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  • Mount Sinai Development Report

    For the year ending December 31, 2007

    Mount Sinai was distinguished in many ways in New York magazine's "Best Doctors 2007" issue. Our doctors composed almost one-fifth of the total list, and there was at least one Mount Sinai doctor represented in nearly every specialty reviewed. Areas in which Mount Sinai was particularly...

    December 31, 2007 | Mount Sinai Development

  • Class of 2008 Celebrates Commencement

    “Alain Carpentier, MD, PhD, Adjunct Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Mount Sinai and Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Hopital European Georges Pompidou, was given an Honorary Doctor of Science degree from his colleague, David Adams, MD, Chair of the Department of Cardiothora...

    May 19, 2008 | Inside Mount Sinai

  • The Mitral Valve Question

    Bernadine Healy, M.D., on Mitral Valves: Repair or Replace?

    “Missing out. The actual number getting repair is closer to 50 percent, and that's unacceptable, says David Adams, head of heart surgery at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York. "Too many miss out on optimal surgical treatment," he says. But this is fixable. Surgeons who offer pat...

    October 08, 2007 | U.S. News & World Report

  • 4 Winners of Lasker Medical Prize

    “Alain Carpentier, MD, PhD, Adjunct Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Mount Sinai and Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery at Hopital European Georges Pompidou in Paris, is one of two researchers who pioneered the field of heart-valve replacement to win the 2007 Albert Lasker Award ...

    September 16, 2007 | The New York Times

  • Best Doctors 2007

    David H. Adams - Thoracic Surgery Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., a New York City research and information firm, determines the rankings based on a regional peer-review survey that asks thousands of licensed physicians to nominate the physicians who, in their judgment, are the best in th...

    June 10, 2007 | New York Magazine

  • Heartless

    To manipulate their crucial personal-fatality ratings, New York heart surgeons are turning away needy patients.

    “How grateful I am,” she writes, “that you said yes . . . when other doctors didn’t want to take the risk.”

    October 24, 2005 | New York Magazine

  • A Heart-Stopping Pregnancy

    Medical Miracle #7

    Dr. David Adams Saves Pregnant Woman with Heart Failure “Ima came out perfect and healthy. She’s healthy, headstrong, independent. Dr. Adams saved two lives at once.”

    June 13, 2005 | New York Magazine

  • Best Doctors 2004

    David H. Adams - Thoracic Surgery Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., a New York City research and information firm, determines the rankings based on a regional peer-review survey that asks thousands of licensed physicians to nominate the physicians who, in their judgment, are the best in th...

    June 14, 2004 | New York Magazine