• Press Release

RMTI Walkers Raise Funds for Liver Disease

$4,000 will go to research, education and advocacy

  • New York, NY
  • (June 06, 2010)

Team Mount Sinai/RMTI joined forces with the American Liver Foundation to participate in the annual Liver Life Walk. Mount Sinai had more than 40 walkers and raised over $4,000 to help raise awareness and end the devastating effects of liver disease.

The American Liver Foundation is the nation’s leading nonprofit organization promoting liver health and disease prevention. The foundation provides research, education and advocacy for those affected by liver-related diseases, including hepatitis.

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The Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute at The Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City brings together world-renowned transplant surgeons, physicians, and other health care professionals to support patients throughout the transplant process. Our surgeons perform heart, lung, liver, kidney, pancreas, and small intestine transplants, as well as living-donor kidney and liver transplants.

For general inquiries on organ transplantation, please contact the Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute at 212-659-8027.


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Mount Sinai Health System is one of the nation’s leading integrated academic health systems and one of the largest in the New York metropolitan area. Its comprehensive system includes seven hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, over 600 research and clinical laboratories, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, and the Mount Sinai Phillips School of Nursing. Together, the Health System comprises approximately 48,000 employees, more than 9,000 physicians, and 8,600 nurses.

As a leading learning health system, Mount Sinai combines clinical expertise with scientific discovery to improve patient care while training the next generation of health care and biomedical leaders. The Health System provides care across every stage of life, from prenatal care through geriatrics, while advancing personalized medicine through artificial intelligence, data science, and biomedical research.

Mount Sinai is consistently recognized among the nation’s leading academic health systems for patient care, research, and education. The Mount Sinai Hospital is ranked No. 1 in New York by Newsweek® and No. 7 in the U.S. on the magazine’s 2026 World’s Best Hospitals list and No. 3 in the world in its World’s Best Smart Hospitals list. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ranks No. 9 among U.S. medical schools and No. 1 among freestanding medical schools for National Institutes of Health grant funding, reflecting the strength of its scientific enterprise and leadership in biomedical research.