Levy Library Celebrates 50 Years of Supporting Learners
The Levy Library at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has gone through many revamps and reiterations, but one thing remains the same—its steadfast mission of helping students, researchers, faculty, staff, and clinicians get the knowledge and information they...
Mount Sinai’s Lab Coat Ceremony: Instilling the Rigors and Responsibility of Science in PhD and MD-PhD Students
Neil Dhawan, PhD, had a story to share with the audience of new PhD and MD-PhD students who attended the 2024 Lab Coat ceremony at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Graduate School Biomedical Sciences. He was on familiar ground: Dr. Dhawan received both a...
AAMC Recognizes Mount Sinai Office of Gender Equity With Prestigious Award
A leader in health equity, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has made strides in recent years to develop innovative programs aimed at ensuring women have equal opportunities to excel. In recognition of these efforts, the Association of American Medical...
A New Hope on Organ Transplants for People With HIV
People with HIV are now living healthier, longer lives thanks to advances in antiretroviral therapy, but they can still have chronic diseases like diabetes and hypertension. Eventually, they might need organ replacements, like kidneys, but this group of people has...
From Brain Scans to Wearables, Learn More About the Research at Mount Sinai’s New AI Center
The Mount Sinai Health System has been an early adopter of artificial intelligence (AI) in improving patient care and health over the past few years, innovating in various clinical areas such as in imaging and patient monitoring. Now, the Health System is doubling on...
Three Things You Need to Know About Lung Cancer
True or false: Lung cancer only affects those who have smoked a long time. The answer: False. The actual connection between smoking and lung cancer is one of three key takeaways about lung cancer from the experts at Mount Sinai. Smoking is the leading cause of lung...
Advancing Health Equity With the Mount Sinai Million Health Discoveries Program
An essential part of achieving health equity is the fair collection of genomic data, ensuring that informed health care decisions can reflect the unique, diverse genomes of all cultures. Currently, there is a lack of diversity in genomic research data. This limits...
Advancing Health Equity at the ISQua 2024 Conference
The Mount Sinai Health System's Health Equity Data Assessment (HEDA) team made significant strides at the International Society for Quality in Health Care Conference in Istanbul,Turkey. Those attending included HEDA members Pamela Abner, MPA, CPXP, Senior Vice...
Celebrating Nurse Practitioner (NP) Week: NPs at the Heart of Health Care
The Nurse Practitioner (NP) profession originated in the 1960s through the collaborative and collegial efforts of nurse Loretta Ford, MS, EdD, FAAN, FAANP, and physician Henry Silver, MD, with an emphasis on illness prevention and health promotion including patient...