Special Announcements
Mount Sinai Awards Endowed Professorships to Monica Kraft, MD and John Levine, MD
A ceremony and small reception were held on November 30, 2022, to celebrate the bestowing of professorships to Monica Kraft, MD; Murray M. Rosenberg Professor of Medicine; and John Levine, MD; Louis Aledort Clinical Research Professorship in Hematology. Guests from near and far joined us for the special occasion in person, and many tuned in via Zoom as Dennis Charney, MD; Dean, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Luis Isola, MD, Professor of Medicine, presented our distinguished honorees with their professorships. Congratulations to both Dr. Kraft and Dr. Levine.
The 2022 Cullman Family Award for Excellence in Provider Communication
We are delighted to announce the recipients of the 2022 Cullman Family Award for Excellence in Provider Communication. For the past seven years, the Cullman Family Award has honored Mount Sinai Health System care providers who demonstrate exceptional communication in clinical practice.
Recipients of this year’s award were ranked in the top one percent nationally in provider communication for 2021 as measured by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Clinician and Group Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CG CAHPS) patient experience survey.
Congratulations to all our colleagues across the system who were recipients of this award, with special recognition of our Department of Medicine faculty: ___________________________________
Amy Kontorovich, MD, PhD* (Cardiology)
Carol Levy, MD (Endocrinology)
Daniel Caplivski, MD (Infectious Diseases)
David Perlman, MD* (Infectious Diseases)
Donna M. Mancini, MD (Cardiology)
Edward Lung, MD (Gastroenterology)
Elliott C. Rosch, MD* (General Internal Medicine)
Emily Nosova, MD (Endocrinology)
Eric C. Woods, MD (General Internal Medicine)
Grenye O'Malley, MD* (Endocrinology)
Heather Viola, DO (General Internal Medicine)
Hysem Eldik, MD (Faculty Practice Associates)
Jing Wang, MD (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine)
Lawrence B. Cohen, MD (Gastroenterology)
Lori B. Croft, MD* (Cardiology)
Mary B. Fishman, MD (General Internal Medicine)
Maya H. Barghash, MD (Cardiology)
Nicholas V. Papapietro, MD (Cardiology)
Stella A. Safo, MD, MPH (Infectious Diseases)
Stuart M Morduchowitz, MD* -in memoriam- (Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Disease)
Tonia Kim, MD* (Nephrology)
* These providers have won the Cullman Family Award more than once.
Mount Sinai Visiting Doctors Commemorates 27 Years
Since 1995, the Mount Sinai Visiting Doctors Program (MSVD) has been providing high-quality, patient-centered and compassionate care to adults who are unable to leave their homes. With a team of physicians, social workers, nurses, nurse practitioners, administrative support, and community health workers, MSVD works to improve the quality of life of homebound people, as well as their caregivers, offering the best possible services and support.
Today, serving as both a health care service and a teaching platform for medical students, residents, and fellows, the Mount Sinai Visiting Doctors Program stands as a flagship clinical initiative. It is one of the largest academic home-visit programs in the nation, with its clinicians making more than 6,000 home visits annually to more than 1,000 patients.
Congratulations to our colleagues at MSVD!
Watch the Mount Sinai Visiting Doctors video from 2020
Kirk Campbell, MD Is Appointed Director of the Post-Baccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP) at Mount Sinai
Dr. Kirk Campbell will be working together with Associate Director Dr. Jamilia Sly to renew the PREP grant, and continue the program’s legacy of success, which began under Dr. Terry Krulwich in 2001 and continued by Dr. Eric Sobie over the past five years.
Currently, Dr. Campbell leads an NIH-funded research program focused on podocyte cell biology, experimental glomerular disease, and clinical trials in the rare kidney disease space. He is a world-class educator and mentor, as evidenced by his role as a co-PI on several training grants and initiatives, including the Mount Sinai Nephrology Research Training Grant, the New York Consortium for Interdisciplinary Training in Kidney, Urological and Hematological Research, and the NIH FIRST Cohort Cluster Hiring Initiative at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Campbell is the perfect choice to guide and mentor PREP scholars at Mount Sinai. Congratulations!
World AIDS Day: An Opportunity to Remember for Those on the Front Lines of HIV/AIDS Treatment and Research
Every year, World AIDS Day is on December 1. Since it was first observed in 1988, the day has been an opportunity to spotlight the efforts to prevent, treat, and someday cure HIV, and to remember those lost to AIDS-related illnesses.
This year, Mount Sinai employees who have been on the front lines in HIV/AIDS treatment and research for decades—including those at the Institute for Advanced Medicine, which has been a leader since the 1980s—were asked to share what this day means to them.