Weill Cornell Medical College

The Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College is the medical school and biomedical research unit of Cornell University. Usually referred to as simply Weill Cornell Medical College (WCMC or WCMC-NYC), it is located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, along with the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences. Approximately 400 medical students are enrolled.

Notable alumni

• Robert C. Atkins (M.D. '55) The Atkins Diet
• Anthony Fauci (M.D. '66) - Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease at the National Institutes of Health
• Wilson Greatbatch (B.E.E. '50) - inventor of the cardiac pacemaker
• Henry Heimlich (M.D. '43) - inventor of the Heimlich maneuver
• Robert W. Holley (Ph.D. '47) - co-recipient of the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for describing the genetic code and how it operates in protein synthesis.
• Benjamin Spock (Residency in pediatrics, '31, and in psychiatry '33) - author, The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care.
• Henry Masur (M.D.'72, Internship, Residency Internal Medicine) - First description of AIDS in New England Journal of Medicine; described New York City patient cohort; article appeared with matching article from a group describing a similar cohort in San Francisco.