Fifth Episode of Mount Sinai Future You

Sep 5, 2018 | Featured, Future You

The fifth episode of Mount Sinai Future You highlights “medical miracles” and shows the unique bond between a patient and her neurosurgeon, Joshua Bederson, MD, System Chair for the Department of Neurosurgery, who is also a sculptor. The painter from New Jersey discusses how recovering from brain surgery has affected her painting.

Mount Sinai Future You, which highlights innovation at Mount Sinai, is being broadcast on CUNY TV, the non-commercial educational-access cable channel run by The City University of New York.

Mount Sinai Future You takes viewers behind the scenes as doctors at Mount Sinai Health System leverage innovative science to change patients’ lives every day. The series  highlights preventative care and treatment models that will lead to better health and longer lives.

Mount Sinai Future You, Episode Five, also features:

  • Brian A. Coakley, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatric Surgery, uses a new form of chemotherapy, rarely used in children, to help save a young boy’s life.
  • Kenneth Rosenzweig, MD, System Chair of Radiation Oncology, uses advanced radiation to allow a basketball legend to forgo surgery and make it her hall of fame induction.
  • A team of doctors led by Valentin Fuster, MD, Director of Mount Sinai Heart, sets out to promote better heart health worldwide in a new documentary called “The Resilient Heart,” which is available on Amazon Prime.
  • Jagat Narula, MD, PhD, MACC, Director of the Cardiovascular Imaging Program, studies ancient mummies to uncover the history of heart disease.
  • Sean P. Pinney, MD, Director of Advanced Heart Failure and Heart Transplantation, shares the emotional journey of one patient who ended up in the ER after giving birth.
  • Researchers in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Disease, discuss the importance of finding new treatments for diabetes.
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Fourth Episode of Mount Sinai Future You

Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Featured, Future You

The fourth episode of Mount Sinai Future You features former supermodel Mahogany Phillips, who went through surgery to transition from male to female through Mount Sinai’s Transgender Fellowship program that is training the next generation of doctors to perform transgender surgeries. Mahogany received treatment from Jess Ting, MD, Associate Professor, Plastic and Reconstructive surgery.

Mount Sinai Future You, which highlights innovation at Mount Sinai, is being broadcast on CUNY TV, the non-commercial educational-access cable channel run by The City University of New York.

Mount Sinai Future You takes viewers behind the scenes as doctors at Mount Sinai Health System leverage innovative science to change patients’ lives every day. The series  highlights preventative care and treatment models that will lead to better health and longer lives.

Mount Sinai Future You, Episode Four, also features:

  • Denise Ely shares her story after receiving an “advanced age” liver transplant 20 years ago. Ely meets her donor’s family for the first time and discovers surprising similarities between her life and the life of her donor. Sander Florman, MD, Director of the Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute, and Nancy Bach, MD, Associate Clinical Professor of Liver Disease, discuss the future of liver transplant and how utilizing “at risk” organs allows more people to have this life-saving surgery.
  • Matilda, who was diagnosed with a severe form of Neonatal Hermochromatosis, became the youngest liver transplant recipient at Mount Sinai.
  • Manuel Rivera, a patient who went through medical treatment in the comfort of his own home. The Mobile Acute Care Team (MACT) has partnered with Contessa Health to create an efficient payment and operating model that decreases the cost of treatment for patients.
  • Ettore Vulcano, MD, Foot and Ankle Orthopedic Surgeon, uses new technology to perform minimally invasive foot surgeries that significantly decrease a patient’s recovery time and allows them to return to their normal lives much faster than expected.
  • Joanne Loewy, Director of the Louis Armstrong Center for Music and Medicine, shares research about how music therapy is helping decrease stress and anxiety levels among cancer patients, as well as those recovering from spine surgery.

