Lawsuit alleges age, race, sex discrimination at Mount Sinai Med School

A lawsuit filed on April 26 involves the very top of Mount Sinai Health System’s Icahn School of Medicine in New York City. In the lawsuit, seven current and former female employees and one former male employee of the institution have made allegations of discrimination based on age, sex, race, religion, and national origin, with the named defendants being the school's dean, Dennis S. Charney, MD, and three others who were or are at the school's Arnhold Institute for Global Health (AIGH).