Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Community, School
You could say Denisse Rojas Marquez is a modern-day Phoenix: a woman who has overcome every obstacle life has thrown in her goal-oriented path with inspirational resilience and tenacity, defying the odds at every turn.
Despite being an undocumented immigrant and ineligible for financial aid, Denisse not only graduated from UC Berkeley—but also co-founded Pre-Health Dreamers (PHD) to provide resources and advocacy for other undocumented youth like herself. Today, as the first undocumented student to attend the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS), Denisse is one of 30 2016 recipients of The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. (more…)
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Community, Inside
From left: David L. Reich, MD, President, The Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai Queens; Marie Winfield, newly elected CAB Vice Chair; John S. Winkleman; Gary Rosenberg, PhD; and David C. Thomas, MD.
Gary Rosenberg, PhD, the Edith J. Baerwald Professor of Preventive Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, received an award for 30 years of service as Chair of the Mount Sinai Community Advisory Board (CAB) when he retired from that position on Tuesday, February 23.
“Dr. Rosenberg has done a remarkable job chairing the CAB, forging strong connections to the community—particularly the residents of East Harlem—and ensuring that The Mount Sinai Hospital listens and responds to their health care needs and interests,” says John S. Winkleman, Trustee and Chair, Community Relations Committee, Mount Sinai Health System. David C. Thomas, MD, Professor of Medicine (Internal Medicine), Medical Education, and Rehabilitation Medicine, has been elected as the new Chair of the CAB, which was formed in 1979 as a Boards of Trustees committee.
Mar 19, 2016 | Community, Global Health
Guest post by Molly Lieber, LMSW, MPH, Project Manager of the Division of Global Women’s Health in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Science at The Mount Sinai Hospital.
Ann Marie Beddoe, MD, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Science at The Mount Sinai Hospital.
Our Director, Dr. Ann Marie Beddoe, has traveled to Liberia, a small country in West Africa, for the past 9 years. With a focus on gynecologic oncology, Dr. Beddoe has been focused on the continuum of care for women with cancer. Specifically, she has worked to advocate for increased cervical cancer screening, trained local health care workers to diagnose and treat women with cancer, and has provided both chemotherapy and surgery to local patients. (more…)
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Community, Inside, Your Health
Brad Beckstrom, second from left, and Daniel Reyes, Deputy Executive Director, New York Common Pantry, far right, distribute food to Ramona Perez, left, and Jose Martell at the Bonifacio Cora Texidor Senior Center.
The New York Common Pantry (NYCP), which has the long-standing support of the Mount Sinai Health System, recently began delivering nutritionally balanced food directly to community providers that serve or house senior citizens. Ultimately, about 13,500 seniors a month will receive food through this new program. NYCP already provides hot meals and support services to more than 49,000 individuals a year at the organization’s 8 East 109th Street site. Brad Beckstrom, Senior Director of Government and Community Affairs, Mount Sinai Health System, who serves on the NYCP Board of Directors, says, “We strongly believe in the mission of the New York Common Pantry and provide financial support, give turkeys and hams at Thanksgiving and Christmas, partner with them on promoting healthy eating, and distribute coupons for shopping at the green markets. Many Mount Sinai volunteers also offer their services.”
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Community, Inside, School, Your Health
At the John F. Kennedy Medical Center in Monrovia, Liberia, health officials, doctors, residents, and medical students gathered for grand rounds on the importance of research that were presented by Mount Sinai’s OBGYN team.
After suspending travel to Liberia during the largest outbreak of Ebola in history, faculty at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai resumed their teaching trips to the West African country last fall, with renewed efforts to improve women’s health.
Led by Ann Marie Beddoe, MD, Assistant Professor, Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science, members of the Mount Sinai community have undertaken several initiatives in Liberia since they began working there in 2008. They are helping to train the country’s first residents in obstetrics and gynecology and have applied for a grant from the National Institutes of Health to help build a cancer center. They have also trained nurses to conduct human papillomavirus (HPV) screenings and counsel patients. (more…)
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Community, Inside
Children created snow globes and crowns at “Winter Wonderland.”
Mount Sinai Doctors Urgent Care Inwood hosted a “Winter Wonderland” for 160 children and their parents on Friday, December 18. The young guests created ice cream cone ornaments, built mini popsicle-sleds, made snow globes, and warmed up at a hot chocolate cookie bar. The children, who are students from Good Shepherd School; Public School 98; PS 310 Marble Hill; and Elementary School for Math, Science, and Technology, also played in an igloo teepee, went “ice fishing,” and had their photos taken with Elsa, Anna, and Olaf, characters from Walt Disney’s film Frozen©. Staffed by Mount Sinai physicians, the Urgent Care facility provides convenient access to immediate medical attention for the Inwood community, which is located in Manhattan’s northernmost neighborhood.
