Shaping the future of education in health care and medical sciences
After a Summer on Capitol Hill, a Mount Sinai Medical Student Draws Attention to the Need for Changes to Medicare and Medicaid to Help Vulnerable Populations
With the annual Medicare open enrollment period approaching, Mount Sinai medical student Sunjay Letchuman (class of 2026) and U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, MD, (R-LA) have come together to shine a light on a vulnerable population of Americans who are poor, elderly, and...
With Each White Coat Ceremony, a Renewed Commitment to Advancing Diversity
The class of 2027 was seated at the Alice Tully Hall at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts on Tuesday, September 12, waiting to be coated in the White Coat Ceremony, which marks the start of their medical education. Dennis Charney, MD, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz...
New Grant Helps Preventive Medicine Residents Forge Deeper Ties With Vulnerable Groups
The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai General Preventive Medicine Residency Program has won a prestigious federal grant designed to reduce social inequities in health care through enhanced resident training and expanded public health intervention. Under terms of...
A Desire to Gain New Skills in Strategy, Policy, and Patient Advocacy Led Susan S. Khalil, MD, to the Master of Science in Health Care Delivery Leadership Program
Beyond the clinical excellence she provides her patients, Susan S. Khalil, MD, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, says she wanted to learn how to communicate in a better way with...
How Analyzing Genetic Variants to Predict Alzheimer’s Disease Risk Put Raj Vaza on a Path to a Career as a Physician-Scientist
Raj Vaza, who received his Master of Science in Biomedical Data Science degree at Mount Sinai’s Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences in 2023, says that Mount Sinai had much to offer him, but one top opportunity was working in the Huang Lab in Computational Omics....
Justine Marcinek Explores Occupational and Environmental Health Issues as She Gets a Master of Public Health (MPH) Degree
Justine Marcinek received her Master of Public Health degree, specializing in Environmental Health Sciences, at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai’s Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences in 2023. In the following Q&A, Ms. Marcinek discusses how exciting...