Bernhard Kühn, MD, has been appointed Chief of the Division of Cardiology in the Department of Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian Komansky Children’s Hospital.
Research has shown that patients of color prefer seeing doctors of their own race — and some studies have shown health outcomes are better for Black patients seeing Black doctors.
A large retrospective study of over 600,000 pediatric patients found children diagnosed with COVID-19 had a 58% higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes within 6 months compared to those with other respiratory infections.