Interns Introduced to Health Administration Careers
More than 50 high school, college, and graduate students from underrepresented backgrounds gained valuable exposure to careers in health care and medicine this summer in administrative internships spearheaded by the Mount Sinai Office for Diversity and...
Mount Sinai Is Taking the Lead in Transgender Medicine
The Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery (CTMS) in three years has become a world leader in the care and support of transgender people, a journey that is the subject of Born to Be, a documentary that premiered on Saturday, September 28,...
Study Finds Distress Among Children in Immigrant Detention
Mount Sinai researchers found that children being held in an immigration detention center experienced high levels of mental health distress, with 44 percent demonstrating at least one significant emotional or behavioral symptom. The report was the first...
Advice for Internships, and Career Pathways
The Mount Sinai Health System’s Office for Diversity and Inclusion hosted a “Health Care Leadership and Career Pathways” panel discussion for more than 40 summer interns in high school, undergraduate, and graduate student administrative programs at Mount Sinai. The...
Mount Sinai Administrative Fellows Are Celebrated at Graduation
Hailed as “future leaders,” two young professionals recently graduated from the Mount Sinai’s Administrative Fellowship Program, a two-year postgraduate program created to help build a pipeline of underrepresented minorities in health care administration....
Inaugural Health Care Inclusion Summit Provides a Road Map to Positive Change
At the start of a meeting, give participants a few moments to reflect quietly on the subject at hand, then call on each person for their thoughts. When people do speak, “listen to understand, and not to reply.” These were some of the specific and...
Scholar-Athletes Learn About Health Care Careers at Inaugural NYC-SWAG Summit
Scholar-athletes learned about careers in health care, medicine, and science—and learned that they might have exactly the right attributes to succeed—at the inaugural NYC-SWAG (Scholar-Athletes With Academic Goals) Summit. About 120 participants attended...
Case Study Outlines Strategies for Enhancing the Patient Experience for People with Disabilities
The Mount Sinai Health System’s Office for Diversity and Inclusion and the Office of Service Excellence and Patient Experience authored a case study, which was recently published by the Beryl Institute, an organization dedicated to improving the patient...
Mount Sinai Steps Up for Pride Month
The Mount Sinai Health System observed Pride Month and the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising with festive events in June. Contingents from Mount Sinai took part in the Queens Pride parade on Sunday, June 2, and in the NYC Pride parade in Manhattan...
“Make Someone’s Life Better”: A Conversation With Angela Diaz, MD, PhD, MPH
Treat every obstacle as an opportunity to learn. Lean on each other. If you have a chance to make someone’s life better, do it. These sound like lofty goals, but they are put into action every day by Angela Diaz, MD, PhD, MPH, Director of the Mount Sinai...