Mount Sinai Participates in Puerto Rican Day Parade, Demonstrating a Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
Mount Sinai’s Heritage of Latinx Alliance (HOLA) employee resource group participated in the 67th Puerto Rican Day parade down Fifth Avenue in New York in a joyous display of dancing and interacting with the crowd. The event was held Sunday, June 9. “Events like these...
Mount Sinai Hosts PREP Regional Symposium, Bringing Together Scholars to Share Research and Celebrate Accomplishments
Mount Sinai’s Post-Baccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP) helps prepare scholars who are interested in biomedical careers to apply successfully for doctoral programs. PREP scholars take graduate level courses, participate in career development activities, and...
Why It’s Important for AAPI Communities to Be Vigilant About Breast and Colon Cancer Screening
As the country celebrates the cultural diversity of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in May for Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month, it is time for a reminder for members of those communities to keep up with their cancer screenings....
Celebrating Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month: Why Diversity Matters in Health Care
Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, also known as Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month, is observed in May in the United States. It celebrates the culture and historical contributions of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI)...
Advancing Heath Equity With Data: Collaborating With Stakeholders at Mount Sinai Queens
At Mount Sinai, a key pillar in advancing health equity focuses on the collection and use of self-reported patient demographic data to identify gaps in care. The Health Equity Data Assessment (HEDA) team is engaging key stakeholders across the Health System and...
Mount Sinai’s Million Dollar Circle Recognition Honors Underrepresented Vendors
Mount Sinai recently held its inaugural Million Dollar Circle Recognition event—celebrating 28 underrepresented vendors that each provided more than $1 million in products and services to the Health System in 2022 and 2023. More than $70 million was spent with the...
New Opera on a Gender-Affirmation Pioneer Is Authored by Mount Sinai Neuroradiologist
“It’s a love story,” says Aryeh Lev Stollman, MD, a neuroradiologist at Mount Sinai, and the librettist for a new opera, Lili Elbe, which tells the story of one of the earliest recipients of gender-affirming surgery, in 1930. The opera, commissioned by the Theater St....
Preparing Physicians to Treat the LGBTQI+ Community With Dignity as It Ages
The Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center is starting an LGBTQ+ service for older adults, and inspired by the leading work that the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at Mount Sinai is doing in LGBTQ+ geriatric medicine, it has partnered with Mount Sinai to train one of its geriatrics resident.
Two Employee Resource Groups, Mount Sinai Interfaith and Islamic Community at Mount Sinai, Hold a Silent Vigil
The Mount Sinai Interfaith and the Islamic Community at Mount Sinai employee resource groups gathered to hold space for collective grief and to express their shared humanity, love, respect, and understanding on Wednesday, January 10. About 90 Mount Sinai employees,...
GOALS Employee Resource Group Explores Environmental Racism and How It May Appear In a Work Atmosphere
The Growth in Operations, Administration, and Leadership Society (GOALS) employee resource group hosted its quarterly meeting, bringing together about 20 Black men from across the Mount Sinai community to discuss environmental and systematic racism and how it affects...
