Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Community, Inside
Children created snow globes and crowns at “Winter Wonderland.”
Mount Sinai Doctors Urgent Care Inwood hosted a “Winter Wonderland” for 160 children and their parents on Friday, December 18. The young guests created ice cream cone ornaments, built mini popsicle-sleds, made snow globes, and warmed up at a hot chocolate cookie bar. The children, who are students from Good Shepherd School; Public School 98; PS 310 Marble Hill; and Elementary School for Math, Science, and Technology, also played in an igloo teepee, went “ice fishing,” and had their photos taken with Elsa, Anna, and Olaf, characters from Walt Disney’s film Frozen©. Staffed by Mount Sinai physicians, the Urgent Care facility provides convenient access to immediate medical attention for the Inwood community, which is located in Manhattan’s northernmost neighborhood.
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Inside
From left: Eva Andersson-Dubin, MD; Elisa Port, MD, FACS; Michael Brodman, MD; and Emily Blavatnik
Nearly 500 guests attended the fifth annual Dubin Breast Center Benefit at the Mandarin Oriental, New York, on Monday, December 7, raising more than $2.2 million to support the Center. The evening’s presenting sponsor was Harry Winston.
Among the guests were Mount Sinai Health System Trustees Eva Andersson-Dubin, MD, and Glenn Dubin, who co-founded the Center, which is part of The Tisch Cancer Institute; and Elisa Port, MD, FACS, Chief of Breast Surgery and the Center’s Co-Director. The event honored Michael Brodman, MD, Professor and System Chair, The Ellen and Howard C. Katz Chairman’s Chair, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Chloe Moussazadeh was presented with the event’s inaugural Courage Award for her grace and resilience as a young breast cancer survivor. (more…)
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Inside, Your Health
Staff from the Mount Sinai Institute for Advanced Medicine’s Peter Krueger Clinic Care Coordination Program distributed giveaways and HIV information and provided HIV testing at Mount Sinai Beth Israel.
In honor of World AIDS Day on Tuesday, December 1, the Mount Sinai Institute for Advanced Medicine teamed with the Gay Men’s Health Crisis to present “World AIDS Day: Focus on the Transgender Community” at Mount Sinai West. The event featured speaker Octavia Y. Lewis, MPA, Patient Services Manager, Community Healthcare Network, and a performance by Tony Award winner Michael Cerveris and the musical group Loose Cattle. Among other activities: information booths and HIV testing were available at Mount Sinai West and at the Peter Krueger Clinic at Mount Sinai Beth Israel; The Mount Sinai Hospital distributed literature on Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP), and other HIV-related material; and the Mount Sinai Comprehensive Health Program-Downtown conducted additional HIV testing.
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Cardiology, Inside, Your Health
Samin K. Sharma, MD, Director of Clinical and Interventional Cardiology, The Mount Sinai Hospital; and Annapoorna Kini, MD, Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at The Mount Sinai Hospital
For the 17th consecutive year, The Mount Sinai Hospital’s Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory or its interventionists have received the highest two-star safety rating from the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) for percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI), also known as angioplasty. PCI—one of the most common procedures for patients with coronary artery disease—opens blocked arteries and restores normal blood flow to the heart.
Mount Sinai’s exceptional ratings appeared in NYSDOH’s recently released report on the risk factors associated with PCI at 60 hospitals across New York State from December 1, 2009, through November 30, 2012. The NYSDOH report is designed to help patients make better decisions about their care based upon a statistical review of each hospital’s data. (more…)
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Inside, Your Health
Tal Dagan, MD, hugs his patient, Dallan Jennet.
For the first time in the United States, a patient has undergone a complex and intricate series of surgical procedures to implant a fully functional, three-dimensional (3D) printed “model” of a human nose. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai surgeons Tal Dagan, MD, Associate Adjunct Surgeon, and Grigoriy Mashkevich, MD, Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology, Division of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, performed the operations on Dallan Jennet, a 14-year-old boy from the Marshall Islands. Dallan’s face was disfigured at the age of 9 after he fell onto a live power line, severely burning his entire face and losing his nose.
“The procedure is akin to a ‘nose transplant’ in that we were able to replace the nose with a functional implant,” says lead physician Dr. Dagan. “This procedure may be a breakthrough in facial reconstruction because the patient will never have to deal with the standard issues of transplantation, such as tissue rejection or a lifetime of immunosuppressive therapies.” (more…)
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Inside, Research, School
Joseph D. Buxbaum, PhD
Joseph D. Buxbaum, PhD, a pioneering researcher in the field of autism, recently was elected to the National Academy of Medicine, considered one of the highest honors in medicine. New members are elected annually by current active members through a selective process that recognizes individuals who have made major contributions to advance medical sciences, health care, and public health.
A world-renowned molecular geneticist and neurobiologist, Dr. Buxbaum is Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Psychiatry, and Director of the Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He is also Professor of Neuroscience, and Genetics and Genomic Sciences, and the G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Research Professor of Geriatrics and Adult Development. (more…)
