This House of Noble Deeds: The Mount Sinai Hospital, 1852-2002

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Aaronson, Stuart, 108 abdominal surgery, 133 abortion, 244–45, 334, 335 Abramson, Harold A., 54 Abramson, Isadore, 219 Abramson, Ruth, 114, 400 Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research, 331 acetylcholinesterase inhibitors, 329 ACTG 076 study, 93 Acute Care for the Elderly Unit, 212, 216 Acute Care Service (psychiatric), 327 Adams, David H., 181 Adelman, Milton, 164–65 Adelman, Ronald, 212 adenoidectomy, 280 adenomatous hyperplasia, 246 Adisman, Kenneth, 185 Adjunct (Assisting) Attending Physicians, 22 Adolescent Health Center, 308 adrenocorticotrophic hormone (ACTH), 61, 379 Aftercare Clinic, 325 aged, the: geriatric ophthalmology, 259; geriatric orthopaedics, 268; geriatric psychiatry, 207; Geriatric Psychiatry Program, 212; Geriatrics and Adult Development Department, 205–17 Agote, Luis, 76 AIDS (HIV infection): blood screening, 87–88; Gorlin and response to, 40; and hemophilia, 85; Infectious Diseases Division and, 92, 93–94, 95; nephropathies associated with, 114; Neuro-AIDS Research Program, 227; in OB/GYN patients, 251; pulmonary manifestations of, 120–21, 309; Pur-alpha in, 297; Siegal and response to, 55; Sperber’s work on, 57 AIDS Clinical Trials Group, 93, 227, 251 Aledort, Louis, 85–86, 93, 271 Alessandri, Roberto, 364 allergies (hypersensitivity), 53–57; of the eye, 259, 260; Schick and von Pirquet on, 303 allergy clinics, 53 Alston, Anna L., 129 Altchek, Douglas, 196, 199 Alumni Association, 384 Alzheimer Disease Research Center, 212–13, 330 Alzheimer’s disease, 211, 225, 297, 329, 330, 331, 349 amaurotic familial idiocy. See Tay-Sachs disease Ambrose, John A., 50 ambulance service, 200–201, 201 ambulatory care, 40–41 ambulatory surgery, 156–57, 169 American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 281 American Academy of Pediatrics, 306 American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 352 American Association for the Study of Liver Disease , 98, 294 American Association for Thoracic Surgery, 175 American Association of Clinical Chemistry, 376 American Board of Anesthesiology, 164 American Board of Emergency Medicine, 202 American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation , 354 American Board of Radiology, 349 American Board of Surgery, 144 American College of Allergists, 304 American College of Cardiology, 47 American College of Chest Physicians, 119 American College of Emergency Physicians, 202 American College of Physicians, 48 American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine, 352 American Geriatrics Society, 207, 211 American Gynecological Society, 236, 237, 238 American Neurological Association, 219, 221, 222, 225, 229 American Otological Society, 276 American Pediatric Society, 301, 302, 306 American Psychoanalytic Association, 318, 319, 320, 325 American Psychosomatic Society, 331 American Society of Hematology, 86 American Society of Neuroradiology, 350 American Surgical Association, 130–31 American Urological Association, 370 Ames Coronary Care Unit, 36, 49 aminopterin, 103 amputee rehabilitation, 356 amyloid, 331 amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, 225, 253 Anastassov, George, 189 469 Index Anesthesiology, Department of, 161–71; and Surgical Intensive Care Unit, 149, 153, 166 Angell, Ann A., 6 angiocardiography, 46, 344 angiography, 348, 349, 369 animal antihemophilic globulin (AHG), 83 ankylosing spondylitis, 335 Annenberg Building, 14, 151, 167, 232–33, 260, 272, 327–28, 356 antibiotic resistance, 92, 95 antibiotics, 92, 94, 185, 380 antibiotic susceptibility testing, 380–81 antifungal agents, 194 anti-Semitism, 13, 19, 319 Arkin, Alvin, 268, 269, 270 Arnheim, Ernest, 140–41 Arnstein, Leo, 396 Aron, Alan, 224 Aron, Jack, 399 Aron, Mrs. Jack (Jane), 399 Aronson, Edmund, 66 Aronson, Harris, 396 arsphenamine, 92 arthritis, 122–25; rheumatoid, 123, 380 arthrodesis, triple, 271 arthroscopy, 272 Arthur, Karen, 152 artificial kidney, 110–12, 368 artificial vagina, 240 Asbell, Penny, 262 asbestos, 120, 296–97 Asch, Jacob, 182 Aschoff, Ludwig, 27 Assistants (Associates) in Medicine, 31 Assisting (Adjunct) Attending Physicians, 22 Associated Alumni of The Mount Sinai Hospital, 384 Associates (Assistants) in Medicine, 31 Association of the Attending (Junior) Staff, 31 asthma, 54, 303, 304 ataxia telangiectasia-mutated gene, 340 Atran laboratory building, 12, 33, 81, 313 Atweh, George, 88 audiometry, 278, 280 Aufses, Arthur H., Jr.: as Gold-Headed Cane recipient , 386; Jacobi Medallion, 399; liver biopsies performed by, 156; on liver transplant program, 155; as Surgery Department Chair, 150–54, 157; on Surgical House Staff, 147 Aufses, Arthur H., Sr., 156, 177, 398 Aufses, Mrs. Arthur H., Sr., 398 Aufses, Mrs. Arthur H., Jr. (Harriet), 157 autoimmune phenomena, 54–55 automatic external defibrillator programs, 203 auto-polymerizing methyl methacrylate, 183 autopsies, 96, 286, 287 Auxiliary Board (Social Service Auxiliary), 8–9, 354 AZT (zidovudine), 93 Bach, Nancy, 100 Back, Irma, 164 bacterial endocarditis, 24, 28, 44, 91, 94, 289, 378 Bader, Mortimer, 399 Bader, Richard, 399 Badimon, Juan Jose, 50, 51 Badimon, Lina, 50 Baehr, George: at Base Hospital No. 3, 28, 289...