Mount Sinai Health System Celebrates Its 33rd Annual Crystal Party

Kenneth L. Davis, MD, President and CEO of The Mount Sinai Health System; His wife, Bonnie M. Davis, MD; Benefit Chairs and Mount Sinai Trustees Vanessa and Henry Cornell

Jim Gaffigan, stand-up comedian; Jeannie Gaffigan, co-write of “The Jim Gaffigan Show”; Joshua B. Bederson, MD, Mount Sinai’s Chair of Neurosurgery; Bonnie M. Davis, MD; Kenneth L. Davis, MD, President and CEO of The Mount Sinai Health System

Dennis S. Charney, MD, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, President for Academic Affairs for the Mount Sinai Health System; Kenneth L. Davis, MD, President and CEO of The Mount Sinai Health System; Evan Flatow, MD, President of Mount Sinai West; Arthur Gianelli, President of Mount Sinai St. Luke’s; David L. Reich, MD, President and COO of the Mount Sinai Hospital; Peter W. May, MBA, Chairman of the Boards of Trustees of the Mount Sinai Health System

Peter W. May, MBA, Chairman of the Boards of Trustees of the Mount Sinai Health System; His wife Leni May; Senator Charles E. Schumer
Mount Sinai Health System celebrated excellence in research, patient care, and education at its 33rd annual Crystal Party on Thursday, May 3.
More than 1,200 guests, including Health System leadership, staff, and supporters, gathered at the Central Park Conservatory Garden. The event raised nearly $4 million. Mount Sinai trustee Henry Cornell and his wife, Vanessa Cornell, were benefit chairs.
The event’s special guest speakers were Jeannie and Jim Gaffigan. Ms. Gaffigan, who, with her husband, is the co-writer of “The Jim Gaffigan Show,” was successfully treated for a large and rare brain tumor by Mount Sinai’s Chair of Neurosurgery, Joshua B. Bederson, MD, last year. In the operating room during her surgery, Dr. Bederson used virtual reality technology that he pioneered to help surgeons operate more safely and precisely. Here is a video and an article about Ms. Gaffigan’s procedure.
“Mount Sinai Health System has made significant advances in patient care and research, as demonstrated by Jeannie Gaffigan’s remarkable story,” said Kenneth L. Davis, MD, President and CEO of the Mount Sinai Health System. “We’re thankful for our exceptional trustees who have generously supported our strategic plan and for our supporters who enable us to foster innovations like these.”
“We are grateful and proud that support for this event reached this level to ensure that Mount Sinai Health System continues to provide unparalleled care to patients throughout the New York metropolitan area,” said Peter W. May, Chair of the Boards of Trustees of the Mount Sinai Health System.
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Please find at this Dropbox link photos and captions from the Mount Sinai Health System’s 33rd Annual Crystal Party at the Central Park Conservatory Gardens on Thursday, May 3, 2018. All pictures listed from left to right. Photo credit: Mount Sinai Health System
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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