Shaping the future of education in health care and medical sciences
Alumni Spotlight–Catching Up With an Inaugural Fellow of the Month Five Years Later
Hannibal Person, MD, FAAP, spent eight years in training at The Mount Sinai Hospital, first as triple board resident (pediatrics, psychiatry, child psychiatry) from 2013-2018 and then as a pediatric gastroenterology fellow from 2018-2021. In late 2020, the Office of...
Mount Sinai Equips Physicians to Lead Modern Health Systems
Physicians are increasingly taking on roles that extend beyond patient care, as health care systems grow more complex and interconnected. Yet leadership and management skills are rarely part of formal medical training. At Mount Sinai, closing that gap has become a...
How Mount Sinai Is Transforming Geriatrics Training to Close the Workforce Gap
Nick Safian, MD, remembers when his grandparents began showing signs of dementia while he was in college. His family faced difficult decisions about where they would live, how to keep them safe, and how to preserve their independence. He watched the strain on his...
How to Navigate Couples Match for Residency
It began with a shared connection: Jiwoo Park and Daniel Kwon, students at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, met on the second day of orientation. When Ms. Park introduced herself as being from Colorado, her classmates told her she “had to meet Daniel,” who...
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,...