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Charles L. Bardes, M.D.

Internal Medicine

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Personal Statement

Dr Bardes practices general internal medicine. His special interests include primary care and preventive care, emphasizing a unified approach to the whole person.  His books include Diary of Our Fatal Illness, a prose-poem that narrates the illness and death of an aged man; and Pale Faces: The Masks of Anemia, an extended lyric essay on the cultural and mythological layers of a common disease construct.  Other essays, poems and ruminations have appeared in Agni, Academic Medicine, The American Journal of Poetry, Birmingham Poetry Review, Great River Review, Literary Imagination, The New England Journal of Medicine, Medical Education, Ploughshares, Raritan, Teaching and Learning in Medicine, and The New Republc.

 

Biographical Info

Dr. Charles L. Bardes graduated from Princeton University (summa cum laude) in 1978 and from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1986.  He completed his Internal Medicine Residency training at The New York Hospital (now known as NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital) in 1989.  He has served on the medical center's faculty since that time and teaches at Weill Cornell Medical College, having served as Associate Dean (Admissions) for 21 years.   In addition to numerous awards for teaching and clinical care, he is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Omega Alpha and a fellow of both The American College of Physicians and the New York Academy of Medicine.  He also serves as associate editor for the Journal of General Internal Medine and The Blood Project.

 

Honors and Awards

1978   Phi Beta Kappa

1979   Rotary International Fellowship

1986   Alpha Omega Alpha

1993   Elliot Hochstein Teaching Award, Cornell University Medical College

1995   Class of 1995 Senior List for Excellence in Teaching

1996   Class of 1996 Senior List for Excellence in Teaching

1997   Class of 1997 Senior List for Excellence in Teaching

1998   Class of 1998 Senior List for Excellence in Teaching

1999   Class of 1999 Senior List for Excellence in Teaching

2000   Class of 2000 Senior List for Excellence in Teaching

2000   Richard A. Hermann, M.D. Teaching Award

2000   Excellence in Teaching Award

2001   Class of 2001 Senior List for Excellence in Teaching

2002   Class of 2002 Senior List for Excellence in Teaching

2002   Elliot Hochstein Teaching Award

2003   Class of 2003 Senior List for Excellence in Teaching

2004   Class of 2004 Senior List for Excellence in Teaching

2005   Class of 2005 Senior List for Excellence in Teaching

2006   Class of 2006 Senior List for Excellence in Teaching

2007   Class of 2007 Senior List for Excellence in Teaching

2007   Innovations in Teaching Award

2008   Class of 2008 Senior List for Excellence in Teaching

2009    Class of 2009 Senior List for Excellence in Teaching

2009    Elliot Hochstein Teaching Award, Weill Cornell Medical College

2010   Richard A. Hermann, M.D. Teaching Award

2010   Class of 2010 Senior List for Excellence in Teaching

2011   Class of 2011 Senior List for Excellence in Teaching

2011   Siegel Family Faculty Award  “recognizes a Medical College faculty member who demonstrates pedagogical excellence, outstanding scientific achievement, and a record of dedicated educational service to Weill Cornell.”

2012   Class of 2012 Senior List for Excellence in Teaching

2013   Class of 2013 Senior List for Excellence in Teaching

2014    Class of 2014 Senior List for Excellence in Teaching

2014    Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J Glaser Distinguished Teaching Award. “established by the AOA medical honor society in 1988 to provide national recognition to faculty members who have distinguished themselves in medical student education.”  Four awards are given annually at the national meeting of the Association of American Medical Colleges

2016    Education Innovation Award, Weill Cornell Medical College

2018    New Georgia Literary Arts Achievement Award

Board Certifications
American Board of Internal Medicine
Languages
English
Education 
  • M.D.
    University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
    1986
Appointments 
  • Attending Physician
    NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
  • Professor of Clinical Medicine
    Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University

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