Newswise — Mount Sinai Leaders of WTC Clinical Center of Excellence Available to Discuss Health Care of First Responders Surrounding 9/11 Anniversary
WHO: Philip Landrigan MD, Principal Investigator of the Mount Sinai WTC Program’s Data and Coordination Center.
Michael Crane, MD, Medical Director of the Mount Sinai WTC Clinical Center of Excellence.
Fatih Ozbay, MD, Associate Medical Director of the WTC Mental Health Program. Dr. Ozbay provides assessment and treatment to the men and women whose mental health was affected by 9/11. He specializes in stress resilience and post-traumatic stress disorder.
WHAT: The Mount Sinai Medical Center has taken the lead in developing the largest treatment and monitoring program for emergency responders, recovery workers, residents, and area workers who were affected by the terrorist attacks in New York City on September 11, 2001. Since the program’s inception under Dr. Landrigan, the Mount Sinai-coordinated Consortium of Clinical Centers of Excellence have medically screened more than 30,000 WTC rescue and recovery workers and volunteers from all 50 states. The Consortium has also provided more than 66,000 medical monitoring exams.
The WTC Clinical Center of Excellence at Mount Sinai identifies mental and physical health problems needing timely treatment; evaluates the health of first responders; monitors the development of symptoms; and researches the effects of 9/11 through data collection and analysis.
Located at Mount Sinai and several other clinics in the tri-state area, the new Centers of Excellence and Data Centers are the result of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, which provides $4.3 billion in federal funding to address the health crisis surrounding the WTC tragedy.
About The Mount Sinai Medical Center
The Mount Sinai Medical Center encompasses both The Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Established in 1968, Mount Sinai School of Medicine has more than 3,400 faculty in 32 departments and 16 institutes. It consistently ranks among the top 20 medical schools both in National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding and by U.S. News & World Report. The medical school also ranks third in NIH funding per faculty member. The school received the 2009 Spencer Foreman Award for Outstanding Community Service from the Association of American Medical Colleges. The Mount Sinai Hospital, founded in 1852, is a 1,171-bed tertiary- and quaternary-care teaching facility and one of the nation’s oldest, largest and most-respected voluntary hospitals. In 2011, U.S. News & World Report ranked The Mount Sinai Hospital 16th on its elite honor roll of the nation’s top hospitals based on reputation, patient safety, and other patient-care factors. Of the top 20 hospitals in the United States, Mount Sinai is one of only 12 who employs a best-in-class integrated business model that seamlessly combines its management, governance and information technology with a medical school. Nearly 60,000 people were treated at Mount Sinai as inpatients last year, and approximately 560,000 outpatient visits took place. For more information, visit www.mountsinai.org. Follow us on Twitter @mountsinainyc.
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