American Heart Association and Mount Sinai Health System Launched “Life is Why”
Dennis S. Charney, MD, was named the American Heart Association’s 2017 Heart & Stroke Ball honoree at a launch celebration for the event produced by the American Heart Association and the Mount Sinai Health System. The celebration took place on Monday, February 6, 2017, at Fred’s at Barneys.
“Life is Why” is a national initiative which emphasizes the emotional connection to the work of the American Heart Association. The campaign encourages people to consider what or whom they are living for and use that as motivation to make lifestyle changes and improve their heart health.
Mount Sinai Heart is among the world’s leading centers for cardiovascular medicine and advanced diagnostic and therapeutic technologies whose mission is to dramatically improve the heart health of patients. U.S. News & World Report ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital among the top U.S. hospitals for cardiology and heart surgery services.
Dr. Charney is the Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and President for Academic Affairs for the Mount Sinai Health System. He is also a world-renowned expert in the neurobiology and treatment of mood and anxiety disorders, making fundamental contributions to the understanding of the causes of human anxiety, fear, and depression, and the discovery of new treatment for mood and anxiety disorders.
“The American Heart Association is thrilled to be able to honor a physician and leader as great as Dr. Charney at our Heart & Stroke Ball,” said Kathy A. Kauffmann, Senior Vice President of the American Heart Association in New York City. “It is because of the work of Dr. Charney that we are closer to understanding how the human brain functions and how to treat it.”
The Heart & Stroke Ball is a premier event with a long tradition of attracting top business leaders, physicians, professionals, philanthropists, and other prominent community members who help raise critically needed funds to support the Association’s lifesaving research, education, and community-based initiatives.
“We are proud that the American Heart Association is honoring Dr. Charney,” said Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, Director of Mount Sinai Heart and Physician-in-Chief of The Mount Sinai Hospital. “Dr. Charney has helped his patients live longer, more productive lives through his research and work on stress and trauma. We salute him for all he has done and congratulate him on this great recognition.”
The American Heart Association’s Heart & Stroke Ball is scheduled for Wednesday, June 14, 2017, at Cipriani Wall Street. For more information please contact Mandi Cawthon at 212-878-5959 or at mandi.cawthon@heart.org.
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. The Health System includes approximately 48,000 employees, more than 9,000 physicians, and 8,600 nurses across seven hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, over 600 research and clinical laboratories, a school of nursing, and schools of medicine and graduate school of biomedical sciences.
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 and recognized as one of the world’s top Smart Hospital by Newsweek. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ranks No. 11 among U.S. medical schools for National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding and No. 1 among freestanding medical schools, reflecting the strength of its scientific enterprise and leadership in biomedical research.
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