Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Community, Your Health
Participants at the Fifth Annual Dubin Breast Center Fact vs. Fiction Luncheon and Symposium included, from left: Sally Wolf, patient speaker; panelists Elisa Port, MD, FACS; Michael Brodman, MD; Laurie Margolies, MD, FACR; Jeffrey Mechanick, MD; Amy Tiersten, MD; and Mark Sultan, MD, FACS; Eva Andersson-Dubin, MD, Founder of the Dubin Breast Center and a Mount Sinai Trustee; and moderator Perri Peltz.
Is a mastectomy preferable to a lumpectomy? Can breast implants cause cancer? These were among the questions asked by attendees at the Fifth Annual Dubin Breast Center Fact vs. Fiction Luncheon and Symposium held in 2016, an informative event that sets the record straight on the myths surrounding breast cancer.
A panel of physicians from the Dubin Breast Center of The Tisch Cancer Institute and other departments within the Mount Sinai Health System addressed more than 130 guests on issues concerning breast health and cancer diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
With Perri Peltz, host of “Doctor Radio Reports,” a weekly public health program, serving as moderator, the Mount Sinai experts cleared up any doubts as to whether implants cause breast cancer—they do not—and explained that after consulting with their physicians, most women have a choice between a mastectomy and a lumpectomy. The physicians also discussed what happens when patients find themselves in the challenging situation of becoming pregnant, after receiving a breast cancer diagnosis.
The panelists represented breast surgery, medical oncology, breast cancer clinical research, breast imaging, precision medicine and obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive health. They were: Elisa Port, MD, FACS, Co-Director, Dubin Breast Center, Chief of Breast Surgery; Michael Brodman, MD, Professor and Chairman, Ellen and Howard C. Katz Chairman’s Chair, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science; Jeffrey Mechanick, MD, Clinical Professor of Medicine, Director of Metabolic Support, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Disease; Mark Sultan, MD, FACS, Co-Chief, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Associate Professor of Surgery; Laurie Margolies, MD, FACR, Chief, Breast Imaging; and Amy Tiersten, MD, Professor of Medicine (Hematology and Medical Oncology).
To view the event, go to https://philanthropy.mountsinai.org/video.
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Community, Featured, Patient Stories
After treatment for ovarian cancer, Valerie Goldfein created Woman to Woman, a program at The Mount Sinai Hospital to support other gynecologic cancer patients that has expanded nationwide.
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Community, Featured
More than 40 middle school students from several East Harlem schools were exposed to science, medicine and healthcare at The Mount Sinai Hospital during an event called “Day-With-A-Scientist: The Brain.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N9lOdvZ4Q0
Updated on Jan 26, 2017 | Community
A collaborative team, from left: Sudipto Srivastava, MBA, Senior Director, Information Technology; Dana Lewis, Director, Information Technology; Bruce Darrow, MD, PhD; Sandra Myerson, MBA, MS, RN; Samantha Violante, Senior Project Manager, Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology; and John Davey, Executive Director, Digital Marketing, Mount Sinai Health System.
The Mount Sinai Health System recently launched an Android version of its mobile app for patients, MountSinaiNY. The app is a one-touch patient experience, featuring information and links that make it easier to access and use health services.
“Research shows that when patients can see their health information, they take greater ownership of their wellness and are more prepared to interact with their providers,” says Sandra Myerson, MBA, MS, RN, Senior Vice President and Chief Patient Experience Officer, Joseph F. Cullman Jr. Institute for Patient Experience, Mount Sinai Health System.
The MountSinaiNY app was developed by the departments of Information Technology (eHealth and Epic teams), Marketing, and Finance in partnership with LifeMap Solutions. It was first released in the Apple App Store in June.
Since the Android update in November, it is also available in the Google Play store. “Now pretty much anyone with a smartphone can use our app,” says Dana Lewis, a Director on the eHealth team who led the project.
