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Thomas Clark Chalmers served as President of The Mount Sinai Medical Center and Dean of the School of Medicine from 1973 to 1983. During his tenure Mount Sinai established the Biomathematics Department and the first academic geriatrics department in the country. He also served on review committees and advisory boards for the National Cancer Institute, National Heart Institute, American Public Health Association, and National Academy of Science. Chalmers was renowned for his work in liver disease, clinical trials, and epidemiology.
Nathan G. Kase, MD was Dean of Mount Sinai School of Medicine from 1985-1997 and then served as Interim Dean from August 2001 to December 2002.
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Tape 1: Opening remarks by Dr. Nathan Kase, introductions by Dr. Paul Berk, lectures by Dr. James Darnell and Prof. Dietrich Keppler. Tape 2: Lectures by Dr. Blumberg and Dr. Mario Ricetto, concluding remarks by Dr. Thomas Chalmers. Tape 2, Side 1 cuts in during lecture.
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This recording documents the Lambda chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha meeting at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine on May 22, 1985. It begins with an introduction from Thomas C. Chalmers, MD the former Dean of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and former President of the Mount Sinai Medical Center. Dr. Chalmers announces Julius Wolf, MD as faculty member of the year, as well as the list of students nominated to Alpha Omega Alpha in the Class of 1985.
A new Alpha Omega Alpha member, Elizabeth Ginzberg, then introduces the speaker, Alvan Feinstein, MD. Dr. Feinstein delivers a lecture titled "An Additional Basic Science for Clinical Medicine," which covers topics including: how to make subjective clinical data more meaningfully measurable; opportunities to bring more nuance to imprecise clinical data; and shortcomings of randomized trials and their design.
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Thomas Clark Chalmers served as President of The Mount Sinai Medical Center and Dean of the School of Medicine from 1973 to 1983. During his tenure Mount Sinai established the Biomathematics Department and the first academic geriatrics department in the country. He also served on review committees and advisory boards for the National Cancer Institute, National Heart Institute, American Public Health Association, and National Academy of Science. Chalmers was renowned for his work in liver disease, clinical trials, and epidemiology.
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Edwin Dennis Kilbourne was the Distinguished Service Professor and the First Chairman of the Department of Microbiology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine (1968-1987).
Dr. Kilbourne was born in Buffalo, New York on July 10th, 1920 and spent most of his life living in New York City and Connecticut. He spent the first five years of life in the Dominican Republic, then Santo Dominico, since his father was in the sugar business. He received his undergraduate's degree from Cornell University in 1942 and his medical degree from Cornell University Medical College in 1944.
He did his residency at New York Hospital and did two years of service in the Army at Fort Monmouth in New Jersey. At Fort Monmouth there was an influenza epidemic in 1947 which honed his interest in the disease. Dr. Kilbourne studied with Frank Horsfall, Jr., MD as a researcher at Rockefeller Institute for three years before joining the faculty at Tulane Service of Charity Hospital (1951-1955) where he was Associate Professor of Medicine and married in 1952. He then worked at Cornell University Medical College where he was Associate Professor of Public Health (1955-1968). In both positions he ran a division of virus research. He began treating flu patients during the 1957 pandemic and published landmark studies on the influenza virus, including the use of genetic recombinants (1969) and was one of a few scientists world-wide who annually studied the changes in the influenza virus in order to develop new vaccines.
On January 1st, 1969, he joined the faculty at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine as the First Chairman of the Department of Microbiology (1969-1987). Dr. Kilbourne’s microbiology laboratory at Mount Sinai was where all the commercially used vaccines since 1971 had their genesis until at least 1989. He left Mount Sinai in 1999 after working as the Distinguished Service Professor (1987-1999) to become Research Professor of Microbiology at the New York Medical College. He passed away in 2011 at the age of 90 and was survived by his wife, four sons, and many grandchildren.
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Edwin Dennis Kilbourne was the Distinguished Service Professor and the First Chairman of the Department of Microbiology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine (1968-1987).
