Thread by @ahandvanish

Incredible visit Thursday to the opening of Mount Sinai’s Cohen Center for Recovery from Complex Chronic Illness, led by the renowned @PutrinoLab! #LongCovid 1/

The Center is incredible and truly blew me away - designed on so many levels with patients in mind, with top notch care, using many of the most advanced tools available 2/

Some of the many tools patients are assessed with include:

-EndoPat (endothelial dysfunction)
-tilt table (dysautonomia)
-transcranial Doppler (cerebral blood flow)
-machine that identifies metabolic & mitochondrial dysfunction
-eeg & cognitive battery

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And the space is so patient friendly - the lighting is not traditional medical space lighting, there’s no visual clutter that takes extra spoons to look at, and testing is done in a dimly lit space as light is often challenging for these patients 4/

There is a strong commitment to clean air and in addition to strong ventilation systems, these Visium UV lights are all over the ceiling, which kill viruses in the air! 5/

I also got to both meet and hear the incredible @microbeminded2 speak as Scientific Director of the space, and met some online friends @betsyladyzhets @meghanor and @PamBelluck too! 6/

And heard a moving performance from cellist @joshua_cello who is also living with #LongCovid 7/

Left feeling renewed and hopeful about not only this center, but also that the team is committed to training others to building similar centers with this model!

We are so lucky to have these brilliant people on our side! Enormous appreciation to everyone involved!! 💓💓💓 8/