Mount Sinai School of Medicine - Notable Alumni and Faculty

Notable Alumni and Faculty

• Stuart A. Aaronson, internationally recognized cancer biologist and the Jane B. and Jack R. Aron Professor of Neoplastic Diseases and Chairman of Oncological Sciences
• David H. Adams, co-creator of the Carpentier-McCarthy-Adams IMR ETlogix Ring and the Carpentier-Edwards Physio II degenerative annuloplasty ring
• Michael Arthur, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds
• Ambati Balamurali, youngest person ever to become a doctor, according to Guinness Book of Records
• Joshua B. Bederson, Professor and Chief of Neurosurgery and the first neurosurgeon at Mount Sinai to receive an NIH R01 grant as principal investigator
• H. A. Berlin, American neuroscientist
• Solomon Berson, American physician and scientist whose discoveries, mostly together with Rosalyn Yalow, caused major advances in clinical biochemistry
• Tamir Bloom, accomplished American epee fencer
• David A. Boxstein, Past Chief of Pediatrics at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center.
• Michael J. Bronson, Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and creator of the Vision Total Hip System
• Michael L. Brodman, Chair and Professor of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science and pioneer in the field of urogynecology
• Steven J. Burakoff, cancer specialist, author of both Therepeutic Immunology (2001) and Graft-Vs.-Host Disease: Immunology, Pathophysiology, and Treatment (1990), and the Director of Mount Sinai Hospital's Cancer Institute
• Robert Neil Butler, physician, gerontologist, psychiatrist, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and the first director of the National Institute on Aging
• Alain F. Carpentier, hailed by the President of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery as the father of modern mitral valve repair
• Thomas C. Chalmers, famous for his role in the development of the randomized controlled trial and meta-analysis in medical research
• Dennis S. Charney, current Dean of the school and one of the world's leading experts in the neurobiology and treatment of mood and anxiety disorders.
• Hank Chien, plastic surgeon and Donkey Kong world record holder
• Sophie Clarke, winner of Survivor: South Pacific reality television game show
• Kenneth L. Davis, current Chairman and C.E.O. of Mount Sinai Medical Center, who developed what is now the most widely used tool to test the efficacy of treatments for Alzheimer's Disease.
• Charles DeLisi, former Professor and Chair of Biomathematical Sciences and Professor of Molecular Biology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine
• Burton Drayer, President of Mount Sinai Hospital (2003–2008) and President of Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)
• Raja M. Flores, thoracic surgeon and Chief of the Division of Thoracic Surgery who was instrumental in creating VATS lobectomy as the standard in the surgical treatment of lung cancer
• Valentin Fuster, the only cardiologist to receive all four major research awards from the world's four major cardiovascular organizations.
• Jeffrey Scott Flier, dean of Harvard Medical School
• Scott Friedman, President of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and pioneering researcher in the field of Hepatic Fibrosis
• Janice Gabrilove, inventor of patent describing initial isolation and characterization of human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF)
• Steven K. Galson, Former Surgeon General of the United States
• Eric M. Genden, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Otolaryngology, who performed the first successful jaw transplant in New York State
• Stanley E. Gitlow, Professor of Medicine and Former President of the American Society of Addiction Medicine
• Randall B. Griepp, Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery who collaborated with Norman Shumway in the development of the first successful heart transplant procedures in the U.S.
• Jack Peter Green, Founding Professor and Chairman of the Department of Pharmacology; world renowned expert in molecular pharmacology; established the first methods for measuring Ach in the brain, and the evidence for Histamine as a neurotransmitter
• David A. Halperin, expert on cults
• Andrew C. Hecht, Assistant Professor of both Orthopaedic Surgery and Neurosurgery and spine surgical consultant to the New York Jets, the New York Islanders and the New York Dragons
• Ravi Iyengar, Professor and founder of the Iyengar Laboratory, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
• Andy S. Jagoda, Professor and Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine and editor or author of 13 books, including The Good Housekeeping Family First Aid Book (ISBN 0688178944) and the textbook Neurologic Emergencies (ISBN 0071402926)
• Jeffrey P. Koplan, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• Annapoorna Kini, Associate Professor of Cardiology and co-author of Definitions of acute coronary syndromes in Hurst's The Heart
• Philip J. Landrigan, one of the world's leading advocates of children's health
• Jeffrey Laitman, anatomist and physical anthropologist, Distinguished Professor of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Professor and Director of the Center for Anatomy and Functional Morphology, Professor of Otolaryngology and Professor of Medical Education.