New episodes of Mount Sinai Future You will run monthly, in the first week of each month, on Wednesdays at 9:30 pm, Thursdays at 6:30 am and 5 pm, and Saturdays at 11 am. They will cover newsworthy topics in medicine, as well as highlight new treatments, innovations, and preventive care for patients. The series is produced by Mount Sinai.

Here is where you can find this series:

Cable System CUNY TV Channel
Spectrum 75
Cablevision 75
Optimum Brooklyn 75
RCN Cable 77
Verizon FiOS 30

 *Some RCN digital cable and MMDS systems carry CUNY TV and/or NYC TV on different channel numbers. For example, some RCN systems in Manhattan and Queens carry CUNY TV on channel 24, 106 or 108. Please consult your cable provider directly to be sure.

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Third Episode of Mount Sinai Future You

Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Featured, Future You, Research

The third episode of Mount Sinai Future You features a 22-year-old man from Idaho with a rare facial tumor called a lymphangioma. Following two dozen unsuccessful surgeries, he sought treatment from Gregory Levitin, MD, Director of Vascular Birthmarks and Malformations at New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai, and one of the only surgeons in the country with expertise resecting these types of tumors.

Mount Sinai Future You, which highlights innovation at Mount Sinai, is being broadcast on CUNY TV, the non-commercial educational-access cable channel run by The City University of New York.

Mount Sinai Future You takes viewers behind the scenes as doctors at Mount Sinai Health System leverage innovative science to change patients’ lives every day. The series  highlights preventative care and treatment models that will lead to better health and longer lives.

Mount Sinai Future You, Episode Three, also features:

  • An interview with Paula Klein, MD, Medical Director of Breast Cancer Clinical Trials and Charles Shapiro, MD, Director of Translational Breast Cancer Research, on new technologies allowing breast cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy to keep their hair during treatment and the latest research allowing many early-stage breast cancer patients to avoid using chemotherapy.
  • David Stark, MD, Director of Lab 100, discusses the hybrid clinic-research lab that is leveraging data from physical fitness and cognitive tests to help doctors obtain a more comprehensive health assessment of their patients.
  • Sam Gandy, MD, PhD, Associate Director of Mount Sinai Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, and Joel Dudley, PhD, Director of the Institute for Next Generation Healthcare, discover a link between strains of the herpes virus and Alzheimer’s disease.
  • Kevin Costa, PhD, Director of Cardiovascular Cell and Tissue Engineering, shares the latest research on stem cells that are engineered to create new heart cells.

New episodes of Mount Sinai Future You will run monthly, in the first week of each month, on Wednesdays at 9:30 pm, Thursdays at 6:30 am and 5 pm, and Saturdays at 11 am. They will cover newsworthy topics in medicine, as well as highlight new treatments, innovations, and preventive care for patients. The series is produced by Mount Sinai.

Here is where you can find this series:

Cable System CUNY TV Channel
Spectrum 75
Cablevision 75
Optimum Brooklyn 75
RCN Cable 77
Verizon FiOS 30

 *Some RCN digital cable and MMDS systems carry CUNY TV and/or NYC TV on different channel numbers. For example, some RCN systems in Manhattan and Queens carry CUNY TV on channel 24, 106 or 108. Please consult your cable provider directly to be sure.

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Second Episode of Mount Sinai Future You

Jun 5, 2018 | Featured, Future You, Research


The second episode of Mount Sinai Future You features a patient who suffered an intracerebral hemorrhage, one of the most devastating forms of stroke, and who shares his miraculous recovery after neurosurgeons saved his life using a new surgical technique called “SCUBA.” J Mocco, MD, MS, Director of the Cerebrovascular Center, and Christopher Kellner, MD, Director of the Intracerebral Hemorrhage Program, discuss the procedure.

Mount Sinai Future You, which highlights innovation at Mount Sinai, is being broadcast on CUNY TV, the non-commercial educational-access cable channel run by The City University of New York.

Mount Sinai Future You takes viewers behind the scenes as doctors at Mount Sinai Health System leverage innovative science to change patients’ lives every day. The series  highlights preventative care and treatment models that will lead to better health and longer lives.

