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...
Cirque du Soleil Enchants Pediatric Patients At Kravis Children’s Hospital
Performers from Cirque du Soleil’s Kurios: Cabinet of Curiosities brought their imaginative art form to life during a recent visit to the Child Life Zone at Kravis Children’s Hospital at Mount Sinai. Pediatric patients and their families enjoyed a short performance...
Fifth Annual Dubin Breast Center Fact vs. Fiction Luncheon and Symposium
Is a mastectomy preferable to a lumpectomy? Can breast implants cause cancer? These were among the questions asked by attendees at the Fifth Annual Dubin Breast Center Fact vs. Fiction Luncheon and Symposium held in 2016, an informative event that sets the record...
New York Times ‘New Yorker of the Year’ Column Spotlights Mount Sinai Patient and Patient Advocate
After treatment for ovarian cancer, Valerie Goldfein created Woman to Woman, a program at The Mount Sinai Hospital to support other gynecologic cancer patients that has expanded nationwide.
Watch the Video: A Day With A Scientist
More than 40 middle school students from several East Harlem schools were exposed to science, medicine and healthcare at The Mount Sinai Hospital during an event called “Day-With-A-Scientist: The Brain.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N9lOdvZ4Q0