Mount Sinai Celebrates Pride
Roughly 40,000 people covered the two-mile parade route down Fifth Avenue to Christopher Street during the 48th Annual New York City Pride March on Sunday, June 25. Among the marchers, the rainbow-colored flags, and festive floats were more than 80 Mount Sinai Health...
Sharing the Love of Jazz
Pictured above, Brent Birckhead, alto saxophone; Maya Kronfeld, piano; Barry Stephenson, bass; and Savannah Harris, drums, performing jazz favorites in the Mount Sinai Downtown-Union Square atrium. Musicians with Lincoln Center’s Jazz for Young People program treated...
Healthy Dialogues at the 2017 Aspen Ideas Festival
Clear blue skies and fresh mountain air set the stage for the 2017 Aspen Ideas Festival, which ran from Thursday, June 22, through Saturday, July 1. Presented by the Aspen Institute and The Atlantic magazine, the annual festival in Aspen, Colorado, is a gathering...
Make Way for the Mount Sinai Mighty Milers!
A club sponsored by the Parenting Center at Kravis Children’s Hospital at Mount Sinai has inspired a love for running in about 70 patients ages 5 to 12. From April to June, the Mount Sinai Mighty Milers met on Wednesdays in Central Park to chat, stretch, and run on...
20th Annual Luncheon for Cancer Survivors
About 200 cancer survivors, their families and friends, and Mount Sinai faculty and staff, recently attended the 20th annual luncheon celebrating National Cancer Survivors Day®. At the event, held on Sunday, June 11, in The Mount Sinai Hospital’s Annenberg West Lobby,...
Hiking for Good Health
Faculty and staff from the Milton and Carroll Petrie Department of Urology, along with their families and friends, enjoyed a healthy and rigorous hike in the Hudson Valley last spring, climbing and rock scrambling 1,260 feet above sea level at Breakneck Ridge near...
Granting Wishes and Bringing Joy to Sick Children
Two members of the Mount Sinai Health System, Lorraine Rodriguez, MSN, BSN, RN, FNP, and Samantha Vasquez, LMSW, were chosen last spring to promote World Wish Day® on behalf of the Make-A-Wish ® Foundation, an international organization that has granted the wishes of...
A Full-Time Canine Companion Joins Mount Sinai
Two-year-old Aiden Schaefer was battling leukemia, with long hospital stays, uncomfortable medical procedures, and time spent away from his twin brother, Mason, when a gentle young service dog, Professor Bunsen Honeydew, began keeping him company as part of a new...
Expanding Outreach to Combat Sexual Violence
At an informational table in Guggenheim Pavilion, Mount Sinai’s Sexual Assault and Violence Intervention Program (SAVI) in April educated visitors about the community outreach and educational programming it provides. For more than 30 years, SAVI has offered free,...