Mount Sinai’s players included, from left: Justin R. Mascitelli, MD, Chief Neurosurgery Resident; Constantinos G. Hadjipanayis, MD, PhD, Professor and Chair of Neurosurgery at Mount Sinai Beth Israel; J Mocco, MD, MS, Professor and Vice Chair for Education; Christopher P. Kellner, MD, Assistant Professor and Director of the Intracerebral Hemorrhage Program; and Joshua B. Bederson, MD, Professor and Chairman of Neurosurgery at the Mount Sinai Health System.
Under a clear blue sky in June, faculty, residents, and fellows from the Mount Sinai Health System’s Department of Neurosurgery came to bat in a friendly charity softball competition in Central Park. The 13th Annual Neurosurgery Charity Softball Tournament, which supported the Neurosurgery Research and Education Foundation of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and pediatric brain tumor research, drew more than 25 teams from academic medical centers around the country and Canada. Held each year in Central Park, the event is hosted by Columbia University’s Department of Neurological Surgery.
This year, Mount Sinai’s team beat Michigan Health System’s, but lost close games to teams from University Medical Center at the University of Alabama and Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.