Dr. Kilbourne was born in Buffalo, New York on July 10th, 1920 and spent most of his life living in New York City and Connecticut. He spent the first five years of life in the Dominican Republic, then Santo Dominico, since his father was in the sugar business. He received his undergraduate's degree from Cornell University in 1942 and his medical degree from Cornell University Medical College in 1944.
He did his residency at New York Hospital and did two years of service in the Army at Fort Monmouth in New Jersey. At Fort Monmouth there was an influenza epidemic in 1947 which honed his interest in the disease. Dr. Kilbourne studied with Frank Horsfall, Jr., MD as a researcher at Rockefeller Institute for three years before joining the faculty at Tulane Service of Charity Hospital (1951-1955) where he was Associate Professor of Medicine and married in 1952. He then worked at Cornell University Medical College where he was Associate Professor of Public Health (1955-1968). In both positions he ran a division of virus research. He began treating flu patients during the 1957 pandemic and published landmark studies on the influenza virus, including the use of genetic recombinants (1969) and was one of a few scientists world-wide who annually studied the changes in the influenza virus in order to develop new vaccines.
On January 1st, 1969, he joined the faculty at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine as the First Chairman of the Department of Microbiology (1969-1987). Dr. Kilbourne’s microbiology laboratory at Mount Sinai was where all the commercially used vaccines since 1971 had their genesis until at least 1989. He left Mount Sinai in 1999 after working as the Distinguished Service Professor (1987-1999) to become Research Professor of Microbiology at the New York Medical College. He passed away in 2011 at the age of 90 and was survived by his wife, four sons, and many grandchildren.
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Hans Popper, M.D., Ph.D. (1903-1988) was a distinguished hepatologist and a central figure in the twentieth-century history of The Mount Sinai Medical Center.
He was born in Vienna in 1903, and during the 1920s and 1930s he rose quickly through the medical ranks of his native city, working as a research assistant to the pioneering pathologist Dr. Hans Eppinger. In March 1938, as a consequence of the Nazi annexation of Austria, he was dismissed from his post at the University of Vienna. He accepted a research fellowship in pathology at the Cook County Hospital in Chicago, where he quickly distinguished himself. In 1943 he was appointed Director of Pathology at the hospital; later that year he became a United States citizen. He continued an active research program in addition to his administrative duties, helping to establish the Hektoen Institute for Medical Research, and in 1944 he was awarded a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois with a dissertation on the use of fluorescence microscopy to study Vitamin A.
During the Second World War he served in the U.S. Army as a surgical pathologist, eventually rising to the rank of Major. In 1950 he helped convene the first conference of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, which he would serve as President in 1962, and in 1958 he became a founder of the International Association for the Study of the Liver, which he served as President the following year. In 1957, he was recruited to succeed Dr. Paul Klemperer as chief pathologist at The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. He would spend the rest of his career at Mount Sinai and would contribute greatly to the growth and development of the institution.
In 1967 he was elected President of the Medical Board. He was a major proponent of the creation of Mount Sinai School of Medicine, which was chartered in 1963 and admitted its first cohort of students in 1968. In 1965 he was appointed the school's first Dean for Academic Affairs, and in 1968 he was invested as the first Irene Heinz Given and John Laporte Given Chairman and Professor of Pathology. Dr. Popper was intimately involved with all aspects of the School of Medicine, which he saw as a place to advance the teaching of medicine by training students who were simultaneously well-rounded and specialized. During this period he published extensively on his vision of the modern medical curriculum and its implementation at Mount Sinai, including an important article outlining what came to be known as the Mount Sinai Concept of medical education. With the unexpected death of Dr. George James on March 19, 1972, Dr. Popper became interim President of The Mount Sinai Medical Center and Acting Dean of the School of Medicine, serving for a year prior to the recruitment of Dr. Thomas Chalmers as a permanent successor to Dean James.
