ISMMS Faculty Selected for Inaugural Class of Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellow
Ann-Gel Palermo, MPH, DrPH, of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai was named a 2015 Aspen Institute Health Innovator Fellow.
The new two-year Fellowship aims to strengthen the leadership of innovators across the national healthcare ecosystem by challenging fellows to create new approaches to will improve the health and well-being of all Americans.
As a member of the inaugural class of the Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellowship, Dr. Palermo will contribute her expertise and experiences working at the intersection of public health and medical education with a principal focus on community-based public health training and education, community-based research and advocacy, diversity affairs and medical education, and healthcare workforce diversity to help solve our health systems' complex challenges.
A total of 20 Health Innovator Fellows will spend four weeks over the course of two years exploring their leadership, core values, desired legacies, and their vision for the health care sector. Each Fellow will launch a leadership venture that will stretch and challenge them and have a positive impact on health care in the United States.
Dr. Palermo has worked as a community activist researcher over the past 15 years working in East Harlem, New York City through her active participation and leadership in longstanding community coalitions and in establishing new community-based efforts, which include the Harlem Community & Academic Partnership, Inc. and the East Harlem Emergency Preparedness Collaborative. In addition to Dr. Palermo’s community-based work, she also maintains two senior leadership positions in the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and in the Mount Sinai Health System in New York City: Associate Director of Operations for the Center for Multicultural & Community Affairs and Chief Program Officer of the Office for Diversity & Inclusion.
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 48,000 employees working across seven hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 600 research and clinical 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 9,000 primary and specialty care physicians and 11 free-standing joint-venture centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida. Hospitals within the System are consistently ranked by Newsweek’s® “The World’s Best Smart Hospitals, Best in State Hospitals, World Best Hospitals and Best Specialty Hospitals” and by U.S. News & World Report's® “Best Hospitals” and “Best Children’s Hospitals.” The Mount Sinai Hospital is on the U.S. News & World Report® “Best Hospitals” Honor Roll for 2024-2025.
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