Nearly 350 faculty, staff, and alumni recently gathered at The Plaza to honor eight physician-leaders with the 2015 Jacobi Medallion—the Mount Sinai Health System’s highest award for distinguished achievement in medicine or extraordinary clinical and educational service within the Health System.
At the gala, held Thursday, March 19, Dennis S. Charney, MD, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and President for Academic Affairs, Mount Sinai Health System, announced a $1.6 million gift from The Mount Sinai Alumni Association, under the leadership of Lyris A. Schonholz, MD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai class of ’83. This is the largest alumni gift in Mount Sinai’s history and will enable the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to continue to attract promising students and extend tuition support to those in need.
“This remarkable gift comes at a pivotal time for Mount Sinai and for health care,” Dr. Charney told attendees at the event. “We are revolutionizing medical school education and admissions, and inventing new models for health care delivery, and our scientists are breaking new ground in diagnosing, treating, and preventing disease.”