Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Inside, Research
Sophia Frangou, MD, PhD
Individuals whose siblings have bipolar disorder are at high risk for developing mood disorders themselves. However, siblings who remain psychiatrically healthy may have a natural ability to rewire their brains that compensates for their genetic risk. These findings, led by Sophia Frangou, MD, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, were published in the January 5, 2016, issue of Translational Psychiatry. (more…)
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Inside
Bart Barlogie, MD, PhD
Bart Barlogie, MD, PhD, a world-renowned physician who introduced the first curative therapy for multiple myeloma, a multidrug regimen known as Total Therapy, recently joined The Tisch Cancer Institute as Director of Research in the Multiple Myeloma Program.
Dr. Barlogie will work with the program’s leader, Sundar Jagannath, MD, Professor of Medicine (Hematology and Medical Oncology), to develop new therapies to treat the disease, which is characterized by cancerous plasma cells that form in the bone marrow and crowd out normal, blood-forming cells. Their collaboration helps make Mount Sinai the nation’s premier myeloma program. About 26,850 new cases of the disease occur in the United States each year, according to the American Cancer Society. (more…)
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Inside, Patient Stories, Your Health
From left: Nadir Aslam; Kristin Olson; Andrea Wolf, MD; and Andrew Kaufman, MD
Kristin Olson and Nadir Aslam, professional musicians who met when they were treated for recurrent spontaneous pneumothorax (collapsed lung) at The Mount Sinai Hospital in August 2015, ardently believe in the power of music to soothe and heal. After treatment, they asked their surgeons—Andrea Wolf, MD, and Andrew Kaufman, MD, both Assistant Professors of Thoracic Surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai—if they could perform free baroque chamber music concerts for staff, patients, and visitors. Ms. Olson, an oboist, and Mr. Aslam, a violinist, have since given two performances with guest musicians in the Guggenheim Pavilion, and now are working with the Mount Sinai Department of Volunteer Services to start a regular series of concerts.
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Inside, Your Health
From left: Jay Aldieri, Regional Director of Food and Nutrition Services, Mount Sinai Health System; Nympha Meindel, RN, Chief Administrative Officer, Mount Sinai Beth Israel; and Susan Somerville, RN, President, Mount Sinai Beth Israel, at the ribbon-cutting for Who’s on First?
Mount Sinai Beth Israel’s new café—Who’s on First?—opened in December with an expanded menu that for the first time includes non-kosher as well as kosher food options, a “Cuisine of the Day” station, weekly specials, a salad bar, hot food bar, and a “Grab & Go” section. Located in the Linsky Lobby of the hospital’s main entrance at 280 First Avenue—the same location as the previous cafeteria—Who’s on First? is open 7 am to 7 pm, seven days a week. Four hundred employees participated in a contest to name the new café. The winning entry was from Lydia E. Hosbach, Administrative Assistant, Patient Representative Department, who received a 32-inch flat-screen TV.
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Inside
From left: Laurie Chameides, LCSW; Rabbi H. Rafael Goldstein, DMin, BCC, Director of Clinical Services, Center for Spirituality and Health, Mount Sinai Health System; and Michotte Nabua, RN
Two Mount Sinai Health System employees recently received 2015 Wholeness of Life Awards from the HealthCare Chaplaincy NetworkTM for their commitment to teamwork and professional relationships in providing compassionate and respectful care to patients in crisis. A third Wholeness of Life Award was given posthumously to the family of Beth Faitelewicz, RN, a nurse who served in the Emergency Department at Mount Sinai Beth Israel. (more…)
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Inside
Lori Lerma, MS, interviews Rick Schwartz during a live taping in the Child Life Zone.
Patients and families at Kravis Children’s Hospital at Mount Sinai recently enjoyed a television broadcast hosted by Lori Lerma, MS, Senior Child Life Specialist, and her guest, San Diego Zoo Global Ambassador Rick Schwartz, where a new partnership between Kravis Children’s Hospital and San Diego Zoo Global was announced.
The partnership adds the San Diego Zoo Kids Channel, a new and innovative closed-circuit television broadcast channel featuring family-friendly, animal-oriented shows to the existing programming offered at Kravis Children’s Hospital by KidZone TV. The hospital is the first in New York State to provide the channel, which has more than 16 hours of content. (more…)
