Shaping the future of education in health care and medical sciences
Sparking an Interest in Science and Medicine in Youths
It can never be too early to get children interested in the fields of science, medicine, and health care, says Kenya Townsend, Director of the Center for Excellence in Youth Education (CEYE) at Mount Sinai. That has been the mission of the program since its founding...
Match Day 2026: The Next Step Toward Driving Change
Each student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has their own personal story about what led them to want to become doctors and researchers, but they share a common vision: to improve health care as we currently know it. For this year’s graduating students,...
Advancing Toward Medicine: How Mount Sinai’s MSBS Program Is Shaping a Path to a Physician-Scientist Career
Alexander Forrest is a first-year student in Track 1 of the Master of Science in Biomedical Science program at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai with a concentration in Immunology. In this Q&A, he discusses...
Getting a Head Start With AI at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Most first-year medical students spend their time mastering anatomy, memorizing biochemical pathways, and adjusting to the pace of clinical training. For Alvira Tyagi, that first year coincided with an opportunity to understand the rapid transformation in how patients seek health information with AI tools. “I did not expect to be involved in AI-driven health care research so early as a student,” says Ms. Tyagi. Read about how she began working at the intersection of AI and health care, and the importance for students to be familiar with this rapidly evolving field.
How An Interest in Cardiothoracic Surgery Is Shaping Caroline Tavolacci’s Path as a Surgeon-Scientist at Mount Sinai
Sooyun Caroline Tavolacci, MD, MSCR, is a third-year PhD student in the Clinical Research Program at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and a surgeon-scientist in training. Her dissertation research focuses on heart transplantation outcomes, specifically...
Mount Sinai AIHH Grand Rounds: A Thoughtful Way to Adopt AI in Health Care
Health care systems across the country have been increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI) systems to assist and augment what clinicians and researchers can achieve. Isaac Kohane, MD, PhD, Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, was invited as keynote speaker of Mount Sinai’s Windreich Department of AI and Human Health (AIHH) monthly seminar series AIHH Grand Rounds, and he spoke about the transformative potential of AI and how to guide its growth ethically.