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      This interview is with Jane Lattes, wife of the late surgeon, Dr. Conrad Lattes, who relates stories about Conrad’s birth in Torino, Italy, and how he came to the U.S. with his father, Raffaele Lattes, who became head of surgical pathology for many years at Columbia, in either 1940 or 1941. She adds some additional information on Raffaele, and how his family were physicians going many years back. She then continues to tell the story of how she and Conrad met at Swarthmore College, how he choose a medical specialty and his early days at a physician and how his career progressed at St. Luke’s. She adds some facts about their children and her current life and husband.

      Lattes, Jane

      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.

      Pi-Sunyer, F. Xavier

      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.

      Kanick, Virginia
      US AA111.INT273 · File · 2020-08-06
      Part of "COVID Memories" oral history collection

      Victoria Adams, PharmD relates her experience working in the Pharmacy Department while interfacing with the Infectious Diseases Division at the Mount Sinai Hospital during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in spring 2020. She describes her daily work responsibilities, what the City was like during that time, and how she coped in her personal life.

      Adams, Victoria

      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.

      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

      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-

      Dr. Lawrence Scharer, a pulmonary specialist, discuss his life and career with Dr. Norma Braun. He describes his upbringing in the Bronx, his education at Columbia University and the College of Physicians and Surgeons and his career at Roosevelt Hospital (now Mount Sinai West). He also touches on his family life, and his time as a Captain in the Army Medical Corps, stationed in Seoul, S. Korea.

      Scharer, Lawrence L.

      Dr. Jeanne Baer describes her family’s background in Germany and France in the years leading up to World War II, their life evading German troops in France, and their move to the US in 1948. She discusses her schooling in Pennsylvania, and her acceptance and training experiences in medical school through her residency in medicine. She provides interesting details of training in the 1960s including fellowship training in gastroenterology and finally her appointment to the radiology department at St. Luke’s Hospital and the work she did there. Baer particularly mentions Dr. Virginia Kanick with whom she formed a close friendship and training in the 60s and 70s as a woman in what was a man’s field.

      Baer, Jeanne

      Dr. Barnard relates stories about his childhood background, how he moved from an engineering major to pre-med, and how he found his way to St. Luke’s Hospital (now Mount Sinai Morningside) for residency training. He mentions several attendings that influenced him, some of the fun that was had during training, and some of the more serious cases he worked with, the reasons behind his move to Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons for several years to conducted research before returning to St. Luke’s to practice. He also mentions his hobbies, family adventures, and the changes in medical practice that led to his decision to retire.

      Significant St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center names mentioned include Drs. William Clark, Mike Irwin, Theodore B. Van Itallie, Richard Pierson, A. Loomis Bell, C. Reddington [Rud] Barrett, Harvey Kemp, Michael Lesch, Ron Ablow,

      Barnard, J. Thomas