Mount Sinai Health System and Business Council for International Understanding Co-Host Health Partnerships Roundtable
Sir Malcolm Grant, Chairman of NHS England, and Mount Sinai leaders present health care solutions and opportunities
Mount Sinai Health System and the Business Council for International Understanding (BCIU) co-hosted the Health Partnerships Roundtable in London, UK, on Monday, June 18. Sir Malcolm Grant, Chairman of NHS England, and Mount Sinai clinical and executive leaders Barbara Murphy, MD, Chair of the Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine and Dean for Clinical Integration and Population Health at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS); Erik Lium, PhD, Executive Vice President of Mount Sinai Innovation Partners; Brent Stackhouse, Vice President of Mount Sinai Ventures; Rosalind Wright, MD, Dean for Translational Biomedical Research at ISMMS; and Robert Wright, MD, Chair of Environmental Medicine and Public Health at ISMMS, led a discussion with corporate stakeholders and peer institutions on opportunities for strategic partnerships and corporate engagement to drive innovative research and impact population health.
“We’re very excited to explore healthcare innovation with esteemed colleagues in the UK,” said Erik Lium, PhD, Executive Vice President of Mount Sinai Innovation Partners. “This meeting is the continuation of Mount Sinai’s efforts to engage global stakeholders. By leveraging our collective strengths in research, education, and commercialization, Mount Sinai is well-positioned to advance breakthroughs to patients on a global scale.”
Alongside Mount Sinai and NHS England leadership, global corporate and foundation executives shared insights on the health care innovation ecosystems in the United States and United Kingdom, respectively, and exchanged ideas for cross-border collaboration to accelerate healthcare discoveries to commercialization. The UK and U.S. healthcare systems were analyzed, and cutting-edge solutions to issues affecting population health in both nations were discussed.
“Our mission at AT&T is to innovate to improve lives,” said Maria Lensing, Vice President of Global Healthcare Solutions at AT&T. “It is important for us to be part of this global healthcare discussion. Meaningful collaboration can bring great innovation.” Lensing added, “Bringing the most innovative technologies to the industry is especially urgent, because in the realm of healthcare, technology can help save lives.”
“It doesn’t matter where you are in the world, accessing healthcare is a basic human need,” said Umang Patel, Clinical Director at Babylon Health. “It is important that we jointly tackle the challenges health systems face. By sharing innovations, we learn together and by evolving ideas internationally, we optimize the chance for success. We shared our NHS experience, where we designed a service from the bottom up using Artificial Intelligence and the latest mobile technology to empower patients with innovation and choice. Talking with Mount Sinai and global executives made it clear that scaling is important, and we valued the insights into cross-border integration to allow the safest, most efficient and personalized healthcare to be delivered in an increasingly digital world.”
About the Business Council for International Understanding
The Business Council for International Understanding (BCIU) is a non-profit association that skillfully leverages its global knowledge and broad network of business and government contacts to facilitate dialogue and initiatives that expand international commerce and encourage economic development worldwide. For more information, visit www.bciu.org
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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