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Lynn Kasner Morgan was the Director of the Gustave L. and Janet W. Levy Library, Vice President for Information Technology, and Associate Professor of Medical Education at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine during her years at Mount Sinai from 1983 to 2012.

Ms. Morgan was born in New York City. She earned her bachelor’s degree from State University of New York at Binghamton in 1972 and her Master of Library Science from State University of New York at Albany in 1972.

Prior to Mount Sinai Ms. Morgan was the Director of the New York State Nurse’s Association’s library in Albany and Associate Director of the New York Academy of Medicine’s library. In 1983, she began as the Associate Dean for Information Resources and Systems, Director of the Gustave L. and Janet W. Levy Library, and Instructor (1983-1988), later Associate Professor (1989 -1996), of Medical Education at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, which she held until her retirement in 2012. She also served as the Vice President for Information Technology beginning in 2003 until her retirement. In these positions she secured and negotiated Mount Sinai's internet and network license and developed the first Mount Sinai websites. Ms. Morgan was co-principal investigator and co-director of the library’s first high performance computing operation, initiated the library’s conversion from print to digital, oversaw renovations of the library, led the first online education programs, established the information technology services, created the Records Management Program, and developed the Archives Program alongside Barabara Niss.

Ms. Morgan also held academic positions at other institutions. She was a Lecturer in Library Science at Columbia University’s School of Library Science from 1985 to 1992 and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies at Queens College of the City University of New York from 1984 to 1986 and again from 1992 until at least 1996.

While at Mount Sinai, co-chair of the Information Systems Advisory Committee (which was the first institution wide committee of its kind and advised the President and CEO of Mount Sinai), elected member of the Faculty Council, member of the Medical School Merger Committee, and a member of the Women Faculty Group. Alongside numerous impressive publications she was also a distinguished member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals Medical Library Association Certification which she earned in 1974 and subsequently renewed every 5 years, a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine since 1986, elected President of the Association of Academic Health Sciences Library Directors from 1994 to 1995, and was awarded the Special Recognition Service Award by Mount Sinai Alumni in 1996, elected President of the Medical Library Center of New York Board of Trustees from 1997 to 2005, and elected Chair of the Association of American Medical Colleges Group on Information Resources from 2007 to 2008.

Dr. Lucy Goldschmidt Moses (1887-1990) was a life-long philanthropist who supported many causes in the areas of medicine, the arts, education and New York City. First with her husband, Henry P. Moses, and then as a widow, Dr. Moses made significant gifts and volunteered many hours to the institutions and people that touched her mind or spirit. At Mount Sinai, her generous contributions established the Cardiothoracic Center as well as the Dr. Arthur M. Fishberg Research Center in Neurobiology, the Dr. Lucy G. Moses Chair in Rehabilitation Medicine, the Henry P. and Georgette Goldschmidt Chair in Neurology, the renovation of the Dr. Lucy G. Moses Psychiatry Day Rooms, the Moses Research Tower in the Icahn Medical Institute building, and a clinic for the research and treatment of infants and children with AIDS.

The Neustadter Home was created in Yonkers, NY by a provision in the 1905 will of Caroline Neustadter to serve as a convalescent center for patients after leaving the hospital. In 1936, an agreement was reached between The Mount Sinai Hospital and the Neustadter Home whereby Mount Sinai was given preferential use of the Home. Eventually the Board and members and medical staff were affiliated with Mount Sinai and the Hospital bought the facility outright. In 1973 the Neustadter Convalescent Center was sold by Mount Sinai.

Caroline Neustadter set aside funds in her will that created the Neustadter Convalescent Home, which later affiliated with The Mount Sinai Hospital. She was sister to Josephine Walter, the first woman to graduate from a Mount Sinai residency (in 1883).

Became the Joint Administrative group (JAG) in October 1972.

This committee is known as the Compensation Committee, its original name. By 1992 the title had changed to the Compensation and Employee Benefits Committee. In late 2002 it became the Compensation, Employee Benefits and Employee Relations Committee.

The program was begun at Mount Sinai in 1976. It was co-sponsored by the Dept. of Medicine, Geriatrics Div. and the Dept. of Community Medicine, Div. of Social Work.

