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US AA155.INT214 · File · October 25, 2018
Part of St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center Alumni Association oral history collection

During this interview Dr. Prigollini talks about his educational background in Argentina and his reasons for coming the US; he relates stories about his work in a diabetes study at Columbia and how he found his way to St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center and his work there.

Braun, Norma M.T.

In this interview, Dr. Allan Geliebter discusses his research in obesity and eating disorders, and the development of the obesity center programs at Mount Sinai Morningside (formerly St. Luke’s Hospital). He also mentions his family background (he was born in Frankfurt, Germany. His parents were Nazi concentration camp survivors and they met in the displaced persons camps. The family immigrated to New York City when he was age 2). He also touches on his teaching experience at Lehman College in the Bronx, Columbia, and Touro College.

Geliebter, Abraham Allan, 1947-

In this interview Amy Rabbit relates stories of her experiences at the St. Luke's Hospital School of Nursing in the early 1970s and then working as a floating nurse in various wards at St. Luke's Hospital. She shares particular stories of patient interactions on the Geriatric Psych unit, caring for AIDS patients, working with various staff, and changes over time in the way nursing is carried out. She also shares stories about her parents, her husband and son, and her hobbies in retirement.

Rabbit, Amy
US AA155.INT213 · File · November 13, 2018
Part of St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center Alumni Association oral history collection

In this interview, Dr. Palazzo relates stories of her internship, residency and fellowship experiences, the mentors she had and how she became interested in cardiology and into clinical research. She and Dr. Braun also talk about women in medicine and her family and outside interests.

Palazzo, Angela

In this interview, Barbara Dennis describes what life was like as a student nurse at The St. Luke’s Hospital School of Nursing in the late 1950s, working on the Hospital floors, the demands of the schedule, what kind of a social life they had within the Hospital and outside of it. She talks about the School of Nursing pin, the caps and uniforms they wore and some of the traditions in which they participated. She also mentions the Nursing Visitor Exchange Program, how she met her husband at the hospital, and then how her career at St. Luke’s and afterwards developed.

Dennis, Barbara Edwards

In this interview Dr. Carl Braun relates more details of his small-town New Jersey upbringing, his summer jobs picking berries or working for a burial vault company, and his relationship with character of his father and mother. He reviews his choices for college, his time at second-choice Harvard, where his aptitude tests showed negatively for science, yet he was pre-med, and worked very hard in those class. He majored in political theory, and discusses some of his non-science based classes. He tells many stories about hospital life, his time as resident (includes details on salaries, at that time), interacting with colleagues, and adventures working at various hospitals in Harlem and in the Bronx.

Braun, Carl

In this interview Dr. Wiener describes his varied educational background and medical training, how he came to St. Luke’s Hospital (as of 2020 Mount Sinai Morningside) and then became interested in Emergency Medicine while training in Internal Medicine/Cardiology. He shares memories of 9/11/01, Hurricane Sandy, the supposed Ebola patient scare, the anthrax scare, and the 2009 US Airways Flight 1549 that ditched in the Hudson River in after both engines were disabled by a bird strike. He considers the changes in the character and nature of emergency medicine over time and how it has grown and changed, and commiserates with Dr. Braun over changes in the way medicine is done and the way it is taught now verses when they were training.

Weiner, Dan

Belgium-born Daniel M. Thys, MD relates stories including his high school studies and what drew him to medicine and away from engineering, his time in the Belgium Navy, how he was introduced to anesthesiologists, and why he came to the U.S. and restated his training at Mount Sinai in 1976, how he went to Columbia Presbyterian for a cardiac fellowship then moved to St. Luke’s-Roosevelt, eventually becoming Director of the Cardiac Anesthesia program at Mount Sinai. He makes some observations about the merger of St. Luke’s and Roosevelt Hospitals, the disposition of the School of Nurse Anesthesia, what he does in his downtime and professional associations he belongs to, and his experiences writing a text book.

Braun, Norma M.T.

In this engaging interview, Dr. Lorieo describes episodes from his childhood, how he found his way to medicine, and surgery, how he was Influenced and mentored by Drs. Peter Bossart, Hugh Fitzpatrick, Bob Miller, Conrad Lattes, and his interest and involvement in setting up the kidney transplant program. He relates several colorful stories about being on the medical team for the Yankees, Madison Square Garden and the Metropolitan Opera, and the perks of working at these locations, (meeting Muhammad Ali, Clyde Frazier, playing basketball with Marv Albert, etc.).

Of interest is Dr. Lorie’s personal critique of the development of medicine from the 1960s to current practices and sub-specialties. He also briefly touches on how that has effected St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center.

He also talks about his wife, Jackie, an occupational therapist and a sculptor, and mentions some of the museums that display her artwork, and his two sons and their lives, his life-long model train hobby and his sports interests, as a young boy and more currently, and what activities he will be investing in after his retirement in 2020.

Lorieo, Danne
US AA155.INT217 · File · February 27, 2018
Part of St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center Alumni Association oral history collection

David G. Wolinsky, currently section head of nuclear cardiology and medical director of cardiac rehabilitation at the Cleveland Clinic Florida, trained and practiced at St. Luke’s Hospital (now MSM) from 1978 until 1989. In this interview he relates many stories of his work experiences and patients and his feelings about working there, and how his career developed as he moved onto other work sites. He and interviewer, Dr. Norma Braun, discuss the state of medical education and what they feel is lacking in it. They reminisce over the many old friends they hold in common.