In 1973 Dr. Popper retired from teaching and administration. He spent that year in Bethesda, Maryland as a Fogarty Fellow at the National Institutes of Health, which gave him an opportunity to reinvigorate his love of research. For the remaining fifteen years of his life he devoted himself to liver research, spending 70-hour weeks in the lab and becoming, in his own words, "a general practitioner of the human liver." During this period he kept up an extensive schedule of travel and correspondence, presenting at nearly every major hepatological conference and corresponding with his colleagues at other institutions, who would often send him slide samples and case reports for his comments. In 1977 he was invested as Mount Sinai's first Gustave Levy Distinguished Service Professor. Over the course of his career, Dr. Popper published over 800 scientific papers and wrote 28 books. He passed away in 1988.
Henry M. Stratton (1901-1984) was a medical publisher. During his lifetime he was instrumental in forming The American Society of Hematology. He played a seminal role in the history of hematology and liver diseases. Dr. Stratton and his wife, Lillian, were generous philanthropists. At Mount Sinai Mr. Stratton's estate endowed several professorial chairs as well as The Lillian and Henry M. Stratton-Hans Popper Departmentof Pathology and The Stratton Laboratory of Liver Diseases.
Ira A. Schur was born in Boston, Massachusetts on April 11, 1901. Shortly thereafter, his family moved to New York where he attended public school. At the age of 15 Schur had a summer job at S.D. Leidesdorf and Company, Certified Public Accountants. He attended night school at New York University and continued working at S.D. Leidesdorf. He passed his CPA exam in 1926. He continued his career at S.D. Leidesdorf until his retirement in 1969 at which time he was the managing partner. Mr. Schur was very active in the community. Among his numerous philanthropic affiliations were the American Red Cross, the Metropolitan Opera Guild, Inc., and he was a Trustee at The Mount Sinai Hospital from 1943-1977. He was also a member in many professional organizations. Mr. Schur had an avid interest in photography and fine wine.
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Held in Stern Auditorium at Mount Sinai. David Sacher, MD starts the event; the 2nd Annual Oppenheimer & Ginzburg Lecture
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Held in Stern Auditorium at Mount Sinai. David Sacher, MD starts the event; the 2nd Annual Oppenheimer & Ginzburg Lecture
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A lecture to the History of Medicine Society at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Dr. Geller is a former faculty member at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Important topics covered are: The Mount Sinai Hospital Dept. of Pathology, Paul Klemperer, Frederick Mandlebaum, Charles Elsberg and Sadao Otani.
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Arthur H. Aufses, Jr. (1926-2019) was born in New York City. His father, Arthur Sr. was a well-known thoracic surgeon on the staff of the Mount Sinai and Montefiore hospitals. A graduate of Union College, Dr. Aufses received his medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, where he was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha. He received his surgical training at the Presbyterian Hospital and The Mount Sinai Hospital. He remained on the staff of Mount Sinai throughout the 1960s and was involved in the creation of Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
From 1971-1974, Dr. Aufses served as Chairman of the Department of Surgery at The Long Island Jewish Medical Center and was Professor of Surgery at the State University of New York, Stony Brook School of Medicine. In 1974, Aufses returned to Mount Sinai and was named Chairman of the Department of Surgery, as well as Professor of Surgery. On September 1, 1996, he retired from the Chairmanship of the Department, a position he had held for 22 years. He then became Professor of Surgery and Professor of Health Evidence and Policy in the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Dr. Aufses was a Member and Fellow of numerous medical organizations and held leadership roles in many of them. A member of the New York State Transplant Council since its inception in 1991, he also served as a Trustee of the New York Academy of Medicine (1991-1999). He was a President of the American College of Gastroenterology, the Association of Program Directors in Surgery, and the New York Surgical Society. He served as a Governor and Vice-President of the American College of Surgeons, and as a Vice-President of the American Surgical Association and the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the 92nd Street Y for over thirty-five years, and also served on the Board of Directors of the Medicare Rights Center (2006-2009) and the New York Alliance for Donation (2006-2009.)
