Shaping the future of education in health care and medical sciences
When Omicron Struck, Mount Sinai’s Students Signed Up to Help
Several days after Christmas, second-year medical student Arman Azad met with top administrators at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to plan how he and fellow students could help the Mount Sinai Health System handle the crush of COVID-19 patients falling...
Medical Student Michelle Tran, Whose Non-Profit Combats Anti-Asian Hate, Is Featured on NBC Special
When Michelle Tran is not pursing her MD/PhD degree with a specialization in cancer immunology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, she is busy helping Asian Americans protect themselves against hate crimes through Soar Over Hate, the non-profit she created...
A Generous Multimillion-Dollar Gift Advances Medical Education at Mount Sinai
Peter W. May and his wife, Leni, have made a generous multimillion-dollar gift in support of medical education at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Steadfast champions of Mount Sinai and the future of medical education, the Mays have had a long, illustrious...
Mount Sinai’s Master’s Commencement—Celebrating Resilience and Achievement
The Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai conferred 147 master’s degrees in eight programs during a recent ceremony, an interactive virtual event that recapped a year of great challenges and extraordinary achievement. In...
Tina Aswani Omprakash: A Journey From Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patient, to Patient Advocate, to Master of Public Health Student
When Crohn’s disease forced Tina Aswani Omprakash to leave a career on Wall Street, she began looking for a way to rebuild her life. Having navigated the surgeries, the health disparities, and the South Asian cultural stigmas—shame and taboo—associated with...
A Robust Immunotherapy Program and a Highly Collaborative Environment for Research Draws Matthew Brown, MSCR, to the Master of Science in Clinical Research Program
Matthew Brown was spending his first year of college studying cell biology and neuroscience and exploring the full breadth of academic opportunities when his grandfather passed away from an aggressive form of lung cancer. "That drove me toward the field of cancer...