The 35th annual Mount Sinai Children’s Center Foundation (CCF) Benefit will return to the Big Apple Circus on Sunday, November 13. Click here to purchase tickets.
With your ticket purchase and donation, you will enjoy a private performance under the “Big Top at Lincoln Center” and support pediatric health care leaders and vital programming in the Jack and Lucy Clark Department of Pediatrics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Proceeds from this year’s benefit will support junior physician-scientists conducting groundbreaking research in pediatric diseases; the Program for Underserved Children, caring for New York City’s low income children by providing critical services that address both their medical and psychosocial needs; and the Child Life and Creative Arts Therapy Department, where children can be creative, cope with their hospitalization, and just be kids.
This is the Foundation’s largest fundraiser and an opportunity to bring together the Mount Sinai community of faculty, staff, patients and friends. The benefit will be a fun-filled family day with a private performance of the Big Apple Circus, activities and gifts for the kids, and complimentary refreshments. Doors open at 3 pm, and the private performance begins at 4 pm. The Big Apple Circus is located in Damrosch Park at Lincoln Center.
This year’s benefit chairs are CCF board members Elizabeth and Jonathan Lewinsohn. The event will also honor Barry Stein, MD, who has cared for thousands of children and families across New York City for over three decades.
Since its inception, the CCF has raised nearly $30 million for the children and families of Mount Sinai, primarily through the annual Big Apple Circus benefit. The past proceeds have been used to support the mission of the Program for Underserved Children which is to develop a research program that can improve the care of children growing up in poverty nationwide.
Mount Sinai is deeply committed to addressing health inequities that exist in the United States, differences laid bare and magnified by the COVID-19 pandemic. The vision of the Jack and Lucy Clark Department of Pediatrics is to ensure that all children and their families are supported in living healthy and happy lives.
Underserved children face numerous psychosocial and medical challenges and have greatly benefitted from the coordinated and targeted approach the Department developed through the Program for Underserved Children. The goal is to expand a focus on high-quality preventive care and accelerate the diagnosis and treatment of diseases that disproportionately affect underserved children—diabetes, obesity, fatty liver disease, and asthma—while addressing the critical social determinants of health.
Proceeds have also been used to advance Child Life and Creative Arts Therapy by helping young patients cope with their fears and anxieties by offering therapeutic activities tailored to meet their social, emotional, and educational needs.
“The tremendous support the Department of Pediatrics receives from the CCF and the annual Big Apple Circus benefit helps to ensure our ability to provide top-quality care for our youngest patients,” says Lisa M. Satlin, MD, Herbert H. Lehman Professor and System Chair of the Jack and Lucy Clark Department of Pediatrics. “We are deeply grateful for the efforts of the CCF.”