Learn About the First Flu Vaccine You Can Administer Yourself
On Friday, September 20, 2024, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved FluMist®, a nasal spray flu vaccine that you can give to yourself or a loved one easily. This means you will be able to get a flu vaccine without going to a health care professional...
Caring for the Community: Jill Goldstein, RN, MA, MS, Deputy Chief Nursing Officer of Mount Sinai Queens
Jill Goldstein, RN, MA, MS, is all about community. As the nurse leader at Mount Sinai Queens, she oversees a 225-licensed-bed hospital that provides care to the surrounding neighborhoods of western Queens. She directs and supports her team of round-the-clock nursing...
What You Need to Know About Participating in Autism Research at Mount Sinai
Clinical research is critical to advance our understanding of the causes of neurodevelopmental disorders and to develop effective treatments. The Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment at Mount Sinai maintains an active clinical research portfolio with a...
Computational Psychiatry Postdoctoral Fellow Earns NIH Director’s Early Independence Award
Cognitive scientist, computational neuroscientist, well-being researcher—it’s hard to choose only one label to describe Shawn Rhoads, PhD, who recently completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Center for Computational Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai Health...
How One Postdoctoral Fellowship Award Recipient Is Helping to Expand Our Knowledge of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Neurodegenerative Diseases
Kristen Whitney, PhD, whose research in the Department of Pathology, Molecular and Cell-Based Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, is aimed at uncovering the earliest changes that occur in the aging brain that are causing cells to die, was named the 2024...
My Story: A Doctor Becomes a Cancer Patient
Shari Brasner, MD, has been an obstetrician/gynecologist at Mount Sinai for more than three decades. She has always put her patients first, no matter what it took. But in the fall of 2020, she became a patient. Unexpectedly, she was diagnosed with a rare gynecologic...
Congratulations to the 2024 Mount Sinai Emergency Nurse Awardees
The Mount Sinai Department of Emergency Medicine recently hosted the annual Emergency Nurses Award Ceremony, celebrating 43 team members across six categories. In harmony with the Emergency Nurses Association’s Emergency Nurses Week theme, awardees were voted for by...
Mount Sinai Team Presents Research at World Professional Association for Transgender Health 28th Scientific Symposium
At the recent World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) 28th Scientific Symposium, “A Gender Diverse World in Global Unity,” Joshua Safer, MD, FACP, FACE, Executive Director of the Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery, and others...
Mount Sinai Phillips School of Nursing Marks Its 120th Anniversary and Its Commitment to Serving Society’s Need for Nurses
A joyful celebration of the 120th anniversary of the Mount Sinai Phillips School of Nursing took place on Wednesday, October 9. The event, held at the school campus in East Harlem, was attended by senior leaders from Mount Sinai, including Brendan Carr, MD, MA, MS,...