Sep 6, 2017 | Patient Stories
With a lot of pain and no appointment, Paul O’Neill walked into the office of James Marion, MD, at The Mount Sinai Hospital. The visit would change his life, as Dr. Marion, Professor of Medicine and Gastroenterology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Director of Education and Outreach at the Susan and Leonard Feinstein Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinical Center at The Mount Sinai Hospital, suggested a new medication, which turned out to be significantly better than the older medication he had been taking since he was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease as a teenager.
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Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Breast Cancer, Community, Patient Stories
Ami Rogé with her physician, Stephen C. Malamud, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine (Hematology and Medical Oncology).
About 200 cancer survivors, their families and friends, and Mount Sinai faculty and staff, recently attended the 20th annual luncheon celebrating National Cancer Survivors Day®. At the event, held on Sunday, June 11, in The Mount Sinai Hospital’s Annenberg West Lobby, attendees enjoyed a performance by Ami Rogé, a concert pianist and breast cancer survivor who was treated at Mount Sinai Downtown-Chelsea Center. Steven J. Burakoff, MD, Dean for Cancer Innovation, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, discussed the state of cancer care. “Given our increasing success treating cancer, there are now more than 15.5 million cancer survivors in the United States,” he said. “We must focus more of our efforts on helping our patients cope as cancer survivors.”
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Community, Featured, Patient Stories, Pediatrics
Aiden Schaefer, far right, and his brother, Mason, snuggle with Professor Bunsen Honeydew, Kravis Children’s Hospital’s new full-time employee.
Two-year-old Aiden Schaefer was battling leukemia, with long hospital stays, uncomfortable medical procedures, and time spent away from his twin brother, Mason, when a gentle young service dog, Professor Bunsen Honeydew, began keeping him company as part of a new program at Kravis Children’s Hospital at Mount Sinai. Denise Schaefer says her son Aiden “fell in love instantly” with the friendly golden doodle. Aiden’s experience “was not about the medicine or the doctors, it was about seeing Professor.”
Thanks to an innovative program, Paws & Play, supported by PetSmart Charities® at Kravis Children’s Hospital, the highly trained facility dog is now a full-time employee at Mount Sinai. Kravis launched the program—the first of its kind in New York State—with a grant from PetSmart Charities. Under the direction of handlers Ali Spike, MS, Certified Child Life Specialist, Toshiko Nonaka, MS, Certified Child Life Specialist, and Morgan Stojanowski,
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Child Life Program Assistant Director, Professor works with patients in the Blau Center for Children’s Cancer and Blood Disease, the Alice Gottesman Bayer Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, and inpatient units.
Working in conjunction with the doctors and nurses who care for the physical well-being of patients, Professor provides emotional support. He helps to ease the pain or anxiety that accompanies medical procedures, and long hospitalizations and treatments, while improving the socialization, motivation, and overall temperament of pediatric patients.
“At Kravis, we are surrounded by excellence, great love, and care for families,” says Diane C. Rode, MPS, Child Life Program Director. “This is a magnificent opportunity for us to continue humanizing the health care we provide.”
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Patient Stories, Your Health
Paula Klein, MD, Associate Professor of Hematology and Medical Oncology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, whose research of the device led to FDA approval, explains why the new scalp cooling system is so important for patients.
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Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Patient Stories
With help from Mount Sinai’s transplantation team, a young daughter was able to celebrate Father’s Day with her father, a year after she donated a portion of her liver to her ailing father.
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Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Patient Stories
Doctors thought Raquel White might never walk again after she was struck and dragged by a pick-up truck. Her pelvis was shattered, she suffered a broken leg and ruptured her bladder. David Forsh, MD, Chief of Orthopedic Trauma at Mount Sinai St. Luke’s, said “her case was one of the worst he had ever seen.”
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