Mount Sinai Future You, Episode II, also features:

  • An interview with Roger Hajjar, MD, Arthur and Janet C. Ross Professor of Medicine, and Director of the Cardiovascular Research Center, about how gene therapy could one day treat heart disease.
  • Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, Director of Mount Sinai Heart, and Samin Sharma, MD, Director of Clinical and Interventional Cardiology, give an elderly patient a second chance at life with a minimally invasive heart procedure.
  • Researchers from the Departments of Neuroscience and Rehabilitation Medicine discuss the most updated science and the importance of raising awareness of and knowledge about traumatic brain injuries and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in women.
  • Rachel Yehuda, PhD, Director of the Traumatic Stress Studies Division, shares the latest research and clinical trials to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Janine Flory, PhD, Director of the PTSD Clinic at the Bronx VA Medical Center, provides insight on the link between traumatic brain injury and PTSD.
  • Hyunsuk Suh, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery, is offering patients a scarless robotic surgery for thyroidectomies.
  • The parents of a toddler share their emotional journey after their son’s challenging start in life due to a heart defect.

New episodes of Mount Sinai Future You will run monthly, in the first week of each month, on Wednesdays at 9:30 pm, Thursdays at 6:30 am and 5 pm, and Saturdays at 11 am. They will cover newsworthy topics in medicine, as well as highlight new treatments, innovations, and preventive care for patients. The series is produced by Mount Sinai.

Here is where you can find this series:

Cable System CUNY TV Channel
Spectrum 75
Cablevision 75
Optimum Brooklyn 75
RCN Cable 77
Verizon FiOS 30

 *Some RCN digital cable and MMDS systems carry CUNY TV and/or NYC TV on different channel numbers. For example, some RCN systems in Manhattan and Queens carry CUNY TV on channel 24, 106 or 108. Please consult your cable provider directly to be sure.

Watch Episode 1 of Mount Sinai Future You

Introducing Mount Sinai Future You, a New Television Series

May 2, 2018 | Featured, Future You, Patient Stories, Research


A new television series called Mount Sinai Future You, which highlights innovation at Mount Sinai, is being broadcast on CUNY TV, the non-commercial educational-access cable channel run by The City University of New York.

Mount Sinai Future You takes viewers behind the scenes as doctors at Mount Sinai Health System leverage innovative science to change patients’ lives every day. The series  highlights preventative care and treatment models that will lead to better health and longer lives.

New episodes of Mount Sinai Future You will run monthly, in the first week of each month, on Wednesdays at 9:30 pm, Thursdays at 6:30 am and 5 pm, and Saturdays at 11 am. They will cover newsworthy topics in medicine, as well as highlight new treatments, innovations, and preventive care for patients. The series is produced by Mount Sinai.

In its first 30-minute episode, Mount Sinai Future You highlights:

  • Dennis Charney, MD, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, who discusses the anniversary of the Icahn School of Medicine, a leader in medical breakthroughs since 1968, and shares his own story of resilience after recovering from a traumatic event.
  • Breakthroughs in operating room technologies, such as augmented reality, simulation, and 3D printing, by surgeons and researchers in the Department of Neurosurgery.
  • The science of addiction, with Eric Nestler, MD, PhD, Dean for Academic and Scientific Affairs and Director of The Friedman Brain Institute, who is researching addiction and depression, and Yasmin Hurd, PhD, Ward-Coleman Chair of Translational Neuroscience and Director of the Addiction Institute at Mount Sinai, who is investigating how a component of the marijuana plant may aid in treatment of opioid addiction.
  • How vaccines developed in the lab of Joshua Brody, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine (Hematology and Medical Oncology), are targeting cancer cells.
  • Douglas Dieterich, MD, Professor of Medicine (Liver Diseases), and a patient of his, who relate their shared journey with hepatitis C.

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