This small collection spans the career of Dr. Garlock: from medical school material, to ambulance duty logs from his internship at New York Hospital, photographs and some case reports on plastic surgery patients, private practice patient records, Operative Clinic presentations he made as Chief of Surgical Service at Mount Sinai, to the book on surgery of the alimentary tract that was published after his death.
While the range is wide, the records still only provide a surface picture of the man. The detailed notes and sometimes colorful drawings that Dr. Garlock created in medical school speak to his attention to detail. The early volumes are labeled "John Harry Garlock." He also noted a change of address on the notebooks from 346 W. 56th Street to 180 Claremont Avenue. This move happened during his medical school years.
His surgical acumen and style are brought out in the patient files and transcripts of the surgical clinics. The latter also give a glimpse into early plastic surgery at New York Hospital and The Mount Sinai Hospital. It was Dr. Garlock who helped establish plastic surgery as a surgical specialty here. The clinics were ended in January of 1943 for the duration of the War because there was a problem obtaining a sufficient number of orderlies.
Also instructive for insights into Dr. Garlock are the correspondence files, one with colleagues (Box 1, f.6) and the other with patients (Box 2, f.6). The ambulance log books in Box 1 show Dr. Garlock's keen eye for his surroundings and provide wonderful details on the people he treated and the treatments of the day.
Of note, too, is a series of letters Dr. William Hitzig wrote on behalf of Dr. Garlock when the latter was planning a trip to India. Dr. Hitzig had many connections there and wrote letters of introduction for the Garlocks. There is also a series of letters regarding a controversy between Drs. Sigmund Mage and Richard Lewisohn. (Box 1, f.9)
The patient records found here are only a portion of the files maintained by Dr. Garlock at his office. At his death, the records were divided among Dr. Garlock's junior colleagues. Many of those included here are the records of ileostomy and colostomy patients that were taken by Dr. Albert S. Lyons.
This collection contains some photographs, many of which are large and mounted. Thirteen posed publicity photos of unknown musicians and dancers were removed and sent to the Lincoln Center Archives for inclusion in their collections.

The Lita Annenberg Hazen Award and Fellowship Grant was established in 1978 to encourage and reward excellence in clinical research. It was created from a gift from Lita A. Hazen (1909 - 1994). Mrs. Hazen was a philanthropist and Mount Sinai trustee whose family was involved with Mount Sinai since the founding of the School of Medicine. The $100,000 award was presented annually to a physician and a research fellow to use in the continuation of their investigative work. The award lost Hazen sponsorship and was terminated in 1987. Between the years of 1978 - 1987, thirteen doctors (listed below) received the $100,000 prize, which was shared equally with the research fellow of their choice. The winners were: Jesse Roth - 1979; Henry G. Kunkel - 1980; Aaron B. Lerner - 1981; Michael S. Brown and Joseph L. Goldstein - 1982; Robert J. Lefkowitz - 1983; Yuet Wai Kan - 1984; Hugh O'Neill McDevitt - 1985; and Jean D. Wilson - 1986.
The Hazen Award drew nominations for doctors from various medical specialties around the world. The award attracted noteworthy candidates with distinguished careers in clinical research. Two Hazen Award winners, Drs. Michael S. Brown and Joseph L. Goldstein, went on to jointly win the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1985 "for their discoveries concerning the regulation of cholesterol metabolism."
Award winners were determined by evaluation by an Award Committee, which judged each nominee's work based on scientific significance and peer determined quality of research. The Award Committee was comprised of physicians representing various medical specialties. The members met semi-annually to discuss, score and rank nominees to determine the winner. Members were volunteers, typically appointed for three-year terms. Winners received their prize at a presentation event held in New York City with a symposium at Mount Sinai.
The Appointment Committee was comprised of physician volunteers who met semi-annually to identify physicians to invite to participate on the Award Committee. Candidates for the Award Committee were selected based upon their expertise in a particular medical specialty. There was one permanent staff member, Myrna Turkewitz.
The Administrative series contains documents pertaining to the various aspects of planning the awards events. This includes documentation of the Award and Appointment Committees' activities, memos and letters to the committee members, and event planning.
The Award Recipient series contains information about the winners. This includes nomination forms, supporting documents and correspondence between the winners and Mount Sinai administrators. This series also includes the winners' published peer-reviewed journal articles and research updates.
One strength of this collection is the descriptions of systems-based practice in clinical research, article clippings about and by the award winners. The administrative records also provide somewhat of a blueprint for launching and executing a major awards event.
The collection includes audio cassette recordings of the 1979, 1980, 1985 and 1986 award events. These cassettes have been added to the Mount Sinai Archives AV Collection and digitized to make them available for use. Note: the first of the two 1979 cassettes is physically damaged and could not be digitized.

This is a hybrid electronic and paper collection. The series contains the multi-volume application material that was put together by The Mount Sinai Hospital Department of Nursing for the American Nurses Credentialing Center reviewers for their visits from 2004, 2009, 2014, and 2018.

Medical Leaves is "dedicated to a study of Jewish medical history and contemporary Jewish medical problems" (from Foreword). Includes a chapter by I. W. Held, MD and Nathan Ratnoff, MD titled "The Problem of the Medical Refugee in the United States."