CUMC

As the construction of Columbia’s campus in Manhattanville approaches, the University’s Medical Center is anticipating that the project will relieve space issues while acting as a cornerstone of the institution’s future.

Columbia University Medical Center and New York-Presbyterian Hospital received a $28 million donation last week from the Russell Berrie Foundation for diabetes research.

For Lisa Hogarty, taking over as senior vice president and chief operating officer of Columbia University Medical Center last December meant much more than attending fewer student functions than she was involved with as Columbia University’s vice president for student services at the Morningside campus.

When Lisa Hogarty, who begins as chief operating officer at the Columbia University Medical Center today, was hired out of the health care industry as a Columbia administrator in 2001, she thought that she was leaving hospitals behind for good.