Mount Sinai Queens staff, family, and friends at the Queens Pride parade.
The Mount Sinai Health System observed Pride Month and the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising with festive events in June. Contingents from Mount Sinai took part in the Queens Pride parade on Sunday, June 2, and in the NYC Pride parade in Manhattan on Sunday, June 30. At Pride fairs throughout the month, staff of LGBT Health Services, the Office for Diversity and Inclusion, the Institute for Advanced Medicine, and the Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center distributed free condoms, informational pamphlets, and fun favors.
On Thursday, June 27, about 400 attended Mount Sinai’s Pride Celebration at the House of Yes venue in Brooklyn. “We have the largest representation in LGBTQ health delivery in the New York City area, and what we do saves lives every day,” David L. Reich, MD, President of The Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai Queens, told the attendees. “The reason we are such an amazing health system is because of all of you.”
David L. Reich, MD, President of the Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai Queens, center, with leaders of the Office for Diversity and Inclusion, from left, Gary C. Butts, MD, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, and Dean for Diversity Programs, Policy and Community Affairs, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Pamela Y. Abner, MPA, CPXP, Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer; Barbara Warren, PsyD, Director, LGBT Programs and Policies; and Edgar Vargas, MPH, LMSW, LGBT Program Manager.
Mount Sinai Doctors Astoria staff members at Queens Pride, from left: Shirmira Wilson, Kathleen Meza, and Madelyn Penagos.
An aerialist performed during the Pride Celebration at the House of Yes venue in Brooklyn.
At the Pride Celebration, Joshua Safer, MD, Executive Director of Mount Sinai’s Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery, right, with Katharine K. Williams, PhD, a clinical psychologist at the Center.
Staff members of Mount Sinai’s Office for Diversity and Inclusion, from left: Janice Yoon, program manager; Elizabeth Diaz, MPA, senior project coordinator; Shana Dacon, MPH, MBA, assistant director, Corporate Health System Affairs; Edgar Vargas, MPH, LMSW, LGBT program manager; and Samuel Rosado, project coordinator.
The Mount Sinai Health System’s contingent at NYC Pride.