Congratulations to the 2016-2017 Student Award Recipients! The awards ceremony is on Monday, April 24 at 5pm in Davis Auditorium in Hess. Everyone is invited to attend to honor the award winners and grab some refreshments! Please join us in congratulating the outstanding efforts of everyone recognized herein.

Student Awards

Outstanding Leadership by a Student

Graduate School: Eziwoma Alibo
Medical School: John Di Capua

Outstanding Service to Fellow Students

Graduate School: Noam Beckmann
Medical School: Giselle Lynch

Outstanding Service to Mount Sinai

Graduate School: Bridget Matikainen-Ankney
Medical School: Jimmy Murphy

Outstanding Community Service

Graduate School: Casey Lardner
Medical School (within NY): Cameron Kiani
Medical School (outside NY): Derrick Acheampong

Outstanding Teaching by a Student

Graduate School: Anastasia Efthymiou
Medical School: Ann Powers

The Following Awards are Graduate School Specific:

Outstanding Research Innovation by a Student

Aviva Goel

Outstanding Maker (Write-in Award)

Brandon Hogstad

The Following Awards are Medical School Specific:

Award for Activism

Amy Garvey

“Renaissance” Award

Keith Love

“Art of Medicine” Award

Bobby Arao

Award for Teamwork

Brian Park

Award for Inspiration

Erick Mendoza

Award for Compassionate Care (Write-in award)

Stefanie Chen

Award for Environmental Health and Stewardship (Write-in award)

Michelle O’Connor

Award for Innovation (Write-in award)

Mark Finkelstein

Award for Memorable Teaching (Write-in award)

Bonnie Sklar

Award for Winning Personality (Write-in award)

David Lin

Award for Commitment to Emotional Wellness (Write-in award)

Analena Alcabes

Entrepreneurship Award (Write-in award)

Anmol Gupta

Resiliency Award (Write-in award)

Jake Levine

Award for Outstanding Continuity of Care (Write-in award)

Allison Vise

Award for Teaching for Social Change (Write-in award)

Emma Makoba, Emma Murphy, Carolina Miranda

Medical Society of the State of New York Community Service Award

Kamini Doobay

Awards for Outstanding Faculty, Residents, and Staff

Outstanding Pre-Clinical Faculty

Dr. Trevor Pour

Outstanding Clinical Faculty

Dr. Sharon Edwards

Outstanding Clinical House Staff

Dr. Tahsin Khan

Outstanding Teaching by Grad School Faculty

Dr. Gay Holstein

Outstanding Faculty Mentor, Graduate School

Dr. George Huntley

Outstanding Research Mentorship, Medical School (Write-in Award)

Dr. Samuel Cho

Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award

Dr. Peter Gliatto

Outstanding Service by Mount Sinai Staff

Jose Vargas
Andy Efros

Student Council Selected Awards

Student Council Appreciation Awards

This award is given to those individuals who the students feel deserve an official Thank You from the student body for all that they have done this past year.

Andy Efros (Posman Books)
Intaz Khan (Aron Hall Doorman)
Maxwell Manu (Aron Hall Doorman)
Stuart Gill (Aron Hall Doorman)

Edward J. Ronan Award

This award is given to an individual who the students’ feel provides support, both in and out of the classroom and who goes above and beyond what they are “supposed to do,” in regards to dedicating their time and efforts to the student body.

Medical School: Dr. Rainier P. Soriano
Graduate School: Dr. Elizabeth Cropper

Lifetime Achievement Award

This award is given to an individual to honor his or her life-long contributions to the student body.

Medical School: Dr. Tonia Kim
Graduate School: Dr. Stephanie Factor

The Dean Charney Resilience Award

This award (currently in its inaugural year) is given to somebody who inspires others in displaying extreme strength through adversity.

Dr. Dennis Charney

David J. Berman Award for Study Guide Generosity

This award is for students that show extraordinary talent and generosity in authoring quality study resources for their fellow students and sharing them freely online.

