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...
Fashionably Fighting Multiple Sclerosis at New York Fashion Week
During New York Fashion Week, hundreds of attendees gathered for Project Lab Coat—a showcase of custom-designed, colorful lab coats created and designed by Anthony Rosa, founder and CEO of Runway 7 Fashion, a Fashion Week production company. More than 30 faculty,...
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...