Daniel Maklansky, MD, MSH ’62
Radiologist, New York Medical Imaging Associates
Attending Radiologist, The Mount Sinai Hospital
Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Radiology
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Daniel Maklansky, MD, MSH ’62, one of nine accomplished physicians and researchers who received the 2019 Jacobi Medallion—one of Mount Sinai’s highest awards—has been associated with Mount Sinai since beginning his radiology residency 60 years ago.
“He is the exemplar of an outstanding clinician with world-class expertise in inflammatory bowel disease. He has been revered by our students and our faculty as an outstanding teacher,” says Dennis S. Charney, MD, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and President for Academic Affairs for the Mount Sinai Health System. “And he has been dedicated to Mount Sinai to make sure that our hospital and our medical school is one of the best in the world.”
“Working with your father is special. Watching how he interacts with patients and other physicians and treating people—that is an invaluable lesson that is never taught,” says Joseph Maklansky, MD, Radiologist, New York Medical Imaging Associates, and Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Radiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. “He loves what he does. He does it not to be honored but to take care of people. I think my father deserves this award because he has devoted his life, his energy, and every breathing moment to the patients and staff of Mount Sinai.”
Dr. Maklansky has authored or co-authored 24 peer-reviewed publications as well as multiple chapters in the gastrointestinal radiology literature. He has also trained countless medical students, radiology residents, and gastroenterology fellows, both in weekly conferences that he co-chaired over many years, as well as in rotations through his office. Dr. Maklansky has been very involved with the Association of the Attending Staff of Mount Sinai, and served as the Scientific Course Director of its annual symposium over many years.
Dr. Maklansky has also been at the forefront of innovation. Before the introduction of colonoscopy and endoscopy, doctors had no way to know what was happening inside the patient. GI radiology allowed them to image the intestine and provide a diagnosis.
“He was on the cutting-edge of radiology,” says Jerome D. Waye, MD, Professor, Department of Medicine (Gastroenterology) at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. “He was a super clinician that made a big difference in the field of radiology. He wouldn’t just look at an X-ray and dismiss it as a piece of plastic, but he actually cared about what was behind the X-ray what happened to the patient, how the patient did, and what the outcome was.”
