From left: Melissa Leber, MD, Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, and Emergency Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; with James N. Gladstone, MD; and Alexis Chiang Colvin, MD.
Physicians and staff from the Mount Sinai Health System’s departments of Orthopaedics, Radiology, Rehabilitiation Medicine, and Dermatology were on hand to help the United States Tennis Association (USTA) kick off the 2017 US Open at a two-day event at the South Street Seaport in August. Amid the live entertainment, culinary tastings, and appearances by professional tennis players at the special US Open Experience, Mount Sinai’s physicians and staff shared information about the Health System’s clinical services and handed out branded towels, tennis balls, individual hand sanitizers, and water bottles.
For the fifth consecutive year, the Mount Sinai Health System has served as the official medical services provider to the USTA. As in prior years, physicians from Mount Sinai’s departments of Orthopaedics and Radiology provided onsite medical care to tennis players during the US Open. In addition, Mount Sinai’s Alexis Chiang Colvin, MD, Associate Professor, Sports Medicine, Chief Medical Officer,USTA; and James N. Gladstone, MD, Co-Director of Sports Medicine, Mount Sinai Health System, serve year-round as medical advisors to the US Fed Cup Team and US Davis Cup Team, respectively.
Members of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine joined Chair Joseph Herrera, DO, fourth from left, in kicking off the US Open at the South Street Seaport. From left: Ana Pena, Program Director; Aditya Raghunandan, MD, PGY3; Jonathan Ramin, MD, PGY2; Andrew Delgado, MS, Research Coordinator; and Gerardo Miranda-Comas, MD, Director, Sports Medicine Fellowship program.