CORRECTION: Canaccord Genuity was involved in the placement of only a portion, not all, of the 14 million shares Midtown-based Lucid Diagnostics recently sold. This information was updated in the article, “Midtown company tells investors esophageal pre-cancer screening should be an easier pill to swallow,” published Friday.
NEW DEPUTY MAYOR: Mayor Eric Adams named Suzanne Miles-Gustave as the next deputy mayor for health and human services on Friday to replace outgoing deputy mayor Anne Williams-Isom. The announcement was part of a slate of appointments to replace four deputy mayors who had recently resigned over concerns that Adams was not acting independently of the Trump administration because of his legal troubles. Miles-Gustave will oversee the city’s public health portfolio including the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. She is former acting commissioner for the state’s Office of Children and Family Services and was a senior lawyer in the city school system.
CLINIC MOVE: Mount Sinai Health System is relocating the Ambulatory Transplant Clinic at Mount Sinai Hospital on the Upper East Side, according to a filing with the state Health Department. The clinic, which performs pre- and post-transplant procedures that do not require admission, will move to a currently vacant portion of the hospital’s Guggenheim Pavilion and closer to its main transplant unit. The move is expected to cost $2 million and will increase the number of bays in the clinic from eight to 12, the filing states.
AI ROLLOUT: Memorial Sloan Kettering is expanding its use of an AI platform to document conversations between doctors and patients, making the technology available across the medical center by 2026. The Upper East Side oncology center is rolling out a platform from the San Francisco-based startup Abridge that uses AI to record clinical discussions and enter them into patients’ medical records, with the goal of allowing clinicians to focus on the patient instead of taking notes. MSK previously tested out the technology in departments including hematology, head and neck surgery and neurology, but will use the platform across all other parts of the hospital.
