Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital

Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital

Message from Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital Leadership

OVER THE PAST year—while successfully navigating the challenges associated with the COVID-19 pandemic—our Department of Pediatrics continued to experience tremendous growth and success in our academic missions of clinical care, research, and education.

1 min read

Among our accomplishments:

  • Recognition of the Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital by U.S. News & World Report in its 2020-21 “America’s Best Children’s Hospitals” guidebook, with rankings in Diabetes & Endocrinology, Gastroenterology & GI Surgery, Nephrology, and Neurology & Neurosurgery;

  • Recruitment of a Chief Operating Officer for the Kravis Children's Hospital and hospital-wide enhancements in quality and safety initiatives;

  • Expansion of our Children's Heart Center with accreditation of our Adult Congenital Heart Disease Comprehensive Care Center, and alignment of our pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) and pediatric cardiac ICU with the Mount Sinai Institute for Critical Care Medicine;

  • Continued strength in our extramural funding portfolio to more than $23 million in 2020, with No. 14 ranking for National Institutes of Health funding for Departments of Pediatrics in U.S. medical schools (Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research).





Featured

Lisa M. Satlin, MD

Lisa M. Satlin, MD

Herbert H. Lehman Professor and Chair, Jack and Lucy Clark Department of Pediatrics, and Pediatrician-in-Chief, Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital

Fernando Ferrer, MD, FACS, FAAP

Fernando Ferrer, MD, FACS, FAAP

COO, Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital; Vice Chair, Hospital Operations, Department of Pediatrics; Network Medical Director, Pediatric Services

Alfin G. Vicencio, MD

Alfin G. Vicencio, MD

Professor and Chief, Pediatric Pulmonology, and Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs and Strategy, Department of Pediatrics