Mount Sinai’s Road to Resilience Podcast Launches Special COVID-19 Series
Features inspiring resilience stories, tips for maintaining mental and physical health, and thoughts on coping with pandemic-related stressors.
The Mount Sinai Health System’s award-winning Road to Resilience podcast is launching a special series exploring what it takes to be resilient during the COVID-19 pandemic. The series features interviews with experts, including front-line health care workers, psychologists, and faith leaders, as well as everyday New Yorkers who are finding creative ways to cope with the COVID-19 crisis.
Listeners will hear inspiring stories of resilience, advice for managing pandemic-related stressors, and medical expertise that they can use to stay safe, informed, and uplifted.
To begin the series, Brendan Carr, MD, Chair of Emergency Medicine for the Mount Sinai Health System, talks about difficult decisions he’s facing and how he’s coping with the enormous pressure to save lives. “‘The only way out is through,’ is what I keep thinking,” Dr. Carr tells Road to Resilience. “A lot of people who feel the weight are leaning on each other to make sure we get this as right as we can.” Listen to the full episode here.
Future guests will include:
- David Reich, MD, President and Chief Operating Officer of The Mount Sinai Hospital
- Dennis Charney, MD, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
- Deborah Marin, MD, Director of Mount Sinai’s Center for Spirituality and Health, and Professor of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
- Rev. David Fleenor, BCC, ACPE, Director of Education for the Center for Spirituality and Health
- Jordyn Feingold, Medical Student and Positive Psychology Practitioner at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
- Front-line nurses from across the Mount Sinai Health System
Road to Resilience is an award-winning podcast featuring stories and insights to help listeners thrive in a challenging world. From fighting burnout and trauma, to building resilient families and communities, we explore what’s possible when science meets the human spirit. To listen, visit Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play, or the Road to Resilience website.
To support COVID-19 research and response efforts, visit https://www.mountsinai.org/covid19.
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. Its comprehensive system includes seven hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, over 600 research and clinical laboratories, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, and the Mount Sinai Phillips School of Nursing. Together, the Health System comprises approximately 48,000 employees, more than 9,000 physicians, and 8,600 nurses.
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 by Newsweek and No. 5 on the magazine’s World’s Best Hospitals list. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ranks No. 11 among U.S. medical schools and No. 1 among freestanding medical schools for National Institutes of Health funding, reflecting the strength of its scientific enterprise and leadership in biomedical research.