On Monday, May 20, a group from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai won the $10,000 grand prize at the Psychiatry Innovation Lab at the American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) 2019 Annual Meeting in San Francisco. The APA’s annual “Shark Tank style” competition features contestants pitching three-minute videos on their ideas for innovating and disrupting in the field of mental health care.
Murad Khan, MD, Annie Hart, MD, Isobel Rosenthal, MD, MBA, and Jordyn Feingold, MAPP and MD/MSCR candidate, won for their concept of Medimmunity, an online platform that helps medical students and residents connect and help each other survive the stress of medical training. The community is based on Mount Sinai’s PEERS program, which is a curriculum comprised of small group sessions that address medical school and residency stressors, and provide skills for managing these challenges.
From left to right: Murad Khan, MD, Annie Hart, MD, Psychiatry Innovation Lab judge Debbie Profit, PhD, Isobel Rosenthal, MD, MBA, and Jordyn Feingold, MAPP and MD/MSCR candidate. Photo courtesy of David Hathcox.