Bringing Women’s Healthcare to Sex Workers: An impromptu meeting

Guest post by Molly Lieber, LMSW, MPH, Project Manager of the Division of Global Women’s Health in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Science at The Mount Sinai Hospital.

Dr. Ann Marie Beddoe in Liberia.

 Ann Marie Beddoe, MD, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Science at The Mount Sinai Hospital.

Our Director, Dr. Ann Marie Beddoe, has traveled to Liberia, a small country in West Africa, for the past 9 years.  With a focus on gynecologic oncology, Dr. Beddoe has been focused on the continuum of care for women with cancer.  Specifically, she has worked to advocate for increased cervical cancer screening, trained local health care workers to diagnose and treat women with cancer, and has provided both chemotherapy and surgery to local patients.  (more…)

Honoring a Legend in Environmental Health

Honoring a Legend in Environmental Health

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…)

Expert in Global Health Joins Mount Sinai

Prabhjot Singh, MD, PhD

Prabhjot Singh, MD, PhD, an expert in the design of community health systems for underserved populations in the United States and abroad, has joined Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai as Director of The Arnhold Global Health Institute, and Vice Chair of Population Health in the Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine.

In his dual roles, Dr. Singh will help the Icahn School of Medicine and the Mount Sinai Health System align global and domestic health activities, and integrate advances in domestic population health with economic principles, biomedical advances, and systems science. (more…)

Students Support Ebola-Relief Efforts in Liberia

Students at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS) have collected more than $6,600 and 56 boxes of supplies to support the Liberia Mental Health Clinicians Association, a nursing organization in Liberia that is working to end the spread of Ebola in that country.

Mount Sinai’s “End the Outbreak” campaign was created by first-year medical student Caitlin Driscoll last fall, after she says she perceived “a lack of conversation about what was happening around Ebola and felt, as med students, we should respond in some way.” (more…)

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