Dec 4, 2015 | Inside
Choreographer Diane Discepolo leads Kimberly Trenard, left, and Sabrina Bennett in a wheelchair dance.
The Wheelchair Abilities Dance Program, a recreational therapy program organized by the Klingenstein Clinical Center (KCC) of The Mount Sinai Hospital, recently featured a dance performance at the World Stroke Day Fair held on Thursday, October 29, in the Guggenheim Atrium. The unique program allows outpatient stroke survivors and people with multiple sclerosis or spinal cord injuries to gain independence through dance classes. (more…)
Nov 20, 2015 | Inside
Under a photograph of the late Irving J. Selikoff, MD, Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc, and Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney display a Congressional Tribute to Mount Sinai for its leadership in environmental health.
Government officials, visiting physicians, and members of the Mount Sinai Health System recently gathered at a symposium honoring a seminal figure in environmental medicine—the late Irving J. Selikoff, MD—and to celebrate the renovation of Mount Sinai’s Selikoff Centers for Environmental Health. The Selikoff Centers treat thousands of patients each year for World Trade Center-related health issues and other work-related illnesses and injuries.
At the symposium, sponsored by Mount Sinai’s Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, U.S. Representative Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), a champion of workers’ health, presented Mount Sinai with a Congressional Tribute for being the “birthplace of environmental health and a leader in the United States in this research.” (more…)
Nov 20, 2015 | Inside, Research
Mark Lebwohl, MD
The results of a multicenter clinical trial led by Mount Sinai Health System researchers and published in The New England Journal of Medicine on October 1, 2015, demonstrate that brodalumab, an experimental biologic treatment for plaque psoriasis, achieved 100 percent reduction in psoriasis symptoms in twice as many patients as a second, commonly used treatment. (more…)
Nov 20, 2015 | Inside
David Muller, MD, left, and Jeremy Boal, MD
The Mount Sinai Visiting Doctors Program, the largest academic home-visit program in the nation, celebrated its twentieth anniversary on Thursday, October 22, with a festive event held in the Annenberg West Lobby of The Mount Sinai Hospital.
Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer issued an official proclamation announcing October 22 as “Visiting Doctors Appreciation Day,” while commending the program’s interdisciplinary teamwork and dedication to patients and their families. (more…)
Nov 20, 2015 | Inside
Project leaders from Mount Sinai Doctors Faculty Practice include, from left, Seth Ciabotti, Vice President, Ambulatory Operations; Burton Drayer, MD; Crystal MacNeill, Vice President, Revenue Cycle; Michael Schaffer; and Denise Mullin, Senior Director and Strategic Business Advisor.
The Mount Sinai Doctors Faculty Practice has launched a major initiative that seeks to create a single unified Epic electronic medical record system for registration, scheduling, clinical documentation, and billing for physician office visits, an effort that is expected to greatly streamline clinical and operational processes and improve patient experience.
“This is the single most important project for Mount Sinai Doctors in 2016,” says Donald Scanlon, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Mount Sinai Health System, who oversees the initiative with Burton Drayer, MD, Chief Executive Officer of the Mount Sinai Doctors Faculty Practice, and Michael Schaffer, its Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer. The effort is being led and implemented by the Mount Sinai Practice Transformation team, formerly known as Epic Revenue Cycle, and will involve the training of 1,700 staff in practice administration, billing, compliance, finance, IT, and other key areas. (more…)
Nov 20, 2015 | Inside, Your Health
Fred Lin, MD, Chief of the Division of Sleep Surgery at the Mount Sinai Health System, left, and Boris Chernobilsky, MD, Director of the Division of Sleep Surgery at Mount Sinai Beth Israel, are pioneering new surgery for sleep apnea.
Physicians at the Mount Sinai Health System are among the first in New York State to offer a promising new surgical treatment for people with moderate-to-severe obstructive sleep apnea, a common disorder characterized by the recurrent narrowing and closing of a person’s upper airway during sleep. Moderate-to-severe sleep apnea—defined as 15 or more episodes of disturbed airflow per hour—is often associated with excessive daytime sleepiness and an increased risk for diabetes and heart disease. (more…)
