Oct 11, 2016 | Inside
From left: Matthew Baney; Michael Mullen, MD, Director, Institute for Advanced Medicine; Eli Camhi, VP and General Manager, VNSNY CHOICE SelectHealth; Edward Lucy, Chief Administrative and Contracting Officer, Mount Sinai Health Partners; Andrew Snyder, MD, Chief Clinical Integration Officer, Mount Sinai Health System; and Demetre Daskalakis, MD, MPH, Assistant Commissioner, Bureau of HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
VNSNY CHOICE SelectHealth, a New York State Department of Health Special Needs Plan for Medicaid-eligible New Yorkers living with HIV, recently awarded the Mount Sinai Health System $420,500 for reducing HIV viral loads in its members. Mount Sinai treats more than 1,100 VNSNY CHOICE SelectHealth members a year. (more…)
Oct 11, 2016 | Inside, School
Clara Koo, left, and Sayeeda Chowdhury, were two of the 140 students starting their medical journey with new white coats and stethoscopes.
Each year the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai holds a joyous and celebratory event, giving white coats to its newest class of students before a gathering of faculty, family, and friends. But this year, the 19th annual ceremony for the Class of 2020 took on added resonance. It marked the return of Dennis S. Charney, MD, who was injured in a shooting in August while leaving his favorite coffee shop in Chappaqua, N.Y. (more…)
Oct 11, 2016 | Inside, Research
James Ferrara, MD, DSc
Physician-scientists at The Tisch Cancer Institute have been awarded $10 million from the National Cancer Institute to continue their novel research into therapies that improve the standard of care for patients who develop acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) following bone marrow transplantation. Bone marrow transplantation (BMT) is often successfully used to treat diseases such as leukemia and lymphoma. Acute GVHD, which affects approximately 50 percent of patients, occurs when the donor’s immune cells attack the patient’s tissues, producing potentially fatal results. (more…)
Oct 11, 2016 | Inside, Patient Stories
Sara Davidoff, RN, left, with patient Joanna Ng, who has routinely worn a cold cap to prevent hair loss during chemotherapy treatments.
Joanna Ng was determined not to lose her hair after she began receiving chemotherapy treatments for breast cancer last spring.
“I cut my hair short a long time ago, and it took so long to grow back I vowed I would never do it again if I could help it. But mostly, I didn’t want my family to see any hair loss,” says Ms. Ng, 27, who works for a global brokerage firm. (more…)
Oct 11, 2016 | Inside
Physicians from Mount Sinai’s Department of Orthopaedics who provided care included, from left: James N. Gladstone, MD, Associate Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery, and Co-Chief of Sports Medicine at The Mount Sinai Hospital; Leesa M. Galatz, MD, Mount Sinai Health System Chair and Mount Sinai Professor in Orthopaedics; Melissa D. Leber, MD, Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine, and Orthopaedic Surgery; Alexis Chiang Colvin, MD, Chief Medical Officer of the U.S. Tennis Association, and Associate Professor of Sports Medicine; and Shawn Anthony, MD, MBA, Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery.
Members of the Mount Sinai Health System’s Leni and Peter W. May Department of Orthopaedics were onsite in Flushing Meadows, Queens, providing medical care to tennis players competing at the recent 2016 US Open. Also onsite were Mount Sinai Health System radiologists who used advanced image-viewing workstations to ensure quicker diagnoses of patient injuries. As the exclusive provider of medical services to the United States Tennis Association for the fourth consecutive year, Mount Sinai also develops policies around injury prevention and conducts educational outreach to promote the health benefits of tennis.
Oct 11, 2016 | Inside, School
A day after competing at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Chierika Ukogu arrived at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to begin her medical training. Ms. Ukogu, whose parents immigrated to the United States from Nigeria, participated in the women’s single scull rowing event for the Nigerian Olympic team. She did not win a medal, but she did rank among the top finishers. A native of Philadelphia, Ms. Ukogu took up rowing in high school and was a standout rower at Stanford University. She postponed medical school for two years to train for the Olympics, while also working at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania helping pregnant women. Ms. Ukogu says spreading the word about the importance of competitive sports is her way of inspiring others, and she hopes to continue training and competing. She is considering trying out for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.
