Fourth Episode of Mount Sinai Future You

The fourth episode of Mount Sinai Future You features former supermodel Mahogany Phillips, who went through surgery to transition from male to female through Mount Sinai’s Transgender Fellowship program that is training the next generation of doctors to perform transgender surgeries. Mahogany received treatment from Jess Ting, MD, Associate Professor, Plastic and Reconstructive surgery.

Mount Sinai Future You, which highlights innovation at Mount Sinai, is being broadcast on CUNY TV, the non-commercial educational-access cable channel run by The City University of New York.

Mount Sinai Future You takes viewers behind the scenes as doctors at Mount Sinai Health System leverage innovative science to change patients’ lives every day. The series  highlights preventative care and treatment models that will lead to better health and longer lives.

Mount Sinai Future You, Episode Four, also features:

• Denise Ely shares her story after receiving an “advanced age” liver transplant 20 years ago. Ely meets her donor’s family for the first time and discovers surprising similarities between her life and the life of her donor. Sander Florman, MD, Director of the Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute, and Nancy Bach, MD, Associate Clinical Professor of Liver Disease, discuss the future of liver transplant and how utilizing “at risk” organs allows more people to have this life-saving surgery.
• Matilda, who was diagnosed with a severe form of Neonatal Hermochromatosis, became the youngest liver transplant recipient at Mount Sinai.
• Manuel Rivera, a patient who went through medical treatment in the comfort of his own home. The Mobile Acute Care Team (MACT) has partnered with Contessa Health to create an efficient payment and operating model that decreases the cost of treatment for patients.
• Ettore Vulcano, MD, Foot and Ankle Orthopedic Surgeon, uses new technology to perform minimally invasive foot surgeries that significantly decrease a patient’s recovery time and allows them to return to their normal lives much faster than expected.
• Joanne Loewy, Director of the Louis Armstrong Center for Music and Medicine, shares research about how music therapy is helping decrease stress and anxiety levels among cancer patients, as well as those recovering from spine surgery.

New episodes of Mount Sinai Future You will run monthly, in the first week of each month, on Wednesdays at 9:30 pm, Thursdays at 6:30 am and 5 pm, and Saturdays at 11 am. They will cover newsworthy topics in medicine, as well as highlight new treatments, innovations, and preventive care for patients. The series is produced by Mount Sinai.

Here is where you can find this series:

 *Some RCN digital cable and MMDS systems carry CUNY TV and/or NYC TV on different channel numbers. For example, some RCN systems in Manhattan and Queens carry CUNY TV on channel 24, 106 or 108. Please consult your cable provider directly to be sure.