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Charney, Dennis S.
NA0092 · Persona

Dennis S. Charney, MD was named Dean of Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 2007.

Chesner, Cynthia
NA0095 · Persona

Cynthia Chesner, RN, EdD, was the Dean of the Phillips Beth Israel School of Nursing starting in 1992.

Dana, Bess
NA0119 · Persona
Deuschle, Kurt W.
NA0131 · Persona · 1923-2003

Considered by many to be the “Father of Community Medicine,” Kurt W. Deuschle served as Chairman of Mount Sinai’s Community Medicine Department from 1968 until 1990, when Philip Landrigan M.D. took over as Chairman. Deuschle remained on faculty as a Distinguished Service Professor of Community Medicine until his death in 2003.

Deuschle was born in 1923, and his family emigrated from Germany to the United States the following year. They settled in Baden, Pennsylvania, where Deuschle spent his childhood. At the age of eighteen, Deuschle went to Kent State University, graduating cum laude in 1944. That same year he began medical school at the University of Michigan and graduated four years later.

Deuschle’s first professional experience after his residency at SUNY Syracuse proved pivotal. From 1952-1954, he worked in the United States Public Health Service as Chief of the tuberculosis program at the Navajo Medical Center in Fort Defiance, Arizona. During this time he developed his concept of community health programs and was involved in the first field trials of the tuberculosis drug Isoniazid. Drawing from this experience he co-authored The People’s Health: Anthropology and Medicine in a Navajo Community with medical anthropologist, John Adair. Published in 1970, the book was considered a major contribution to medical anthropology and Navajo health. Following his time in the U.S. Public Health Service, Deuschle went on to be the director of the Navajo-Cornell Field Health Research Project, where he worked with Walsh McDermott M.D. and John Adair.

In 1960 Deuschle created the first U.S. Department of Community Medicine at the University of Kentucky School of Medicine. Under Deuschle’s leadership, the Department was committed to improving rural health. Known as the “Kentucky Model,” the University of Kentucky’s Community Medicine Department was much admired by likeminded medical professionals and inspired other universities to develop their own community medicine programs.

In 1968, with the opening of the Medical School imminent, the first Chairman of the Department of Community Medicine at Mount Sinai, George W. James M.D., who was also Dean of the School, recruited Deuschle to take his place as Chairman. James had only intended to serve as Chairman long enough to get the Department running. And so, in a move that would take him from the health problems of rural Appalachians to those of inner city residents, Deuschle was named Chair of the Mount Sinai Department of Community Medicine in 1968. In 1973, his position was endowed and his title became the Ethel H. Wise Professor and Chairman of the Department of Community Medicine.

As the first full-time Chairman, Deuschle played a large role in shaping the research focus and mission of the young department. Many of these interests, not surprisingly, revolved around the local community of East Harlem. Additionally, Deuschle’s interest in international medicine also influenced the work of the Department. Once the Department was settled, Deuschle established a Division of International Medicine, led by Samuel Bosch, MD, that worked with local physicians to create or improve health programs in several countries including Nigeria, China, Vietnam, Turkey, Columbia, Jamaica, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, and the People’s Republic of China.

During his career, Deuschle was actively involved with a large number of professional associations. He served on the World Health Organization’s Expert Advisory Panel on Professional and Technical Education of Medical and Auxiliary Personnel from 1972-1977, and was an early member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, elected in 1971, the second year of the program. Deuschle was also involved in local health issues, serving on the New York City Board of Health from 1982-1989. Taking his leadership position at Mount Sinai very seriously, Deuschle sat on 28 internal boards and committees during his career at the school, including the Presidents Advisory Group, the Executive Faculty Board, the Affirmative Action Committee, and the Ethics Committee.

In honor of his dedicated service to the profession, Deuschle received several awards and prizes. The 1975 Award for Excellence in Domestic Health from the American Public Health Association citation includes these lines: “Perhaps because he seems to see opportunity in each situation and potential in every person, he continues to lead at the cutting edge of major innovations, yet retains the respect and esteem of his co-workers. We look with wonder and admiration upon this uncommon man and…his singular contributions to the advance of American public health.” Later awards include the Mayor’s Award of Honor for Science and Technology in 1989 and the Duncan Clark Award from the Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine in 1990. Mount Sinai also honored Deuschle with the Jacobi Medallion from the Mount Sinai Alumni Association in 1989 and the Alexander Richman Commemorative Award for Humanism in Medicine in 1991.

Deuschle published over 100 journal articles during his career. Generally, these works centered on issues such as Navajo health, community medicine education, health manpower, health care delivery, and international health. He also published fourteen books and monographs including The People’s Health (1970) about the Navajo-Cornell Health Project, Health Manpower Planning in Turkey: An International Research Case Study published by Johns Hopkins Press in 1968. Drawing from his experience studying health care delivery in Harlem, in 1972 Deuschle also contributed a chapter in an edited volume entitled A Health Care Plan for East Harlem- Now.

