Jeremy Boal, MD, is President of Mount Sinai Downtown
Jeremy Boal, MD, has been appointed President of Mount Sinai Downtown, overseeing the Mount Sinai Health System’s more than $500 million transformation effort, which includes a new Mount Sinai Beth Israel and an enhanced New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai....
Children Enjoy Halloween Festivities at Urgent Care Inwood
Mount Sinai Doctors Urgent Care Inwood hosted its second annual Spooktacular Halloween House on Friday, October 28, for 200 neighborhood children. They created masks inspired by the Mexican holiday Día de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) and visited a photo booth to have...
New Cullman Family Award Honors 42 Clinicians for Communication
The Mount Sinai Health System recently honored the first recipients of the Cullman Family Award for Excellence in Physician-Patient Communication. The 42 clinicians who were celebrated ranked in the top 1 percent nationally in provider communication in 2015 as...
Online Patient Experience Ratings Launched
In an effort to increase transparency, the Mount Sinai Doctors Faculty Practice has begun posting patient experience ratings for its doctors. The star ratings are based on patients’ responses to select questions from a nationally validated, standardized survey...
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...