From left: Michelle S. Cespedes, MD, MS, Associate Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Lisa Eiland, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, and Director of Newborn Services, Mount Sinai West; and second-year students Monica Amoo-Achampong and Yvonne Okaka.
More than 50 students and faculty members at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai shared a festive meal and built valuable connections recently at the second annual Sinai Women of Color in Medicine and Science dinner. The mentoring event, sponsored by Students for Equal Opportunity in Medicine and the Patricia S. Levinson Center for Multicultural and Community Affairs, was held on Thursday, March 16, at Red Rooster Harlem.
“We look forward to continuing this event as an annual tradition at Mount Sinai. We expect it to grow in size as we work to recruit and retain women of color faculty and students,” says Ann-Gel S. Palermo, DrPH, MPH.