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These files represent an almost complete official record of the Clinical Excellence Committee, the Task Forces, and their subcommittees. The minutes are complete, with only one exception. There are few interim reports or correspondence among the coordinators, the chairmen of the committees, and members. The final report is contained in Box 2, folder 1.

Some of the minutes have notes made by Dr. Thomas Chalmers, President and Dean of The Mount Sinai Medical Center and School of Medicine. The files probably came from that office, although, aside from these few notes, they are generic.

Memos, minutes, and correspondence regarding the meetings, members, and projects of the Mount Sinai Medical Center Community Board. Includes memos from Marjorie Pleshette on meetings of the Community Board. Memos also address the acquisition of 58-62 East 98th Street, the current site of the Jane B. Aron Residence Hall, and proposed facilities and floor plan for a dormitory. Correspondence includes letters from Samuel Davis to Blorneva Selby, Acting Chairman of the Community Board, regarding his June 1982 resignation from the Community Board and designation of Dr. Helen Rehr as his representative to the Community Board. Includes minutes of the Project Review Committee regarding a proposal submitted by Dr. Nathan Kase for "Renovation and Modernization of Labor and Delivery/Perinatology Suites."

The ceremony celebrates the dedication of the Dr. Lucy G. Moses Cardiothoracic Center on the 8th floor of the new Annenberg Building. The event was led by Mr. Gustave L. Levy, Chairman of the Boards of Trustees at Mount Sinai. The Speakers were: Mr. Levy; Frederick P. Rose, Mount Sinai Trustee, and then President of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies; Thomas C. Chalmers, MD, President of The Mount Sinai Medical Center, and President and Dean of Mount Sinai School of Medicine; S. David Pomrinse, MD, Director of The Mount Sinai Hospital; Dr. Lucy Moses; and Robert S. Litwak, MD, Chief of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery. The invited speaker was Norman Shumway, MD, then Professor and Chairman of the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at Stanford University. He provides a brief history of cardiac surgery.

Speakers are: Gustave Levy, Master of Ceremonies, Frederick Rose, Alfred Stern, Drs. Thomas Chalmers, S. David Pomrinse, Lucy G. Moses, Robert S. Litwak. Keynote address given by Dr. Norman Shumway on the history of cardiac surgery.

This is a recording of the investiture of Ms. Doris Siegel as the first Edith J. Baerwald Professor of Community Medicine (Social Work) on October 24, 1969. Edith J. Baerwald became a member of the Social Services Auxiliary (Women’s Auxiliary Board) in 1916, and served on it for more than thirty years.

Dr. Herman D. Stein, the Provost of Case Western Reserve University, delivered the main address. In his address, he discussed professional education curriculum and changes occurring as professions reevaluate their ethical and moral responsibilities. He charted changes that social work had implemented in medical education and practice.

Additional speakers at the ceremony include: Dean George James, Gustave Levy, Chair of the Board of Trustees; Mr. Alfred Stern, Chaiman of the School of Medicine Fund; Dr. David S. Pomrinse, Director of the Mount Sinai Hospital; Mrs. Jane Aron, Dr. Julius C. C. Edelstein, Dr. Kurt Deushle, Chairman of the Department of Community Medicine and Lavenberg Professor of Community Medicine; and Doris Siegel.

This is a recording of the investiture ceremony of Irving L. Schwartz, MD (1918-2011) as the first Dr. Harold and Golden Lamport Distinguished Service Professor, Physiology and Biophysics, at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Speakers at the event were: Thomas C. Chalmers, MD, Dean and President of Mount Sinai; Alfred Stern, President of the Mount Sinai Boards of Trustees; Anthony Lamport, son of Dr. Harold and Golden Lamport; and Irving Schwartz, MD. The invited speaker was Vincent P. Dole, MD.

Dr. Schwartz served as the Founding Dean of the Mount Sinai Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences as well as the Chairman of the Department of Physiology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He is becoming a Distinguished Service Professor as he steps down from the Dean and Chairman roles and returns to the laboratory full-time. In the recording, he discusses his relationship with Harold Lamport and their views of what graduate education should be. Dr. Schwartz also touches on how medical and graduate medical science programs should coexist in one school.

