About the center: The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is an international leader in medical and scientific training, biomedical research, and patient care. It is the medical school for the Mount Sinai Health System, which includes seven hospital campuses, and has more than 5,000 faculty and nearly 2,000 students, residents and fellows. Our unwavering pursuit of intellectual exchange, breakthrough research, and multidisciplinary teamwork propels us ever forward in biomedical discoveries and advances. We pursue ideas that often challenge conventional wisdom to revolutionize the practice of medicine and produce dramatically better outcomes for patients. We make big, bold bets by investing in radical free thinkers and technology at the cutting edge.
Achievements: Faculty and staff are encouraged to visit the History Wall and follow the timeline, beginning in 1820, the year that New York Eye and Ear Infirmary was founded and became the first U.S. institution to successfully operate on congenital cataracts. Stops along the way include the first description of Crohn’s disease (1932, The Mount Sinai Hospital); the development of ultrasound and ultrasound equipment (1969, St. Luke’s Hospital); discovery of the antiplatelet benefits of aspirin (1971, Roosevelt Hospital); and being among the first physicians to recognize AIDS as a new disease (1981, Beth Israel Medical Center). The History Wall is current to 2016—the first organ transplant from an HIV+ donor to an HIV+ recipient in New York State—with space for new discoveries to be added.
Address: One Gustave L. Levy Place
Box 1496
New York, NY 10029
Phone: (212) 659-8282
Web Site: https://icahn.mssm.edu
