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      This is an interview with former Trustees Helen Roosevelt and her son Andrew E. Roosevelt, relatives of Roosevelt Hospital founder James H. Roosevelt. Helen Roosevelt speaks about her childhood and of her volunteer work at the Hospital, recounting several stories including hosting staff holiday parties, her children's relationship with the Hospital, acquaintances there and other highlights. Andrew Roosevelt describes his experiences at the Hospital including events during the September 11th attacks, moving the burial site of James H. Roosevelt from Hospital grounds to the family plot in the New York Marble Cemetery, and stories of Yoko Ono at the Hospital after John Lennon's murder.

      Roosevelt, Helen D.
      US AA107.INT018 · File · 1986-09-29
      Part of Collection of Mount Sinai Hospital-related oral histories

      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.

      Dolger, Henry
      US AA107.INT022 · File · 1974-10-09
      Part of Collection of Mount Sinai Hospital-related oral histories

      Horace L. Hodes, MD (1907-1989) served as Director of the Pediatrics Department at The Mount Sinai Hospital from 1949-1976 and as Herbert H. Lehman Professor and Chairman of Pediatrics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine from 1965-1976. He is interviewed by Albert S. Lyons, MD, Archivist at The Mount Sinai Medical Center. In this interview, Dr. Hodes discusses his career; his research work; his military service during World War II as part of the Rockefeller University unit; the efforts at The Mount Sinai Hospital to create Mount Sinai School of Medicine; Hans Popper, MD, PhD, Gustave L. Levy, Chairman of the Mount Sinai Board of Trustees; and the Department of Pediatrics at Mount Sinai.

      Hodes, Horace L. (Horace Louis)

      Dr. Barnard relates stories about his childhood background, how he moved from an engineering major to pre-med, and how he found his way to St. Luke’s Hospital (now Mount Sinai Morningside) for residency training. He mentions several attendings that influenced him, some of the fun that was had during training, and some of the more serious cases he worked with, the reasons behind his move to Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons for several years to conducted research before returning to St. Luke’s to practice. He also mentions his hobbies, family adventures, and the changes in medical practice that led to his decision to retire.

      Significant St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center names mentioned include Drs. William Clark, Mike Irwin, Theodore B. Van Itallie, Richard Pierson, A. Loomis Bell, C. Reddington [Rud] Barrett, Harvey Kemp, Michael Lesch, Ron Ablow,

      Barnard, J. Thomas
      US AA107.INT015 · File · 1986-02-05
      Part of Collection of Mount Sinai Hospital-related oral histories

      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.

      Glenn, James F. (James Francis), 1928-

      Dr. Jeanne Baer describes her family’s background in Germany and France in the years leading up to World War II, their life evading German troops in France, and their move to the US in 1948. She discusses her schooling in Pennsylvania, and her acceptance and training experiences in medical school through her residency in medicine. She provides interesting details of training in the 1960s including fellowship training in gastroenterology and finally her appointment to the radiology department at St. Luke’s Hospital and the work she did there. Baer particularly mentions Dr. Virginia Kanick with whom she formed a close friendship and training in the 60s and 70s as a woman in what was a man’s field.

      Baer, Jeanne

      In this interview Ms. Leonardini talks a bit about her background growing up in Greenwich Village, her family background, work background and developing interest in hospital administration and experiences working in the field and finally in St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center. She mentions some of the challenges of working in the field (hospital closures, dealing with homeless issues, AIDS), and what she hopes to do in retirement.

      Leonardini, Joan

      Judith L. Axelrod, MD is on the staff of the Division of Infectious Diseases of Department of Medicine at St. Luke’s Hospital. She speaks about her early influences, her training, professional relationships, her experience as a woman working in medicine in the 1970s through the 2000s, and how her work meshed with her family life. Dr. Axelrod also discusses the beginnings of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. During her interview, Dr. Axelrod speaks about Donna Mildvan, MD, Arthur Ashe, John Hutchinson, MD, Solomon A. Berson, MD, Theodore B. VanItallie, MD, Michael H. Grieco, MD., Jeanne Baer, MD, Airlie Cameron, MD, and Sami A. Hashim, MD.

      Axelrod, Judith
      US AA111.INT284 · File · September 1, 2020
      Part of "COVID Memories" oral history collection

      Interview with Julie Byrnes, a second year student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai as an MD/MPH student, so, both in the graduate as school and the medical school. Ms. Byrnes discusses her experiences as a student, and caring for a family member in Hospital during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in spring 2020.

      Niss, Barbara

      In this interview, Laurence Huntington, who worked in finance for 40 years, describes his early years and schooling, his military service (Coast Guard) and what drew him into each of his three terms as Chairman of the Board of St. Luke’s Hospital, including dealing with demonstrators in the late 1960s, handling the merger of St. Luke’s and Roosevelt Hospitals, the formation of the Continuum Health Partners, Inc. group in the 1990s, and the unwinding of the relationship with the Long Island College Hospital (LICH). He goes on to describe his later work with the World Wildlife Fund and Woods Hole Research Center, expressing some opinions about climate issues, and concludes discussing his family’s love of sailing, and his work with the South Street Seaport.

      Huntington, Lawrence

      Dr. Lawrence Scharer, a pulmonary specialist, discuss his life and career with Dr. Norma Braun. He describes his upbringing in the Bronx, his education at Columbia University and the College of Physicians and Surgeons and his career at Roosevelt Hospital (now Mount Sinai West). He also touches on his family life, and his time as a Captain in the Army Medical Corps, stationed in Seoul, S. Korea.

      Scharer, Lawrence L.
      US AA107.INT001 · File · 1982-05-07
      Part of Collection of Mount Sinai Hospital-related oral histories

      This interview discusses Dr. Ginzberg’s research work while an assistant in Dr. Albert A. Berg’s private practice and while working as his House Surgeon (approximately 1926-1935) and the writing of an article and the presentation of a lecture on the condition that would come to be known as Crohn’s disease and who did the actual research behind it. Significant names mentioned include: Leo Kessel, Harold T. Hyman, Gordon Oppenheimer, Burrill B. Crohn, A.A. Berg, Emanuel Libman.

      Ginzburg, Leon, 1898-1988
      US AA107.INT019 · File · 1975-01-17
      Part of Collection of Mount Sinai Hospital-related oral histories

      This oral history interview of M. Ralph Kaufman, MD was conducted by Albert S. Lyons, MD and Ruth Hirsch. The conversation focuses on the establishment of the Department of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai Hospital. (Psychiatry had initially been practiced within the Department of Neurology.) It also includes discussion of Dr. Kaufman's relationship with Joseph Klingenstein, Mount Sinai Board of Trustees president, as well as Dr. Kaufman's opinions on the role of affiliations, the founding of Mount Sinai Medical School, and the founding of the Klingenstein Clinical Center (KCC).

      Dr. Kaufman briefly mentions other more personal topics, including: his early life; his career prior to Mount Sinai at various Boston-area hospitals, as well as being on the Harvard faculty; his time serving in World War II; his family; how he relaxes; and his health. Drs. Kaufman and Lyons also briefly discuss the book "Freud and His Followers" by Paul Roazen, as well as the role of psychobiology within the field of psychiatry.

      Kaufman, M. Ralph (Moses Ralph), 1900-1977