Funds raised at the Breakfast help ensure that Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center, a “medical home” for more than 11,000 adolescents and young adults each year, can continue to provide and expand free medical, mental, dental and sexual and reproductive health, and health education, to teens who otherwise would not have access to care.   The event will honor BNY Mellon; Lise and Michael Evans; Barbara and Thomas Israel for their generous support and ongoing commitments to helping young people in need.  Other 2012 honorees include Ann Marie Beddoe, MD and Peter Dottino, MD Marisela Jimenez de Manzano and Alma T. Young, MSW, EdD for their amazing professional contributions to Mount Sinai.  In addition, a Lifetime Advocate for Youth Award will go to Bernice Altman Stern.  

Hospital Chairman Peter W. May will share opening remarks and followed by Mount Sinai President and CEO Kenneth L. Davis, MD.  Dean Dennis S. Charney will introduce the keynote speaker Dr. Alan E. Guttmacher, Director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, of the National Institutes of Health.

For tickets, please visit https://philanthropy.mountsinai.org/breakfastoflegends.  For additional inquiries regarding the event, please contact Tamara Ehlin at  tamara.ehlin@mountsinai.org .   For press and media inquiries, contact Theresa O’Neal at theresa.o’neal@mountsinai.org

About the Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center

The Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center is the largest freestanding providers of comprehensive outpatient adolescent health services in the world.   It offers free and confidential primary health care, sexual and reproductive health care, and mental health care and an armory of wellness, prevention and education services, all geared to empower young people to make responsible, informed decisions about their health for a lifetime, At the source for successful adolescence, the Center engages the whole teen, decreases risks, and increases long term healthy life choices.   To find out more about the Center, visit    www.mountsinai.org/ahc

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 is one of the leading medical schools in the United States. The Medical School is noted for innovation in education, biomedical research, clinical care delivery, and local and global community service. It has more than 3,400 faculty in 32 departments and 14 research institutes, and ranks among the top 20 medical schools both in National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding and by U.S. News and World Report.

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 2012, U.S. News and World Report ranked The Mount Sinai Hospital 14th on its elite Honor Roll of the nation's top hospitals based on reputation, safety, and other patient-care factors. Mount Sinai is one of 12 integrated academic medical centers whose medical school ranks among the top 20 in NIH funding and by  U.S. News and World Report and whose hospital is on the U.S. News and World Report Honor Roll.  Nearly 60,000 people were treated at Mount Sinai as inpatients last year, and approximately 560,000 outpatient visits took place.