A team of nearly 30 medical professionals—surgeons, anesthesiologists, a pediatrician, nurses and surgical technicians—organized by Mount Sinai spent over a week in Haiti, providing lifesaving care to victims after the magnitude 7.0 earthquake on Tuesday, January 12. Michael Marin, MD, Chairman of the Department of Surgery, accompanied the boxes to Port-au-Prince, along with Ernest Benjamin, MD, (originally from Haiti) Chief of the Division of Critical Care in the Department of Surgery and Director of the Surgical ICU, Lester Silver, MD, Chief of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Sasan Roayaie, MD, Vascular Surgeon and Jean Louis Dupiton, MD, a graduate of Mount Sinai's critical care fellowship. Hospital leadership coordinated the effort to assemble and package supplies, which included medications, IV fluids, and critical care, trauma supplies and medications. In Haiti, the Mount Sinai team provided the largest medical presence at National Hospital and worked alongside teams from Norway, France, and other U.S. medical centers to help those affected by the disaster
