Colorectal Cancer Awareness Events
The Mount Sinai Endoscopy Center hosted an array of educational activities for Colorectal Awareness Month on Wednesday, March 1. During a health fair at The Mount Sinai Hospital, participants picked up educational literature and giveaways and walked through a...
Breaking Barriers at Kravis Children’s Hospital
In partnership with the nonprofit enCourage Kids Foundation, Leif Becker, a martial artist and motivational speaker, recently met with pediatric patients at the Blau Center for Children’s Cancer and Blood Disease at Kravis Children’s Hospital at Mount Sinai. Mr....
Swedish Princess Visits Mount Sinai’s Adolescent Health Center
HRH Princess Madeleine of Sweden and Joanna Rubinstein, DDS, PhD, President and CEO of the World Childhood Foundation, USA, recently visited the Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center. Led by the Center’s Medical Director, Anne T. Nucci-Sack, MD, Assistant Professor of...
Orthopedics Team Shares Surgical Techniques in China
Donald M. Kastenbaum, MD, has been traveling to China each year for more than 15 years to teach orthopedic surgeons the latest techniques in orthopedic hip and knee surgery. This year, he and his four-person team at Mount Sinai Beth Israel were invited by the Chinese...
A Specialized Clinic for Treating Sickle Cell Disease in New York
Jeffrey Glassberg, MD, MA, Associate Director, Mount Sinai Comprehensive Sickle Cell Program at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, talks about a specialized clinic for treating sickle cell disease. "Very often people with sickle cell disease, especially if...
HIV in Women and Girls Awareness Day and Why it’s Important
Terri Wilder, MSW, director, HIV/AIDS Education and Training, and Antonio Urbina, MD, associate professor of infectious disease at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, discuss recent advances in HIV/AIDS treatment and the importance of national HIV in Women...
Watch the Video: The Actors Fund and Mount Sinai Doctors Open The Samuel J. Friedman Health Center for the Performing Arts
The Actors Fund and Mount Sinai Doctors opened a new health center for the performing arts and entertainment community in New York City. Located at The Actors Fund's headquarters, The Samuel J. Friedman Health Center for the Performing Arts will serve as the medical...
A Nurse Shares Her Affinity for Art
Mary Patricia Fretz, RN, has shared her love for art—and for the stately giraffe—by donating ceramic-tile collages that now hang at Mount Sinai West and the Pediatric Emergency Department at Mount Sinai St. Luke’s. Ms. Fretz, a postpartum nurse at Mount Sinai West,...
Students Meet Mount Sinai Staff Who Have Walked the Same Path
A group of first-generation college students—with questions about health care careers and academic life—recently received advice from Mount Sinai officials who were also among the first in their families to attend college. The young people were fellows of America...