New York, New York, USA
Mount Sinai Beth Israel is a member of the Mount Sinai Health System, a non profit integrated health care system. It acts as a tertiary teaching hospital and is the University Hospital and Manhattan Campus for the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. The THANC Foundation was incorporated in April 2003 and is the largest private funder of research in the USA for these areas of cancer.
In addition to research, THANC sponsors continuing professional medical education, community awareness and education, as well as patient outreach and support programs. Under the medical direction of Dr. Mark Urken, THANC has recently been housed within the Institute for Head and Neck and Thyroid Cancer at the Phillips Ambulatory Care Center at Mount Sinai Beth Israel.
