Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Community
Jon Batiste entertained patients and staff on the grand piano and melodica.
Jon Batiste, the renowned jazz pianist, leader of the group Stay Human, and bandleader for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, recently performed at the Louis Armstrong Center for Music and Medicine’s holiday concert. In the Mount Sinai Downtown-Union Square atrium, Mr. Batiste took to the grand piano, serenading an audience of patients and staff with holiday favorites. Mr. Batiste also played the melodica in accompanying Singing Together Measure by Measure, a choir of recovering stroke patients and caregivers. Actively involved with the Center, Mr. Batiste received the What a Wonderful World Award in 2014 and serves on the Center’s Steering Committee.
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Community
Susan Mirsky, center, with daughter Jennifer Mirsky, left, and Selassie Ogyaadu, MD, MPH, Clinical Research Coordinator, provided diabetes information at the health fair.
The Mount Sinai Hospital recently celebrated World Diabetes Day with a health fair in the Guggenheim Pavilion. A multidisciplinary team led by Camilla Levister, MS, ANP-C, CDE, from the Mount Sinai Diabetes Center, provided body-fat testing, type 2 diabetes risk assessment, and nutritional counseling. Several organizations were also on hand to promote healthy living, including the American Diabetes Association and the 92nd Street Y, which offered an exercise class for all fitness levels. Year-round, the Center’s Stanley Mirsky, MD Diabetes Education Unit offers free diabetes education classes in Spanish and English and social support for those at risk for the disease, or living with it. “Every year, my family and I are thrilled to volunteer at World Diabetes Day and get the word out about the Unit,” said Susan Mirsky, honorary Chair of the Unit, which is named for her late husband, a renowned Mount Sinai endocrinologist. “Diabetes is a uniquely self-controlled disease. We provide knowledge so that the patient—not diabetes—is in control.”
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Community
Patients Kayla Bonilla and Michael Maxwell clowned around with Cirque du Soleil performers at the Child Life Zone.
Performers from Cirque du Soleil’s Kurios: Cabinet of Curiosities brought their imaginative art form to life during a recent visit to the Child Life Zone at Kravis Children’s Hospital at Mount Sinai. Pediatric patients and their families enjoyed a short performance that brought smiles to their faces. Recorded in the KidZone TV studio within the Child Life Zone, the performance was broadcast live throughout the hospital for those who were unable to attend in person.
“The artists of the Cirque du Soleil truly lifted the spirits of our hospitalized children and families during their dynamic visit,” says Diane Rode, Director, Child Life and Creative Arts Therapy Department, Kravis Children’s Hospital.
A short time later, festivities continued when the Mount Sinai Children’s Center Foundation hosted its 30th annual benefit at Randall’s Island Park. Supporters saw a full performance of Cirque du Soleil’s Kurios: Cabinet of Curiosities and recorded hopeful, positive messages that were broadcast to hospitalized patients and their families via the KidZone TV studio.
A major fundraising event for the Department of Pediatrics, the benefit supports Child Life and Creative Arts Therapy programming for the most seriously ill pediatric patients. The benefit was chaired by Jennifer Deppe Parker, Stan Parker, Frederique Svider, and Raymond Svider, and honored Alfin G. Vicencio, MD, Chief of the Division of Pediatric Pulmonology in the Jack and Lucy Clark Department of Pediatrics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
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