Medical School: Brittany Arditi and Anne Hart
Graduate School: Kavya Devarakonda

EHHOP Awards

EHHOP Excellence in Teaching Award

Dr. Theresa Mack

EHHOP Excellence in Advocacy Award

Dr. Katherine Pier

EHHOP New Volunteer Award

Dr. Rishi Sawhney

EHHOP Excellence in Ancillary Clinic

Dr. Farida Nentin

Postdoctoral Fellow Awards

Best Publication by a Postdoctoral Fellow Award

Ka Lung (William) Cheung, PhD
Department of Pharmacological Sciences (Mentor: Ming-Ming Zhou, PhD)

Outstanding Research Innovation by a Postdoctoral Fellow Award

Ajit Magadum, PhD
Department of Cardiology (Mentor: Lior Zangi, PhD)

Outstanding Leadership by a Postdoctoral Fellow

Delaine Ceholski, PhD
Department of Cardiology (Mentor: Roger Hajjar, MD)

The Student Council Award of Excellence is given in appreciation of students who have made a significant impact on student life and the broader community. We take nominations continuously throughout the year via this form and class reps vote monthly to select one awardee among grad student and med student nominations. Class reps themselves are not eligible for the award.

They are the heroes we need, even if they aren’t the heroes that we deserve.

Although the names are on a plaque in the Student Lounge that is updated every couple years, we’ve decided to publish the full list of names online as well. Congrats to current and past winners!

We are pleased to report that the first amendment to the Student Constitution has passed both a strict two-thirds vote of officers and a general body vote.

The amendment changes the budget period for Student Council from semesterly to yearly budgeting. That means student organizations only have to write one budget per year (less paperwork!), and instead of $350 per semester, the new default maximum will be $700 annually that could be reallocated to, e.g., any balance of events between the fall vs. the spring. The amendment changes nothing else, except for two new reporting tasks assigned to the SC Treasurers.

From Student Council’s perspective, this helps implement new guidelines that increase flexibility in what we can reimburse student organizations for. As we frequently voted on updates to the budget throughout the year, it doesn’t really affect how many times we have to vote on budget-related issues.

We’ve posted the new full text of the Constitution with the Amendment.

Tired of battling your personal printer? PC LOAD LETTER got you down?

Congratulations to the 2015-2016 Student Award Recipients! The awards luncheon is today at April 22 at 12PM in the Annenberg West Lobby. Everyone is invited to attend to honor the award winners and grab some lunch! Please join us in congratulating the outstanding efforts of everyone recognized herein.

Student Awards

Outstanding Leadership by a Student

Graduate School: Susana Bardina
Medical School: Giselle Lynch

Outstanding Service to Fellow Students

Graduate School: Benny Laitman and Ted Pak
Medical School: Stephen Supoyo

Outstanding Service to Mount Sinai

Medical School: Murad Khan

Outstanding Community Service

Graduate School: Chloe Solomon
Medical School (within NY): Danielle Barcak
Medical School (outside NY): Efe Chantal-Ghanney and Denisse Rojas

Outstanding Teaching by a Student

Graduate School: Jim Duehr
Medical School: Maximiliano Sobrero

The Following Awards are Graduate School Specific:

Outstanding Research Innovation by a Student

Alejandro Negrete

The Following Awards are Medical School Specific:

Award for Activism

Kamini Doobay and Carolina Miranda

“Renaissance” Award

Sylvia Khoury

“Art of Medicine” Award

Maureen Byrne

Award for Teamwork

Julie Sung

Award for Inspiration

Kira Xie

Award for Professionalism (Write-in award)

James Yoon

Award for Innovation (Write-in award)

Anna Cushing

Award for Mental Health Advocacy (Write-in award)

Analena Alcabes

Award for Service to Chronically Ill Children (Write-in award)

Allison Vise

Award for Outstanding Faculty, Residents, and Staff

Outstanding Pre-Clinical Faculty

Tonia Kim, MD

Outstanding Clinical Faculty

John Steever, MD

Outstanding Graduate School Faculty

Michael Linderman, PhD

Outstanding Clinical House Staff

Nicole Tenzel, MD

Outstanding Service by Mount Sinai Staff

Gayle Schneiderman

Student Council Selected Awards

Student Council Appreciation Awards

This award is given to those individuals who the students feel deserve an official Thank You from the student body for all that they have done this past year.

