Alumni •
Jacob M. Appel, novelist and short story author •
Michael Arthur,
Vice-Chancellor of the
University of Leeds •
Ambati Balamurali, the youngest person ever to become a doctor, according to
Guinness Book of Records •
Inna Berin, obstetrician and gynecologist •
Tamir Bloom, Olympic
epee fencer •
Robert Neil Butler, physician,
gerontologist,
psychiatrist,
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and the first director of the
National Institute on Aging •
Sophie Clarke, winner of
Survivor: South Pacific •
Sandra Fong, Olympic
sport shooter •
Jeffrey Scott Flier, dean of the
Harvard Medical School •
Scott L. Friedman, president of the
American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and pioneering researcher in the field of
hepatic fibrosis •
Rivka Galchen, author •
Steven K. Galson, former
Surgeon General of the United States •
Stuart Gitlow, former president of the
American Society of Addiction Medicine •
René Kahn,
neuropsychiatrist (
schizophrenia,
neuroimaging), Klingenstein Professor •
Arnold Martin Katz, the first Philip J. and Harriet L. Goodhart Professor of Medicine (Cardiology), and author of
Physiology of the Heart •
Jeffrey P. Koplan, former director of the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) •
Herminia Palacio, class of 1987,
Deputy Mayor of New York City under
Bill de Blasio under
Bill de Blasio and CEO of the
Guttmacher Institute •
John Rowe, CEO and executive chairman of
Aetna from 2000 to 2006 •
Charles Schleien,
pediatrician and medical researcher •
René Simard, co-author of
On Being Human: Where Ethics, Medicine and Spirituality Converge •
Benjamin (Benji) Ungar (born 1986),
NCAA-champion
fencer Faculty •
Stuart A. Aaronson, cancer biologist and the Jane B. and Jack R. Aron Professor of
Neoplastic Diseases and founding chair of
Oncological Sciences. •
Judith Aberg, infectious disease researcher, George Baehr Professor of Clinical Medicine and Dean of System Operations for Clinical Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. •
David H. Adams, co-creator of the Carpentier-McCarthy-Adams IMR ETlogix Ring and the Carpentier-Edwards Physio II degenerative
annuloplasty ring. •
Joshua B. Bederson, professor and chief of
neurosurgery and the first neurosurgeon at Mount Sinai to receive an
NIH R01 grant as principal investigator. •
Solomon Berson, American
physician and scientist whose discoveries, mostly together with
Rosalyn Yalow, caused major advances in
clinical biochemistry. •
Deepak L. Bhatt, American interventional cardiologist known for novel clinical trials in cardiovascular prevention, intervention, and heart failure. •
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
Therapeutic Immunology (2001) and
Graft-Vs.-Host Disease: Immunology, Pathophysiology, and Treatment (1990), and former director of Mount Sinai Hospital's Cancer Institute. •
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, known for his role in the development of the
randomized controlled trial and
meta-analysis in medical research. •
Dennis S. Charney, former
dean of the school and expert in the
neurobiology and treatment of
mood and
anxiety disorders. •
Kenneth L. Davis, chairman and chief executive officer of
Mount Sinai Medical Center, who developed what is now one of the most widely used tools to test the efficacy of treatments for
Alzheimer's disease. •
Charles DeLisi, former professor and chair of
biomathematical sciences and professor of
molecular biology who launched the
Human Genome Project. •
Burton Drayer, president of
Mount Sinai Hospital (2003–2008) and president of the
Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). •
Marta Filizola,
computational biophysicist, dean of the Graduate School of
Biomedical Sciences. •
Raja M. Flores,
thoracic surgeon and chief of the Division of Thoracic Surgery, noted for his role in establishing
VATS lobectomy as a standard in the surgical treatment of
lung cancer. •
Valentín Fuster, editor-in-chief of the
Journal of the American College of Cardiology, the only
cardiologist to receive the four major research awards from the world's leading cardiovascular organizations, and among the first to demonstrate that acute coronary events arise from small plaques. •
Adolfo García-Sastre, leading virologist known for pioneering plasmid-based
reverse-genetics methods for influenza, enabling detailed pathogenesis studies and improved vaccine design. •
Eric M. Genden, professor and chairman of the department of
otolaryngology, who performed one of the first successful
jaw and laryngotracheal transplants in
New York State. •
Isabelle M. Germano, professor of
neurosurgery,
neurology, and
oncological sciences, and a pioneer of image-guided
neurosurgery,
radiosurgery, and
gene therapy for
brain tumors. •
Stuart Gitlow, former president of the
American Society of Addiction Medicine and executive director of the Annenberg Physician Training Program in Addictive Diseases. •
Alison Goate, director of the Loeb Center for
Alzheimer's disease. •
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. •
Alon Harris, inventor and
co-principal investigator on
The Thessaloniki Eye Study, reportedly
ophthalmology's largest population-based study. •
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. •
Yasmin Hurd, addiction neuroscientist focused on translational neurobiological signatures of opioid addiction and the developmental effects of cannabis. •
Horace Hodes, former
Herbert H. Lehman Professor and chairman of
