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Coller, Barry S.
NA0105 · Person

Barry S. Coller, MD served as Chairman and Director of the Department of Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and The Mount Sinai Hospital from 1993-2001.

Colp, Ralph, 1893-1974
NA0106 · Person · 1893-1974

Ralph Colp, MD was a long-term surgeon and chief of the surgery clinic at Mount Sinai Hospital. From, 1950 to 1954 he served as the President of the Medical Board. He has wide notoriety for his work in the treatment of duodenal ulcers and diseases of the gall bladder.

Dr. Colp attended Stuyvesant High School. He received his bachelor’s degree from Columbia University in 1913 and his medical degree from Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1915. In World War I, he served as first lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps.

He taught as a clinical professor at Columbia University’s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons from 1937 to 1954. During this time, he became Chief of the Surgery Clinic at Mount Sinai and served as President of the Medical Board from 1950 to 1954.

His other commitments include serving as a Chairman for the Surgical Section of the New York Academy of Medicine and as a fellow and governor of the American College of Surgeons (ACS).

Dr. Colp passed away on November 11th, 1974, at 81 years old.

Continuum Health Partners
NA0107 · Corporate body · 1997-2013

In 1997, the Beth Israel Medical Center merged with St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center and the Long Island College Hospital to form the Greater Metropolitan Health System, Inc., which was renamed Continuum Health Partners in 1998. In 1999, the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary joined Continuum. Long Island College Hospital withdrew from the corporation in 2011. Continuum Health Partners merged with The Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 2013 to form the Mount Sinai Health System.

Coons, Sheldon R.
NA0112 · Person · 1895-1979

Sheldon R. Coons was born January 12, 1895 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. His early career was spent in advertising and public relations. At the age of 24 he came to New York to work at Gimbel Bros., leaving there in 1931 to join the advertising agency of Lord & Thomas, then run by Albert Lasker. In 1940 he created his own company, becoming a business counselor to various corporations, including RCA, Pepsi-Cola, Schenley Distillers, the National Broadcasting Company and others. He was brought onto the Board of Trustees of The Mount Sinai Hospital in 1936 because of his expertise in public relations. He was quickly put to work reviewing various publications that the Hospital produced, and advising on fundraising and media efforts. His contributions to the Board and Mount Sinai expanded well beyond its publicity efforts over the years. As Chairman of the Nominating Committee for over two decades, Mr. Coons played an important role in recruiting many of the Board members and officers of the Hospital and Medical School. Mr. Coons was instrumental in bringing the late Gustave L. Levy, Board Chairman, to Mount Sinai, and when Mr. Levy died, stepped in to fill the breach. Mr. Coons, who was for many years the First Vice Chairman of the three Medical Center Boards, actively served on many vital committees, including the Committee on Education, the Committee on Public Relations, and the Executive Committee, all as Chairman. In 1975, Coons was awarded a Jacobi Medallion by the Mount Sinai Alumni in recognition of his efforts on Mount Sinai?s behalf, and in 1979 received an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the School. Mr. Coons died on September 21, 1979. He was survived by his wife, Elizabeth, his son Joseph, and daughter, Deirdre. Another son, Sheldon Coons, Jr., was killed in World War II, and Mr. Coons endowed a lecture room and a lecture in his honor.

NA0113 · Person · 1884-1983

Burrill B. Crohn (1884-1983) was born and raised in New York, attended City College (Class of 1902) and then received his medical degree from Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons (1907). He joined The Mount Sinai Hospital as an intern in pathology and then trained in the Hospitals' house staff program. He served as a volunteer Assistant in pathology and then physiological chemistry from 1911 to 1923, when he was named Chief of Mount Sinai's Gastroenterology Clinic in the Department of Medicine. He joined the in-patient staff in 1926 and ultimately was associated with Mount Sinai for over sixty years. Crohn was President of the American Gastroenterological Association in 1953. Crohn authored four books and over 150 articles, primarily in his chosen specialty of gastroenterology. He is best remembered for his role in the first description of regional ileitis, or Crohn's Disease, along with Mount Sinai surgeons Leon Ginzburg and Gordon Oppenheimer.

Cutler, Mary Jane Venger
NA0116 · Person · 1917-2004

Mary Jane Venger Cutler, EdD, RN (1917-2004) served as Director of Nursing and Director, The Mount Sinai Hospital School of Nursing from 1962-1967. She remained involved with Mount Sinai after her tenure as a volunteer.
Dr. Culter left in 1967 with expectations of the closure of the Mount Sinai School of Nursing and married. Her husband passed away four years later. Dr. Culter earned her master's and doctorate in education (1976) at Teachers College at Columbia University where she later went on to teach. Throughout her career she served as director of Nursing at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago, and the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. During the last decade of her life, she was elected on the Teachers College Counsel and served on the awards committee and the international outreach committee for Teachers College. In 1995 she was awarded the certificate of achievement for 3,000 hours of volunteer service in the nursing education department at Mount Sinai.

Dack, Simon
NA0117 · Person · 1908-1994
Daniels, Dorothea
NA0121 · Person

Dorothea Danials, RN, was the Director of the Beth Israel School of Nursing circa 1936.