Pitching Novel Ideas for Sustainable Solutions
Doctors do incredible things; they treat disease and improve the health of their patient populations. Unfortunately, this has come at a price. Literally. (more…)
A Modern Family of Medicine
Whenever anyone asks how many siblings I have, I just start laughing. It’s not a very straightforward story, but the direct answer is incredibly high; something like 27. (more…)
Inspiring Innovation One High School Student at a Time
As the health care sector continues to face new challenges every day like rapidly rising costs and an increasing prevalence of chronic disease, the need for innovation is becoming exceedingly apparent. Now more than ever, we need people to disrupt the status quo and develop revolutionary innovations aimed at solving some of our most unsolvable problems. (more…)
Skipping the Gym to Walk with a Doc
In a city where gym memberships run as high as $200 a month (with restrictive hours and the long term commitments), two of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai’s best qualities really come to a fore: (more…)
We Are Not Throwing Away Our Spot
It started with a simple Facebook post in October 2016.
Crossing Borders to Build Future Physicians
The devastating earthquake that hit Haiti in 2010, left the country with damaging effects, including a fractured health care system. On an annual service trip, volunteers of the ISMMS student organization, Medical Students for Haiti (MS4H), visit Haiti to train their international peers on basic medical practices, in an effort to build a cohort of competent physicians and clinicians who are ready to overturn the country’s current health care state. (more…)
