Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Inside, Research
Kavita Dharmarajan, MD, M.Sc
Advanced-stage cancer patients who received palliative care required shorter durations of radiation treatment and had shorter hospital stays, according to a recent study at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
“Radiation therapy is very effective at relieving pain, but the standard two weeks of treatment may be too long or burdensome for some patients, given the state of their illnesses,” says the study’s senior author, Kavita Dharmarajan, MD, M.Sc, Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology, and Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. “We showed that shorter course treatments can be equally, if not more, effective, especially when combined with other forms of therapy that put patients first, and not the tumor.” (more…)
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Inside
The Mount Sinai Health System launched its first television commercials as part of its “For you. For life.” campaign in local markets on Sunday, January 10, an effort that extends to national markets beginning Monday, January 25. The commercials supplement an extensive print advertising campaign that began in 2015, which spotlighted Mount Sinai’s commitment to lifetime compassionate care, innovative medical education, and breakthrough research. (more…)
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.
