Nine Mount Sinai Health System volunteers were among 83 individuals honored recently at the United Hospital Fund’s 22nd Annual Auxilian and Volunteer Achievement Awards ceremony at the Waldorf-Astoria. The event honors exceptional volunteers at nonprofit and New York City-run hospitals. (more…)
The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) has named three physicians from the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at The Mount Sinai Hospital “Inspiring Hospice and Palliative Medicine Leaders Under 40.”
Laura Gelfman, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine; Amy Kelley, MD, MSHS, Assistant Professor, Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine; and Cardinale B. Smith, MD, MSCR, Assistant Professor of Medicine (Hematology/Medical Oncology), and Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, were among 40 award recipients honored at the 2015 AAHPM & HPNA (Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association) Annual Assembly in Philadelphia. (more…)
Nearly 350 faculty, staff, and alumni recently gathered at The Plaza to honor eight physician-leaders with the 2015 Jacobi Medallion—the Mount Sinai Health System’s highest award for distinguished achievement in medicine or extraordinary clinical and educational service within the Health System. (more…)
Mount Sinai Health System Trustee Carla A. Harris was honored recently at the 35th annual gala of One Hundred Black Men, Inc. of New York, an organization that provides mentoring, education, and other opportunities for the black community. The organization founded the Eagle Academy for Young Men in 2004, which operates five all-male public schools in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Harlem, N.Y., and Newark, N.J. (more…)
More than 350 children and adults participated in the Third Annual Brain Awareness Fair hosted by the Sinai Neuroscience Outreach Program, in partnership with the Center for Excellence in Youth Education and The Friedman Brain Institute, on Thursday, March 19, during Brain Awareness Week. Forty Mount Sinai volunteers, including faculty, staff, postdocs, and students, shared their expertise for brain health and research. During multiple hands-on activities and exhibits, participants built neuron models out of pipe cleaners, looked at the human brain in 3-D, and examined all types of animal brains. Faculty from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai also fielded questions from adults about addiction, Alzheimer’s disease, autism, and mental health.
In the photograph below, Rebecca Blake, MS, RD, CDN, Director of Clinical Nutrition, right, discusses healthy fast-food options with, from left, Dietician Danna Strahl, RD, and visitors Grace Emperio and Sonny Perero at Mount Sinai Beth Israel, Dazian Pavilion. The informational poster and table containing healthy recipes and a sampling of healthy foods—including wheat berry and mango salads—were set up outside the Linsky Building Café on Tuesday, March 24, as part of National Nutrition Month. The poster provided passersby with the opportunity to compare nutrients in a variety of fast-food items.