Nephrologist Dr. Stanley Cortell relates stories of his life and career, his early years, his educational goals, changes in clinical focus, and his career at St. Luke's Hospital.

Dr. Barrett relates details of his early years, educational choices and his career as former Chief of the Pulmonary Division at at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center.

Interview is with Lawrence Attia, MD, Hassan Khouli, MD, Ira Meisels, MD, and Norma M.T. Braun, MD who share reminisces about the late James Jones, MD, a Mount Sinai West (formerly Roosevelt Hospital) a beloved physician and administrator who died suddenly in December 2016.

Dr. Mendes shares stories from her career as a vascular surgeon, mentioning her early years, educational and training choices, her clinical research on venous disease in African Americans, and her time at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center

Dr. Kanick relates stories of her life from childhood in the South to educational and training choices at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons to her work at St. Luke's Hospital Center, mentioning her involvement, as the first woman president of the hospital's Medical Board, in the merger of St. Luke's and Roosevelt Hospitals in 1979.

In this interview, Dr. Hassan Khouli discusses his childhood in Syria, and immigration to the U.S. circa 1998 to continue to study medicine and develop his skills through several fellowships, which eventually brought him to Mount Sinai St. Luke’s. He discusses the various stages of study and the development of his interest in critical care and simulation medicine, as well as working at St. Luke’s, and more personal topics such as his family and hobbies.

At the time of this interview, Dr. Xavier Pi-Sunyer was a Professor of Medicine at Columbia University and Co-Director of the Nutritional Obesity Research Center. Dr. Pi-Sunyer discusses his formative years in Spain, France, Mexico, and finally the US. He highlights his internship/residency at the former St. Luke’s Hospital; introduction to endocrinology at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, England, continued training in public health at Harvard University and his return to St. Luke’s, via Nigeria and Boston, where he became acquainted with Dr. Theodore Van Itallie. Dr. Van Itallie drew him back to New York to help establish the Endocrine Division and research laboratories for nutrition and metabolic research where the team carried out various grant-funded research projects. The most significant the discovery out of which is the hormone leptin. Dr. Pi-Sunyer also provides information on his own family, hobbies and interests, and comments on the mergers of St. Luke’s with Roosevelt Hospital and later the Continuum Health Partners.