• Mark G. Lebwohl, the Sol and Clara Kest Professor and Chairman of the Department of Dermatology and author of the leading book on dermatologic therapy, Treatment of Skin Disease (ISBN 0323036031).
• Ihor R. Lemischka, an internationally recognized stem cell biologist and stem cell research advocate
• Derek LeRoith, Chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Disease and Director of the Metabolism Institute and the first to demonstrate the link between insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) and cancer
• Blair Lewis, Clinical Professor of Gastroenterology and instrumental in developing the International Conference of Capsule Endoscopy's consensus statement for clinical application of capsule endoscopy
• Barry A. Love, cardiologist specializing in pediatric and congenital heart problems and Director of Mount Sinai's Congenital Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory and Director of the Pediatric Electrophysiology Service
• Michael L. Marin, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Surgery, the first in the United States to perform minimally invasive aortic aneurysm surgery and one of the first to perform a successful stent graft procedure
• Sean E. McCance, Clinical Professor of Orthopaedics and listed as one of the "Best Doctors" for spinal fusion in Money Magazine
• Diane E. Meier, geriatrician and MacArthur Fellow, 2008
• Juan Mezzich, president of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA)
• David Muller, co-founder of the Mount Sinai Visiting Doctors Program, the largest academic physician home visiting program in the U.S.
• Michael Palese, Medical Director of the Department of Urology and among the few surgeons in the United States trained in open, laparoscopic and robotic kidney procedures.
• Peter Palese, world-renowned expert on influenza.
• Sean P. Pinney, current Director of both the Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Program and the Pulmonary Hypertension Program
• Kristjan T. Ragnarsson, physiatrist and Professor and Chair of Rehabilitation Medicine with an international reputation in the rehabilitation of individuals with disorders of the central nervous system
• David L. Reich, Chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology and a pioneer in the use of electronic medical records
• Joy Reidenberg, Professor for Comparative Anatomy, Center for Anatomy and Functional Morphology, Department of Medical Education
• John W. Rowe, CEO and executive chairman of Aetna from 2000 to 2006
• David Samadi, pioneer in robotic prostatectomy.
• Alan L. Schiller, Professor and Chair of the Department of Pathology and member of the Board of Directors of the National Space Biomedical Research Institute
• Bernd Schröppel, transplant nephrologist and Assistant Professor of Nephrology
• Aryeh Shander, recognized in 1997 by Time magazine as one of America's "Heroes of Medicine"
• Samin K. Sharma, Director of Interventional Cardiology at Mount Sinai Heart
• Gillian Small, current University Dean for Research at the City University of New York
• René Simard, co-author of On Being Human: Where Ethics, Medicine and Spirituality Converge
• Joseph Sonnabend, physician, scientist and AIDS researcher, notable for pioneering community-based research, the propagation of safe sex to prevent infection, and an early and unconventional multifactorial model of AIDS
• Paul Stelzer, professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, who helped establish the Ross procedure as the standard for aortic valve replacement
• Harel Weinstein, Professor of Pharmacology and subsequently Chairman of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics; established the Structural Biology Program which evolved in to the Department of Structural Biology; pioneered Bioinformatics and Systems Biology at the institution and established the first Institute for Computational Biomedicine in NYC. Currently Tri-Institutional Professor, Chair of Physiology and Biophysics, and Director of the Institute for Computational Biomedicine at Weill Cornell Medical College in NYC.