• Press Release

Team RMTI Walks to Fight Liver Disease

Participants raise nearly $4,000 in annual event

  • New York, NY
  • (July 15, 2011)

On June 5, 2011 a team from the Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute (RMTI) of The Mount Sinai Medical Center participated in the American Liver Foundation’s annual Liver Life Walk in New York City. This year, Team RMTI was comprised of more than 30 walkers who combined to raise almost $4,000—the sixth highest total out of the 47 registered teams! The walk took place in scenic Battery Park, located near the southern tip of Manhattan.

The sponsor of the walk, the American Liver Foundation (ALF), was founded in 1976 and is the nation’s leading nonprofit organization devoted to promoting liver health and disease management. It maintains an ultimate goal of a world without liver disease and pursues that end through a number of different pathways. These include research to improve treatment and discover cures, education to detect liver disease early—and in some cases prevent it altogether, and advocacy on the behalf of patients and their families.

All of the ALF’s pursuits benefit significantly from the money that is raised by the Liver Life Walk. The Walk is the ALF’s largest annual fundraising event. It achieves a national scale, with more than 25 cities hosting a walk in 2011 and nearly 20,000 people participating. The Liver Life Walk’s motto—Walk for Fun…Walk for Life!—is certainly an appropriate description for what walkers do across the country in support of the nearly 30 million Americans living with liver disease.

While those interested in participating in the Liver Life Walk in New York City will have to wait until next year to do so, Team RMTI will be participating in a similar event in the more immediate future—the National Kidney Foundation’s annual Kidney Walk in New York City. The event aims to raise money in support of those living with kidney disease, and will take place on October 16, 2011 at South Street Seaport in Manhattan. Team RMTI welcomes involvement in any and all forms, be it by walking or making a modest donation. More information about the Kidney Walk can be obtained by visiting TeamRMTI - NKF Walk2011.

 

About the Mount Sinai Health System

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.

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