The Jack Martin Fund has announced a commitment of $3.5 million to Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City to establish a child and adolescent imaging center.

The Jack Martin Fund Child and Adolescent Imaging Center at Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital is intended to be a 2,400-square-foot facility dedicated to advancing children’s cancer care through pediatric radiology and enabling the Mount Sinai Children’s Brain and Spinal Tumor Center to provide advanced research. To that end, the imaging center will include dedicated suites for MRI, ultrasound, fluoroscopy, and CT, which will help to significantly reduce radiation exposure.

“The Jack Martin Fund Child and Adolescent Imaging Center will help transform the way we care for children with cancer by providing imaging that is critical for diagnosis and treatment,” said Lisa M. Satlin, the Herbert H. Lehman Professor of Pediatrics and chair of the Jack and Lucy Clark Department of Pediatrics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and pediatrician-in-chief of Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital. “And by opening the door to new treatments and discoveries, the center will increase the number of clinical trials we’re able to offer these young patients.” 

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