Andy Efros (Posman Books)
Roy (Annenberg Custodial Staff)
Herman Supoyo (Med Ed Laboratory Technician)
Eddie Lugo (Med Ed Laboratory Coordinator)

Edward J. Ronan Award

This award is given to an individual who the students’ feel provides support, both in and out of the classroom and who goes above and beyond what they are “supposed to do,” in regards to dedicating their time and efforts to the student body.

Medical School: Kirk Campbell, MD and Peter Gliatto, MD
Graduate School: Basil Hanss, PhD

Lifetime Achievement Award

This award is given to an individual to honor his or her life-long contributions to the student body.

Medical School: Joy Reidenberg, PhD
Graduate School: Arthur Cederbaum, PhD

Dr. Morris B. Bender Family Award in Neuroscience

Eric Silberman

2016 Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Faculty Award

Presented by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation
Tonia Kim, MD

EHHOP Awards

EHHOP Excellence in Teaching Award

Jennifer Weintraub, MD

EHHOP Excellence in Advocacy Award

Mohamed Al-Kazaz, MD

EHHOP New Volunteer Award

Celine Goetz, MD

EHHOP Excellence in Ancillary Clinic

Amy Glick, MD

We are proud to announce our new steering committee for 2016-2017!

• Theodore Pak, President (MD/PhD)
• Benjamin Laitman, Vice President (MD/PhD)
• Cati Crawford, Co-Treasurer (MD 2019)
• Isaac Wasserman, Co-Treasurer (MD 2019)
• Ian Kwok, Co-Secretary (MD 2017)
• Roya Nazarian, Co-Secretary (MD 2019)
• Carla Golden, PhD rep
• Heather Omdal, MPH rep
• Giulia Taccheri, MSBS rep
• Marc Egerman, MSCR rep

Looking forward to a great year. You may contact the entire board by emailing studentc@icahn.mssm.edu or tweeting @SinaiStudents.

Brevity is a virtue—and so are shorter, more infrequent emails. In this spirit, we’ve decided to start a Twitter account, @SinaiStudents, for smaller, ad-hoc announcements.

You can already see it in the sidebar of this site, or if you like, you can… Follow @SinaiStudents

We’ll also use this account to highlight the cool accomplishments of student groups on campus, and the events on our Student Activities Calendar. Want us to publicize something? DM or mention us, or if you like long-form, we have an email account of course.

A Facebook page for the group is also forthcoming, if you prefer ye olde Blue Wall. But the content on both streams will be very similar. Let us know what you think!

Our monthly meeting has been moved to December 16th with FMT at 6pm and General Body at 7pm in the Annenberg Student Lounge (from its originally scheduled time this Wednesday Dec 9).

Our October Student Council Meeting will take place this Wednesday, October 8th, in the Student Lounge.  FMT will begin at 6 and General Body will begin at 7.  Please make every effort to attend.  If you cannot be there, please e-mail us and let us know.  Academic Technology will be doing the subcommittee presentations.

We have created open agenda time from 7:00-7:10 PM during the General Body meeting to ensure that we hear about the issues that are important to you.  Have something you would like us to address or comment on?  Just show up at 7:00 and let us know!  You may submit items for the formal agenda by emailing studentc@mssm.edu.

Hi Folks,

As many of you are aware, the Echo360 system has been experiencing some issues recording lectures over the past week. The reason for this is that, in order to provide you with the highest quality recordings possible, Academic Technology recently upgraded to HD recording.  Unfortunately, there are still some bugs to work out with the HD recording process and therefore there were some glitches.

To ensure that lectures are captured for the time being, Echo360 recordings have been downgraded to Standard Definition. This should fix the problem until Academic Technology is able to figure out how to produce HD recordings more effectively and reliably.  If you continue to have problems with your lecture recordings, please make sure to report it to the IT help desk at ASCIT@mssm.edu.

We would like to sincerely apologize for any inconveniences caused by these issues, but please note that Student Council will continue to work closely with Academic Technology to push for a resolution. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to reach out to your Student Council – Academic Technology representatives!

Best,

Your Academic Technology Reps
MD 2015: Anna Lee and Sameer Lakha
MD Scholarly Year: Brett Marinelli
MD 2016: Alex Rosen
MD 2017: Raghuram Posham
MD2018: Parth Kothari
Grad School: Jim Duehr and Theodore Pak