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This collection has two series. The first series is composed of files that were created as part of the research process for the writing of two books about the history of Mount Sinai: This House of Noble Deeds: Mount Sinai Hospital, 1852-2002 (NYU Press, 2002) and Teaching Tomorrow's Medicine Today: the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1963-2003 (NYU Press, 2005), both co-authored with Barbara J. Niss. This series includes a small collection of files relating to the contracts with New York University Press and the publication of the books and the research files themselves. Material that had been obtained from the collections of The Mount Sinai Archives has been removed as it can be found in its original form in the Archives.

The second series consists of general files created or received by Dr. Aufses over his later career after he stepped down from the Chairmanship of the Department of Surgery. This includes some files from his service as the Acting Chairman of the Health Policy Department from December 1, 2007 through September 2008 after Mark Chasson, MD left Mount Sinai.

A large series of scrapbooks, certificates, and plaques was received in July 2015. The certificates were removed from their frames for better storage. These are found in Oversize Box 1. Some items were discarded.

In this interview with Arthur H. Aufses, Jr. MD, Dr. Ezra Greenspan discusses his career and the early years of cancer chemotherapy in the United States, the formation of the Chemotherapy Foundation, and his vision of the future of chemotherapy. He mentions: George Baehr, MD, Isidore Snapper, MD, Babe Ruth’s treatment, Sidney Farber, MD, Walter Reed Hospital, the National Cancer Institute, and Alexander Gutman, MD.

This interview was conducted by Dr. Aufses as part of his research in writing a book on the hisory of Mount Sinai School of Medicine. It is a very focused interview regarding Dr. Katsoyannis' career, his research, the changes in biochemistry over time, as well as the changes to the Mount Sinai Dept. of Biochemistry.

This is a recording of the oral history of Robert Lazzarini, PhD conducted by Arthur J. Aufses Jr. on April 30th, 2003. Dr. Lazzarini begins the oral history commenting on his education and training. He then discusses his role at the Brookdale Center for Molecular Biology, including his implementation of common use equipment in the laboratories and the Brookdale Store and the revenue it created for the center, and the absorption of the Brookdale Center into the Biochemistry Department in 1998. Other significant topics in this oral history include: molecular biology and Dr. Lazzarini’s areas of research at the National Institution of Health and at Mount Sinai; the graduate school at Mount Sinai; his work with then Dean Ken Davis on space utilization and reallocation including the designing of the renovation for the Bronx VA lab space; and his thoughts on the future of the Mount Sinai institution.

This oral history interview with Robert Nabatoff, MD was conducted by Arthur Aufses, Jr., MD on January 14, 1998. Lily Leopold Saint, a research assistant, and Robert Litwak, MD, the former Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital, were also present.

The interview begins with Dr. Nabatoff discussing his undergraduate and medical education and his early career. Dr. Nabatoff performed some of the earliest major vascular and cardiac surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital. He discusses the development of portacaval shunts, local anesthesia through a mitral commissurotomy, and mitral valve operations.

He also discusses how he began to perform varicose vein surgery, of which he performed more than 8,000 during his career. He is credited with making the procedure an outpatient surgery after negotiating between Blue Cross and Mount Sinai. He also talks about his other professional accomplishments, including his extensive publications and the development of a number of novel vein strippers.

The interview also includes more personal topics, such as his world travels, his early childhood and family in Harlem, what drew him to Mount Sinai, and the rarity of Jewish doctors practicing surgery in the 1930s and 1940s. He also discusses Mount Sinai Hospital's strength in treating putrid lung abscesses during that time.

This is a recording of the oral history of Savio Woo, PhD conducted by Arthur J. Aufses, Jr on July 9th, 2003. Dr. Woo begins this oral history discussing his education, training, and research prior to coming to Mount Sinai, particularly focusing on his years of research on phenylketonuria mutation (PKU) and gene therapy. He discusses why he left Baylor University in Texas in favor of Mount Sinai after 23 years. He explains the history of the field of gene therapy and his predictions for the future of the field. He talks about the creation of the Institute of Gene Therapy and Molecular Medicine at Mount Sinai and the other investigators in his laboratory, including the newest recruits, and what work they each do. He discusses two trials he has done treating metastatic tumors with gene therapy. He talks of his wife and two children, especially his daughter’s move to New York City and how she has taken to the city well following law school. Dr. Woo ends the oral history by touching on the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the competitiveness among faculty to teach there.