid of a March of Dimes Community Grant and now offers a wide range of prenatal testing, specialty consultations, and pregnancy management. It also has a world-class team of pediatric and surgical experts who address major structural abnormalities at the time of birth.

Regional Pediatric Trauma Center Promotes Summer Safety for Kids

Surgical Oncology

CUMC Establishes the Center for Innovative Cancer Management

Surgical Science

Surgical Science Celebrates Renovated Laboratories
Paul Milstein Institute for Surgical Science Dedicated

Thoracic

• High Risk Lung Assessment Program
• Columbia University Medical Center Opens New Endoscopy & Bronchoscopy Suites
• Hyperhydrosis Center
• LeBuhn Center

Thyroid/Parathyroid

Endocrine Expertise at the Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgical Program and the New York Thyroid Center
At NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia, a longstanding clinic has evolved into what is now the renowned New York Thyroid Center. The Center was originally established at Columbia over 15 years ago by the late thyroid and parathyroid surgeon Paul LoGerfo, MD. Today, the surgical staff of the center have developed many approaches that minimize or eliminate the need for surgical treatment of endocrine disorders.

Tumor Immunotherapy

Turning Back Advanced Cancers with IL-2
The Interleukin-2 Unit of the New York-Presbyterian Tumor Immunotherapy Program at Columbia University Medical Center uses Interleukin-2, or IL-2, to treat patients who have malignant melanoma and advanced kidney cancer. IL-2 represents one of the best treatment options for patients with advanced melanoma and kidney cancer.