A new television series called 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.
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.
In its first 30-minute episode, Mount Sinai Future You highlights:
- Dennis Charney, MD, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, who discusses the anniversary of the Icahn School of Medicine, a leader in medical breakthroughs since 1968, and shares his own story of resilience after recovering from a traumatic event.
- Breakthroughs in operating room technologies, such as augmented reality, simulation, and 3D printing, by surgeons and researchers in the Department of Neurosurgery.
- The science of addiction, with Eric Nestler, MD, PhD, Dean for Academic and Scientific Affairs and Director of The Friedman Brain Institute, who is researching addiction and depression, and Yasmin Hurd, PhD, Ward-Coleman Chair of Translational Neuroscience and Director of the Addiction Institute at Mount Sinai, who is investigating how a component of the marijuana plant may aid in treatment of opioid addiction.
- How vaccines developed in the lab of Joshua Brody, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine (Hematology and Medical Oncology), are targeting cancer cells.
- Douglas Dieterich, MD, Professor of Medicine (Liver Diseases), and a patient of his, who relate their shared journey with hepatitis C.