CCE Gastrointestinal disorders: Mount Sinai - Selection criteria

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.