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NA0019 · Person · 1926-2019

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.

Axelrod, Judith
NA0021 · Person

Dr. Axelrod was born and raised in Massachusetts, where her father was a general practice physician. Her interest in medicine grew from his influence, as she joined him in making house calls as a young girl, and enjoyed reading through his medical textbooks, finding her interest drawn to the chapters on microbiology, and bacteriology and immunology. She was pre-med at Wellesley College, where she was encouraged to pursue medical school by her Dean. She graduated from Cornell University Medical College, and spent a year of residency at Montefiore Hospital, transferring to Mount Sinai for the second year and Fellowship training (1969-1972). She was hired by Dr. Theodore VanItallie for the Infectious Disease Division of the St. Luke's Hospital Department of Medicine at the end of her fellowship, and was the head of the unit between 1976 and 1980.

Baehr, George
NA0025 · Person · 1887-1978

George Baehr was born in 1887 and graduated from Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons at the age of 21. He began a rotating internship at The Mount Sinai Hospital in 1908, studied pathology and experimental pharmacology in Europe, and then returned to Mount Sinai. He maintained an affiliation with the Hospital until his death in 1978. In his early years, he had an appointment as Associate Pathologist in charge of General Pathology, as well as clinician on the ward staff. He eventually headed the First Medical Service of the Hospital, all while maintaining a busy private practice.
Dr. Baehr made significant research contributions in the areas of collagen disease, hematology, and the adrenal complications of heart disease. He also was a pioneer in public health, organizing the first group health plan in New York, and in 1947 he established the Health Insurance Plan of New York (HIP) at the request of his friend and patient, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. Baehr served on many government boards and committees at the local, state, and federal levels, including the New York City Board of Hospitals for 25 years and the State Public Health Council for more than 35 years. In 1945, the Surgeon General appointed him to the first NIH Scientific Advisory Board.
Baehr served in both world wars. In World War I, at the age of 30, he was the Commander of Base Hospital No.3, the Mount Sinai based hospital unit that was established in France. During their few months of active service abroad, the unit admitted over 9,000 patients, including over 1,000 a day at times. During World War II, Baehr was Chief Medical Officer of the U.S. Office of Civil Defense.
Baehr retired from active service at Mount Sinai in 1951. After this, he was on Consultant status, and remained actively involved with the Hospital, helping Mount Sinai to establish a medical school in the 1960s and 70s. George Baehr received many honors and awards during his lifetime. He died in 1978 at the age of 91.

Baer, Eva
NA0151 · Person
Baer, Jeanne
NA2150 · Person · 1938-2022

Jeanne Baer, MD received her medical degree from the Columbia University College of Physician and Surgeons in 1970. Following a medical internship at Mount Sinai West, then Roosevelt Hospital, in 1965 and a medical residency at George Washington University Hospital in Washington, DC in 1967, she completed her radiology residency at Mount Sinai Morningside, then St. Luke’s Hospital, in 1970.

It was during this period that Dr. Baer met attending radiologist, Virginia Kanick, MD, former Director of Radiology, and President of the Medical Board of St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital. Under Dr. Kanick’s guidance and mentorship, she accepted a position as an attending radiologist with a sub-specialty in gastrointestinal (GI) radiology after completing her residency.

Throughout her career, Dr. Baer was passionate about mentorship and the growth of future physicians and clinicians at Mount Sinai. Dr. Baer led the Residency Training Program for 20 years before passing it on to Nolan Kagetsu, MD, who was her former student. In addition to her leadership, she published and was featured in multiple publications, advancing our understanding of GI radiology. With the encouragement of her mentor, Dr. Kanick, Dr. Baer became involved in the American College of Radiology, where she was eventually inducted as a Fellow. She also served as the President of New York Roentgen Society in 2005.

Dr. Baer was consistently recognized by peers for her leadership, mentorship, humility, and generosity. After she retired from practice in 2013, Dr. Baer was known to return to Mount Sinai Morningside, where she enjoyed connecting with new residents and catching up with her colleagues.

Bahethi, Rohini
NA2293 · Person

Rohini Bahethi is a medical student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai