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      Dr. Sami Hashim discusses his education and career development, his research on lipid metabolism and its derivatives, the ketogenic diet, the development of MCT (Medium Chain Triglycerides) which today has in many nutritional and medicinal applications and his collaboration with Dr. Theodore VanItallie which produced cholestyramine, the first cholesterol lowering medication. Dr. Hashim remarks on his family life and children, his hobbies, and his acquaintances with the Royal family in Kuwait and meeting the former President of Algeria, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt, Nobel Laureate Linus Pawling, IRA member Bobby Sands, and Arctic Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson.

      Braun, Norma M.T.

      In this interview, Dr. Thayaparan relates information about her childhood family and schooling in Sri Lanka, the stories of Dr. Tom Dooley, a medical volunteer in Africa, that were the inspiration for her to be a doctor, her reasons for immigrating to the U.S. and the development of her career here, and what led her focus on pathology. She also mentions information about her own family and dealing with childcare issues while working at the Hospital, and some of her post-retirement activities.

      Thayaparan, Rose
      US AA155.INT203 · File · February 20, 2018
      Part of St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center Alumni Association oral history collection

      In this interview, Dr. Lombardo talks about fulfilling his father’s dream of becoming a doctor, and his interest in being a clinician and a researcher. He shares memories of being influenced by several professors at New York Medical College and St. Luke’s into studying gastroenterology, and shares stories about practicing at St. Luke’s, but also learning points of cardiology from Dr. Miles Schwartz, with whom he shared private practice space. He talks about his family, and his decision to retire, and what keeps him occupied post-retirement. He and Dr. Braun commiserate on their opinion of the state of medical education and training today. Significant names mentioned include Drs. Jersey Glass, Peter du Ray, Mike Grieco, Miles Schwartz, Richard McCray, Peter Holt, William Athos, and Robert Beakman. Dr. Jeanne Baer is also in attendance and speaks up near the end of the interview.

      Lombardo, Robert
      US AA088.S011.INT200 · File · 2018-03-28
      Part of Mount Sinai Beth Israel records

      In this interview, Dr. Newman discusses his recruitment to Beth Israel by his predecessor Ray Trussell, MD; his relationship with the Board of Trustees; BI’s role in the AIDS crisis and addiction treatment; the acquisition of Doctors Hospital and Kings Highway Hospital; the establishment of a Japanese-language medical practice; the affiliation with St. Luke’s-Roosevelt and creation of Continuum Health Partners. Individuals discussed include: Ray Trussell, MD; Charles Silver; Harold Fierman; Milton Petrie; Donna Mildvan; Harold Trigg, MD; Vincent Dole, MD and Marie Nyswander, PhD; Morton Hyman.

      Webb, Nicholas

      In this interview, Bronx native Robert Della Rocca talks about his youth and educational experiences, his time serving in the Vietnam War, which interrupted his medical training, his various training experiences in oculoplastic and orbital surgery afterwards, and his experiences working at St. Luke’s Hospital (now Mount Sinai Morningside) as well as New York Eye and Ear Infirmary. He highlights his family habit of volunteering, with his nursing-trained wife accompanying him as he operated in 15 countries through Latin America, the Dominion Republic, and the Middle East and training over 90 international fellows in his sub-specialty of reconstructive surgery in some of those places in over 22 years of volunteering. Dr. Della Rocca mentions his children, several of whom are following in his medical and volunteering footsteps, and his grandchildren, and touches on the reasons he is so fond of St. Luke’s Hospital.

      Della Rocca, Robert C.

      Dr. Bernstein discusses his early training and developing interest in endocrinology, which was fostered by his Vietnam War service spent in NIH, where he worked in the endocrinology division. Following a fellowship year studying endocrinology he was recruited to St. Luke’s Hospital by Theodore B. Van Itallie, the former Chief of Medicine, who established first metabolic research lab in the country, to be the clinical director. He discusses various experiences and changes in medical practice; mentions his outside hobbies and interests and those of his family’s.

      Bernstein, Robert M., M.D.

      In this interview, Dr. Pierson discusses his family and their tradition of graduating from Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, the development of his professional career, his changing interests from internal medicine to the obesity research. He includes some details on his own family and hobbies. Significant names mentioned include: Ted Van Itallie, Xavier Pi-Sunyer, Don Berwick, and Johnny Schillinger, Nutrition Research Center, and the Emeritus Professors in Columbia group.

