Unveiled: Mount Sinai’s Breakthroughs in Women’s Health, Brain Disease Treatment and Narrowing Health Disparities at 2023’s Aspen Festival of Ideas!

Experts from Mount Sinai Health System will lead key discussions on women’s health, new pathways to treat and prevent brain diseases, and closing the gap in health disparities at this year’s Aspen Ideas: Health and Aspen Ideas Festival.

NEW YORK and ASPEN, Colo., June 13, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Mount Sinai Health System Experts will lead key discussions on women’s health, new pathways to treat and prevent brain diseases, and closing the gap in health disparities at this year’s Aspen Ideas: Health and Aspen Ideas Festival from Wednesday, June 21 to Friday, June 30. June in Aspen. , Colorado.

“We are proud to partner with the Aspen Institute to examine key issues that drive innovation and advance health, social and systemic change for the global community,” said Kenneth L. Davis, MD, Executive Director of Mount Health System and Trustee Sinai. from the Aspen Institute. “Exchanging bold ideas that lead to sustainable solutions to the world’s most complex problems is one reason we’ve sponsored the Aspen Ideas Festival for more than 10 years.”

This year’s Aspen Ideas Festival will feature a variety of experts sharing their ideas and insights. Built around festival themes including the mind, artificial intelligence, energy innovation and more, the Mount Sinai Conversations will expand understanding of health, science and the innovative thinkers driving medicine for people’s health. people all over the world. Mount Sinai is a Presenting Sponsor of the Aspen Ideas Festival and Aspen Ideas: Health, and the sole sponsor supporting both events. Please note that event time and location details are subject to change; Visit our website http://www.mountsinai.org/aspen for the most up-to-date details.

Dr. Davis will appear on a panel on identifying diseases in the early stages using new nanotechnology, the opportunities and associated risks, on Friday, June 23 at 2:50 pm MDT at the East Lawn Tent in Aspen Meadows. The panel will be moderated by Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil. Health Affairs is the nation’s leading health policy publication.

Dr. Davis will also lead a discussion on new prevention strategies and treatments for brain diseases on Sunday, June 25 at 3 pm MDT in the Booz Allen Hamilton Room of the Koch Building. He will be joined by Paul Kenny, PhD, Ward-Coleman Professor and Chair of the Nash Family Department of Neuroscience; Fanny Elahi, MD, PhD, Director of Fluid Biomarker Research, at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; and Ignacio Saez, PhD, Director, Human Neurophysiology Laboratory, at Icahn Mount Sinai.

Mount Sinai will host a panel discussion on women’s health that will be moderated by Monica Kraft, MD, chair of the Mount Sinai Health System Department of Medicine. She will be joined by Elisa R. Port, MD, FACS, Chief of Breast Surgery, Mount Sinai Health System; Alan B. Copperman, MD, FACOG, Director, Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Mount Sinai Health System; and Dolores Malaspina, MD, MS, MPH, professor of psychiatry at Icahn Mount Sinai. This program will take place on Thursday, June 22 at 10:20 am MDT at the East Lawn Tent in Aspen Meadows.

Thomas Oxley, MBBS, PhD, BMedSc, FRACP, Director of Innovation Strategy, Mount Sinai Health System, will participate in a discussion on brain-computer interfaces on Wednesday, June 28 at 11:50 am MDT in the McNulty Room del Doerr – Hosiery Center.

Mount Sinai will host an executive luncheon talk on closing the gap in health disparities. Pamela Abner, MPA, CPXP, Vice President and Director of Diversity Operations, Mount Sinai Health System, will moderate the panel discussion and is joined by Lynne Richardson, MD, FACEP, Co-Director, Institute for Health Equity Research, Icahn Mount Sinai, and Cardinale Smith, MD, PhD, medical director of Tisch Cancer Hospital at Mount Sinai. The roundtable will take place on Friday, June 23 at 12:15 pm MDT at Plato’s Restaurant at the Walter Isaacson Center in Aspen Meadows. This is a private event with limited capacity; contact aspen@mountsinai.org for availability.

Mount Sinai physicians will be on site to provide free full-body skin screenings and body scans with health and risk assessments. All these offerings will take place in the Mount Sinai Health Experience, located in Grove at Aspen Meadows. Sessions can be reserved in advance beginning Thursday, June 15 at aspen@mountsinai.org. For more information about Mount Sinai’s speakers, events, and activities at the Aspen Ideas: Health and Aspen Ideas Festival, visit our website at http://www.mountsinai.org/aspen.

About Mount Sinai Health System

Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metropolitan area, with more than 43,000 employees working in eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient offices, nearly 300 laboratories, a school of nursing, and a leading school. of medicine and university education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time: discovering and applying new scientific insights and insights; develop safer and more effective treatments; educate the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by providing high-quality care to all who need it.

Through the integration of its hospitals, laboratories and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive healthcare solutions from birth to geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and computing, keeping the medical and emotional needs of patients at the forefront. all treatment center The Health System includes approximately 7,300 primary and specialized care physicians; 13 joint venture ambulatory surgery centers in the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by US News & World Report’s Best Hospitals, receiving high “Honor Roll” status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in geriatrics and in the top 20 in cardiology/cardiac surgery, diabetes/endocrinology, gastroenterology/ GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pneumology/Pulmonary Surgery, Rehabilitation and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked #12 in ophthalmology. US News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” rank Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital among the best in the country for several pediatric specialties.

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