Participating in the blood drive were, from left: Marc Napp, MD, Chief Medical Affairs Officer, Mount Sinai Health System; Jeffrey Farber, MD, MBA, Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer for Population Health, Mount Sinai Health System; and Judith A. Aberg, MD.
Mount Sinai hosted a blood drive on Monday, October 17, in memory of the renowned hematologist Janet Cuttner, MD, a beloved faculty member at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai for more than 50 years who passed away in August. The drive, which took place in the Annenberg Building lobby, received donations from 136 staff and visitors, surpassing its goal of 100. “Mount Sinai Hospital uses 28,000 units of red cells annually and efforts like this help to ensure that there is an adequate blood supply in New York,” says Jeffrey S. Jhang, MD, Director, Blood Bank and Transfusion Services, The Mount Sinai Hospital, who co-chaired the event with Judith A. Aberg, MD, Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases. “I would like to extend my sincere appreciation to every individual for donating their blood, a precious gift of life,” Dr. Aberg says.