Fourth-year medical student Emily Leven, center, with first-year medical student Emma Stanislawski and second-year medical student Eddie Cytryn.

Students from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai distributed more than 150 gifts—at a value of more than $4,000—to patients of the East Harlem Health Outreach Partnership (EHHOP) on Saturday, December 16. The student-run clinic provides free health care to uninsured patients in East Harlem. The students compiled an Amazon “wish list” of gift requests for patients or their family members that included winter clothing, kitchenware, children’s toys, and books. “We were so pleased by how many people generously contributed,” says Emily Leven, a fourth-year medical student who led the project. Ms. Leven credited the success to medical students and faculty, doormen at the student residence building who helped organize packages on arrival, administration staff who helped publicize the event, and those who donated. “Donors purchased every gift we asked for and wrote kind notes to our patients,” she says. “It highlighted that we are part of a community here.”

Members of the Lung Screening Program with co-directors Claudia I. Henschke, PhD, MD, back row, left, and David Yankelevitz, MD, far right.

Several dozen individuals signed up for lung screenings at a recent event hosted by the Mount Sinai Health System’s Lung Screening Program in Guggenheim Pavilion to raise awareness about lung health. “We want certain at-risk people to understand they need an annual lung scan in much the same way they get an annual physical,” says Claudia I. Henschke, PhD, MD, Professor of Radiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and Lung Screening Program Co-Director. Attendees picked up literature, spoke with representatives from smoking cessation programs and lung cancer support groups, and were able to walk through a large inflated educational model of a pair of lungs.