Emergency Services

• Go to your nearest ER or call one of the following:

  • • Crisis Referral Line: 888-NYC-WELL

    • National Suicide Hotline: 800-273-8255

    • MSH psychiatrist on call through the page operator at 212-241-5581

    • Psychiatric Emergency Service at 212-241-5637

Site Specific Contacts

• MSBI: Aaron Patterson, MD

  • • Tel: 646-630-6181

    • Email: aaron.patterson@mountsinai.org

• MSSLW: Paul Rosenfield, MD

  • • Tel: 212-636-1430

    • Email: paul.rosenfield@mountsinai.org

• MSH: 

  • • Jeffrey Newcorn, MD, Director of Student/Trainee Mental Health

      • • Tel: 212-659-8705

        • Email: jeffrey.newcorn@mssm.edu

    • Olga Leibu, MD

      • • Tel: 212-659-8851

        • Email: olga.leibu@mssm.edu

    • Evan Leibu, MD

      • • Tel: 212-659-8726

        • Email: evan.leibu@mssm.edu

ISMMS Student/Trainee Health Center

• 9 am-5 pm: Tel: 212-659-8805 

• Website: http://icahn.mssm.edu/education/students/health

Students and trainees may request an initial appointment with Student/Trainee Mental Health by sending an email that briefly describes the reason for the request to the following address: STMH@mssm.edu

The Center for Stress, Resilience, and Personal Growth (CSRPG)

The Center for Stress, Resilience, and Personal Growth (CSRPG) supports all Mount Sinai faculty, staff, trainees, and students. We provide evidence-based resilience training workshops and confidential behavioral health care. Our Center’s expertise in trauma and resilience guides us in developing evidence-based interventions to help our employees, by giving them tools to manage ongoing stressors in their lives.

Our services:

• Confidential, individual mental health services including psychotherapy and medication management

• Most faculty, staff and trainees have no out of pocket costs for 14 visits, and after that would be responsible for copays, if any.

• Workshops integrated into residency and fellowship programs

Factors we have found relate to resilience:

• Realistic optimism

• Facing fears and active coping

• Social supports and resiliency role models

• Self-care

• Meaning and purpose

Quick tips: here are some examples in which you can build your own resilience plan:

• Realistic optimism: start a gratitude journal and write 3 things down you're grateful for

• Facing fears: Pick one thing that you are afraid of and make a plan to face the fear. Use paced breathing in daily practice to promote acceptance and address racing thoughts.

· Box breathing (takes 16 seconds!): Breath in for a full 4 seconds, hold the breath for 4 seconds, breath out for 4, and then hold for 4.

• Social supports: identify 3 people in your life that you can turn to during difficult times. Invest 20 minutes a week in a close relationship that is important to you – you have time for that!

• Self-care: Make a routine for winding down that you do every night. Use your bed for sleeping (or sex) only – no phones, eating, TV, or worrying while there! Find some other place to do those things.

• Meaning and purpose: Take a moment to write down how you have grown from challenging situations, particularly ones that were upsetting. Connect to something greater than yourself, through nature, music, spiritual practice.

These suggestions and more are outlined in our resilience-focused app, Wellness hub, which can be found through this link, or by signing up in Sinai Central under the Employee Self Service page.

Please contact us today at 212-659-5564 or MS-CSRPG@mountsinai.org to learn more and to get support. You can also visit our website. 

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

The Mount Sinai Employee Assistance Program (EAP) offers free, confidential, short term counseling for employees and their family members. There are no fees, insurance claims, or co-pays associated with EAP services.

The program deals with common issues that may affect job performance and impair emotional health. Concerns include stress or burn-out, depression, anxiety, marital difficulties, divorce, financial stress, problems with substance abuse, eating disorders, and interpersonal conflict.

Main Line: 212-241-8937

Spiritual Care

• MSH: 212-241-7262 - www.mountsinai.org/spiritualcare

• MSBI: 212-420-2759 - www.mountsinai.org/patient-care/spiritual-care-and-education

• MSM: 212-523-2016 - www.mountsinai.org/locations/st-lukes/support-services/spiritual-care

• MSW: 212-523-6920 - www.mountsinai.org/location/west/support/spiritual-care

Internal Medicine Residency Wellness Program

• Dr. Doreen Mensah, Assistant Professor: doreen.mensah@mountsinai.org

• Dr. Sananda Moctezuma and Dr. Giulia Petrone, Chief Residents: sananda.moctezuma@mountsinai.org; giuliaevamaria.petrone@mountsinai.org