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At the Awards Ceremony Dinner, from left: Back Row: Dennis Charney, Medico; Leo Keegan, Doc; Christopher Bellaire, MD; Hashem Emad Zikry, Dr.; Daniel J. Weiss, Doctor, PhD; Basil Hanss, PhD; David R. Friedland, MD, PhD; Alberto Paniz-Mondolfi, Medico, PhD; Robert O. Wright, MD, MPH; Cardinale Smith, MD, PhD; Alexis Colvin, Dr.. Seated: Silvia Chavez, MSN; Leif Holgersen, MD; Meg A. Rosenblatt, Medico; Bret P. Nelson, Physician; James C. Tsai, MD, MBA; Carl W. Braun, MD; Katherine A. Hawkins, MD, JD; and Vesna Najfeld, PhD

More than 225 alumni, faculty, and honored guests gathered for the 2023 Alumni Reunion Awards Ceremony Dinner held at the New York University of Medicine. This was the kickoff fourth dimension in 4 years that the event was held in person to celebrate the recipients of the Mount Sinai Alumni Awards and the St. Luke's-Roosevelt Alumni Awards, too equally milestone graduation years: the classes of 1978, 1983, and 1998.

This year'due south event, held Wednesday, May 10, was peculiarly special for some other reason: It was the first reunion to laurels the first four graduating classes from the original Mount Sinai School of Medicine. The classes of 1970, 1971, 1972, and 1973 jointly celebrated their 50th anniversaries, which is a signifier of the extraordinary trajectory taken since the School of Medicine'south founding.

Guests were welcomed with opening remarks from Alexis Colvin, MD, Associate Dean for Alumni Affairs, Dennis S. Charney, Physician, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean of the Icahn Schoolhouse of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and Kenneth L. Davis, MD, Principal Executive Part of the Mountain Sinai Health Organisation, who is also an alumnus of the class of 1973. Leo Keegan, MD, Vice President of the Mount Sinai Alumni Clan, and Carl Braun, MD, President of the St. Luke's-Roosevelt Alumni Association, presented the awards. A special welcome video with Talia Swartz, Md, PhD, President of the Mount Sinai Alumni Association, was also shown.

The Alumni Award recipients are:

The Mount Sinai Alumni Leadership Award:Christopher Bellaire, Medico Candidate '23, Hashem Emad Zikry, MD, ISMMS '18

St. Luke's-Roosevelt Distinguished Young Doctor of the Yr:Alberto Paniz-Mondolfi, MD, PhD, SLR '11

The Jeffrey T. Laitman, PhD Accolade for Achievement in Medical Educational activity:Bret P. Nelson, MD

The Mount Sinai Graduate School Alumni Award:Basil Hanss, PhD, Cardinale Smith, Medico, PhD, MSSM 'xv, MSH '10

The Mount Sinai Principal Clinician Award:Meg A. Rosenblatt, Md, MSH '89

The Mount Sinai Alumni Special Recognition Award:Silvia Chavez, MSN, ANP-BC, Vesna Najfeld, PhD

The Terry Ann Krulwich Physician-Scientist Alumni Award:Daniel J. Weiss, Doctor, PhD, MSSM '88

The Dr. Sidney Grossman Distinguished Humanitarian Award:James C. Tsai, Doctor, MBA

The J. Lester Gabrilove Award:Robert O. Wright, MD, MPH

St. Luke's-Roosevelt Distinguished Alumni Award:Katherine A. Hawkins, MD, JD, SLR '77, Leif Holgersen, MD, FACS, SLR '70

The Saul Horowitz, Jr. Memorial Award:David R. Friedland, Md, PhD, MSSM '95, MSH '00

The Alumni Association also held a serial of events from Wednesday, May ten, to Friday, May 12. The effect series included a symposium with two panel conversations and a discussion with Dr. Charney, and an Open House for the new Alumni Part and Wisch Medico Lounge. Members of the 50th anniversary classes participated in the 2023 Offset Ceremony.

To view the digital Reunion Dinner Program Book, run across upshot photos, picket the welcome video, and listen to the Alumni Podcast from the graduating class of 1972, click here.

At the 2023 Commencement Ceremony, from left: Ernst Schaefer, Physician; Jacob Rispler, Doc; Steven C. Port, Md; Naomi LC Luban, Md; Katherine Teets Grimm, MD; Arthur L. Frank, Doc; Kenneth Fifty. Edelson, Physician; and Michael S. Balkin, Dr..

Source: https://health.mountsinai.org/blog/recognizing-recipients-of-the-2023-mount-sinai-alumni-awards/