Alfred R. Stern served as Chairman of the three Boards of Trustees of Mount Sinai from 1977 to 1985 (the Medical Center, the Hospital and the Medical School). He explains the leadership structure of the institution, and how and why it changed over time, and discuses some of the strengths of Mount Sinai, “town and gown” tensions, and funding troubles on State and Federal levels. He describes Gustave Levy’s personality and working style. He adds some of his background growing up in Chicago area, shares some of the family history and stories, his business dealings in broadcasting (NBC radio & TV) and in cable, which he sold to Warner Communications, before moving onto work in another business. Finally, he touches on his hobbies and interests and his children.

This is a recording of the oral history of Terry Krulwich, PhD conducted by Albert S. Lyons, MD and Florence Daniels on February 9th, 1999. Some of the significant topics represented in this oral history include: the beginning of her career at Mount Sinai; the composition and number of students, budget, requirements, and length of the biochemistry MD/PhD program; the Mount Sinai School of Medicine of New York University; comments on student mental health in the program; her salary; her area of interest and research in biochemistry; a summer undergraduate science program she began; and her parents.

In this interview with Arthur H. Aufses, Jr. MD, Dr. Ezra Greenspan discusses his career and the early years of cancer chemotherapy in the United States, the formation of the Chemotherapy Foundation, and his vision of the future of chemotherapy. He mentions: George Baehr, MD, Isidore Snapper, MD, Babe Ruth’s treatment, Sidney Farber, MD, Walter Reed Hospital, the National Cancer Institute, and Alexander Gutman, MD.

Eileen Fitzgerald discusses her experiences working as a nurse at the Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in spring 2020.