Nov 4, 2016 | Community, Inside
Several hundred visitors stopped by a table hosted by Mount Sinai Doctors (MSD) Brooklyn Heights at the 42nd Annual Atlantic Antic™, Brooklyn’s oldest and largest street festival, held Sunday, September 25, along Atlantic Avenue. Festival workers gave out brochures, headbands, hand sanitizers, and balloons as MSD physicians engaged with patrons, sharing information about the two-floor practice that offers more than 35 specialties and urgent care. To learn more about the practice, visit www.mountsinai.org/bh.
Nov 4, 2016 | Cardiology, Inside
The prestigious two-star safety rating for the PCI procedure, also known as angioplasty, was awarded to, from left, George Dangas, MD, PhD;
Annapoorna S. Kini, MD; and Samin K. Sharma, MD.
The Mount Sinai Hospital’s Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory has become the first to have three interventional cardiologists receive the highest two-star safety rating from the New York State Department of Health for percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI), also known as angioplasty. PCI—one of the most common procedures for patients with coronary artery disease—opens blocked arteries and restores normal blood flow to the heart. (more…)
Oct 24, 2016 | Community, Inside
Tania Leal, a patient, with John Feight, founder of the Foundation for Hospital Art, which created PaintFest America.
Patients and staff members were encouraged to channel their inner schoolchildren recently when volunteers from the nonprofit PaintFest America visited the Ruttenberg Treatment Center and the Mount Sinai Beth Israel Comprehensive Cancer Center West. About 100 participants at each site filled in large paint-by-numbers canvases of roses, butterflies, and tree frogs that will be assembled into colorful murals for the sites’ walls. They painted in waiting rooms, a conference room, and even in a treatment infusion site, says Alison Snow, PhD, LCSW, Social Work Supervisor, Cancer Supportive Services, Mount Sinai Beth Israel Comprehensive Cancer Center West. “It’s something that’s fun, something that’s therapeutic and takes you away from your situation,” she says. The event was the last stop in a nationwide campaign by PaintFest America, which had vowed to visit cancer patients in each state for 50 straight days.
Oct 24, 2016 | Inside
Noga Harizman, MD, (in white shirt) leads a glaucoma surgery course for residents and fellows in the Jorge N. Buxton Microsurgical Education Center at New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai.
The Fifth Annual Comprehensive Glaucoma Surgery Course for Ophthalmology Residents and Fellows, hosted by New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai (NYEE) and held on Saturday, September 17, attracted more than 20 trainees from the tri-state area for a day of lectures and wet-lab experience. Noga Harizman, MD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Director of the NYEE Glaucoma Clinic, led the course, which covered such topics as trabeculectomy, tube implants, micro-bypass shunts, patch grafts, and minimally invasive glaucoma surgery. “We were proud to have welcomed residents and fellows from around the area for this outstanding course,” says James C. Tsai, MD, MBA, President of New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai, and the Delafield-Rodgers Professor and Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology.
Oct 24, 2016 | Inside
Front Row, from left: Trayvon Cornelius, patient and KidZone TV co-host, with USA Track and Field Olympic athletes Jenny Simpson, Allyson Felix, and Kristi Castlin; back row, from left: Emma Coburn and Dalilah Muhammad. Inset: Patient Alondra Marte gets to hold the medal
earned by Dalilah Muhammad.
Five members of the medal-winning 2016 USA Women’s Track and Field Olympic team made an exciting visit to Kravis Children’s Hospital at Mount Sinai on Friday, September 9, where they engaged with pediatric patients and their families in air hockey and video games, and arts and crafts activities, at the Child Life Zone. They also stopped by the KidZone TV studio, where they appeared on a live show that was broadcast throughout the hospital. Proudly displaying their medals around their necks, the athletes answered questions from the pediatric viewing audience and later surprised children and adolescents at their bedside, where they chatted and graciously posed for keepsake photos.
Oct 24, 2016 | Inside, Research
Hélène Salmon, PhD
Hélène Salmon, PhD, and Lara Manganaro, PhD, are the recipients of the 2016 Robin Chemers Neustein Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, which was created to encourage and support female research scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. (more…)
Several hundred visitors stopped by a table hosted by Mount Sinai Doctors (MSD) Brooklyn Heights at the 42nd Annual Atlantic Antic™, Brooklyn’s oldest and largest street festival, held Sunday, September 25, along Atlantic Avenue. Festival workers gave out brochures, headbands, hand sanitizers, and balloons as MSD physicians engaged with patrons, sharing information about the two-floor practice that offers more than 35 specialties and urgent care. To learn more about the practice, visit www.mountsinai.org/bh.
