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Recipe: Roasted Butternut Squash Soup

Sep 8, 2023 | Uncategorized

This hearty butternut squash soup recipe is the perfect way to warm up this fall. This plant-based soup is easy to prepare and packed with fiber, antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals—essential nutrients that boost the immune system, improve heart health, and reduce your risk for chronic disease. Enjoy!

 

Ingredients:

2 medium butternut squash
Squash seeds
6 medium carrots
1 medium onion
4 cup water, divided
1/2 teaspoon white pepper
1 teaspoon smoked or regular paprika
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon cumin

Preparation:

Preheat the oven to 425 degrees.

Cut the butternut squash in half. Scoop out the seeds, but save them. Place the squash halves face-down on a baking sheet covered in foil and oiled. Sprinkle the squash seeds on the baking sheet to roast as a garnish for the soup. Set aside.

Peel and chop the carrots into thirds. Chop the onions into a few pieces. Place the carrot and onion pieces alongside the squash on the baking sheet. Bake in oven for 30 minutes. Remove the squash seeds, carrots and onion after about 30 minutes. Set the seeds aside separately, and set aside the carrots and onions. Continue baking the squash for another 30 minutes until the squash is soft enough to scoop from the skin.

Place the squash into a bowl and mash. Discard the shell.

Add half the butternut mash and half of the carrots and onions into a blender and blend on high. Add two cups of water and the pepper, paprika, garlic powder and cumin. Blend until smooth. Pour into a soup pot. Repeat the blending process with the remaining squash, carrots, onion and 2 cups of water. Add to the soup pot, combine blended portions. Stir and heat up before serving. Top with roasted squash seeds for crunch and flavor.

Nutrition

Entire Recipe:
330 calories
Carbohydrates: 40 g
Fat: 8.6 g
Protein: 4.6 g

Butternut squash to me just screams fall, so I am always trying to find the best version of this beloved soup so I can serve it during Thanksgiving. The flavors are a real crowd pleaser, and the roasted seeds make it a party.

Wendy Leon, Mount Sinai Health System, Volunteer

Click here to find more healthy recipes in Mount Sinai’s Calm & Fit Wellness Cookbook.

These recipes from faculty, staff, and students from across the Mount Sinai Health System celebrate the value of healthy eating and how cooking offers an opportunity to create community by bringing people together.

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GOALS Employee Resource Group Event Offers Support and Dialogue for Black Men’s Mental Health

Updated on May 6, 2025 | Uncategorized

Sidney Hankerson, MD, MBA, was the keynote speaker, and led the discussion.

The Growth in Operations, Administration, and Leadership Society (GOALS) Employee Resource Group (ERG) hosted its quarterly outing at Mount Sinai’s Corporate Services Center in June to recognize National Mental Health Awareness Month.

This event, coordinated by Shawn Lee, Associate Director of Operations for the Central Billing Office at the Mount Sinai Health System, brought together about 20 Black men from across the Mount Sinai community to have a candid conversation about the importance of mental health and surmounting the stigmas on mental health care.

The event’s keynote speaker was Sidney Hankerson, MD, MBA, Vice Chair of Community Engagement and Associate Professor of Psychiatry, and Population Health Science and Policy at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Hankerson, who is a nationally recognized expert at engaging faith- and community-based organizations to increase access to culturally relevant mental health care, facilitated the conversation and provided information on how to manage the challenges that Black men may encounter not only in health care but in their personal lives, as well.

Men, regardless of their race or ethnicity, have lower rates of seeking mental health services compared with women, Dr. Hankerson said. But Black men also face a complex array of socio-cultural factors, including racism and discrimination, misdiagnosis and clinician bias, and the common misconception that seeking help is a sign of weakness.

Among the tools available to support Black men’s mental health include culturally competent care, connections to religious communities that support mental health, exercise and behavioral activation, and social support. “I was pleased to see so many of our Mount Sinai brothers come together to create a sense of community for Black men,” said Reginald Miller, DVM, DACLAM, Dean for Research Operations and Infrastructure and Professor of Comparative Medicine and Surgery, and Environmental Health and Public Health at Icahn Mount Sinai. “Building a supportive network of Black males has been a main focus for GOALS.”

