Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Inside
Mount Sinai Beth Israel Security Guard Will Parker, also a talented singer, actor, and composer, gave an informal vocal performance on Monday, February 2, at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Phillips Ambulatory Care Center. He sang a variety of tunes, including songs from Broadway musicals, jazz, spirituals, and a tribute to Nat King Cole. Joanne Loewy, DA, LCAT, MT-BC, Director, The Louis Armstrong Center for Music & Medicine, Mount Sinai Beth Israel, accompanied Mr. Parker on piano; and Andrew Rossetti, MMT, MT-BC, LCAT, Coordinator of Music Therapy, Radiation Oncology, Mount Sinai Beth Israel, backed him up on guitar. The event kicked off “Celebrating Black History Month” and was co-sponsored by Mount Sinai Beth Israel’s Diversity Council and The Louis Armstrong Center for Music & Medicine.
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Inside
Kristjan T. Ragnarsson, MD, the Dr. Lucy G. Moses Professor and Chair of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine for the Mount Sinai Health System, was recently honored by the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation with its 2014 Frank H. Krusen, MD, Lifetime Achievement Award, its highest honor. The Academy saluted Dr. Ragnarsson’s longtime commitment to patient care, research, education, and advocacy. The award was established in 1972 for Dr. Krusen, a founding father of the Academy and early developer of the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation specialty. (more…)
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Inside
The Mount Sinai Health System received the first Outstanding Employer Award from STRIVE (Support Training Results In Valuable Employees) on Tuesday, January 20, at the New York Yale Club, for its exceptional commitment to training and hiring graduates from the STRIVE program. The organization presents the award to employers who help individuals with high barriers to employment—such as recovering addicts, public assistance recipients, and the working poor—develop marketable skills and gain employment in living-wage jobs. (more…)
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Inside, Research, School
Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have identified 53 drugs approved for use in treating depression, cancer, heart disease, and other illnesses that may also be effective in fighting the Ebola virus. The findings appeared online in the December 17, 2014, journal Emerging Microbes & Infections. (more…)
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Inside, School
After completing his residency training at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai more than two decades ago, renowned surgeon Ron Shapiro, MD, has returned to the Mount Sinai Health System as Surgical Director of the Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Program at the Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute (RMTI). (more…)
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Inside, Research
Seminal research led by James Ferrara, MD, DSc, Ward-Coleman Chair in Cancer Medicine, has produced a promising approach to treating patients with graft-versus-host disease (GVHD)—a sometimes fatal complication of bone marrow transplantation in which the donor’s immune cells attack the recipient’s body. Bone marrow transplants are often used to treat patients with leukemia, lymphoma, and other blood diseases. (more…)
Mount Sinai Beth Israel Security Guard Will Parker, also a talented singer, actor, and composer, gave an informal vocal performance on Monday, February 2, at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Phillips Ambulatory Care Center. He sang a variety of tunes, including songs from Broadway musicals, jazz, spirituals, and a tribute to Nat King Cole. Joanne Loewy, DA, LCAT, MT-BC, Director, The Louis Armstrong Center for Music & Medicine, Mount Sinai Beth Israel, accompanied Mr. Parker on piano; and Andrew Rossetti, MMT, MT-BC, LCAT, Coordinator of Music Therapy, Radiation Oncology, Mount Sinai Beth Israel, backed him up on guitar. The event kicked off “Celebrating Black History Month” and was co-sponsored by Mount Sinai Beth Israel’s Diversity Council and The Louis Armstrong Center for Music & Medicine.
