• Press Release

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Joins TIME’S UP Healthcare

New Step Follows Recent Announcements About Groundbreaking Initiatives to Advance Gender Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

  • New York, NY
  • (August 27, 2019)

Today, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai announced that it has officially become a signatory to TIME’S UP Healthcare. The new step builds on and reaffirms the School’s longstanding work and commitment to ensuring that gender inequity and sexual harassment have no place in our community.

“We are proud to join TIME’S UP Healthcare. As critical conversations about equity happen nationwide, it is incumbent on institutions—both inside and outside science and medicine—to rigorously examine their policies and climate, pinpoint ways to improve, and take action,” said Dennis Charney, MD, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and President for Academic Affairs of the Mount Sinai Health System. “At the Icahn School of Medicine, we have already taken significant steps to advance gender equity, and we are committed to continuing this work.”

“Signing up for TIME’S UP Healthcare is not just a reflection of the work we have done or what we believe as an institution. It’s a reflection of our ongoing commitment to ensure that this generation of medical leaders—and the next—experience fairness and equity in science and medicine,” said Carol R. Horowitz, MD, MPH, Dean for Gender Equity in Science and Medicine, Professor of Population Health, and Professor of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine.

By joining TIME’S UP Healthcare, we are reflecting the Icahn School of Medicine’s belief that diversity, inclusion, and equity are imperative to achieving excellence in all our missions, creating an environment of respect and affirmation of intersecting social identities and lived experiences, and allowing our community of learners, educators, health care providers, and investigators to use medicine, science, and policy as platforms for advocacy and social justice.

Mount Sinai’s letter joining TIME’S UP Healthcare and committing to its principles can be seen here.

Today’s announcement builds on existing work at the Icahn School of Medicine as well as a series of steps announced earlier this month:

  • Dean for Gender Equity: The Icahn School of Medicine became the first among academic medical centers nationwide to create a Dean for Gender Equity in Science and Medicine earlier this year—a position specifically created to close gender gaps if and where they exist within the institution.
  • New Diversity Statement: The Icahn School of Medicine recently revealed a robust new Diversity Statement for the institution, which builds on Mount Sinai’s groundbreaking Racism and Bias Initiative launched in 2015. Mount Sinai’s longstanding record on equity has helped it earn the No. 1 Ranking in Diversity and Inclusion in the “Top 12 Hospitals and Health Systems” list by DiversityInc in 2017 and 2018.

More information about Mount Sinai’s recent announcements regarding gender equity, diversity, and inclusion efforts can be found here.

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 more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, over 400 outpatient practices, nearly 300 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 7,300 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties.

For more information, visit https://www.mountsinai.org or find Mount Sinai on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

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