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:
Shari Midoneck, M.D., Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical
College and Associate Attending Physician in the Department of Medicine at the Iris Cantor Women’s Health Center
at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill
Cornell Medical Center, was from 2006 through 2008 the Laitman Scholar in Prevention with a focus on women’s health. Dr. Midoneck researched womens health issues to promote their inclusion in
both research and policy initiatives, continuing and expanding upon the research efforts already begun by the Women’s Health Research Group, established by the
Department of Public Health in 2003. Specifically, she investigated methods to improve the rates of colon cancer screening by targeting women at a screening mammography setting.
