CCE Gastrointestinal disorders: Mount Sinai - Selection criteria
July 10, 2009
Awards and distinctions that make Mount Sinai Hospital a Center of Excellence
Mount Sinai Hospital
New York, New York
1913: Year the GI Division was founded
92: Number of faculty and staff
38: Number of research protocols engaged in annually
$560,000: NIH funding in 2008
Number of patients treated/procedures performed per year: 5,050 patient visits and 7,500 procedures
Availability of comprehensive care programs
- Center for Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Gastrointestinal Cancer Program
- Women’s Gastrointestinal Health Center
- Endoscopy Suite
- Neuroendocrine Tumor Center
National Awards and recognition
- Lloyd Mayer, MD, is an elected member of the Association of American Physicians and the American Society for Clinical Investigation
- Sita Chokhavatia, MD, is immediate past president of the New York Gastroenterology Association
- Seven GI doctors listed in 2008 New York magazine “Best Doctor’s” issue
- Mount Sinai’s GI program has been ranked in the top 10 by U.S. News & World Report every year since 1989.