“We wanted to create a safe space where Black men can feel heard while also being able to connect with like-minded individuals, with whom they probably would have never met without a forum like this,” said Mr. Lee. “We look forward to expanding our GOALS network, collaborating with other groups, and aligning with system initiatives to foster equitable pathways for our members.”

To learn more about the GOALS ERG, email GOALS@mssm.edu or visit the website GOALS (Growth in Operations, Administrations and Leadership Society).

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New Rubidium Generator Improves Reliability and Reduces Time for Cardiac PET Testing

Updated on Dec 14, 2022 | Uncategorized

Mount Sinai Morningside recently installed a new rubidium generator to facilitate a reliable source of isotopes for cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) studies.

With this update, Mount Sinai will become the leading health system in New York City offering high-quality, timely, and easy access to the entire range of advanced cardiac PET imaging. Cardiac PET testing includes three common type of studies: cardiac stress imaging with PET; cardiac PET viability imaging; and cardiac PET infection and inflammation imaging.

Cardiac stress PET myocardial perfusion imaging is the most accurate non-invasive test to diagnose obstructive coronary artery disease as well as coronary microvascular dysfunction, which is a common cause of symptoms and morbidity among patients who have ischemia with non-obstructive coronary arteries (INOCA) with continued symptoms.

Other key advantages of cardiac PET include:

  • Significantly lower radiation dose to the patient—approximately 3 mSV, or millisieverts, a unit of radiation exposure, per study, equal to about the amount of radiation a person is exposed to from natural sources over the course of a year.
  • Superior imaging technology leading to excellent image quality even among patients with unfavorable bodily characteristics such as obesity or women with large breasts or breast implants.
  • Availability of coronary artery calcium score information to detect subclinical atherosclerosis.
  • Availability of absolute myocardial blood flow quantitation, which helps to accurately diagnose flow-obstructing CAD including high-risk, multi-vessel CAD, diffuse atherosclerosis, post-heart transplant vasculopathy, and microvascular dysfunction in INOCA.
  • Increased efficiency and significantly shorter study time—a rest and stress Rb-82 PET takes about 30 minutes.

Due to these advantages, recent American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association guidelines on chest pain evaluation endorse the preferred use of cardiac PET over other stress imaging modalities.

Common indications for cardiac PET stress testing are:

  • Symptomatic patients with suspected ischemia unable to exercise or complete exercise during a treadmill test.
  • Previous poor quality stress imaging: equivocal or inconclusive results, artifact on images, patients with discordant results on angiogram and stress study.
  • Body characteristics affecting image quality: large breasts, obesity, pleural effusions, chest wall deformities.
  • High-risk patients to avoid diagnostic errors: patients with history of chronic kidney disease, diabetes, suspected left main or multi-vessel disease, extensive known CAD, suspected transplant vasculopathy, known CAD prior to high-risk revascularization.
  • Young patients with established CAD requiring testing to avoid repeat radiation exposure.
  • Situations where myocardial flow quantitation is necessary for clinical decision-making, (e.g. microvascular dysfunction and/or suspected multi-vessel disease).

Cardiac PET viability testing is the gold standard for detecting hibernating myocardium among patients with suspected ischemic cardiomyopathy and heart failure with significant CAD. Cardiac PET guided management has been shown to reduce long-term adverse cardiac events among these patients.

Cardiac infection and inflammation PET imaging is critical for the diagnosis and management of patients with suspected or known cardiac sarcoidosis, suspected prosthetic valve endocarditis, left ventricular assist device (LVAD) infections, pocket, and other cardiac device infections.

To refer a patient for a cardiac PET scan, please contact the Cardiology Department at Mount Sinai Morningside 212-636-4809 or send an email to cardiacPet-scan@mountsinai.org.

Click here for more information on the PET CT program at Mount Sinai Morningside.

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Rising Above the Health Toll of Racism

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