A recent reception and ribbon-cutting ceremony marked the opening of Mount Sinai Doctors East 85th Street, the first multispecialty Mount Sinai Doctors Faculty Practice on the Upper East Side. The office occupies five floors at 234 East 85th Street. (more…)
For the third consecutive year, Annapoorna S. Kini, MD, Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at The Mount Sinai Hospital, invited Mount Sinai Heart staff and their families to join her for a 5K run. More than 80 employees and their families participated in the event that took place on Saturday, May 21, in Central Park. “It is very important to practice what we preach,” says Dr. Kini (shown in photo at right, front row, center). “We tell our patients to exercise in order to be heart healthy. As staff, we need to serve as examples for our patients and make sure that we are heart healthy ourselves.” Dr. Kini, who is also Professor of Medicine (Cardiology), additionally encouraged staff from throughout the Hospital to participate in International Yoga Day on Tuesday, June 21 (left photo), a full-day event that attracted more than 100 individuals and featured meditation, yoga, and talks on nutrition.
From left: Kelli Schnurman, LCSW, Social Work Program Coordinator, Mount Sinai Health System; Amy Porter-Tacoronte, MBA; Jan Christensen; Herschey McGhee; Alison Snow, PhD, Social Work Supervisor, and Jeremy Winell, MD, Director, Cancer Supportive Services, Mount Sinai Beth Israel Comprehensive Cancer Center West; Daniel M. Labow, MD; and Karen Lee, MSN, FNP-BC.
Jan Christensen, a singer/songwriter and lymphoma survivor who was treated at Mount Sinai Beth Israel, entertained 200 guests at Mount Sinai’s 19th annual National Cancer Survivors Day® luncheon on Sunday, June 5, at Phillips Ambulatory Care Center. Among the attendees were cancer survivors, their families and friends, and Mount Sinai faculty and staff. Amy Porter-Tacoronte, MBA, Vice President of Oncology Services, Mount Sinai Health System, delivered the keynote address. Speakers included Herschey McGhee, a breast cancer survivor who was treated at Mount Sinai West; Daniel M. Labow, MD, Associate Professor, Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and Chief, Division of Surgical Oncology, The Mount Sinai Hospital; and Karen Lee, MSN, FNP-BC, Nurse Practitioner, Thoracic Oncology Program, Mount Sinai Beth Israel Comprehensive Cancer Center West.
A novel method for characterizing prostate cancer that uses computer vision and artificial intelligence to help determine the best course of treatment for each patient is being rolled out this summer by the Lillian and Henry M. Stratton-Hans Popper Department of Pathology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
The platform, called Precise Medical Diagnosis™ or Precise MD, has been under development at Mount Sinai for more than three years by a team of physicians, scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and programmers. The proprietary diagnostic system creates detailed, specific data about the patient’s cancer cells using multispectral fluorescent imaging to evaluate biomarker status and architectural patterns and then uses sophisticated computer analytics to combine and create predictive models. (more…)
Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai are pioneering the use of a new imaging agent used with positron emission tomography (PET) to detect and track the progression of repetitive traumatic brain injury in patients with a history of concussions.
The ability to actually see chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in living patients is particularly significant because the neurodegenerative disorder—associated with repetitive traumatic brain injury in athletes and soldiers—can only be definitively diagnosed in brain tissue after they are deceased. (more…)
The Mount Sinai Hospital has been ranked No. 15 out of approximately 5,000 hospitals across the nation in the just-released 2016-2017 U.S. News & World Report “Best Hospitals” guidebook. Significantly, The Mount Sinai Hospital is one of only 20 hospitals nationwide to be named to the “Honor Roll,” which recognizes outstanding performance across multiple areas of care. (more…)