Keynote Speaker George Church, PhD, Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
The increasingly important role that academic medical centers play in the discovery of treatments for human diseases was the central theme of the Fifth Annual SinaInnovations conference held Tuesday, October 25, and Wednesday, October 26, at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. (more…)
Guest blog written by Ryan Ungaro, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, The Susan and Leonard Feinstein Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinical Center.
More than 3 million people in the United States alone suffer from inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and thousands of new cases are being diagnosed every year. Worldwide, more than 5 million people are living with IBD, according to the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America. In 2011, the U.S. Senate passed a resolution making December 1-7 Crohn’s & Colitis Awareness Week. Chances are that even if you do not have the disease, you know someone who does. But there is hope. (more…)
First-place winners in the MedMaker Challenge included, from left, second-year medical students Taylor Miller, Davis Zhou, Dong Yao, and John Di Capua. Not pictured, team member Ryan Neff.
SinaInnovations hosted its first MedMaker Challenge this year, a two-day competition to “democratize innovation” that drew 75 participants—including students from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and other institutions, and engineering and software professionals. The goal of the competition was to create a high-tech approach to managing, monitoring, and treating health problems associated with pain and fatigue. In all, 14 teams worked on solutions over a 48-hour period. A panel of judges from Mount Sinai chose first-, second-, and third-place winning teams that received prizes of $3,500, $2,500, and $1,500, respectively. (more…)
Nineteen individuals from the Mount Sinai Health System were honored for their contributions to research, technology, medicine, and health care at the second annual Mount Sinai Innovation Awards ceremony, which was held on Monday, October 24, in conjunction with the SinaInnovations conference. (more…)
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…)
For more than 20 years, the Department of Medicine has organized a lecture series focused on ethics and the compassionate care of patients. This year, the Alexander Richman Commemorative Award and Lecture in Humanism and Ethics began a new and integrative approach to expand its scope. (more…)