Abstract of Recording

This is a recording of the investiture ceremony of Irving L. Schwartz, MD (1918-2011) as the first Dr. Harold and Golden Lamport Distinguished Service Professor, Physiology and Biophysics, at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Speakers at the event were: Thomas C. Chalmers, MD, Dean and President of Mount Sinai; Alfred Stern, President of the Mount Sinai Boards of Trustees; Anthony Lamport, son of Dr. Harold and Golden Lamport; and Irving Schwartz, MD. The invited speaker was Vincent P. Dole, MD.

Dr. Schwartz served as the Founding Dean of the Mount Sinai Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences as well as the Chairman of the Department of Physiology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.  He is becoming a Distinguished Service Professor as he steps down from the Dean and Chairman roles and returns to the laboratory full-time. In the recording, he discusses his relationship with Harold Lamport and their views of what graduate education should be. Dr. Schwartz also touches on how medical and graduate medical science programs should coexist in one school.

Vincent P. Dole, MD, talks about the importance of having a creative mind and how the current funding mechanisms work against creativity in science.

Transcript of Investiture (INV 0004)

Sound Recording of Investiture (INV 0004)