Road to Resilience Podcast Features Insights From Renowned Experts on the Science of Resilience
Mount Sinai Health System has created a new monthly podcast series, Road To Resilience. The series is based on the well-received book Resilience: The Science of Mastering Life’s Greatest Challenges, co-authored by Dennis S. Charney, MD, Anne and Joel...
A Focus on Wellness at the 2018 Aspen Ideas Festival
New models of care that keep people healthy—rather than intervening only when they are sick—were the focus of experts from the Mount Sinai Health System, which participated for the sixth time in the annual Aspen Ideas Festival. Presented by the Aspen Institute and The...
Kenneth L. Davis, MD, President and CEO of Mount Sinai, in Forbes: Puerto Rico’s Health Care Lessons
Volunteer teams of doctors, nurses, paramedics, and other health care providers from the Mount Sinai Health System and other hospitals around the country are in Puerto Rico, attending to the island’s severe medical needs in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. For many,...
Dennis S. Charney, Dean of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in The New York Times: How to Build Resilience in Midlife
While resilience is an essential skill for healthy childhood development, science shows that adults also can take steps to boost resilience in middle age, which is often the time we need it the most. Last year, Dennis S. Charney, MD, Dean of the Icahn School of...
Kenneth L. Davis, MD, President and CEO of Mount Sinai, on PBS NewsHour: Conservatives Are Targeting The Wrong Areas To Bring Down Health Care Costs
At the Spotlight Health Conference at the Aspen Institute, Kenneth L. Davis, MD, President and CEO of the Mount Sinai Health System, shares his take on the Senate health care bill. “There are a number of things that impact hospitals, all of them collectively,...
Kenneth L. Davis, MD, President and CEO of Mount Sinai, in Forbes: The American Health Care Act Rejects American Values
The Congressional Budget Office score of the American Health Care Act confirms what was clear the moment the bill came out of committee. The legislation that squeaked through the House of Representatives without members waiting for the CBO analysis would precipitate a...
In Commencement Speech, Kenneth L. Davis, MD, President and CEO of Mount Sinai, Says “These Are Unusual Times; Our Core Values Are at Stake”
Graduates, four years ago, at our first gathering, you each received your white coat—a symbol of compassion. As you've worn it, I trust you've come to understand that the practice of medicine requires more than study, more than knowledge, more than skill. It also...
Kenneth L. Davis, MD, President and CEO of Mount Sinai, in Forbes: President Trump’s Budget Should Boost Rather Than Cut Funding For The NIH
By agreeing to an increase in funding for the National Institutes of Health through the end of the fiscal year, Congress is sending a clear message to President Trump: federal support for scientific research is too important to be subject to a blunt budget ax. The...
Kenneth L. Davis, MD, President and CEO of Mount Sinai, in Forbes: Compassion Must Drive Healthcare Policy
As CEO of one of the nation’s largest health systems, which cares for hundreds of thousands of vulnerable individuals, it is evident that the latest effort to rewrite health insurance policy, the American Health Care Act, would hurt those who can least afford upheaval...