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Kenneth Davis, MD the the President and Chief Executive Officer of The Mount Sinai Health System.

Samuel Davis was born on September 30, 1931. He grew up in Washington Heights in New York City. Davis earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology and Economics from the City College of New York, completed post-graduate work in Accounting and Personnel Administration at Baruch College, and received his Master of Science degree in Hospital Administration from Columbia University. He began working in hospitals in 1949. Davis served in the U.S. Army from 1952-1954. He was Executive President of Mount Sinai Hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Executive Vice President of Hillside Hospital in Queens, New York.

Davis served as Director of the Mount Sinai Hospital from 1975-1981 and President of the Mount Sinai Hospital from 1981-1984. During this period, Davis also served as Senior Vice President (1975-1977) and Executive Vice President (1978-1984) of the Mount Sinai Medical Center. He was an Associate Professor and Acting Chairman of Administrative Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, where, in 1980, he became the second Edmond A. Guggenheim Professor in Administrative Medicine, succeeding Dr. S. David Pomrinse.

When Davis left Mount Sinai in 1984, he became President of the healthcare complex EcuMed. He died on November 5, 2017.

The Dazian Foundation for Medical Research was created by the estate of Henry Dazian. His will stated that the mission of the Foundation was to have as "its fundamental and primary purpose the advancement of medical and allied scientific knowledge." A further definition of its objects and purposes is set forth in directions that the income be applied in part (1) for the creation of fellowships "to consist of post-graduate education along specialized lines in some science or subject directly or indirectly associated with medical science for persons already possessing a degree of doctor of medicine," and (2) in making contributions "to laboratories, hospitals or similar institutions not operated for profit, to be used in research or investigation for the advancement of medical or allied scientific knowledge." Many of the individuals on the Board of the Foundation were members of the Medical Staff of The Mount Sinai Hospital, and former members of the Hospital house staff received Fellowships. The Foundation supported Fellows in Latin American countries and some Fellows later went on to win Nobel Prizes.

Henry Dazian (1854-1937) was a costumer and businessman in New York City. Henry Dazian was a life member, and for years served as a trustee of the Actors’ Fund - an organization established in 1882 to provide for the burial, retirement, and healthcare needs of those in the theatrical professions, during a period when they were often denied access to services and charities – which perhaps explains why he would eventually take such an ardent interest in furthering the study of medicine upon his death. At one point, he was also the director of the Metropolitan Opera, and a bank director.

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.

Mildred Marie DeVoe graduated from the Mount Sinai Training School for Nurses in March 1917. She was a surgical nurse for Dr. Charles May, the well-known ophthalmologist. In 1918 she worked on the wards at The Mount Sinai Hospital during the flu epidemic. The same year she married Sgt. Lonnie Aiken. She later worked as a public health nurse in New York City, a floor nurse at Nyack (NY) Hospital, and as an office nurse, where she taught herself shorthand and typing. She also served as an industrial nurse for 19 years, retiring at the age of 65.

Doctors Hospital was a voluntary hospital on the Upper East Side of New York City which catered to affluent private patients. It was located at 170 East End Avenue between 87th and 88th Streets, overlooking Carl Schurz Park and Gracie Mansion.

The hospital was founded in the late 1920s by a group of socially prominent doctors and investors to meet the growing demand for private hospital rooms. Hospitals, by this time, had replaced the home as the primary site of medical treatment for patients of all social classes, but New York City's hospitals had a limited supply of rooms for affluent patients who did not want to be housed on public wards.

The cornerstone of the hospital building was laid on April 30, 1929, and the hospital opened to patients on February 19, 1930. On its opening, the fourteen-story building contained 264 private rooms, with an additional 32 hotel-like rooms in which patients' relatives could stay during treatment. It had no wards. Nicknamed the “hotel hospital" for its lavish interiors, its rooms were decorated in an early American style and included conveniences such as private iceboxes, which aimed at replicating the comforts of home for its wealthy patients. The founding medical staff of the hospital consisted of 182 doctors and surgeons.

The hospital was founded as a for-profit corporation and was expected to yield a return for its shareholders. In 1932, however, the shares of the hospital were turned over to a charitable foundation and the hospital was reorganized as a voluntary institution. Many believed this decision to have been motivated primarily by tax purposes. In 1941 the city brought a suit against the hospital for payment of back taxes, arguing that because it catered to private patients and did not offer charity care, it was not entitled to the hospital property tax exemption. The State Supreme Court ruled in favor of the city, but the ruling was overturned by the Appellate Division in 1944, which held that the exemption applied equally to all voluntary hospitals regardless of their patient demographics. Throughout the middle decades of the twentieth century the hospital continued to serve New York's social elite as a place for medical treatment in a genteel private setting.

From its founding until its acquisition by Beth Israel in 1987, Doctors Hospital was governed by a Board of Directors. Following the acquisition, this body was reorganized as a Board of Trustees, and in 1992 it was renamed the Board of Trustees of Beth Israel Hospital North.

Dr. Henry Dolger is a native New Yorker whose parents came from Vitebsk, Russia. He attend public school as well as Hebrew and Yiddish schools, and attended medical school at NYU, graduating in 1933. He came to Mount Sinai as an intern that year and remained for the rest of his career. His single focus from earlier in his career has been diabetes treatment.

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.

Dr. Eliasoph (1899-1970) was a long time member of the Department of Medicine at The Mount Sinai Hospital. He developed one of the first, if not the first, successful portable oxygen tent.

Ira Eliasoph, MD was a resident and then spent many years as a member of the Department of Ophthalmology at The Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He also served as an instructor in The Mount Sinai Hospital School of Nursing.

Mount Sinai School of Medicine affiliated with the City Hospital Center at Elmhurst, a part of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, in July 1964. This public hospital dates back to 1832 when it was known as the Charity Hospital on today's Roosevelt Island. In 1860, the name was changed to City Hospital. The hospital moved to Elmhurst Queens in 1957 and was re-named the City Hospital Center at Elmhurst. In the early 1990s, the name of the hospital changed to Elmhurst Hospital Center.