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2026 Mount Sinai Crystal Party

2026 Mount Sinai Crystal Party

Jim Tisch and Rich Friedman

Thank you for celebrating and supporting the 41st Annual Mount Sinai Crystal Party honoring Richard A. Friedman and James S. Tisch.


Thank You to all of our generous supporters:

Diamond Benefactors

Susan P. and Richard A. Friedman

Susan and John B. Hess

Merryl and James Tisch
 

Platinum Benefactors

Georgia and Donald J. Gogel 

Kitty Patterson and Tom Kempner 

Betty and John Levin 

Jennifer Prosek 

Charlotte and Alejandro Santo Domingo 

Sofia and Mike Segal
 

Crystal Benefactors

Debbie and Glenn August

Kiva and Neil J. Barr

Vanessa and Henry Cornell

Lori and Eric Friedman

Griffon Corporation

Healthfirst

Leni and Peter May

Stacey and Eric Mindich

Nancy and Daniel Neff

Zibby and Kyle Owens

Pablo Salame

Jana Pasquel de Shapiro and Adam Shapiro

Michael Urfirer and Doni Fordyce-Urfirer
 

Gold Benefactors

Marilyn Friedman and Thomas Block

Sarah Winters, MD, MS, and Brendan G. Carr, MD, MA, MS

Chartis

Compass Healthcare

Continental Grain Company

Susan R Cullman, Ellie and Edgar Cullman, and the Joseph F. Cullman Jr. Institute for Patient Experience

Bonnie M. Davis, MD, and Kenneth L. Davis, MD

Eva Andersson-Dubin, MD, and Glenn Dubin

Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz

Beth and Michael Fascitelli

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

Leesa M. Galatz, MD, MBA, and the Leni & Peter W. May Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Gilbane

Suzanne and John Golden

Katherine K. Goldsmith

Greater New York Hospital Association

Heidell, Pittoni, Murphy & Bach, LLP

Tony and Amie James

Jane Martin, PhD, and Stuart Z. Katz

André and Michael E. Koester

The Ronald and Jo Carole Lauder Foundation

Janet and Scott Lorin, MD, MBA, President, Mount Sinai Brooklyn

McAloon & Friedman, PC

Cheryl and Michael Minikes

Beth and Joshua Nash

Brooke Garber Neidich and Daniel M. Neidich

Jean and Albert Nerken Foundation

New York Cancer & Blood Specialists

The O'Toole Family Foundation

Lynn and Lewis Pell

Joan and Joel I. Picket

Ingeborg and Ira Rennert

Ira and Diana Riklis

The Rowan Family

JJR Foundation

Sara and Robert Savage

Shaub, Ahmuty, Citrin & Spratt, LLP

Shields Health Solutions

Bonnie and Tom Strauss

SullivanCotter, Inc.

TD Bank

Laurie M. Tisch

Unitex Healthcare Laundry Services

Valley Health System

VNS Health

Jane and Mark Wilf

Beth and Lenny Wilf

Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker, LLP

Barbara and Michael Zimmerman
 

Silver Benefactors

Jeffrey Bander, MD, and The Mount Sinai Fuster Heart Hospital at Mount Sinai West

Joshua B. Bederson, MD, The Leonard I. Malis, MD/Corinne and Joseph Graber Professor & Chair of Neurosurgery and the Department of Neurosurgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Deepak L. Bhatt, MD, MPH, MBA, and Mount Sinai Fuster Heart Hospital

Tracy L. Breen, MD, and the staff and leadership of Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai West

Department of Emergency Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Shelley and Steven Einhorn

Marta Filizola, PhD, and the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Evan L. Flatow, MD, Dean for Clinical Affairs, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Executive Vice President for Clinical Affairs, Mount Sinai Health System

Sander Florman, MD, and The Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Valentín Fuster, MD, PhD, and Mount Sinai Fuster Heart Hospital

Alison M. Goate, DPhil, and the Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Kimberley Harris and Matthew Miller in honor of the team at the Institute for Health Equity Research, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Joseph Herrera, DO, and the Department of Rehabilitation and Human Performance, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

René S. Kahn, MD, PhD, and the Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Roopa Kohli-Seth, MD, and the Institute for Critical Care Medicine, Mount Sinai Health System

Monica Kraft, MD, and the Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

The Lambert Family

Michael L. Marin, MD, and The Ruth J. & Maxwell Hauser and Harriet & Arthur H. Aufses, Jr., MD Department of Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Ken Miller & Lybess Sweezy

The Mount Sinai Hospital Administration

Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital and the Jack and Lucy Clark Department of Pediatrics

Mount Sinai Nursing—Executive Nurse Cabinet

The New Jewish Home

NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens

Charles A. Powell, MD, and the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Neil M. Rofsky, MD, and the Department of Diagnostic, Molecular and Interventional Radiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Adhi Sharma, MD, and Mount Sinai South Nassau

