Mount Sinai Receives Award from VNSNY CHOICE SelectHealth
VNSNY CHOICE SelectHealth, a New York State Department of Health Special Needs Plan for Medicaid-eligible New Yorkers living with HIV, recently awarded the Mount Sinai Health System $360,000 for its efforts at successfully improving the overall health status of its...
Experimental “Brain Glue” Helps Save the Life of a Teen Patient
When, in early 2017, the teacher of 14-year-old Shawn Svoboda called to say he was falling asleep in class, his mother wasn’t overly concerned, considering it typical teenage behavior. However, when the teacher called a second time that same day to emphasize she...
Saving Lives Citywide With Innovative Stroke Treatment
On Tuesday, May 1, Dionne Garcia, 72, who was in New York City from Peru visiting her daughter, began experiencing slurred speech and weakness on her left side, and was becoming increasingly unresponsive. EMS arrived at her daughter’s home in Astoria and...
Care and Empathy From a Nurse Inspire Former Pediatrics Patient to Become a Physician
When Naysha Lopez graduated from the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine in June, Evelyn Sotomayor, RN, a pediatric nurse in the intensive care unit (ICU) at Kravis Children’s Hospital at Mount Sinai, was in the audience. It was no surprise that Ms. Sotomayor...
Conference Addresses Lack of Research on Female Brain Injury
The Friedman Brain Institute (FBI) in May cosponsored a program with the Brain Injury Research Center of Mount Sinai and the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine that focused attention on the little-known and -discussed incidence of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and...
New Chief Wellness Officer Named
The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has named Jonathan Ripp, MD, MPH, as Senior Associate Dean for Well-Being and Resilience, and Chief Wellness Officer. Dr. Ripp assumes the new post amid mounting challenges for medical professionals that include exhaustive...
Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center Hosts Conference on Violence Against Children
“Is anything more important than ending violence against children and adolescents?” That rhetorical question was posed by Dennis S. Charney, MD, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and President for Academic Affairs, Mount Sinai...
Introducing Mount Sinai Future You, a New Television Series
A new television series called Mount Sinai Future You, which highlights innovation at Mount Sinai, is being broadcast on CUNY TV, the non-commercial educational-access cable channel run by The City University of New York. Mount Sinai Future You takes viewers behind...
‘Scarless’ Thyroid Surgery Wins a Patient’s Gratitude
Sarah Bird, a 27-year-old accounting supervisor, had a “very rough” month about a year ago. She went to Mount Sinai Union Square to check out a lump on her neck that she had first spotted in a photograph. During follow-up visits, an ultrasound scan and biopsy...
