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...
Celebrating the Legacy of Tauba Pasik, MD, and Pedro Pasik, MD
Suzanne N. Haber, PhD, Professor of Pharmacology, and Physiology, University of Rochester Medical Center, presented the inaugural Tauba Pasik, MD and Pedro Pasik, MD Lecture in Neurology at the Hess Center for Science and Medicine on Friday, February 17. The lecture,...
Angela Diaz, MD, PhD, MPH, is Elected to Leadership Role in the National Academy of Medicine
Angela Diaz, MD, PhD, MPH, a leader in adolescent medicine, has been elected to the governing Council of the National Academy of Medicine. Membership in the Academy reflects major contributions to the medical sciences, health care, and public health. The group’s...
A Collaboration Between Mount Sinai and CityMD Aims to Enhance Quality and Access to Care
The Mount Sinai Health System and CityMD have launched a joint collaboration to enhance and expand urgent care services throughout New York City, a partnership that will combine Mount Sinai’s vast network of providers and CityMD’s urgent and clinical care management...
Mount Sinai Brings Transplant Team and Decades of Experience to Long Island
The Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute at Mount Sinai is now offering complete transplant evaluation services at the Mount Sinai Doctors Long Island Five Towns practice in Hewlett, N.Y. At this new satellite practice, adult patients who need a liver or kidney...
The Lancet: US Health-Care Groups Voice Concerns About Replacing ACA
About 2 million people in New York could lose coverage if funding to expand Medicaid eligibility ended, David Reich, MD, President and Chief Operating Officer of The Mount Sinai Hospital, tells The Lancet. If that happens, Reich said "we lose our ability to use the...