Contact: Kathryn Ullman
Mount Sinai Press Office
646-605-5950
[email protected]
Top Mount Sinai Executive Honored With 2018 Esperanza (Hope) Award From the Latino Commission on AIDS at Annual Cielo Gala
Newswise — NEW YORK, NY (June 6, 2018) – Jeremy Boal, MD, President of Mount Sinai Downtown and Executive Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer of the Mount Sinai Health System, was presented the 2018 Esperanza Award by the Latino Commission on AIDS at their Annual Cielo Gala on Friday, June 1, 2018, at Cipriani Wall Street in Manhattan.
The Esperanza Award was created by the Commission to recognize leaders in medical research, public health, and treatment dedicated to stemming the tide of HIV and AIDS. Dr. Boal is devoted to providing access to care and filling gaps in care for residents and workers in downtown Manhattan, including those in underserved communities. As one of the largest HIV programs in the country, The Mount Sinai Comprehensive Health Program-Downtown offers full-service HIV and AIDS primary care to the residents of lower Manhattan.
“It is an incredible honor to receive the Esperanza Award,” said Dr. Boal, who is also a Professor of Population Health Science and Policy at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. “The work of the Commission is highly aligned with Mount Sinai’s commitment to provide the best health services to our community.”
Dr. Boal became President of Mount Sinai Downtown, responsible for all Mount Sinai operations south of 34th Street in Manhattan, in October 2016. He started his Mount Sinai career as a resident in Internal Medicine and Geriatrics nearly 25 years ago, and served as Executive Director and Co-founder of Mount Sinai’s Visiting Doctors Program, which provides in-home primary care to more than 1,000 homebound patients annually, and as Vice Chair for Strategic Planning and Faculty Practice Services for Mount Sinai’s Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine, before becoming Chief Medical Officer for the North Shore-LIJ Health System (now Northwell Health) in 2011. There, he was responsible for quality and safety across the system’s hospitals, ambulatory practices, home care, and sub-acute and long-term care facilities. Dr. Boal rejoined the Mount Sinai Health System as Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer in June 2013.
Dr. Boal received his Medical degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and a Bachelor of Science degree from McGill University, Montreal, Canada. He is board certified in internal medicine with additional certification in geriatrics.
About the Mount Sinai Health System
The Mount Sinai Health System is New York City’s largest integrated delivery system encompassing seven hospital campuses, a leading medical school, and a vast network of ambulatory practices throughout the greater New York region. Mount Sinai’s vision is to produce the safest care, the highest quality, the highest satisfaction, the best access and the best value of any health system in the nation. The System includes approximately 7,100 primary and specialty care physicians; 10 joint-venture ambulatory surgery centers; more than 140 ambulatory practices throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and 31 affiliated community health centers. The Icahn School of Medicine is one of three medical schools that have earned distinction by multiple indicators: ranked in the top 20 by U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Medical Schools”, aligned with a U.S. News & World Report’s “Honor Roll” Hospital, No. 13 in the nation for National Institutes of Health funding, and among the top 10 most innovative research institutions as ranked by the journal Nature in its Nature Innovation Index. This reflects a special level of excellence in education, clinical practice, and research. The Mount Sinai Hospital is ranked No. 18 on U.S. News & World Report’s “Honor Roll” of top U.S. hospitals; it is one of the nation’s top 20 hospitals in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Geriatrics, Nephrology, and Neurology/Neurosurgery, and in the top 50 in four other specialties in the 2017-2018 “Best Hospitals” issue. Mount Sinai’s Kravis Children’s Hospital also is ranked in six out of ten pediatric specialties by U.S. News & World Report. The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked 12th nationally for Ophthalmology and 50th for Ear, Nose, and Throat, while Mount Sinai Beth Israel, Mount Sinai St. Luke’s and Mount Sinai West are ranked regionally. For more information, visit http://www.mountsinai.org/, or find Mount Sinai on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
# # #
RSS