The Environmental Science Laboratory was officially created at The Mount Sinai Hospital in 1963 with Irving J. Selikoff, MD as the founding Director, although Dr. Selikoff had been engaged in this work at Mount Sinai since 1961. In 1966, this Laboratory was moved to the Department of Community Medicine within the recently formed Mount Sinai School of Medicine and in 1967 became the basis for the Division of Environmental Medicine. Dr. Selikoff served as head of the Laboratory and then the Division from its inception until 1985. During this time the Division conducted a variety of research studies on environmental and occupational medicine and is best known for its pioneering clinical and epidemiologic studies of the health effects of exposures to asbestos, lead, and PCBs. In 1973 the Division was named a core center by the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and was re-named the Environmental Health Sciences Center. Around 1979, with funding from the National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health (NIOSH), Dr. Selikoff formed the New York-New Jersey Education and Research Center in Occupational Health & Safety, a multi-institutional education and research consortium in occupational safety and health that continues at Mount Sinai to the present and supports the residency program in occupational and environmental medicine.

In 1985, Dr. Kurt Deuschle, the Chairman of the Department of Community Medicine, and Dr. Selikoff recruited Philip Landrigan, MD to take over as Director of the Division. At Dr. Landrigan’s request, the name of the unit was changed to Environmental and Occupational Medicine to reflect more closely the work already underway in the Division and also to lay the foundation for securing New York State funding for a Clinical Center of Excellence in Occupational Medicine, now known as the Selikoff Clinic. This Center was the successor to the original clinical care center created by Selikoff in 1974. New York State awarded Mount Sinai a grant in 1987 that allowed the Clinic to expand to five day a week service and become a regional hub. The renamed Mount Sinai-Irving J. Selikoff Clinical Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine was dedicated in December 1987, with Drs. Stephen Levin and Robin Herbert appointed the Co-Directors. The Center also housed the Irving J. Selikoff Asbestos Archives and Research Center, which contained some of Dr. Selikoff’s research data and papers. (Many of these have since been transferred to the Mount Sinai Archives and are closed.)

Dr. Landrigan served as Director of the Division until being named Chairman of the Community Medicine department in 1990. Under Landrigan, who was trained in pediatrics as well as in occupational medicine, the Division concentrated on studying the links between environmental exposure to toxins and ill health among children. With Dr. Landrigan’s new position, Mary Wolff, PhD became the Director of the Division. Three years later, in 1993, a separate Division of Environmental Health Sciences was created under Dr. Wolff, and the original division was re-named Occupational and Environmental Medicine. Stephen Levin, MD was named head of the Occupational and Environmental Medicine Division, and also served as co-Director of the Selikoff Clinics. He served until his death in 2012, when Roberto Lucchini, MD was appointed chief of the Division.

In 1999 the Dept. of Community and Preventive Med established one of the first Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units (PEHSU), later funded by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. The mission is to provide clinical consultation and education to families, health care professionals, public health officials, and community organizations that have concerns regarding children's environmental health. A postdoctoral fellowship was also created in this area.

After the World Trade Center attacks on September 11, 2001, physicians from the Division took steps to create a program to care for and monitor those who may have been exposed to environmental toxins while working at the World Center site. The WTC Health Program was established by the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2010 and is administered by the National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety (NIOSH) within the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Zadroga Act provides free medical monitoring, treatment, mental health services, and benefits counseling for 9/11 responders and volunteers. Building on a long tradition of caring for injured and ill workers through the Selikoff Centers for Occupational Health, Mount Sinai is home to the largest WTC Health Program Clinical Center of Excellence (CCE) in the NY/NJ region. There is also a World Trade Center Health Program General Responder Cohort Data Center program within the Division.

Over the years, the staff of the Division has worked to provide training to others in occupational and environmental medicine. In 1976 a residency program was created with four slots. This program continues today and results in the awarding of a Masters in Public Health degree.

A program to involve staff and solicit employee suggestions for improvements/efficiencies.

The Department of Pathology was founded in 1893, when Henry N. Heineman of the medical staff was named the Mount Sinai Hospital's first Pathologist. Many of Mount Sinai's most distinguished researchers and clinicians, including Nathan Brill, Paul Klemperer, and Hans Popper, have been associated with the Department over the course of its history.