Zibby Schwarzman and Kyle Owens, Crystal Party Chairs
More than 1,100 leaders, staff, supporters, and friends of the Mount Sinai Health System celebrated a year of significant progress and accomplishments on Thursday, May 4, at the 32nd annual Crystal Party, Mount Sinai’s major social event of the season. The Crystal Party is a festive occasion that raises several million dollars annually and helps support key educational, clinical, and research programs of the Health System and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Guests enjoyed cocktails, dinner, and dancing inside a huge tent adorned with pink and orange flowers and multicolored lights that was located in the Central Park Conservatory Garden.
Mount Sinai Trustee Zibby Schwarzman and Kyle Owens chaired this year’s celebration. Other members of the event’s leadership included Doctor Chairs: Frances Cartwright, PhD, and Peter Alcarese; Leesa M. Galatz, MD, and David J. Finlay, MD; Kathleen and William B. Inabnet III, MD; and Cindie and Donald Kastenbaum, MD; and Friends of Mount Sinai Chairs: Dayna and Thomas Sessa.
Peter W. May, Chairman, Boards of Trustees, Mount Sinai Health System, welcomed guests and thanked them for their support in helping Mount Sinai push the “boundaries of medicine, while also succeeding in a new cost-conscious era of health care delivery.” Mr. May said, “In recent months, our teams have made discoveries regarding cancers of the blood, liver, and bladder; congenital heart defects; sepsis; and autism.” As a “world-class health system that encompasses seven hospitals, numerous centers of excellence for specialized care, and dozens of ambulatory clinics, we have positioned Mount Sinai for success in the new era of value-focused population health management.”
Howard C. Katz and Mount Sinai Emeritus Trustee Ellen P. Katz
Mount Sinai Trustee Blaine V. Fogg and Diane Fogg
Kenneth L. Davis, MD, President and Chief Executive Officer, Mount Sinai Health System, told the attendees, “We have become a health system that takes advantage of its size and geography to produce efficiencies and economies of scale. We are also growing and investing in all our facilities and the communities we serve.”
Dr. Davis said Mount Sinai’s downtown practices on the East and West Sides of Manhattan are becoming centers of excellence in multiple specialties, and the Mount Sinai Health System is becoming truly integrated, with The Mount Sinai Hospital excelling in intensive care, among other areas; Mount Sinai West specializing in orthopedics and neurosurgery; and Mount Sinai St. Luke’s pursuing advances in heart disease. “Your philanthropy,” he told the guests, “is a very meaningful part of all that progress.”
From left: U.S. Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) with Kenneth L. Davis, MD, and Peter W. May