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The interview topics include Dr. Turino’s childhood, college and medical school years, and the research he did after medical school (Class of 1948), in particular, his Korean War service working at the National Research Council where his team created Dextran, a substitute for plasma. He describes his fellowship experiences that started in a cardiopulmonary laboratory, to focus on cardio function, but led to studying lung function. Significant mentions include a fellowship with the NY Heart Association, and his time as an investigator for the City of New York. A collaboration with Ines Mandl, PhD, whose special interest is the elastic tissue of the body, led to investigating mechanisms of lung injury, and this lead to studying alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, and desmosine and isodesmosine as biomarkers in COPD.

Dr. Turino relates how he established the James P. Mara Center for Lung Disease, how he became the first John H. Keating Professor of Medicine at the St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center (SLR), and his efforts to make SLR a top tier research hospital. He discusses several of the outstanding researchers he recruited to SLR, and his work with several professional organizations. Of particular interest are his accounts of fund raising with American Lung Association and his involvement with the start of promoting asthma research, as well as his current clinical trials with the hyaluronan as a potential therapy for alpha-1 antitrypsin patients.

He touches on family life, wife and children, and their directions in life early in the interview and his recreational choices later in the conversation. Dr. Braun asks his opinion on the merger of St. Luke’s and Roosevelt Hospitals, and his vision for the future of medical science.

Significant names or topics mentioned in the interview include: Dr. André Frédéric Cournand; Dr. Dickinson W. Richard; Alfred Fishman; Karl Meyer, MD, PhD; Ines Mandl, PhD; James P. Mara Center for Lung Disease; Jahar Bhattacharya MD, DPhil; Alan Rozanski, MD; David J. Volsky, PhD; Seymour Lieberman; Yong Y. Lin, PhD; AIDS/HIV; American Thoracic Society; Shuren Ma, PhD; hyaluronan; hyaluronic acid; Jerome Cantor; Matrix Therapeutics; Medical Science Institute; Dr. Arthur J. Antenucci.

Dr. Weiss offers insight into his career choices and development and includes some interesting stories from is experiences, background on the development of the Department of Medicine at Roosevelt Hospital, and experiences in his research.

In this interview, Dr. Hassan Khouli discusses his childhood in Syria, and immigration to the U.S. circa 1998 to continue to study medicine and develop his skills through several fellowships, which eventually brought him to Mount Sinai St. Luke’s. He discusses the various stages of study and the development of his interest in critical care and simulation medicine, as well as working at St. Luke’s, and more personal topics such as his family and hobbies.

This is an interview with former Trustees Helen Roosevelt and her son Andrew E. Roosevelt, relatives of Roosevelt Hospital founder James H. Roosevelt. Helen Roosevelt speaks about her childhood and of her volunteer work at the Hospital, recounting several stories including hosting staff holiday parties, her children's relationship with the Hospital, acquaintances there and other highlights. Andrew Roosevelt describes his experiences at the Hospital including events during the September 11th attacks, moving the burial site of James H. Roosevelt from Hospital grounds to the family plot in the New York Marble Cemetery, and stories of Yoko Ono at the Hospital after John Lennon's murder.

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,

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.

In this interview Ms. Leonardini talks a bit about her background growing up in Greenwich Village, her family background, work background and developing interest in hospital administration and experiences working in the field and finally in St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center. She mentions some of the challenges of working in the field (hospital closures, dealing with homeless issues, AIDS), and what she hopes to do in retirement.

Judith L. Axelrod, MD is on the staff of the Division of Infectious Diseases of Department of Medicine at St. Luke’s Hospital. She speaks about her early influences, her training, professional relationships, her experience as a woman working in medicine in the 1970s through the 2000s, and how her work meshed with her family life. Dr. Axelrod also discusses the beginnings of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. During her interview, Dr. Axelrod speaks about Donna Mildvan, MD, Arthur Ashe, John Hutchinson, MD, Solomon A. Berson, MD, Theodore B. VanItallie, MD, Michael H. Grieco, MD., Jeanne Baer, MD, Airlie Cameron, MD, and Sami A. Hashim, MD.

In this interview, Laurence Huntington, who worked in finance for 40 years, describes his early years and schooling, his military service (Coast Guard) and what drew him into each of his three terms as Chairman of the Board of St. Luke’s Hospital, including dealing with demonstrators in the late 1960s, handling the merger of St. Luke’s and Roosevelt Hospitals, the formation of the Continuum Health Partners, Inc. group in the 1990s, and the unwinding of the relationship with the Long Island College Hospital (LICH). He goes on to describe his later work with the World Wildlife Fund and Woods Hole Research Center, expressing some opinions about climate issues, and concludes discussing his family’s love of sailing, and his work with the South Street Seaport.

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.

Dr. Linda Lewis, a neurologist at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center discusses her life, educational choices, and career, as well as her husband’s, Gary Gambuti. Dr. Lewis trained at St. Luke's Hospital Center where she was first female president of the house staff and where she met and later married the late Mr. Gambuti, who was in leadership roles at Roosevelt Hospital from the 1960s, serving as President of St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center between 1979 and 1996 when he retired.

Mark Collazo, born on Long Island but raised in Spain, talks about returning to NYC, how he came to work at St. Luke’s Hospital (now Mount Sinai Morningside) through volunteering first in the Respiratory Care Department moving the large oxygen cylinders, how he was hired for his first position at St. Luke’s, in the food services, and how he worked his way back to the Respiratory Care area. He mentions his educational history and goals, some of the doctors he has worked with or were encouraged by, relates some of his experiences with patients and shares his philosophy of working with respiratory care and giving the patients what they want, and the reasons he wishes to stay at St. Luke’s, despite other offers.

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.

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.

In part one of a two-part interview, Dr. Braun recounts her childhood in Shanghai, China during the third Japanese invasion, before the World War II. She discusses her family's struggles to escape the war, her father and grandfather's relationship with the U.S.; her grandfather's various diplomatic roles for China and the Kuomintang; her parents' meeting in the US (her mother is from Poland) and their lives after marriage.

In this second interview with Dr. Braun we clarify and elaborate on family history (one of the first Christian families in China) and Chinese family names; describe how her mother supported the family; moving the U.S.; starting school at age 10 in China and school experiences, good and bad, in the U.S. for her and siblings; getting into college and then medical school (Temple University); standing up to prejudices and the overt sexism of the early 1960s; switching to Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons on scholarship through an unexpected China contact; internship and residency at Bellevue and her developing medical career at Harlem Hospital, introduction to St. Luke’s and working with Drs. A. Loomis Bell, and Gerard M. Turino; choosing a specialty; meeting her future husband (neurologist Carl Braun, MD) and their relationship developments between NY and PA and their extended family responses; her children and grandchildren and the difficulties of being a working mother.

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.

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.

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.

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.