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.

Mrs. Vivian Clark speaks about her husband, Dr. William Clark, who completed his internship and residency at St. Luke’s Hospital (now Mount Sinai Morningside) and returned there as Chief of Medicine between 1975 and 1979. She discusses his childhood in Dayton, Ohio, and his move into medicine, his work with the National Foundation March of Dimes and The Arthritis Foundation, before returning to clinical practice at St. Luke’s Hospital. In a rather candid interview, Mrs. Clark presents some insider details leading to the merger of St. Luke’s and Roosevelt Hospitals in 1979, as well as reasons behind former Chief of Medicine Dr. Ted Van Itallie’s leaving St. Luke’s in 1975. She also contributes details of her own life and work in various charity organizations, particularly with the Women’s Auxiliary of St. Luke’s and their volunteers, how she met Bill Clark, what his family was comprised of prior to their marriage, and what their relationship dynamics were like. Significant names mentioned during the interview include: Cleveland Clinic, Massachusetts General Hospital, Case Western Reserve, the Arthritis Foundation, the National Foundation March of Dimes, John Stage-Davis, Charles Reagan, Chuck Christian, Theodore B. VanItallie, Seichi Shimomura, Miles Schwartz, Larry Huntington, Nick Christy, Gary Gambuti, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, Gerard M. Turino, and Stanley Cortell.

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.