Dennis S. Charney, MD, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and President for Academic Affairs, Mount Sinai Health System, with Push-Up winner Noriel Cordova.
Eighty-five members of the Mount Sinai community demonstrated their strength and stamina on Friday, September 23, by performing a total of 4,449 push-ups as part of the Second Annual Push-Up for Prostate Cancer Challenge. The event, hosted by the Milton and Carroll Petrie Department of Urology, and held in the Guggenheim Pavilion, drew attention to Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, and men’s health in general.
In addition to the push-up challenge, physicians and nurses from the Urology Department provided visitors with prostate cancer risk consultations and performed 35 PSA screenings. Visitors also had an opportunity to test-drive the da Vinci™ robot, which is used in robotic prostate surgery.
This year, employees in the Department of Finance at The Mount Sinai Hospital achieved 721 push-ups, more than any other department, and received a trophy they will keep for a year. The trophy will move to the Mount Sinai department that comes in first place next year.
Individually, Noriel Cordova, who works in Finance-Reimbursement at The Mount Sinai Hospital, came in first among male challengers with
Dennis S. Charney, MD, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and President for Academic Affairs, Mount Sinai Health System, with Push-Up winner Carolyn Forman, MPA.
138 push-ups. Carolyn Forman, MPA, Administrative Director, Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute, received first prize among females, with 68 push-ups.
“Mount Sinai’s push-up challenge is an enjoyable way for us to call attention to the importance of men’s health and the role that exercise plays in maintaining one’s health,” says Ash Tewari, MBBS, MCh, the Kyung Hyun Kim, MD Chair in Urology, Mount Sinai Health System, who led the event. “Screenings and information can lead to early diagnoses, which increase the chances of positive health outcomes.”