News and Highlights
November 2009
Faculty Promotions
Wei Xiong, PhD, has been promoted to Assistant Professor of Public Health in the Division of Outcomes and Effectiveness Research. Dr. Xiong received a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering and an MS in Systems Engineering from Tianjin University in the Peoples Republic of China. He then earned an MS and a PhD in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. He joined the Department of Public Health as a Research Data Specialist in the Division of Outcomes and Effectiveness Research in July 2005, and was appointed Instructor in Public Health in November 2006.
In the Department, Dr. Xiong has worked closely with Dr. Nathaniel Hupert on public health emergency preparedness and has contributed significantly in the new interdisciplinary focus for Weill Cornell combining engineering and public health perspectives in the emerging field of public health response logistics. Dr. Xiong’s expertise in engineering has been integral to the development of emergency preparedness tools to improve mass prophylaxis, bioterrorism response, and hospital surge capacity, supported by AHRQ, CDC, and DHHS. He has also been funded by the Clinton Foundation to help treatment programs identify effective allocation strategies of their current resources, forecast future needs, and predict the impact of changes to the treatment program on staffing and capacity planning of HIV/AIDS ART clinics.
John W. Barnhill, MD, has been promoted to Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Professor of Clinical Public Health in the Division of Medical Ethics. Dr. Barnhill is Chief of the Psychiatric Consultation-Liaison Service at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. He is Chair of Weill Cornell Medical College's General Faculty Council and is involved in a variety of hospital, medical college, departmental, and national committees, most of which have to do with education and medical ethics. In addition to teaching medical students and psychiatric residents at Weill Cornell, Dr. Barnhill is site director of the psychosomatic medicine fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and is a lecturer in psychoanalysis at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. Dr. Barnhill received his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine. He completed his psychiatry residency at Payne Whitney Clinic, NYPH/Weill Cornell Medical Center and then did psychoanalytic training at Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.
Robert G. Marx, MD, MSc, has been promoted to Professor of Orthopedic Surgery and Professor of Public Health in the Division of Outcomes and Effectiveness Research at Weill Cornell Medical College. Dr. Marx is Director of the Foster Center for Clinical Outcome Research at the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS). He is also an Attending Orthopedic Surgeon at HSS and at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Marx obtained his MD degree from McGill University Faculty of Medicine in Montreal, Canada, and his MSc in Clinical Epidemiology from the University of Toronto. His extensive clinical research is aimed at improving outcomes for orthopedic procedures. He is currently one of the core investigators on the Weill Cornell Center for Education & Research on Therapeutics (CERT), which focuses on medical devices and is based in the Weill Cornell Department of Public Health and at HSS.