Upon his retirement in 1990, two graduates wrote appreciatively of Deuschle’s leadership: “Kurt’s grace and wisdom, his insight, kindness, and humor, his loyalty to and his intense concern for and understanding of his students and colleagues are, if not unique, at least rare features for a professor, or even a civil servant…He has enabled his students to see their patients in the context of a community. ”

Following a battle with Parkinson’s disease, Deuschle passed away on February 10, 2003.

Dreiling, David A. (David Adolph)
NA0137 · Persona · 1918-1991

David A. Dreiling, MD (1918-1991) graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor's degree in 1938 and attended New York University School of Medicine from 1938-1942. Dr. Dreiling was a surgeon and researcher who spent his entire career associated with The Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

Elster, Samuel K.
NA0146 · Persona · 1922-2006

Samuel K. Elster was born in 1922. He attended City College and then New York University Medical College, graduating in April 1946. After graduation he served an internship at The Mount Sinai Hospital and then spent time in the U.S. Army Medical Corps. He returned to Mount Sinai in 1950 and spent the rest of his career at this institution. He specialized in cardiology and was a noted lecturer and teacher. He loved the practice of medicine and was a willing teacher and mentor. He was among the first to emphasize the study of aging populations in relation to heart disease. In 1976 Elster was appointed Dean of Mount Sinai's Page and William Black Post-Graduate School of Medicine. He served in that role until 1985. He retired from the practice of medicine in 1997. In 1986, Dr. and Mrs. Elster raised funds for the creation of the Dr. Amy and James Elster Professor of Molecular Biology (Connective Tissue Diseases) in honor of their two children who both died from connective tissue disease. Dr. Elster died in 2006.

Figur, Arthur
NA0153 · Persona · 1931-2014
Freedman, Barry
NA0161 · Persona

Barry Freedman joined The Mount Sinai Hospital in the 1976 as an Assistant Director. He served as Director (later Chief Operating Officer) of The Mount Sinai Hospital from 1981-1995, when he was named Executive Vice President. He served in this role from 1995-1998 when he was named President of The Mount Sinai Hospital. In 2000, he was also named Acting President of Mount Sinai-NYU Health. He resigned his Mount Sinai positions in 2002.

Gabrilove, J. Lester
NA0172 · Persona · 1917-2014

Jacques Lester Gabrilove was born September 21, 1917. (He used the name J. Lester throughout his professional life.) He graduated from City College (1936) and the New York University College of Medicine, Class of 1940. He served as an Intern and then Resident at The Mount Sinai Hospital from 1940-1944, and then spent a year at Yale as a Libman Fellow in Medicine. He returned to Mount Sinai to do research and in 1952 was appointed to the attending staff. With the creation of Mount Sinai School of Medicine, he rose through the academic ranks and in 1982 was invested as the Florence and Theodore Baumritter Professor of Medicine.
Dr. Gabrilove served as Chief of the Endocrine Clinic from 1972-1992. He was also the founding Director of the Endocrine Fellowship program at Mount Sinai, starting in 1986. The previous year, he had taken over as Acting Director of the Endocrine Division of the Department of Medicine when the incumbent, Dorothy T. Krieger, MD, died. He served in this role until 1986, when a new Director was named and he became the Associate Director of the Division. In 2007, the division was renamed the Hilda and J. Lester Gabrilove Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Disease in honor of Dr. Gabrilove and his wife. In 1987, the Icahn School of Medicine established the J. Lester Gabrilove, MD Award, which annually honors those physicians who display excellence in clinical or basic research.
Dr. Gabrilove was considered one of the fathers of modern endocrinology. His considerable research, especially in the area of adrenal tumors, greatly advanced the study of endocrinology over the last half century and included more than 170 papers in national and international journals. Together with Louis J. Soffer, MD, a renowned clinician, researcher, and former Chief of
Endocrinology at Mount Sinai, Dr. Gabrilove co-authored The Human Adrenal Gland and
Diseases of the Endocrine Glands. Dr. Gabrilove served, among many appointments, on the National Institutes of Health Special Committee on Research Centers in Diabetes, Metabolism and Endocrinology, and had shared his vast knowledge as a visiting professor in many universities and hospitals around the world. In 1995, in recognition of his lifelong contributions, he received the inaugural Distinguished Endocrinologist Award from the American College of
Endocrinology.
Dr. J. Lester Gabrilove died October 12, 2014, leaving behind his daughter Janice Gabrilove, MD, a Professor of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and two grandsons. He was predeceased by his wife, Hilda, (2002) and a daughter, Sandra Saltzman.