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      US AA107 · Collection · Broad dates are 1946-2019

      This is a collection of oral history interviews conducted primarily by Albert Lyons, MD, who was the founder of the Mount Sinai, now the Arthur H. Aufses, Jr. MD, Archives. The bulk of the interviews take place between the 1960s and the 1990s. Some of the later interviews were conducted by Archives Director Barbara Niss, and a hand full are conducted by various other persons. Early interviews focus on various physicians and researchers of note, and later interviews add other employees of the Hospital.

      Arthur H. Aufses, Jr., MD Archives
      US AA107.INT002 · File · 1967-07-28
      Part of Collection of Mount Sinai Hospital-related oral histories

      Ms. Shubert was a patient of Dr. Lyons and former wife of Lee Shubert, the theater empresario. She talks about her relationship with Shubert, how they met, her work as an actress, their secret marriage, divorce and remarriage, how he built his theater business with his brothers Sam, Lee, and Jacob (Winter Garden Theater and the Herald Square Theater) and various performers she knew.

      Shubert, Marcella
      US AA107.INT009 · File · 1968-09
      Part of Collection of Mount Sinai Hospital-related oral histories

      In this interview, Dr. Vogel describes the origins, and developments of the Department of Hematology, including establishment of a blood bank, increase in number of blood transfusions, start of bone marrow harvesting, changes in personnel, and the expansion of the department. He mentions several significant personalities including Dr. Eli Moschcowitz, Dr. Nathan Rosenthal, Dr. Lowell Erb, Dr. Louis Wasserman.

      Vogel, Peter
      US AA107.INT006 · File · 1969-03-28
      Part of Collection of Mount Sinai Hospital-related oral histories

      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.

      Lyons, Albert S., 1912-2006
      US AA107.INT017 · File · 1973-08-21
      Part of Collection of Mount Sinai Hospital-related oral histories

      Kark discusses his life and training (originally from South Africa); his work in South African hospitals and the University of Natal medical school; his arrival at Mount Sinai as Director of the Dept. of Surgery; his impressions of the program; affiliations with Greenpoint Hospital and the City Hospital Center at Elmhurst and the reasons for them; his contributions; planning of space in Annenberg; why he resigned; his opinion of Drs. George James, Solomon Berson, Kermit Osserman, John Garlock, Ralph Colp, Leon Ginzburg and Samuel Klein; his opinion of the residency training program. (Interview starts on August 16, 1973 and is continued on August 21, 1973.)

      Kark, Allan Eugene
      US AA107.INT013 · File · 1973-11-16
      Part of Collection of Mount Sinai Hospital-related oral histories

      This interview covers the years leading up to Dr. Chalmers accepting a position of President of The Mount Sinai Medical Center and Dean of the School of Medicine, but includes a bit of the story behind that. He begins by discussing his upbringing in Forest Hills, NY, schooling from Kew Forest School, Phillips Exeter Academy, then three years at Yale leading to medical school at Columbia's P&S. He goes into details about his family background, how he worked his way through school, failed his Army physical because of serum bilirubin issues, (later he was diagnosed with Gilbert’s syndrome) and thus took military service at Goldwater Memorial Hospital, conducting research. He continues to describe his work at various hospitals up to the time he came to Mount Sinai, the story of which will continue on another interview. (see AA107.INT032)

      Chalmers, Thomas C. (Thomas Clark), 1917-1995
      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)
      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
      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.INT011 · File · 1985-04-09
      Part of Collection of Mount Sinai Hospital-related oral histories

      Dr. Albert Lyons interviews Milton Sisselman, and Dr. Alan Silver sits in and occasionally injects a question. They discuss Sisselman’s family background and education, his start at Mount Sinai as a Fellow, then made permanent as a administrative assistant moving up to Associate Director in Healthcare Administration; changes in the organizational structure of the corporation; the beginnings of the medical school; including very early affiliation discussions with City College and Montefiore Hospital; mentions of early unionization of Mount Sinai; detailed conversation on “The Sinai Syndrome,” (competitiveness; abrasiveness, etc.); where the funding for the medical school was found; relationships and disputes between early leaders of the Hospital, School, and Corporation; and characterization of several of the leading figures (David Pomrinse, George James, Gustave L. Levy, Joseph Klingenstein), details of the design and building of the Annenberg Building and mentions of the backgrounds of many of the other buildings in the complex.

      Frequently mentioned names include: Martin Steinberg, Norman Metzger, John Walsh, David Pomrinse, Alexander B. Gutman, Alan B. Kark, Mark Ravitch, Ivan Baronofsky, M. Ralph Kaufman, Hans Popper, Paul Klemperer, Leo Gottlieb, the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York, Gustave L. Levy, George James, Sam Davis, Joseph Klingenstein, Max Fuchs.

      Sisselman, Milton
      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-
      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

      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.

      Anagnostopoulos, Constantine E.