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...
Working Together to Fight Hunger
The New York Common Pantry (NYCP), which has the long-standing support of the Mount Sinai Health System, recently began delivering nutritionally balanced food directly to community providers that serve or house senior citizens. Ultimately, about 13,500 seniors a month...
Helping to Establish Sustainable Health Care in Liberia
After suspending travel to Liberia during the largest outbreak of Ebola in history, faculty at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai resumed their teaching trips to the West African country last fall, with renewed efforts to improve women’s health. Led by Ann...
“Winter Wonderland” at Urgent Care Inwood
Mount Sinai Doctors Urgent Care Inwood hosted a “Winter Wonderland” for 160 children and their parents on Friday, December 18. The young guests created ice cream cone ornaments, built mini popsicle-sleds, made snow globes, and warmed up at a hot chocolate cookie bar....
Herminia Palacio ’87, MD, MPH Appointed NYC’s Deputy Mayor for Health & Human Services
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has appointed Dr. Herminia Palacio as the city's new deputy mayor for health and human services, filling a post that has been vacant since the end of September 2015. Palacio will oversee several key city departments, including the...