In this interview, Dr. Glenn mentions his upbringing in Kentucky and being a southerner in a northern city, and family background and education, and work in former positions. He delves into the his interview process for the job of President of the Medical Center and Acting Dean of the School of Medicine; his impressions of the Medical Center; what stands out positively and what needs to be improved in the physical plant, going into the building project he is undertaking for the Hospital, the staffing, the departments, the research specialties and the students. The topic of women in medicine and particularly surgery is touched on, as is his personal specialty urology.

Dr. Dolger relates stories of his childhood and early education and medical school in NYC, and work at Mount Sinai Hospital. He goes into detail to describe the history of diabetes, the development of various treatments of it world-wide, and his involvement in its treatment. The interview touches on the founding of the Mount Sinai medical school, and his involvement in the history club there. Dr. Dolger mentions many physicians related to diabetes treatment by name; the most describe include: Bernard S. Oppenheimer, George Baehr, Dorothy Quimby, Sol Silver, Arthur Fishberg, Arthur Fishberg, Reuben Ottenberg, Asher Winkelstein, Nathan Rosenthal, Paul Kimmelstiel, Paul Klemperer, Isidore Snapper, Saul Jarcho, Joel Hartley and Dr. Joe Silagy, Elliot P. Joslin, Eugenie Opie, Rosalyn Yalow, Sol Berson, and A. A. Epstein.

The majority of this interview discusses the set of circumstances around a heart transplant performed on August 27, 1986, before State approval of the pending certificate of need application to perform cardiac transplants was granted to Mount Sinai Hospital. Dr. Glenn also touches on HMOs (Oxford plan, US Healthcare, Cigna, Healthnet, Maxicare); occupancy of the hospital; marketing of the hospital; and the Independent Physicians Association (IPA).

This catalog record includes a video recording made by Dr. Anagnostopoulos, a digital copy of the transcript of that talk and a digital copy of his curriculum vitae and a digital collection of documents regarding the start of the Cardiothoracic Surgery Service. Dr. Constantine Anagnostopoulos dictates reminiscences from his career, focusing on the start of the full-time academic cardiothoracic surgery program at the former St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center of Columbia University in 1992, (AKA Mount Sinai Morningside). Materials include the recording, a transcript of the recording, a copy of Dr. Anagnostopoulos' curriculum vitae and a PDF scrapbook of documents, put together by Dr. Anagnostopoulos, relating to the start of the cardiothoracic program and its continued success.

This collection consists of interviews with physicians and staff of the Hospitals done in conjunction with the St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center Alumni Association. The interviews were carried out starting in 2017, but some of the additional materials included with the recordings date back to the 1990s. Additional materials include a transcript of the recordings, the curriculum vitae of the narrators, and occasionally other materials they wished to include in the documentation of their careers. The St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center joined the Mount Sinai Health System in 2013 and the hospitals were renamed Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai West.