Eva Andersson-Dubin

Eva Andersson-Dubin, MD and her husband, Mount Sinai Trustee Glenn Dubin, are fulfilling their vision of a personalized, integrated breast care center. Eva Andersson-Dubin, MD, has a unique perspective on breast cancer, a disease that one in eight women will face during her lifetime. Her journey has traversed an unusual path, blurring the lines dividing the traditional roles of donor, physician and patient. Ultimately, all of those experiences shaped the vision that led to the creation of the Dubin Breast Center at Mount Sinai Medical Center. The Dubins first became active with Mount Sinai when Glenn joined the Boards of Trustees in 2004. He recalls feeling honored to be asked, because "I have always admired Mount Sinai for the quality of its medical care and its commitment to the broad community." Since that time, the Dubins quickly became more involved with plans for Mount Sinai's future and actively engaged in its strategic plan. Eva felt compelled to take a leadership role in the creation of a comprehensive breast cancer center at Mount Sinai. When he met Eva, George Raptis, MD, MBA and Co-Director of the Dubin Breast Center, realized that he had discovered the perfect partner for the project, and Dr. Raptis found that “Her vision is for patient-centered care and is very much in line with my own;" he felt confident about the approach that the Dubin Breast Center needed to take in order to be successful. With a multidisciplinary focus in mind, Eva, , Dr. Port, and Dr. Raptis are shaping a program that includes space for diagnostic evaluation in radiology, surgery and reconstruction, medical treatment in form of trained breast oncologists, and infusion for chemotherapy and other therapeutics. All of these pieces allow the Dubin Breast Center to take care of patients with a variety of experiences, whether they are the “worried well" who are concerned about minimizing their risk of breast cancer, or those in treatment for breast cancer, or those in remission after having successful treatment. The Dubin Breast Center also has longterm plans to focus on nutrition and to work in tandem with integrative and complementary medicine. "One of the major advantages for patients being treated at the Dubin Breast Center is that it is housed within a top-tier academic medical center," says Dr. Port. “This allows for a fully integrated and multidisciplinary approach, which translates to seamless care for our patients." "The Dubin Breast Center of The Tisch Cancer Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Seventh Annual Fact vs. Fiction Luncheon" "The Dubin Breast Center of The Tisch Cancer Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Seventh Annual Fact vs. Fiction Luncheon"