Push-Up Challenge Focuses on Men’s Health
Eighty-five members of the Mount Sinai community demonstrated their strength and stamina on Friday, September 23, by performing a total of 4,449 push-ups as part of the Second Annual Push-Up for Prostate Cancer Challenge. The event, hosted by the Milton and Carroll...
The Founder of a Major Kosher Food Network is Honored
Leaders from the Mount Sinai Health System and volunteers from the Satmar Bikur Cholim kosher food distribution network recently gathered in the Guggenheim Pavilion to donate a plaque in honor of the late Rebbetzin Alta Feige Teitelbaum, the woman who started the...
Treating Athletes at the 2016 Rio Paralympics An Uplifting Experience for Physician
It was a volunteer experience like few others: being a physician selected to treat athletes at the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics and the recently concluded Paralympics. “I was part of a team that evaluated acute and chronic musculoskeletal sports-related injuries,” says...
Festival Patrons Learn About Mount Sinai Doctors Brooklyn Heights
Several hundred visitors stopped by a table hosted by Mount Sinai Doctors (MSD) Brooklyn Heights at the 42nd Annual Atlantic Antic™, Brooklyn’s oldest and largest street festival, held Sunday, September 25, along Atlantic Avenue. Festival workers gave out brochures,...
PaintFest America Aims to Brighten Walls, and Patients’ Days
Patients and staff members were encouraged to channel their inner schoolchildren recently when volunteers from the nonprofit PaintFest America visited the Ruttenberg Treatment Center and the Mount Sinai Beth Israel Comprehensive Cancer Center West. About 100...
Teaming Up to Build Bikes
The Mount Sinai Heath Partners (MSHP) team, at 150 E. 42nd Street, assembled 16 bicycles recently for donation to the Children’s Aid Society. “Every year, MSHP engages in a team-building activity, and this year we looked for an opportunity to do something fun that...
Garth Brooks Makes a Special Visit
The country and pop music star Garth Brooks and his band members paid a special visit in July to the Child Life Zone at the Kravis Children’s Hospital at Mount Sinai to talk with pediatric patients and their families, play games, create artwork, and take photos. “The...
Mount Sinai Expands Neurosurgery Care to Brooklyn
Neurosurgery patients at Mount Sinai Brooklyn can now receive in-depth evaluations, and local treatment in many cases, without having to travel into Manhattan. Ronit Gilad, MD, Chief of the Neurosurgical service at Mount Sinai Brooklyn, and Soriaya Motivala, MD,...
Mount Sinai Doctors East 85th Street Facility Opens
A recent reception and ribbon-cutting ceremony marked the opening of Mount Sinai Doctors East 85th Street, the first multispecialty Mount Sinai Doctors Faculty Practice on the Upper East Side. The office occupies five floors at 234 East 85th Street. The facility,...