Through the app, which has received more than 2,200 downloads so far, users can book appointments, pay bills, request prescription refills, access their medical records, read a live blog, and look up general information about Mount Sinai facilities. The team envisions several possible updates for the future, including a “wayfinding” map feature, information on clinical trials, and options for patients to have “telemedicine” video calls.
“Patients visiting Mount Sinai want access to familiar technology that simplifies their experience,” says Bruce Darrow, MD, PhD, Chief Medical Information Officer, Mount Sinai Health System. “Offering our app on Android devices is the next step in helping our patients use the power of their mobile devices to improve their care.”
For questions or suggestions on the app, email mountsinainy@mountsinai.org.
Dec 12, 2016 | Community
From left: Richard Martin, MD, Chair, Department of Medicine, National Jewish Health; Michael Salem, MD; Charles A. Powell, MD, Janice and Coleman Rabin Professor of Pulmonary Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and Chief Executive Officer of the Respiratory Institute; Dennis S. Charney, MD; and Barbara Murphy, MD.
The Mount Sinai-National Jewish Health Respiratory Institute recently opened a newly renovated, state of-the-art practice on the Upper East Side. The location, at 10 East 102nd Street, features updated exam rooms, waiting areas and consultation offices, and suites equipped to diagnose and treat respiratory diseases.
“This is a symbolic event today,” Dennis S. Charney, MD, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean of the Icahn School of Medicine, and President for Academic Affairs for the Mount Sinai Health System, said at the ribbon-cutting. “It emphasizes the incredible, terrific collaborations ongoing between the scientists and clinicians at Mount Sinai and National Jewish Health.”
In December 2013, the Mount Sinai Health System entered a partnership with Denver-based National Jewish Health to create an integrated program for the diagnosis and treatment of respiratory illnesses, including asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and interstitial lung disease. The Celebrating New Site for Respiratory Institute partnership has proved successful, with the Mount Sinai pulmonary division ranked in the Top 50 by U.S. News & World Report and the Respiratory Institute on track to receive 20,000 patients in 2016. Before the new site opened, patients were seen in two temporary locations on the Upper East Side.
Michael Salem, MD, President and CEO of National Jewish Health, has a “great belief ” in the Institute’s potential. “The Icahn School of Medicine has the same values and a kinship with National Jewish Health in terms of providing a differentiated experience for patients, going after cures for difficult respiratory diseases, and educating the next generation of doctors and scientists,” Dr. Salem said.
In its outpatient programs, the Respiratory Institute utilizes an interdisciplinary approach developed by National Jewish Health. Pulmonologists collaborate with specialists in disciplines including cardiology, allergy, gastroenterology, rheumatology, ENT, and thoracic surgery, to provide team-based, patient-centered care. The Institute also draws on Mount Sinai’s programs in personalized medicine, genomics, and data-driven clinical protocols to enhance the quality and outcomes of care.
“As we move from fee-for-service to quality-based care, it is important that we see patients in their entirety and that we unite in caring for those patients,” said Barbara Murphy, MD, Murray M. Rosenberg Professor of Medicine, Health System Chair, Department of Medicine, and Dean for Clinical Integration and Population Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. “We see this practice as an excellent model of comprehensive, collaborative care that will help the Mount Sinai Health System achieve the critical objective of advancing care and patient satisfaction while reducing the cost of health care.”
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Community, Inside, Patient Stories
Three “generations” of mentors for Woman to Woman, a group that supports women with gynecologic cancer: from left, Robin Findling, Myrtice Wooten, and Tricia Clarke.
It was something of a family reunion when cancer survivors met on a recent Saturday at the 92nd Street Y—if a family can consist of 100 women from just about every generation and culture. What they had in common was Woman to Woman, a peer-to-peer program founded at Mount Sinai by Valerie Goldfein, an ovarian cancer survivor, that provides emotional support, mentoring, and financial aid to women in treatment for gynecologic cancer. (more…)
