Updated on Feb 8, 2018 | Community, Featured
Julie Seltzer receives a check-up from Elizabeth Choi, DO, in the new Stuyvesant Town facility.
The Mount Sinai Health System has opened two new practices, one in Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village in Manhattan and the other in the Dumbo neighborhood in Brooklyn, both of which will enhance the ability of New Yorkers to access quality health care services
close to where they live and work.
“I like to think of our Mount Sinai Doctors Stuyvesant Town facility as a small-town medical practice within a large urban environment,” says Kelly Cassano, DO, Chief of Ambulatory Care at Mount Sinai Beth Israel. “This is a place where patients of all ages, from infants to the elderly, will find a family doctor who will establish a long-term relationship with them, with the aim of keeping them healthy.”
Stuyvesant Town patient Sushila Patel with Freddie C. Verzosa, MD, MPH, at the new location at 518 East 20th Street.
On Thursday, January 11, a few weeks after the practice opened its doors to patients, community leaders from Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village gathered with representatives from the Mount Sinai Health System at a ribbon-cutting ceremony. On the same day, the practice held an open house for members of the community, who received free flu shots and snacks, and hosted arts and crafts activities for children.
The practice is a key addition to Mount Sinai’s presence in downtown Manhattan. It will have a full-time staff of family medicine physicians, and offer sessional care in orthopedics, dermatology, podiatry, and other specialties, as well as longitudinal primary care, walk-in care, and specialty care.
“Our goal is to keep people healthy and out of the hospital by providing compassionate, continuous, and coordinated care closer to home,” says Jeremy Boal, MD, Executive Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer, Mount Sinai Health System, and President, Mount Sinai Downtown. “That is the most important premise behind the new Mount Sinai Beth Israel and investment downtown.”
Rick Hayduk, Chief Executive Officer and General Manager at StuyTown Property Services, which manages the residential property, says the facility is a welcome addition to the community. “The opening of this practice means residents can easily access Mount Sinai’s high quality medical care. We are pleased to welcome this quality-of-life improvement for those who live and work in our community.”
Staff at the Dumbo location, from left: Judah Fierstein, MD; Catherine Lopez; Amanda Magli; Ernesto Bodur; and Hillary Moritz. The facility is located at 110 York Street, Second Floor.
At the Mount Sinai Health System’s newest Urgent Care center in Brooklyn’s Dumbo neighborhood—located between the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges—Mount Sinai leaders joined representatives from local businesses for their ribbon-cutting ceremony on Thursday, January 25. The practice features five exam rooms, onsite X-ray services, and extended hours with no appointment needed.
The Dumbo facility is expected to serve neighborhood residents, and employees who work in many of the start-ups and technology companies that are now located in the area. The new Urgent Care center joins similar Mount Sinai practices in Inwood, the Upper West Side, Union Square, and in nearby Brooklyn Heights.
Judah Fierstein, MD, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Medical Director of Mount Sinai Doctors Urgent Care, says patients at the Dumbo location will have access to the resources of the Mount Sinai Health System if they need follow-up care. Additionally, Mount Sinai’s practice in Brooklyn Heights, staffed by more than a dozen different specialists, as well as urgent care specialists, is a 15-minute walk from Dumbo.
“The Mount Sinai name stands for compassionate care of the highest order,” says Burton Drayer, MD, Chief Executive Officer of the Mount Sinai Doctors Faculty Practice, Dean for Clinical Affairs, and the Dr. Charles M. and Marilyn Newman Professor of Radiology, and Mount Sinai Health System Chair of the Department of Radiology. “That is exactly what New Yorkers who live or work in the neighborhood will find at the Mount Sinai Urgent Care practice in Dumbo.”
Feb 5, 2018 | Community, Global Health
Sandeep Kishore, MD, PhD
The Arnhold Institute for Global Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has partnered with the drug company Teva Pharmaceutical Industries to address the increasing incidence of multiple chronic conditions (MCCs) among adults worldwide, an issue tied to decreased quality of life and rising health care costs.
