• Press Release

The Susan and Leonard Feinstein Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinical Center Opens at Mount Sinai

  • (May 14, 2015)

A state-of-the-art care center for patients of all ages living with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is now open at The Mount Sinai Hospital. The Center features personalized treatments, new strategies in disease management and the chance to participate in clinical trials of the latest treatments.   

“Our digestive disease specialists have been at the forefront of research and treatment of these chronic conditions and we are proud to have them continue their innovative work in this unique Center,” said Kenneth L. Davis, MD, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Mount Sinai Health System. “We are grateful to our donors who have made this opening possible.”

IBD, which affects around 1.4 million people in the United States alone, is caused by inflammation of the colon and small intestine and comprises two major types: Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. Crohn’s disease was named for Mount Sinai physician Burrill B. Crohn, MD, after he and his colleagues first described the condition in 1932.

“Our integrated team is constantly working together to improve our understanding of these diseases,” said Bruce Sands, MD, Dr. Burrill B. Crohn Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Dr. Henry D. Janowitz Division of Gastroenterology at The Mount Sinai Hospital. “This intense collaboration, in this unique setting, will help us to identify better treatment plans for patients and further our research in this area.”

The Center is located at 17 East 102nd Street in Manhattan, where a team of gastroenterologists, along with surgeons, pathologists, nurses, social workers, researchers, nutritionists and other allied health professionals will provide children and adults with comprehensive care under one roof.

“This Center will be the heart of regional, national and international research networks dedicated to finding better therapies for IBD in the near future, and eventually, to understanding the cause of these diseases,” said Jean-Frederic Colombel, MD, Co-Director of the Center and the Director of The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

“Our Center will provide a seamless transition from childhood to adult-based care, minimizing the challenges adolescents face as they learn to manage their own care. It will promote well-being and resiliency in children and adults with IBD throughout the lifecycle of the chronic disease,” says Marla Dubinsky, MD, Co-Director and Chief of Pediatric Gastroenterology at the Kravis Children’s Hospital at Mount Sinai.

For more information, visit www.mountsinai.org/ibd-center or call (212) 241-8100.

About the Mount Sinai Health System

Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, over 400 outpatient practices, nearly 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it.

Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,300 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties.

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