      Pierson, Richard N.

      Dr. Richard Gold relates stories of his work as a radiologist at various New York tri-state area hospitals, and how he found his way to Roosevelt Hospital (now Mount Sinai West). He also shares information on his children, changes in radiology technologies, his post-retirement work as an expert medical witness.

      Gold, Richard H.
      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

      Peter R. Holt, MD, is the physician responsible for establishing the Department of Gastroenterology at St. Luke’s Hospital, and served as its Chief from 1962-2000. In this interview he briefly mentions his childhood in Berlin, Germany and England during WWII, his decision to further his medical studies in the US, finding his way to St. Luke’s Hospital almost accidently. He discusses his fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, his early research, moving into gastroenterology, and his return to St. Luke’s. He touches on the general culture of St. Luke’s in the 1960s-1970s, for example encouraging nursing staff to join patient rounds, the hospital mergers under Continuum Health Partners, his eventual decision to leave St. Luke’s, and the positions he has held at the American Health Foundation, The Strang Cancer Prevention Center, and his current post at the Rockefeller University. He mentions interactions with the following colleagues: G. Jarvis Coffin, MD; Robert B. Case, MD; Richard N. Pierson, MD; John H. Keating, Sr., MD; Theodore B. VanItallie, MD; Kurt J. Isselbacher, MD; Charles A. Flood MD; Miles J. Schwartz, MD; Richard S. McCray, MD; David Chalfin, MD, PhD; Steven Mezey, MD; Stanley E. Bradley, MD; Norton Rosenzweig, MD; Steven Moss, MD; Albert Attia, MD; and Harry A. Roselle, MD.

      Braun, Norma M.T.

      Patricia Bloom discusses her early years in Minnesota, the roots of her interest in international community medicine; her medical education and meeting her husband, Harrison Bloom, in medical school; their joint interest in pursuing a social medicine program during residency; how she was introduced to geriatrics at Montefiore and then later was persuaded to move to St. Luke’s Hospital and help found their geriatrics program, and continue to develop her medical career. Dr. Bloom spends time discussing the challenges of raising children while working full time, international medical students in the U.S., and the challenges of medicine in Africa, particularly among the older population. She mentions a number of colleagues including David Hammerman, Gerard M. Turino, Michael Grieco, Greg Steinberg and Joel Barrish.

      Bloom, Patricia
      US AA155.INT218 · File · January 29, 2019
      Part of St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center Alumni Association oral history collection

      Dr. Romas is an urologist who worked at St. Luke’s Hospital from 1984 to 2014 before moving to Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. In this interview, he conveys information on his Greek background, his childhood life and schooling, medical training and as an administrator at St. Luke’s, as well as information about his family and personal interests. He also tells some interesting and funny experiences in practice.

      Romas, Nicholas A., 1936-

      Nancy Mary Panella, served as the medical librarian at St. Luke’s Hospital Center from 1970 to 2010, when she moved into the position of Archivist for the historical collections (2010-2016). In this interview she discusses her background and fields of study leading to a Doctorate in Library Services, her coming to work at St Luke's Hospital and her feelings about the Hospital. She relays several stories about interacting with staff, and mentions the development of the library, and particularly the historical collections, and being honored with being the first non-MD to be welcomed in to the Alumni Society of St. Luke's Hospital, and having the periodical room named in her honor.

      Braun, Norma M.T.
      US AA088.S011.INT190 · File · 2017-03-20
      Part of Mount Sinai Beth Israel records

      In this interview, Dr. Davidson discusses his career at Beth Israel Medical Center, including his time as a resident, his work as medical director of the Bernstein Institute, which administered Beth Israel’s pioneering methadone treatment program, and his service on the Medical Board. Other topics discussed include Beth Israel’s affiliation with the Hospital for Joint Diseases, a first responder program established after the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and a capitation practice established with a New York City trade union. Individuals discussed in depth include: Leon Ginzburg, MD; Arthur Fishberg, MD; Robert Newman, MD, MPH; Samuel Hausman; Louis Venet, MD; Ray Trussell, MD; Harold Trigg, MD.

      Davidson, Morton
      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