Nov 10, 2016 | Inside, Research, School
Alison M. Goate, DPhil
Two prominent researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Alison M. Goate, DPhil, and Lynne D. Richardson, MD, recently were elected to the prestigious National Academy of Medicine, formerly named the Institute of Medicine. Dr. Goate is the Willard T.C. Johnson Research Professor of Neurogenetics, and Director of the Ronald M. Loeb Center on Alzheimer’s Disease. Dr. Richardson is Professor and Vice Chair of Emergency Medicine, and Professor of Population Health Science and Policy. (more…)
Nov 4, 2016 | Community, Inside
Recipients of the Cullman Family Award were joined by Sandra Myerson, MBA, MS, BSN, RN, Chief Patient Experience Officer, Mount Sinai Health System, (front row, center), flanked by Edgar M. Cullman, Jr., and Susan Cullman. Also in the front row, far right, were Thomas A. Ullman, MD, Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs; and Jeremy Boal, MD, Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Mount Sinai Health System.
The Mount Sinai Health System recently honored the first recipients of the Cullman Family Award for Excellence in Physician-Patient Communication. The 42 clinicians who were celebrated ranked in the top 1 percent nationally in provider communication in 2015 as measured by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services CG-CAHPS patient experience survey. Mount Sinai Trustees Susan Cullman and Edgar M. Cullman, Jr., joined Health System leadership in presenting the awards on Wednesday, September 21, at 150 E. 42nd Street. “Dad was always concerned about how the patient felt when he or she walked into the hospital or the doctor’s office. It can be a scary and unsettling experience, and he wanted to help make that experience as positive and thoughtful as possible,” Ms. Cullman said, speaking of her father, the late Edgar M. Cullman, Sr., who was a Mount Sinai Trustee for more than 50 years. “You obviously do that exceptionally well. We and, more importantly, your patients thank you.” To see a list of the award winners go to: www.mountsinai.org/static_files/MSHL/Files/Fall.pdf
Nov 4, 2016 | Community, Inside
In an effort to increase transparency, the Mount Sinai Doctors Faculty Practice has begun posting patient experience ratings for its doctors. The star ratings are based on patients’ responses to select questions from a nationally validated, standardized survey developed by the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The ratings are being posted to physicians’ profiles on the Mount Sinai “Find a Doctor” website as part of an initiative that was launched Thursday, October 13. (See example, right.) (more…)
Nov 4, 2016 | Community, Inside
Dennis S. Charney, MD, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and President for Academic Affairs, Mount Sinai Health System, with Push-Up winner Noriel Cordova.
Eighty-five members of the Mount Sinai community demonstrated their strength and stamina on Friday, September 23, by performing a total of 4,449 push-ups as part of the Second Annual Push-Up for Prostate Cancer Challenge. The event, hosted by the Milton and Carroll Petrie Department of Urology, and held in the Guggenheim Pavilion, drew attention to Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, and men’s health in general. (more…)
Nov 4, 2016 | Community, Inside
David L. Reich, MD, President of The Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai Queens, left, and Kenneth L. Davis, MD, President and Chief Executive Officer, Mount Sinai Health System, and board members of Satmar Bikur Cholim, with the new plaque honoring the late Rebbetzin Alta Feige Teitelbaum.
Leaders from the Mount Sinai Health System and volunteers from the Satmar Bikur Cholim kosher food distribution network recently gathered in the Guggenheim Pavilion to donate a plaque in honor of the late Rebbetzin Alta Feige Teitelbaum, the woman who started the program more than 60 years ago. Each day, Mrs. Teitelbaum, the wife of Grand Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum, the deceased founder of the Satmar Hassidic movement, would travel by subway to bring homemade kosher meals to patients at The Mount Sinai Hospital. Today, the organization provides meals to patients in hospitals throughout the New York Metropolitan area. The plaque honoring Mrs. Teitelbaum was unveiled at a special event organized by Satmar Bikur Cholim board member Susan Goldstein. It will hang in the kitchen on GP2W that serves as the organization’s central distribution point at The Mount Sinai Hospital and also provides hot kosher cereal and snacks for patients and visitors around the clock.
Nov 4, 2016 | Community, Inside
It was a volunteer experience like few others: being a physician selected to treat athletes at the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics and the recently concluded Paralympics. “I was part of a team that evaluated acute and chronic musculoskeletal sports-related injuries,” says Gerardo Miranda-Comas, MD, Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (in photo). For Dr. Miranda-Comas, “The Paralympics, especially, was an important learning experience,” he says. “The atmosphere in the Paralympic village was unreal: it was a small city filled with elite athletes with disability and a vast variety of assistive devices for mobility that included prosthesis, crutches, wheelchairs, and other adaptive equipment.” But mostly, he says, “I felt an uplifting human spirit, where the person with a physical, mental, or visual impairment was applauded as loudly as the able-bodied individual just a few weeks before.”
