Nov 23, 2016 | Community, Inside
Patient Deborah Reid is delighted by a porcupine.
The Mount Sinai Rehabilitation Center hosted its first “Wild for Wildlife” event on Saturday, September 24, at Central Park’s East Meadow. The event brought together traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients, stroke survivors, and individuals with spinal cord injury for a meet-and-greet with exotic animals. The one-hour outing was made possible by the Bridges for Brain Injury’s Wildlife Defenders Program, an education outreach and TBI support group. With the help of veterinary technicians, the Defenders delighted a group of therapists, physicians, and patients and their family members, with a presentation that featured a kangaroo, an armadillo, an alligator, a snapping turtle, a fox, and the group’s signature animal, a porcupine. Later, the Defenders—a group of TBI survivors who have been trained in the care of native and exotic animals—received a tour of the Mount Sinai rehabilitation facilities, greeting more patients and staff. The event was organized by Clarisse Quirit, CTRS, Recreational Therapist, and Laura Simpson, Recreational Therapy Intern.
Nov 23, 2016 | Inside
The Postdoc Executive Committee co-chairs Delaine Ceholski, PhD, far left, and Alison Sanders, PhD, far right, both Postdoctoral Fellows at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, are joined by panelists, from left: Robert DeVita, PhD; Nina Tandon, PhD, MBA; Vesna Todorovic, PhD; and Erin Girard, PhD.
More than 275 postdocs, graduate students, and other members of the New York City scientific community recently participated in the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai’s 7th Annual Postdoc Symposium, making this year’s full-day career symposium the most highly attended event yet. The event theme, “Industry Beyond the Bench,” explored the breadth of careers available to PhDs and featured speakers Lana Skirboll, PhD, Vice President of Academic and Scientific Affairs at Sanofi; and Joanne Kamens, PhD, Executive Director of Addgene. Panelists included Nina Tandon, PhD, MBA, Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of EpiBone; Robert DeVita, PhD, Professor of Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics, and Structural and Chemical Biology, at the Icahn School of Medicine; Vesna Todorovic, PhD, Senior Editor at Nature Communications; and Erin Girard, PhD, Director of Engineering for Robotic Imaging and Therapy at Siemens Healthcare. The Icahn School of Medicine’s Postdoc Executive Committee organized the event in collaboration with the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs.
Nov 23, 2016 | Community, Inside
From left: Rosanna Mirante, MD; Louis G. Monti, MD; and Marla Stern, MD
The Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center (MSAHC) honored nine individuals who have dedicated themselves to New York City’s young people during its 13th Annual “Breakfast of Legends” benefit at The Plaza on Thursday, October 13. The Center provides free, comprehensive, and confidential health and wellness services to more than 10,000 young people every year and is considered a national leader in adolescent health research and training. (more…)
Nov 23, 2016 | Inside
The Health Information Exchange team, from left: Ben Kaplan, Operations Manager, Interoperability, Information Technology (IT); Donny Patel, Director, Interoperability, IT; Jason Martin, Senior Director, System Integration and Interoperability, IT; Mark DeLaney, Vice President, IT; Kumar Chatani; Hai Ly, Epic Mobile Applications Analyst III, IT; Stacey Cohen, Clinical Informaticist, IT; and Joseph Kannry, MD, Lead Technical Informaticist, Epic EMR Clinical Transformation Group.
The Mount Sinai Health System’s Information Technology Department
has created and recently launched an award-winning electronic medical record database, known as the Health Information Exchange (HIE), which will continue to be rolled out to Health System providers over the coming months. The new web-based portal unifies data in real time and will give Mount Sinai clinicians and affiliated physicians an unprecedented ability to review patient data without
delay in order to make timely and accurate medical decisions and reduce the incidence and costs of unnecessary or duplicate tests. (more…)
Nov 23, 2016 | Community, Inside
Gala attendees: front row, honorees Karen Joyner, left, and Dionne Warwick; back row, from left: Stephan Quentzel, MD, Medical Director, Louis Armstrong Center for Music and Medicine; honorees Sharon Mahn and Michael Leitman, MD; and Joanne Loewy, DA, LCAT, MT-BC.
Broadway singer Rema Webb, who appears in The Color Purple, the jazz trumpeter Jon Faddis, saxophonist Erik Lawrence, and the Garry Dial Trio entertained nearly 200 guests at the 11th annual “What a Wonderful World” gala, held Monday, September 26, at the Highline Ballroom in Manhattan. (more…)
Nov 23, 2016 | Community, Inside
Jeremy Boal, MD, at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai, with a view of the Williamsburg Bridge.
Jeremy Boal, MD, has been appointed President of Mount Sinai Downtown, overseeing the Mount Sinai Health System’s more than $500 million transformation effort, which includes a new Mount Sinai Beth Israel and an enhanced New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai. (more…)