Dr. Aufses received many honors from Mount Sinai including the Jacobi Medallion of the Alumni Association (1979), the Alexander Richman Award for Humanism in Medicine (1992), the Committee of 1000 Achievement Award (1992), and he was the holder of Mount Sinai's Gold Headed Cane (1982-1996). He served on the Board of Directors of the Lambda Chapter (ISMMS) of Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society for more than 20 years and was its Councilor from 1995 to 2002. He received excellence in teaching awards from medical students and from his residents, and he also received a Special Recognition Award from the Department of Nursing. During his 22 years as Chairman of the Department of Surgery, he was selected by the graduating students to administer either the Hippocratic Oath or the Oath of Maimonides on 17 occasions and was chosen as the Commencement Grand Marshal on three occasions. In May, 2003, Dr. Aufses delivered the Commencement Address at the graduation exercises of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree by the School.
Dr. Aufses practiced General Surgery for more than forty years in New York City. He published more than 250 papers and book chapters and was an invited guest lecturer in the United States and abroad. His major clinical and research interests were in inflammatory bowel disease and surgical education.
In 2002, he and Ms. Barbara Niss, Mount Sinai's Archivist, published This House of Noble Deeds: The Mount Sinai Hospital, 1852-2002, (New York University Press, New York, 2002), a history of The Mount Sinai Hospital, focusing on the accomplishments of the staff since its origin as The Jews' Hospital. A companion volume, Teaching Tomorrow's Medicine Today: The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1963-2003, was published in January 2005. It details the formation and development of the School during its first forty years.
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This division was created in 1913 with the creation of a Gastroenterology Clinic in the out-Patient Department of the Mount Sinai Hospital. The formal designation as a Division within the Department of Medicine occurred in 1958. In 1968, with the opening of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, this became an academic service.
Henry D. Janowitz, MD (1915-2008) was the leader of the Division of Gastroenterology within the Department of Medicine at The Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai School of Medicine from 1958-1983. He attended medical school at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, graduating in 1939. He served an internship and residency at The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York and spent the bulk of his career here. When he returned from service in World War II, he sought post-graduate research training, as well as a Master's degree in Physiology. He was married to Adeline Tintner, a Henry James scholar and book collector. They had two daughters.
Dr. Janowitz began his private practice in 1952, in the office of Dr. Burrill B. Crohn, a noted early gastroenterologist at Mount Sinai. In 1958 Janowitz was asked to create an inpatient Division of Gastroenterology at The Mount Sinai Hospital. While leading that group, he trained over 100 residents and fellows in the field.
Janowitz was known around the world in his area of specialty. His scientific contributions included novel discoveries related to peptic ulcer disease and the elucidation of the natural history and treatment of inflammatory bowel disease. He published over 300 papers on gastroenterology and gastrointestinal physiology. He authored several book chapters and monographs, including Pancreatic Inflammatory Disease (Hoeber, 1965) co-authored with Dr. David Dreiling and Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Personal View in 1985.
Janowitz is remembered for his patient-centered focus, his teaching abilities, and humanistic approach to medicine. He won many awards over his lifetime. In 1974 he received the Jacobi Medallion from the Mount Sinai Alumni. In 1986 he delivered the Stuart Distinguished Lecture. In 1998 he was given the Alexander Richman Commemorative Award for Humanism in Medicine. In 1992, the Mount Sinai Division of Gastroenterology was dedicated in his name.
Dr. Janowitz was active in many professional associations and served as President of the American Gastroenterological Association in 1972/73. In 1967 he was one of the founders of the National Foundation for Ileitis and Colitis, known today as the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation. One author, when explaining how Dr. Janowitz had accomplished so much in his lifetime, noted that, "part of the answer is in Henry Janowitz's unwavering commitment to excellence, searching imagination, disciplined inquiry, reasoned judgment, and appreciation of originality."
Dr. Henry Janowitz died in August 2008.
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