Ideas and Innovation
Mount Sinai Programming at Aspen Ideas 2026
Aspen Ideas: Health
June 22–25
Featured Program
Reimagining Youth Mental Health
Solutions to the growing youth mental health crisis are moving beyond traditional clinical settings to incorporate sports, play, music, and creative arts into care. Leaders from medicine, community-based programs, and professional sports highlight how Mount Sinai Health System and its partners are redefining mental health support and scaling culturally relevant, community-driven models to meet young people where they are—from locker rooms to clinics. By integrating creative expression and athletic engagement into care delivery, these powerful, evidence-based interventions promote psychological safety, foster trust, reduce stress, and build resilience, improving outcomes for vulnerable populations. (Presented by Mount Sinai Health System)
Monday, June 22 | 3:30 PM MT
Location to be announced
Moderated By
Brendan G. Carr, MD, MA, MS
Chief Executive Officer
Professor and Kenneth L. Davis, MD, Distinguished Chair
Mount Sinai Health System
Sandra M. Brunson, MD
Co-Founder and Chief Financial Officer
Second Round Foundation
Russel Wilson
Super Bowl Champion Quarterback, Entrepreneur, Sports Owner, and Philanthropist
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Sidney Hankerson, MD, MBA
Vice Chair, Community Engagement, Department of Psychiatry
Director of Mental Health Equity Research
Institute for Health Equity Research Center
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Russell Wilson
Super Bowl Champion Quarterback, Entrepreneur, Sports Owner, and Philanthropist
Sarah Wood, MD, MS
Chief of Adolescent Medicine
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Director of the Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center
Mount Sinai Health System
Additional Events
Reimagining Medical Education
As the medical school curriculum evolves in response to AI and other new technology, humane medicine has never been more important. Evidence shows that nutrition, exercise, social connection, and the arts are keys to good health, and that structural barriers to care generate enormous health disparities. But physicians-in-training learn less about promoting well-being than about fixing ailments, and academic preparation isn’t keeping pace with today’s evolving health demands. How do we bridge that gap, strengthen the workforce pipeline, and reconsider medical education so it truly meets the needs of patients and communities?
Tuesday, June 23 | Time TBD
Location to be announced
Moderated By
Kenneth L. Davis, MD
Executive Vice Chairman, Board of Trustees
Mount Sinai Health System
Uché Blackstock
Founder and CEO
Advancing Health Equity
David Skorton
President and CEO
Association of American Medical Colleges
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Sharmila Makhija
Founding Dean and CEO
Alice L. Walton School of Medicine
David Skorton
President and CEO
Association of American Medical Colleges
Healthcare Costs
Description coming soon…
Thursday, June 25 | 9:00 AM MT
Location to be announced
Moderated By
Dan Gorenstein
Founder and Executive Editor
Tradeoffs
Stephanie Carlton
Chief of Staff and Deputy Administrator
CMS
David Cutler
Professor of Applied Economics
Harvard University
John Love
VP
Amazon Pharmacy
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Brendan G. Carr, MD, MA, MS
Chief Executive Officer
Professor and Kenneth L. Davis, MD, Distinguished Chair
Mount Sinai Health System
David Cutler
Professor of Applied Economics
Harvard University
Katerina Guerraz
Chief Operating Officer
Aetna
John Love
VP
Amazon Pharmacy
Aspen Ideas Festival
June 25 – July 1
Featured Program
The Longevity Moonshot: Personalized, Predictive, and Restorative Health
Health care is on the cusp of a shift—from treating disease to actively preserving and restoring function across the lifespan. Emerging advances in data integration, biology, and clinical innovation are making it possible to monitor health continuously, identify risks earlier, and intervene with unprecedented precision. But the next frontier goes further—not just predicting decline but reversing it.
This session will bring together investigators from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and XPRIZE Healthspan semifinalists to explore how integrating multi-system biological data, advanced imaging, and real-world monitoring can fundamentally redefine aging. Mount Sinai’s NYC-VITA trial—a first-of-its-kind effort combining lifestyle and therapeutic interventions—offers a tangible example of how these approaches can be deployed to restore immune resilience, cognitive function, and physical vitality in older adults.
Panelists will examine how these innovations can bridge discovery and delivery—powering smarter clinical trials, enabling more continuous and personalized care models, and accelerating the development of interventions designed not just to extend lifespan, but to add years of strength, clarity, and independence. The conversation will also confront critical questions: what evidence thresholds, regulatory frameworks, and ethical guardrails are needed to ensure these advances deliver equitable, privacy-conscious benefits at scale?
As health systems move toward a more proactive, precision-driven model, this discussion will highlight what it takes to translate breakthrough science into everyday care—and what it will mean to truly change how we age. (Presented by Mount Sinai Health System)
Monday, June 29 | 11:00 AM MT
Location to be announced
Moderated By
Brendan G. Carr, MD, MA, MS
Chief Executive Officer
Professor and Kenneth L. Davis, MD, Distinguished Chair
Mount Sinai Health System
Fanny Elahi, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neurology, Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence and Human Health, and Pathology, Molecular and Cell-Based Medicine
Director of The Glickenhaus Center for Successful Aging
Eimear E. Kenny, PhD
Professor of Genetics and Genomic Sciences
Director of the Institute for Genomic Health
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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Zahi A. Fayad, PhD
Lucy G. Moses Professor of Medical Imaging and Bioengineering
Vice Chair for Research in Radiology
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Director of the BioMedical Engineering and Imaging Institute
Eimear E. Kenny, PhD
Professor of Genetics and Genomic Sciences
Director of the Institute for Genomic Health
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Anuradha (Anu) Lala-Trindade (Lala), MD
Professor of Medicine (Cardiology), Population Health Science and Policy, and Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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