Leadership in Times of Crisis with Zahi A Fayad, PhD | Christoph Zindel

<p>When COVID-19 hit the United States back in January of 2020, New York was one of the first cities to really feel the pressure. Hospitals had to quickly adapt to a new set of working conditions as the virus spread rapidly. It was truly a race against time in an environment where the rules kept changing as we learned more and more about how COVID-19 was transmitted.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York is the largest teaching hospital in the United States with over 50,000 students and staff. Managing a global health crisis in this type of facility comes with a special set of challenges. A teaching hospital is a place where people are frequently experiencing things for the first time. They are looking for leadership in every respect because experience is still being acquired.</p><br><p>Today our Managing Board Member Christoph Zindel interviews Dr. Zahi Fayad, Professor of Radiology and Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. As a researcher, he is one of the world leaders in the development and use of multimodality cardiovascular imaging.</p><br><p>As part of the leadership team at Mount Sinai, Dr. Zahi Fayad talks about the unique challenges that he faced from the perspective of a research hospital. It wasn’t only a challenge to manage the safety of individuals at such a large institution, but an additional dilemma concerning research funding loomed. Dr. Zahi Fayad gives us a glimpse into those early winter months of 2020 in New York.</p><br><p><strong>Some Questions asked:</strong></p><p>·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Can you describe the development in New York during the past months and weeks? (1:27)</p><p>·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;How did you manage the health of the employees? (7:36)</p><p>·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Will your staff continue working from home, and are there consequences to that? (14:26)</p><p>·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Are there innovations in medical science that have been triggered or even accelerated by the pandem