Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hosts Seventh Annual SINAInnovations Festival and Third Health Hackathon
Conference to Take Place October 23-24, Preceded by the Mount Sinai Health Hackathon on October 19-21
The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is preparing to host its seventh annual SINAInnovations festival, focused this year on Innovations in Science and Medicine. Corresponding with the School’s 50th Anniversary, the conference will cast an eye on the future of biomedicine through the School’s leadership in interdisciplinary collaboration, innovation, and discovery.
SINAInnovations takes place Tuesday-Wednesday, October 23-24, preceded by the Mount Sinai Health Hackathon from Friday-Sunday, October 19-21. SINAInnovations will include keynote addresses from renowned thought leaders along with focused panel discussions among physicians representing the Mount Sinai Health System. The program will focus on four domains that reflect the institution’s past, current, and future strengths: Cell and Gene Engineering; The Arc of Innovation From Concept to Cure; Data-Driven Innovation That Is Transforming Medicine; and Caring for the Community Through the Lifespan.
“This year, SINAInnovations will explore innovations in science and the next frontier of patient care while reflecting on the rich history of scientific discovery at the Icahn School of Medicine, founded half a century ago,” says Scott L. Friedman, MD, Dean for Therapeutic Discovery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and director of the conference. A tribute to the School’s many scientific discoveries, from Tay-Sachs disease (1887) to “regional ileitis,” later known as Crohn’s disease (1932) to the development of a new influenza vaccine (2010) is available online.
A deep dive into rare diseases will be the focus of this year’s Mount Sinai Health Hackathon, an exciting 48-hour multidisciplinary competition focused on creating novel technology solutions for problems in health care, held in conjunction with the festival. More than 7,000 rare diseases have been identified, affecting 300 million people. The Hackathon will emphasize rare diseases in the belief that there is a compelling need to advance the outlook of patients with these diseases and to find novel technology solutions to address their needs. Details about the Health Hackathon are available online.
“We’re thrilled with the high caliber of physicians and scientists from within the Mount Sinai Health System and elsewhere who will convene to exchange ideas, celebrate the Icahn School of Medicine’s extraordinary contributions and innovations, and, ultimately, explore the future of science,” says Dennis S. Charney, MD, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and President for Academic Affairs, Mount Sinai Health System.
For more information about SINAInnovations, please visit the Icahn School of Medicine website. To register for the event, please visit the following link.
Notable speakers at this year’s SINAInnovations include the following:
Tuesday, October 23:
Charles Murry, Director, Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, University of Washington, who will give a keynote address on regenerating the heart
Katherine A. High, President, Spark Therapeutics, whose keynote will focus on the future of cell and gene engineering
Raymond Schinazi, Frances Winship Walters Professor, Department of Pediatrics, and Director, Center for AIDS Research, Emory University School of Medicine, whose keynote will focus on Disruptive Discoveries for HIV, HCV & HBV Infections
Tom Maniatis, Scientific Director/CEO, New York Genome Center, and Professor of Biochemistry, Columbia University, whose keynote will focus onHow the Clustered Protocadherins Provide a Single-Cell Identity Code Required for Neural Circuit Assembly
Wednesday, October 24:
Eric Dishman, Director, All of Us Research Program, National Institutes of Health, whose keynote will focus on Accelerating Precision Health for All: The All of Us Research Program
Sri Madabushi, Business Development Director, Google AI Healthcare, whose keynote will focus on Data Driven Innovation that is Transforming Medicine
David Blumenthal, President, The Commonwealth Fund, whose keynote will focus on “Caring for the Community Through the Lifespan”
Kelly J. Kelleher, Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, Psychiatry and Public Health, Nationwide Children's Hospital, whose keynote will focus on Caring For or Caring By the Healthy Community
About the Mount Sinai Health System
Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, over 400 outpatient practices, nearly 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it.
Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,300 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties.
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