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- 5/10/2018 (Creation)
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Ronald Ablow is Professor Emeritus of Radiology at Columbia University. He was born and raised in Salem, Massachusetts, went to Harvard University as a physics major and then to Harvard Business School, before the MD/MBA degree was popularized. He completed medical school at the University of Rochester, after a stint in the Army. After finishing medical training, Dr. Ablow worked in several hospitals on the east and west coasts, eventually coming to St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center as Director of Radiology (1984-1997) and serving as President and CEO of St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center between 1996 and 1998.
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Dr. Norma Braun (neé Wang Mai Tsen) was born in Shanghai, China during the third Japanese invasion, before the World War II. Prior to the war her family was well off and very well educated. Both her grandfather and father spent time in American universities. Norma, however did not attend school until age 10, because of the war. In 1949, she, her mother and siblings relocated to Philadelphia. Norma, who desired to be a doctor from a young age, started medical school at Temple University but transferred to Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons (Class of 1963) after being offered a scholarship. She completed her internship and residency at Bellevue Hospital and began working at St. Luke’s Hospital in 1982, as a cardio-pulmonary fellow under A. Loomis Bell, MD, who ran the cardiopulmonary laboratory. Eventually she narrowed her specialty to pulmonary medicine, and continues to work in that area at St. Luke’s, now Mount Sinai Morningside.
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Former President and CEO of St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, Dr. Ron Ablow, talks about his educational choices and training; experiences working as one of the earliest MD/MBAs and the benefits of that degree; his positions at Yale New Haven Hospital and Beth Israel Medical Center and Mt. Zion Hospital and Medical Center, San Francisco. Of note are the topics of prejudices against women, Jews and Blacks in medical schools, working with community boards, and his post-retirement work as a radiologist with a charitable children’s hospital in Cambodia, and his opinions on the Hospital’s name changes. Particular names that are mentioned include: Gary Gambuti; Lawrence Huntington; Farrokh Shahrivar, MD; Friends Without a Border; The C.V. Starr Hand Surgery Center; Ken Dallas, MD; and the topic of dynamic chest X-rays.
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Copyright is held by Mount Sinai. Please contact the Archives (MSArchives@mssm.edu) for more information.
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Received recording on DVD-R from AV Department; copied to Archives' Azure drive on 10/26/2018; sent to REV 01/21/2020 for transcription. Curriculum vitae was supplied by the doctor.