Dubin Breast Center Honors Three at Milestone Gala
The Dubin Breast Center of The Tisch Cancer Institute at the Mount Sinai Health System recently celebrated its “five-year milestone” with a benefit at the Mandarin Oriental, New York. About 500 guests attended the event on Monday, December 5, raising more than $2.3...
Mount Sinai West Recognizes World AIDS Day
In observance of World AIDS Day, the Mount Sinai Health System held two events in recognition of the disease’s multifaceted impact and the importance of HIV research, prevention, and treatment. In a special HIV grand rounds program, the Mount Sinai Institute for...
Honoring Many Contributions to the Field of Gastroenterology
Friends, family, faculty, and staff gathered in December to recognize David B. Sachar, MD, and his wife Joanna S. Sachar, for their many contributions to the field of gastroenterology and to celebrate the naming of a conference room in their honor at the Susan and...
Film Tracks a Mount Sinai Leader’s Global Heart-Health Mission
The Resilient Heart, a new feature-length documentary on the work of Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, Director of Mount Sinai Heart and Physician-in-Chief of The Mount Sinai Hospital, was presented on Wednesday, December 14, at the New York Academy of Medicine. Nearly 300...
The Late Mount Sinai Trustee Patricia S. Levinson Is Honored for Her Community Support
More than 100 friends and members of the Mount Sinai Health System paid tribute to the late Patricia S. Levinson at a ceremony in November, when Mount Sinai’s Center for Multicultural and Community Affairs (CMCA) was renamed in her honor. Mrs. Levinson, a Mount Sinai...
New Report From Mount Sinai and the United Nations Outlines Ways to Improve U.S. Health Outcomes
The United States spends more money on health care than any other country, yet has poorer outcomes with shorter average life expectancies (78.8 years, per capita) than peer nations, such as Japan and Spain, with 83.4 years and 83.2 years, respectively. Furthermore, a...
Merriment at Mount Sinai’s Winter Wonderland
Families with young children in Williamsburg and Inwood braved the frigid weather in December to take part in two Winter Wonderland events that were hosted by Mount Sinai Doctors practices in each neighborhood. Staff festively decorated the facilities with streamers...
Celebrating the Holidays in Harmony
Jon Batiste, the renowned jazz pianist, leader of the group Stay Human, and bandleader for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, recently performed at the Louis Armstrong Center for Music and Medicine’s holiday concert. In the Mount Sinai Downtown-Union Square atrium,...
World Diabetes Day Health Fair
The Mount Sinai Hospital recently celebrated World Diabetes Day with a health fair in the Guggenheim Pavilion. A multidisciplinary team led by Camilla Levister, MS, ANP-C, CDE, from the Mount Sinai Diabetes Center, provided body-fat testing, type 2 diabetes risk...