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,...
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...