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…)
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Inside, School
Leesa M. Galatz, MD
Two renowned physicians and researchers—Leesa M. Galatz, MD, and Barbara G. Vickrey, MD, MPH—recently became the Mount Sinai Health System Chair of Orthopaedics, and Neurology, respectively, at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Galatz was recruited from Washington University in St. Louis, where she was a Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Chief of the Shoulder and Elbow Service. Dr. Vickrey had served for 25 years on the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where she was Professor of Neurology. (more…)
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Inside
Peter C. Weber, MD, MBA
Peter C. Weber, MD, MBA, a noted clinician and researcher in pediatric and adult ear diseases, has been appointed Director of the Ear Institute at New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai and Professor of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Weber previously served as Chief Medical Officer at CochlearTM Americas, and Professor and Director of Otology/Neurotology at University of Massachusetts Medical School. (more…)
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Inside, Research, School
After carefully analyzing the electronic health records (EHRs) of 11,000 patients, investigators at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have discovered three potential new subtypes of type 2 diabetes.
The discovery, led by Joel Dudley, PhD, Director of Biomedical Informatics at the Icahn School of Medicine, highlights the power of new technology and the promise of precision medicine, as the Mount Sinai Health System ushers in the use of Big Data in discovering, treating, and preventing disease. The results of the study were published in Science Translational Medicine in October, 2015. (more…)
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Inside, Research
Miriam Merad, MD, PhD
Researchers at The Tisch Cancer Institute have uncovered an intriguing mechanism that may help explain why radiation therapy eradicates cancerous tumors in some patients but not in others.
Their study, reported in the September 7, 2015, issue of Nature Immunology, examined how special skin immune cells, known as Langerhans cells, perform in mice models of melanoma. (more…)
