Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Community, Inside
Mount Sinai’s players included, from left: Justin R. Mascitelli, MD, Chief Neurosurgery Resident; Constantinos G. Hadjipanayis, MD, PhD, Professor and Chair of Neurosurgery at Mount Sinai Beth Israel; J Mocco, MD, MS, Professor and Vice Chair for Education; Christopher P. Kellner, MD, Assistant Professor and Director of the Intracerebral Hemorrhage Program; and Joshua B. Bederson, MD, Professor and Chairman of Neurosurgery at the Mount Sinai Health System.
Under a clear blue sky in June, faculty, residents, and fellows from the Mount Sinai Health System’s Department of Neurosurgery came to bat in a friendly charity softball competition in Central Park. The 13th Annual Neurosurgery Charity Softball Tournament, which supported the Neurosurgery Research and Education Foundation of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and pediatric brain tumor research, drew more than 25 teams from academic medical centers around the country and Canada. Held each year in Central Park, the event is hosted by Columbia University’s Department of Neurological Surgery.
This year, Mount Sinai’s team beat Michigan Health System’s, but lost close games to teams from University Medical Center at the University of Alabama and Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Community, Inside, Your Health
From left: Darren Fitzpatrick, MD; Ugo Ezenkwele, MD; Brian Radbill, MD, FACP; and Fernando C. Carnavali, MD, at the Mount Sinai Queens Ambulatory Pavilion
Against a backdrop of an evolving national health care system increasingly focused on preventive medicine, outpatient surgical procedures, and other efforts to keep people healthy and out of the hospital, Mount Sinai Queens has opened the doors to its new Ambulatory Pavilion, a $175 million facility that allows it to better serve the health needs of its community and significantly expands its medical and surgical capabilities.
Mount Sinai Queens is located in the heart of Astoria and serves the communities of Western Queens and beyond. With the addition of the Ambulatory Pavilion and continued expansion, it is positioning itself to care for more patients and extend its geographical reach throughout New York City’s largest borough. (more…)
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Community, Inside, School
Neil Calman, MD, left, with Gail and Alfred B. Engelberg
The newly named Alfred and Gail Engelberg Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai was officially unveiled during a recent plaque dedication and reception that honored Alfred B. Engelberg and his wife, Gail May Engelberg, for their generous $4 million gift.
“Mount Sinai is the only academic medical center in Manhattan to recognize that training family physicians who are capable of providing high-quality and low-cost care in urban neighborhoods is essential to the health and well-being of New York City,” said Mr. Engelberg. “We are proud to support this effort.” (more…)
Jun 8, 2016 | Community, Inside
David C. Thomas, MD, Professor of Medicine (Internal Medicine), Medical Education, and Rehabilitation Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, recently received a 2016 OTTY (Our Town Thanks You) Award from Our Town, a local newspaper serving the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The OTTY Awards honor individuals who perform outstanding community service. Dr. Thomas is Co-founder and Medical Director of the East Harlem Health Outreach Partnership, a free clinic for uninsured patients run by Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai students. He recently was elected Chair of the Mount Sinai Community Advisory Board, which was formed in 1979 as a Boards of Trustees committee.
May 21, 2016 | Community, Inside, Your Health
The Institute for Advanced Medicine has relocated the Spencer Cox Morningside Clinic to renovated space at 440 West 114th Street and renamed it the Morningside Clinic. The new site provides patients with a more convenient and comfortable setting that includes a spacious waiting room with a television, and a pediatric waiting area. The Morningside Clinic continues to provide patients with HIV/AIDS treatment and other services, including dental, integrative medicine, and behavioral health care. The attendees at a recent ribbon-cutting ceremony (see photo) included, from left: Vani P. Gandhi, MD, Interim Medical Director, Morningside Clinic, and Assistant Clinical Professor, Medicine (Infectious Diseases), Mount Sinai St. Luke’s; Michael P. Mullen, MD, Director, and Matt Baney, Senior Director, Institute for Advanced Medicine; and Judith A. Aberg, MD, Dr. George Baehr Professor of Clinical Medicine, and Division Chief, Infectious Diseases.
Updated on Jul 4, 2025 | Community, Inside, School
From left: Steven Philemond, Clinical Research Coordinator, Neurosurgery, examines a brain image with Amir Du Bose and Andre Levins, students from the Eagle Academy for Young Men.
More than 100 volunteers from the Mount Sinai Health System and 500 local students and members of East Harlem and surrounding communities participated in the Fourth Annual Brain Awareness Fair on Tuesday, March 15, in The Mount Sinai Hospital’s Guggenheim Pavilion Atrium.
Educational hands-on activities and demonstrations included building neuron models out of pipe cleaners, examining models of brains from different animals, observing monkey brain neurons under a microscope, and learning how the five senses function within the brain. (more…)