Vincent P. Dole, MD, talks about the importance of having a creative mind and how the current funding mechanisms work against creativity in science.

This is a recording of the investiture of Dr. Kurt Hirschhorn as the first Arthur J. and Nellie Z. Cohen Professor of Pediatrics in Genetics of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 1968. Nellie Z. Cohen had been a member of the Mount Sinai Hospital Board of Trustees for thirty years at the time of this ceremony and was the Secretary of the Board of Trustees for the Department of Pediatrics.

Dr. Alexander Bearn was the principal speaker and delivered his address, “The Relevance of Genetics to Human Disease.” Dr. Bearn was a Professor and the Chairman of the Department of Medicine of Cornell University Medical College, the Physician-in-Chief of the New York Hospital, and a Visiting Professor at Rockefeller University Hospital.

Additional speakers at the ceremony include: Dr. George James, Dean of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Mr. Gustave L. Levy, the President of The Mount Sinai Hospital Board of Trustees and the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Medical School; Mr. Alfred Stern, a member of both the Hospital and Medical School Board of Trustees; Dr. Martin Steinberg, Director of Mount Sinai Hospital (1948-1969); Dr. Horace Hodes, chairman of the Mount Sinai Department of Pediatrics; Mrs. Nellie Z. Cohen, President Steinbach, and Dr. Kurt Hirschhorn.

This is a recording of the investiture ceremony that inaugurated Dr. M. Ralph Kaufman as the first Esther and Joseph Klingenstein Professor of Psychiatry on April 22, 1968, five months before the Mount Sinai Medical School opened in September 1968. Mr. Klingenstein, delivering a speech on behalf of himself and Mrs. Klingenstein, recalled interviewing Dr. Kaufman for his first position at Mount Sinai Hospital and praised his work advocating for a separate psychiatric facility, the Klingenstein Clinical Center.

Dr. Lawrence Kolb, Professor of Psychiatry and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, delivered an address charting the history of psychiatry. Additional speakers during the ceremony included: George James, Dean of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Mr. Gustave L. Levy, the President of The Mount Sinai Hospital Board of Trustees and the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Medical School; Mr. Alfred Stern, a member of both the Hospital and Medical School Board of Trustees; Dr. Martin Steinberg, Director of Mount Sinai Hospital (1948-1969); President Steinbach, and Dr. Kaufman. The speakers largely highlighted aspects of Dr. Kaufman’s career, particularly the creation of a separate psychiatric facility, the Klingenstein Clinical Center.

Correspondence and notes between the New York Hospital, Montefiore, St. Vincent Hospital, and Mount Sinai Hospital related to a proposal to the New York Office of Health Systems Management regarding a reimbursement experiment with Blue Cross and Blue Shield. Includes minutes of the Blue Cross Reimbursement Experiment meeting, reprints of articles on hospital financing and medical costs, and a letter from Chairman of the Boards of Trustees Alfred R. Stern to Senator Jacob K. Javits.

This is a sound recording of a memorial service held for Gustave L. Levy, who died on November 3, 1976. Levy was Chairman of the Mount Sinai Boards of Trustees from 1962-1976. This service was held at the Stern Auditorium in the Annenberg Building at Mount Sinai School of Medicine on January 10, 1977. The speakers are: Thomas C. Chalmers, MD, President/Dean of Mount Sinai; Sheldon R. Coons, Mount Sinai Trustee; Senator Jacob Javits, Senator from New York; Hans Popper, MD, PhD, former Chairman of Pathology and the first Gustave L. Levy Distinguished Service Professor of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine; S. David Pomrinse, MD, Executive Vice President of the Medical Center and former Director of The Mount Sinai Hospital; Hugh Biller, MD, Chairman of the Department of Otolaryngology of the School and of the Hospital; Alfred Stern, Vice President of the Boards of Trustees and Chairman of the Development Committee of the Boards. The Odyssey House Choir performs two selections.