Neurosurgery Charity Softball Tournament in Central Park
Under a clear blue sky in June, faculty, residents, and fellows from the Mount Sinai Health System’s Department of Neurosurgery came to bat in a friendly charity softball competition in Central Park. The 13th Annual Neurosurgery Charity Softball Tournament, which...
Mount Sinai Queens Heralds a New Era of Community Health Care with Opening of Ambulatory Pavilion
Against a backdrop of an evolving national health care system increasingly focused on preventive medicine, outpatient surgical procedures, and other efforts to keep people healthy and out of the hospital, Mount Sinai Queens has opened the doors to its new Ambulatory...
Philanthropic Gift Advances the Mission of Family Medicine and Community Health Department
The newly named Alfred and Gail Engelberg Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai was officially unveiled during a recent plaque dedication and reception that honored Alfred B. Engelberg and his wife, Gail May...
Honoring Community Service
David C. Thomas, MD, Professor of Medicine (Internal Medicine), Medical Education, and Rehabilitation Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, recently received a 2016 OTTY (Our Town Thanks You) Award from Our Town, a local newspaper serving the Upper East...
Morningside Clinic Moves to a Newly Renovated Location
The Institute for Advanced Medicine has relocated the Spencer Cox Morningside Clinic to renovated space at 440 West 114th Street and renamed it the Morningside Clinic. The new site provides patients with a more convenient and comfortable setting that includes a...
Hands-On Learning at the Brain Awareness Fair
More than 100 volunteers from the Mount Sinai Health System and 500 local students and members of East Harlem and surrounding communities participated in the Fourth Annual Brain Awareness Fair on Tuesday, March 15, in The Mount Sinai Hospital’s Guggenheim Pavilion...
Defying the Odds and Rising to the Top
You could say Denisse Rojas Marquez is a modern-day Phoenix: a woman who has overcome every obstacle life has thrown in her goal-oriented path with inspirational resilience and tenacity, defying the odds at every turn. Despite being an undocumented immigrant and...
Gary Rosenberg, PhD, Retires from Mount Sinai’s Community Advisory Board
Gary Rosenberg, PhD, the Edith J. Baerwald Professor of Preventive Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, received an award for 30 years of service as Chair of the Mount Sinai Community Advisory Board (CAB) when he retired from that position on...
Bringing Women’s Healthcare to Sex Workers: An impromptu meeting
Guest post by Molly Lieber, LMSW, MPH, Project Manager of the Division of Global Women's Health in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Science at The Mount Sinai Hospital. Our Director, Dr. Ann Marie Beddoe, has traveled to Liberia, a small...