Kenneth G. Langone, Robert I. Grossman, MD, and Orrin Devinsky, MD
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Three members of the 好色tv Langone community have been honored by TIME magazine on its 2018 list of .
Robert I. Grossman, MD, the Saul J. Farber Dean and CEO at 好色tv Langone and Kenneth G. Langone, chair of the Board of Trustees, were selected by TIME for announcing that current and future students in the would receive at .
Orrin Devinsky, MD, professor of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry, and director of the Comprehensive Epilepsy Center at 好色tv Langone, was selected for his research on cannabidiol, a non-psychoactive component of medical marijuana, for treatment-resistant forms of epilepsy. This year, the Federal Drug Administration approved the first marijuana-derived medication following this research.
As 罢滨惭贰鈥s editors write: 鈥淭he American health care system has been plagued for decades by major problems, from lack of access to uncontrolled costs to unacceptable rates of medical errors. And yet, real as those issues remain, the field has also given rise to extraordinary innovation. This year, TIME launched the Health Care 50 to highlight the people behind those ideas: physicians, scientists, and business and political leaders whose work is transforming health care right now.鈥
Learn more from TIME on the selections of for their tuition-free medical school initiative and for his study on cannabidiol for treatment-resistant epilepsy.