Samin K. Sharma, MD, and Mount Sinai Cardiovascular Clinical Institute

Joanne Stone, MD, and the Raquel and Jaime Gilinski Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

TGI Office Automation

David C. Thomas, MD, MHPE, and the Leni and Peter May Department of Medical Education, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

TIAA

Anonymous

Crystal Sponsors

Bobbie Abrams

Bond, Schoeneck & King PLLC

BronxCare Health System

Jennie L. DeScherer

Eric and Sarah Lane

Stacey and Curtis Lane

The Arthur Loeb Foundation

Susan and Morris Mark

Lara and Corey Metz

Denise and Andrew Saul

Jill and Sandy Sirulnick

Venable LLP

Emanuel Westfried

Anonymous
 

Gold Sponsors

Gene Bernstein and Kathleen Walsh

Elizabeth and Matthew Feuer

Elissa Gretz-Friedman, MD, and Robert Friedman

JPMorgan

Jasmin Moshirpur, MD, Dean Emeritus, and the Mount Sinai Medical Staff at NYC Health + Hospitals, Professor, Raquel and Jaime Gilinski Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Paul E. Schaper

Sheryl and Barry K. Schwartz

Jean S. Sharf

Elise McCabe Thompson and The Honorable William C. Thompson, Jr.

David E. Wheadon, MD
 

Silver Sponsors

645 Ventures

Stacey and Richard Adelson

Aireactor Systems & Services, Inc.

Diane and Anthony Arnold

Dianne and Frank Aroh

Cauldwell Wingate

Consigli Construction Co., Inc.

E-J Electric Installation Co.

EwingCole

Mrs. Enid Fisher

Cheri and Steve Friedman

Alice and Nathan Gantcher

Garfunkel Wild, P.C.

HKS Architects

Dr. Vanessa and Amaziah Howell

Interstate Mechanical Services, Inc.

Susan Klingenstein

Fay Kozas

KPF 50

MillerKnoll

Chris Mongeluzo, Newmark

Nicholas Pertoso

Lisa and Jonathan M. Pruzan

Marjorie and Stuart A. Ross

Laura and Peter Rothschild

Schwartz Sladkus Reich Greenberg Atlas LLP

Syska Hennessy Group, Inc.

Unity Construction Services, Inc.

Vanderweil Engineers

Laurie & Stephen Vogel
 

Mount Sinai Faculty & Staff Sponsors

Kelly Cassano, DO

Jodi Cohen-Ansari

Beth R. Essig, Esq. and Jeffrey L. Braun

David A. Feinberg

Douglas Fredrick, MD

Tania and Ahron Friedberg, MD

Janice Gabrilove, MD

Rosemarie Gagliardi-Rustico, EdDc, MPH, CCRA

Eric M. Genden, MD, MHCM, FACS

Stephen Harvey, CPA, MBA

Ingrid B. Hollinger, MD

Bradley Horak, MD

Paul J. Kenny, PhD, and The Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

I. Michael Leitman, MD, FACS

Kenneth Long

Jane Maksoud

Jasmin Moshirpur, MD, Dean Emeritus, and the Mount Sinai Medical Staff at NYC Health + Hospitals, Professor, Raquel and Jaime Gilinski Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Eric and Susan Nestler

Beth Oliver, DNP, RN, FAAN, and Joseph C. Deciutiis

Emma Palmer

Constance and Ramon Parsons, MD, PhD

Luis M. Isola, MD, and Margaret A. Pastuszko, MBA

Scott M. Pittman

Loida Ramos

David L. Reich, MD, and Keith L. Marran, Jr.

Kenneth E. Rosenzweig, MD

Scott J. Russo, PhD

Robert Todd Rustico, MBA

Lorrie and Stephen D. Savas

Robert “Red” Schiller, MD, and the Institute for Family Health

Kimberly R. Smith

Andrew F. Stewart, MD

Lisa S. Stump

Kaley Joyes, PhD, and Filip K. Swirski, PhD

Tracey and James C. Tsai, MD, MBA

Rachel Vreeman, MD, MS, and Stephen Best

George Wanna, MD, MHCM, FACS

Karen A. Wish

Stephanie Wisnicki, EdD, and H. Jay Wisnicki, MD

Mone Zaidi, MD, PhD, and the Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Honorees Richard A. Friedman and James S. Tisch, Chairmen Emeritus of the Mount Sinai Health System

Honoring Richard Friedman and James Tisch

The 2026 Crystal Party honored two longtime Mount Sinai Trustees, Richard A. Friedman and James S. Tisch, who ended their terms as Co-Chairmen of the Boards of Trustees in March 2026 after seven years of service. With more than 800 people in attendance, the event raised $5.1 million for Mount Sinai’s best-in-class biomedical research, clinical care, and educational enterprises. 

Supporter list as of May 28, 2026


For more information, please contact the Office of Special Events at 646-584-1274 or events [at] mountsinai.org (events[at]mountsinai[dot]org)