Notable Alums and Professors
- Robert B. Barlow, Ph.D. - Professor of Ophthalmology, Director of Center for Vision Research
- Elizabeth Blackwell, M.D. - First woman in the United States to be awarded the degree of Medical Doctor. Founder of The New York Infirmary, now The New York Downtown Hospital.
- Joe Dervay, M.D. - NASA Flight Surgeon
- Maxwell Mozell, Ph.D. - Distinguished Service Professor of Clinical Olfactory Research Institute and Chemosensory
- Frederick Parker, M.D. - Professor of Cardiac Surgery, Chairman of the Department of Surgery
- Robert Rohner, M.D. - Professor of Pathology, Philip Armstrong Award Winner
- David P. Schenkein, M.D. - Senior Vice President Clinical Hematology/Oncology at Genentech Inc. (San Francisco, CA); Former Senior Vice President of Oncology Clinical Development at Millennium Pharmaceuticals Inc. and developer of cancer drug Velcade
- Elinor Spring-Mills, Ph.D - Distinguished Service Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology; one of the first females to ever be awarded a doctorate degree from Harvard Medical School
- Thomas Szasz - Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry
- Sid Watkins, M.D. – Professor of Neurosurgery, 1962–1970; later became head of the Formula One on-track medical team
- Irwin M. Weiner, M.D. - Professor of Renal Physiology, architect of the SUNY Graduate Research Initiative
- William J. Williams, M.D. - Professor of Clinical Medicine, author of the Williams Manual of Hematology
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