pediatrics. •
Ravi Iyengar, professor and founder of the Iyengar Laboratory at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. •
Ethylin Wang Jabs,
pediatrician and
medical geneticist who identified the first
human mutation in a
homeobox-containing gene. •
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 and the textbook
Neurologic Emergencies. •
René Kahn,
neuropsychiatrist (
schizophrenia,
neuroimaging), Klingenstein Professor. •
Amy Kelley, geriatrician and palliative care specialist, deputy director of the
National Institute on Aging. •
Annapoorna Kini, associate professor of
cardiology and co-author of "Definitions of Acute Coronary Syndromes" in ''Hurst's The Heart''. •
Philip J. Landrigan, advocate of children's health and pioneer in the field of pediatric environmental health. •
Jeffrey Laitman,
anatomist and
physical anthropologist, distinguished professor of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 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
Treatment of Skin Disease. •
I Michael Leitman, professor of surgery and dean for graduate medical education. •
Ihor R. Lemischka, 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 among 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 the
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. •
Henry Zvi Lothane, clinical professor, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and historian of
psychoanalysis. •
Michael L. Marin, professor and chairman of the department of surgery, the first in the U.S. to perform
minimally invasive aortic aneurysm surgery and one of the first to perform a successful
stent graft procedure. •
Helen Mayberg, psychiatrist/neurologist using
deep brain stimulation (DBS) as a treatment approach for severe, treatment-resistant depression. •
Sean E. McCance, clinical professor of
orthopaedics and listed as one of the "Best Doctors" for
spinal fusion in
Money magazine. •
Roxana Mehran,
interventional cardiologist. •
Diane E. Meier,
geriatrician and
MacArthur Fellow, 2008. •
Miriam Merad, cancer immunologist awarded the 2025
Sjöberg Prize by the
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for discoveries identifying immune-system targets for new cancer therapies. •
Marek Mlodzik, chair of the Department of Cell, Developmental and Regenerative Biology, professor of oncological sciences and
ophthalmology. •
David Muller, co-founder of the Mount Sinai Visiting Doctors Program, the largest academic physician home visiting program in the U.S., and dean for medical education at Icahn School of Medicine. •
Eric J. Nestler, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, as well as dean for academic and scientific affairs and director of the Friedman Brain Institute. •
Michael Palese, medical director of the department of
urology and among the few surgeons in the U.S. trained in open,
laparoscopic and robotic kidney procedures. •
Peter Palese, expert on
influenza and the Horace W. Goldsmith Professor of Microbiology at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. •
Giulio Maria Pasinetti, Saunders Family Chair and Professor of
Neurology, program director of the Center for Molecular Integrative Neuroresilience at the
Icahn School of Medicine. •
Sean P. Pinney, director of both the Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Program and the Pulmonary Hypertension Program. •
John Puskas, cardiac surgeon noted for performing the first totally
thoracoscopic bilateral pulmonary vein isolation procedure and co-editor of
State of the Art Surgical Coronary Revascularization, the first textbook solely devoted to coronary artery surgery. •
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, president and chief operating officer of the Mount Sinai Hospital, chairman of the department of
anesthesiology, and a pioneer in the use of
electronic medical records. •
Joy S. Reidenberg, professor of anatomy, featured in television documentaries on PBS, BBC, CBC, SBS, NatGeo, Science Channel, Discovery, Channel 4 (UK) and others, including ''Inside Nature's Giants
, Sex in the Wild
, Born in the Wild
, Mythical Beasts
, Lost Beasts Unearthed
, Whale Detective
, Humpback Whale: A Detective Story
, Brave New World with Stephen Hawking
, Big Blue Live
, Wild Alaska Live
, When Whales Could Walk
, and Mystery of the Walking Whale''. •
Elisa Rush Port, director and co-founder of the
Dubin Breast Center at Mount Sinai Health System. •
Eric Schadt, computational biologist, dean for
precision medicine. •
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. •
Stuart C. Sealfon, identified the primary structure of the
gonadotropin-releasing
hormone receptor. •
Aryeh Shander, recognized in 1997 by
Time magazine as one of America's "Heroes of Medicine". •
Joseph Sonnabend, physician, scientist and
HIV/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. •
Filip Swirski, professor, researcher and scientist, known for novel findings in linking
atherosclerosis with blood
monocytosis. •
Ilya B. Tsyrlov, biochemist, molecular toxicologist, and virologist. •
I. Michael Leitman, surgeon and dean for graduate medical education, professor in the Department of Medical Education and the Department of Surgery. •
Samuel Waxman, Distinguished Service Professor of
Oncological Science. •
Denise Cai, associate professor, neuroscientist, co-developer of the UCLA miniscope, and co-director of the Computational and Systems Neuroscience Center. ==References==