Mount Sinai’s ADAPT Employee Resource Group Is Raising Disability Awareness
A message of inclusion, accessibility, and equity is being delivered by All Differing Abilities Partnering Together (ADAPT) a system-wide Employee Resource Group (ERG) centering on the disability community. Formerly known as the Abilities ERG, ADAPT is newly rebranded...
CARES Staff Transgender Remembrance Day
The Comprehensive Adolescent Rehabilitation and Education Service (CARES) at Mount Sinai Morningside integrates intensive psychological treatment with a complete high school education through the New York City Department of Education’s ReStart Academy (District 79),...
Mount Sinai Neuroscience Student Earns NIH Fellowship to Study Substance Use Disorders
Can the bacteria in your gut influence addictive behavior? That is the question that Katherine Meckel is studying and trying to answer. Currently a fifth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Ms. Meckel is one of 31 young...
Eleven Medical Schools Join Mount Sinai’s Project to Eliminate Racism and Bias From Medical Education
The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has selected 11 medical schools to join a newly launched collaboration to eliminate racism and bias in medical education. The project—called Anti-Racist Transformation in Medical Education (ART in Med Ed)—will engage these...
Phillips School of Nursing Announces Scholarship for Students From Underrepresented Groups
The Phillips School of Nursing at Mount Sinai Beth Israel has granted nursing scholarships to eight students who belong to racial and ethnic groups that are underrepresented in nursing. Funded by the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration, the scholarships...
HOLA Donates School Supplies to “Hour Children” Nonprofit Group
Much needed back-to-school supplies were recently donated to children of incarcerated women and other community members by HOLA, the Heritage of Latinx Alliance Employee Resource Group at the Mount Sinai Health System. HOLA made the donations in collaboration with...
A Celebration of Mount Sinai’s Administrative Fellows
The Office for Diversity and Inclusion, along with hospital leaders from across the Mount Sinai Health System, recently hosted a virtual ceremony to celebrate and honor the four young professionals who completed the Health System’s Administrative Fellowship Program in...
Mount Sinai Rolls Out Its Anti-Racism Program to Other Medical Schools
Four years ago, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai launched a culture transformation initiative to eliminate racism and bias from its medical education program. Now, Mount Sinai is looking to share its Racism and Bias Initiative, which includes a virtual...
Improving Diversity in Autism Genomic Research
Genomic research is now an integral part of the study and treatment of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and related neurodevelopmental disabilities, so it is crucial to include more ethnically and racially diverse populations, said Pilar Trelles, MD, a psychiatrist and...
Sharely Fred Torres, MD: Fostering Culturally Sensitive Therapy
The racial and ethnic disparity in mental health care is a critical issue facing psychiatry—and health care as a whole. Lack of access, a dearth of racially and ethnically diverse providers, and increased need across the board due to ripple effects from COVID-19 have...