Mount Sinai and Teva announced the collaboration at the World Economic Forum’s Sustainable Development Impact Summit in New York City last fall. At the event, Teva introduced data showing that globally one in three adults, and two in three adults over the age of 65, have MCCs—defined as having two or more chronic conditions, such as hypertension, high cholesterol, diabetes, asthma, obesity, substance use disorders, and anxiety. The study showed that in the United States, patients with MCCs account for more than 70 percent of total health care spending, and that health care costs almost double with each additional chronic condition. The study also showed that MCCs greatly reduce a patient’s ability to comply with medication, increase the likelihood of depressive symptoms, and increase the burden of care placed upon families and health facilities.
Under the leadership of Sandeep Kishore, MD, PhD, Associate Director at The Arnhold Institute for Global Health, Mount Sinai will work with Teva to research innovative primary care models that coordinate treatment of different conditions across providers, using behavioral economics to simplify medication adherence. Mount Sinai also will help advance technology-based solutions such as apps to monitor and manage symptoms and side effects. Initially, patients will be drawn from Mount Sinai’s outpatient Peak Health program, which assigns teams of physicians, nurses, social workers, and coordinators to care for people with MCCs.
Updated on Feb 8, 2018 | Community, Patient Stories
Veena Agarwal and Sundar Jagannath, MD
A 4’ x 6’ floral landscape painting hangs in the Derald H. Ruttenberg Treatment Center at Mount Sinai thanks to Veena Agarwal, a multimedia artist and patient of Sundar Jagannath, MD, Director, Multiple Myeloma Program, The Mount Sinai Hospital.
Diagnosed with stage III multiple myeloma in 2007, Ms. Agarwal has since waged a decade-long fight against the disease. After a particular reoccurrence left her quite ill, Dr. Jagannath asked Ms. Agarwal what she needed to do to help lift her spirits. “I wanted to walk again and to paint again,” Ms. Agarwal told him. “Both of my wishes were granted by the doctors of Mount Sinai. They inspired me.”
Ms. Agarwal was selected to exhibit 47 paintings at The Creative Center, a nonprofit organization in Manhattan that holds workshops and promotes artistic expression among those with cancer and chronic illnesses. The large biopharmaceutical company Celgene has also commissioned her to complete an 8’ x 5’ painting for its corporate office in New Jersey. “I am very happy to do it,” says Ms. Agarwal. “Colors have come back into my life.”
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Community
From left: Richard P. Warner, MD, and Edward M. Wolin, MD
A conference room at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai was the setting for a passing-of-the-gavel ceremony held on Friday, January 5, which formalized the new leadership of Mount Sinai’s Center for Carcinoid and Neuroendocrine Tumors. Richard P. Warner, MD, Professor of Medicine (Gastroenterology), who founded the Center and established its reputation for world-class research and treatment of neuroendocrine tumors, officially passed the gavel to his longtime mentee and esteemed colleague Edward M. Wolin, MD, who will begin leading the Center in March. Dr. Wolin currently serves as Director of the Neuroendocrine Tumor Program at Montefiore Einstein Center for Cancer Care.
Michelle Kang Kim, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine (Gastroenterology), who has served as the Center’s Interim Director and will be the Center’s Associate Director after Dr. Wolin’s arrival, presided over the passing-of-the-gavel ceremony, which was attended by the Center’s multidisciplinary team of specialists that includes gastroenterologists, radiologists, surgeons, hematologists/oncologists, and cardiologists, among other specialties.
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Community
Gabriel Yum and Clarisse Quirit, third and fourth from left, respectively, with, from left, patients Belita Jones, George Jensen, and Brian Ulysee.
Self-discovery, independence, and appreciating others while recovering from an injury were among the topics captured in a photo exhibit featuring 61 patients and employees in the Mount Sinai Health System’s Department of Rehabilitation Medicine that was displayed in the Guggenheim Pavilion in late January.
The exhibit was hosted by Recreational Therapy and the portraits were accompanied by expressive stories and quotes from the subjects.
“When people read the stories, they can relate,” says Gabriel Yum, an undergraduate intern with the Department and one of the exhibit’s creators, who conducted the interviews and took the photographs under the supervision of Clarisse Quirit, CTRS, Recreational Therapist.
“I want people to understand that they matter.” The exhibit was modeled after Humans of New York, the popular photoblog and book that features photographs and stories of everyday people in New York City.
