The Selikoff Centers for Occupational Health at Mount Sinai Provide Undocumented Immigrant Workers With the Care They Need
Many of the approximately eight million undocumented immigrants in the United States workforce hold critical and essential jobs. Some of these jobs are in construction, cleaning services, transportation—jobs that ensure we have everything from electric power to...
Celebration Week for Nurse Practitioners—Ever Rising to Meet the Needs of Patients
The Mount Sinai Health System celebrates nurse practitioners (NPs) during the week of Sunday, November 13, to Saturday, November 19—and recognizes their commitment toward furthering the mission and vision of the organization. “Nurse practitioners are a critical link...
Patient Dining Associate Recognized for Her Commitment to the Patient Experience
Tessor Tyrell, Patient Dining Associate at Mount Sinai West, is considered to be a shining example of how the Department of Food and Nutrition Services can make a significant impact on the patient experience. John Gkanios, Patient Service Manager, explains: “Tessor is...
PhD Students Get Lab Coats, Marking the Start of New Journeys in Research and Training
Dozens of members of the 2022 PhD and MD/PhD matriculating class of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences were presented with lab coats in a celebratory event held Monday, September 19, amid the cheers and applause from the...
Social Worker at “Coming Home” Program Helps Former Inmates Build a Better Life
Since 2006, the Coming Home program at Mount Sinai has worked to improve the physical and mental health and the emotional and social well-being of men and women during their transition from prison or jail to the community. The program, a division of the Institute for...
At African American Day Parade, Mount Sinai Shares a Message of Health and Equity
The Mount Sinai Health System sponsored the 53rd Annual African American Day Parade on Sunday, September 18, with a festive group of close to 80 employees and their family and friends in attendance. Held in Harlem on the third Sunday in September, the event is the...
Mount Sinai Program Gives Underrepresented Students a Hands-On Lab Experience—and a Pathway to Graduate School
Fifteen college students who participated in a 10-week research program may each have had different interests—for example, cardiology, immunology, microbiology, neuroscience, oncology, or psychiatry. But as a group, they had one fundamental, unifying distinction. They...
Three New Students at the Icahn School of Medicine Show the School’s Unique Partnership with the U.S. Military
The first year of medical school is probably one of the toughest challenges for any young person. For three incoming students at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, maybe not. Three members of the United States military whose careers propelled them in...
Celebrating Summer Interns: Learning and Growing, Across the Health System
In summer 2022, dozens of college students took part in rewarding internships across the Mount Sinai Health System—in clinical sites, administrative offices, and laboratories—gaining valuable exposure to careers in health care and medicine with the support of valued...
Celebrating Summer Interns: Rich Experience in Labs of Genetics and Genomic Sciences
About a dozen undergraduate college students conducted research this summer with faculty members of the Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The interns received interdisciplinary research experience in...