The Mount Sinai Hospital has received national recognition for excellence in nursing for the third consecutive time from the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s (ANCC) Magnet Recognition Program®. At the same time, Mount Sinai Queens, the Queens campus of The Mount Sinai Hospital, received a first-time Magnet® designation, widely considered the highest recognition for nursing excellence.
The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has teamed up with Wiley to create a series of expert guides for medical trainees. The Mount Sinai Expert Guides series combine the expertise of our faculty with new online platforms and mobile apps.
The first title in the series, Mount Sinai Expert Guides: Hepatology, is now available in print and digital formats. Additional online material includes video clips, case studies, interactive multiple choice questions, and patient advice. In the coming months, five more Mount Sinai Expert Guides will be published on Gastroenterology, Cardiology, Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Neurology, and Psychiatry.
Two world-class orthopaedists at the Mount Sinai Health System worked behind the scenes at the 2014 US Open, treating an array of health problems incurred by players at the popular tennis tournament, which ran from Monday, August 25, through Monday, September 8, in Flushing Meadows, Queens. The Mount Sinai Hospital is the official hospital of the US Open and the United States Tennis Association (USTA).
James C. Tsai, MD, MBA, a world-renowned physician-scientist with a research focus on glaucoma, has been named President of New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai (NYEE) and Chair of Ophthalmology of the Mount Sinai Health System. As President, Dr. Tsai says his main goals will be raising the visibility of NYEE to referring physicians, and ensuring that it is known as an international center of excellence in residency and fellowship training in ophthalmology and otolaryngology.
The opportunity to reduce health care costs without compromising quality makes this an exciting time to be a leader in the field of health care delivery, says Peter R. Orszag, PhD, Vice Chairman of Corporate and Investment Banking, Chairman of the Public Sector Group, and Chairman of the Financial Strategy and Solutions Group at Citigroup, Inc.
Dr. Orszag, a member of the Mount Sinai Health System Boards of Trustees, shared this encouraging message during a conference on Tuesday, August 26, to kick off Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai’s new Master of Science in Health Care Delivery Leadership program. Classes for the first year of the program started during the final week of August.
Ophthalmologists in Myanmar (also known as Burma), recently received their first modern medical eye education in decades from a delegation of nine renowned U.S. eye specialists, including Penny Asbell, MD, MBA, Director of Cornea and Refractive Services and Director of the Cornea Fellowship Program in the Department of Ophthalmology at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.