Wolinsky, David

In this interview Dr. Allendorf talks about how he became interested in pediatrics, and shares stories about his experiences working at St. Luke’s Hospital (Mount Sinai Morningside), and some of the significant people that influenced him and worked with him. Some of those names include: Leif Holgersen, Richard Stark, Lucy Swift, Sidney Bender, Miles Schwartz, Lou Cooper, Leo Wilking, John Driscoll, and Marilyn Menegus. Significant topics include residents’ skits lampooning the attending staff, Roosevelt Hospital library, Babies Hospital.

Allendorf, Dennis

In this interview Dr. Kotler talks about his childhood influences and interest in medicine, his schooling and his desire to not be a only a scientist but an academic physician; his early research that became heavily HIV-based and experiences around that research and patient care; he also touches on the subjects of changes in medical practice and equipment; writing grants and journal articles and those challenges, and comments on the changing names of Mount Sinai Health System hospitals. He mentions the following names: Drs. Russ Gaetz, Bill Ramey, John Scholes, Fred Clayton, Mike Lange, Yori Inada, Michael Greico, Michael Lange, Peter Holt, Mary O’Sullivan, Joe Sonnabend, Richard Pierson, Steve Heymsfield, Jack Wang, Anthony S. Fauci, Sami Hashem, Jan Orenstein, John H. Keating, Ted Van Itallie, Carl Hoffman, Jim Fingerhut, and George Cahill.

Kotler, Donald P.
US AA155.INT185 · File · August 29, 2017
Part of St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center Alumni Association oral history collection

In an interview with cardiologist Edward Dwyer, MD, he describes his attraction to medicine as a youngster after listening to a weekly science program on the radio; his decision to attend Columbia University on a baseball scholarship, and staying at Colombia for medical school (College of Physicians and Surgeons class of ’57); changes in science and medical practice between the 1950s and 1960s, and the merger between Roosevelt and St. Luke’s Hospitals in 1979, as well as other details of his medical career and life.

Dwyer, Edward M., 1936-

Dr. Ennio Gallozzi, an anesthesiologist who was born, raised, and trained in Rome, Italy, discusses his life, and how he came to study in the US and continue training at St. Luke’s as a resident in anesthesiology, eventually spending 44 years at the hospital. He mentions life growing up under Mussolini, and the devastation WWII wrought on Rome, and includes stories about colleagues and family life.

Gallozzi, Ennio
US AA155.INT187 · File · October 17, 2017
Part of St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center Alumni Association oral history collection

During this interview with Dr. Shahrivar, he touches on his childhood, his love of basketball and being on the State team, his medical training in Iran, and moving to the U.S. to continue in rotating internship between pediatric, medicine, and surgery. He describes how his interests in obstetrics quickly moved to neonatology when he was drawn to premature babies that didn’t do well. He relates his experiences working in neonatology and the development of the field, including the establishment of board examinations, setting up a fellowship program at St. Luke’s, community response to focusing the NICU program at the former Roosevelt Hospital. He touches on being a consultant Department of Health of the State and the City of New York, and becoming involved with alcohol addiction, fetal alcohol syndrome and drug addiction. Significant names or topics mentioned include: Drs. Lucy Swift, Stuart Shelton Stevenson, Judy Frank, Tom Moore, Stanley James, Dick Berman, Waldo E. Nelson, Doris Wethers, and Bob Neuwirth; field day activities, St. Luke’s Alumni Association.

Braun, Norma M.T.

In this oral history interview, native New Yorker George Dermksian touches on his childhood background, college and medical training and continued training under Dr. John Keating at St. Luke’s Hospital. That was a time of significant changes in the hospital training program and the healthcare insurance industry and he has some interesting observations about both. He also provides some interesting background details on everyday life at the hospital, and about how he came to choose cardiology as a specialty.

Dermksian, George

Dr. George E. Green is an innovator in the application of micro-suture techniques to coronary artery surgery. He is also the first American surgeon to perform a left coronary artery bypass graft using the internal thoracic artery sutured to the left anterior descending coronary artery to bypass obstruction to the heart circulation. He developed these techniques in 1968, and in 1970 brought them to St. Luke’s Hospital to establish a cardiac surgery program that by 1982 was seeing approximately 1,800 cases a year - the biggest program in the state.

Green, George E.

In this interview, Dr. Todd touches on his medical school experiences, including time at the NIH as a medical student; how he eventually gravitated to vascular surgery from cardiac surgery; describes what St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center was like, even 21 years after the merger of the two hospitals, and mentions the Vietnam War draft, family life, and changes in surgery between the 1960s to current day, including changes in procedures and equipment. Significant names mentioned include: Drs. Richard Marx, Walter Wichern, Sigurd Ackerman, David Tilson, Andrew Morrow, Kathy McNicholas, Grace Kim, Ann Rogers, Jim McGinty; The Cleveland Clinic, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Roosevelt Hospital, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center.

Todd, George