Nov 20, 2015 | Inside
Under a photograph of the late Irving J. Selikoff, MD, Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc, and Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney display a Congressional Tribute to Mount Sinai for its leadership in environmental health.
Government officials, visiting physicians, and members of the Mount Sinai Health System recently gathered at a symposium honoring a seminal figure in environmental medicine—the late Irving J. Selikoff, MD—and to celebrate the renovation of Mount Sinai’s Selikoff Centers for Environmental Health. The Selikoff Centers treat thousands of patients each year for World Trade Center-related health issues and other work-related illnesses and injuries.
At the symposium, sponsored by Mount Sinai’s Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, U.S. Representative Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), a champion of workers’ health, presented Mount Sinai with a Congressional Tribute for being the “birthplace of environmental health and a leader in the United States in this research.” (more…)
Oct 8, 2015 | Inside, Your Health
Robert O. Wright, MD, MPH
For the past 20 years, the nation’s vast scientific resources have been spent unraveling the human genome. This emphasis now includes the genome’s environmental equivalent—the exposome—as well. At the Mount Sinai Health System, research into the exposome is being led by Robert O. Wright, MD, MPH, Ethel H. Wise Professor of Community Medicine, and the newly named Chair of Preventive Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. (more…)
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Inside, Research, Your Health
More than 700 attendees showed their support for children’s environmental health at The Mount Sinai Medical Center’s sixth annual Greening Our Children luncheon, held on Monday, May 20, at the Hyatt Regency Greenwich in Connecticut.
Proceeds from the event—which featured a guest appearance from actress and author Jessica Alba—will be used to support Mount Sinai’s Children’s Environmental Health Center (CEHC) and the Laboratory for Molecular Environmental Chemistry at Mount Sinai. The CEHC and laboratory are led by Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc, Dean for Global Health, the Ethel H. Wise Professor of Community Medicine, and Professor of Pediatrics; and Robert O. Wright, MD, Professor of Preventive Medicine, and Pediatrics, at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
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