Prevention and Health Behavior
Laitman Clinical Scholarship in Prevention with a Focus on Women's Health
The Nanette Laitman Clinical Scholars Program in Public Health is funded by a $3 million gift from the Laitman family and a $1 million matching gift from Weill Cornell Medical College’s “Advancing the Clinical Mission” capital campaign. One of the scholars is based in the Division of Prevention and Health Behavior:
William B. Borden, MD, MBA, Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology and Assistant Professor of Public Health in the Division of Prevention and Health Behavior, has been named the Nanette Laitman Clinical Scholar in Public Health (Prevention and Women’s Health). He is also an Assistant Attending Physician at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Borden earned an MD from Johns Hopkins University and an MBA from the University of Chicago. He completed his residency and chief residency in Medicine and a clinical fellowship in Cardiology at the University of Chicago, where he also completed postdoctoral research training in outcomes research and patient oriented research, specializing in preventive cardiology. For his scholarship, Dr. Borden has planned a research agenda to develop health policy projects evaluating aspects of cardiovascular primary and secondary prevention related to the delivery of care. These include studying the impact of intense media coverage about medical research studies on medication adherence, studying the impact of a proposed Medicare pay-for-performance policy on locationally disadvantaged hospitals, and evaluating whether patients in a real-world registry receive the medical secondary prevention of coronary artery disease shown to be effective in clinical trials.
