Meet the Team
If you’re a journalist looking for information about Mount Sinai or for an expert to interview for a story, our team can help.
Lucia Lee
Vice President of Public Affairs and Media
Beats: C-Suite/Leadership, Crisis Management
Phone: 917-837-8914917-837-8914
Elizabeth Dowling Steinke
Senior Director of Public Affairs and Media
Beats: Neuroscience, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Microbiology, Pain Management, Psychiatry, Seaver Autism Center, The Addiction Institute, The Friedman Brain Institute
Phone: 347-541-0212347-541-0212
Tildy La Farge
Director of Public Affairs and Media
Beats: Institute for Healthy Equity Research (IHER), Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Medical Education, Icahn Mount Sinai and Graduate School of Biomedical Science Anti-Racism Initiatives, Institute for Equity and Justice in Health Sciences Education, Office of Scientific Workforce Excellence and Advancement
Phone: 347-213- 9110
Ilana Nikravesh
Director of Public Affairs and Media
Beats: Cardiology/Cardiothoracic Surgery, Rehabilitation and Human Performance, Ophthalmology, Emergency Medicine, Center for Post-COVID Care
Phone: 347-852-3382347-852-3382
Diego Ortiz Quintero
Director of Public Affairs and Media
Beats: Cancer, Dermatology, Nursing, Thoracic Surgery, Sickle Cell Disease, Population Health, The Tisch Cancer Institute, Dubin Breast Center
Phone: 201-572-5703
Stacy A. Anderson
Associate Director of Public Affairs and Media
Beats: Infectious Diseases, Women’s Health/OBGYN, Pulmonary Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, Sleep Medicine, Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Health at Mount Sinai, Information Technology, Pathology, Arnhold Institute for Global Health, The Black Family Stem Cell Institute, Blavatnik Family Women's Health Research Institute
Phone: 347-346-3390347-346-3390
Laura Ruocco-Duran
Associate Director of Public Affairs and Media
Beats: Pediatrics & Children’s Health, Gastroenterology/GI, Community & Environmental Medicine, Jaffe Food Allergy Institute, The Mindich Child Health & Development Institute
Phone: 646-877-6727646-877-6727
Karin Eskenazi
Associate Director of Public Affairs and Media
Beats: Artifical Intelligence, Genetics and Genomics, Cancer Genetics & Immunology, Urology, Pharmacology Sciences, Precision Immunology Institute, BioMedical Engineering and Imaging Institute
Phone: 332-257-1538
Daniel Verello
Senior Media Specialist
Beats: Orthopedics, The Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute, General Surgery, Rheumatology, Transgender Medicine, Internal Medicine, Endocrinology, Mount Sinai Health Network
Phone: 347-931-8197347-931-8197
