List of deans and notable people at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine

This list includes deans, notable alumni and faculty of NYU Grossman School of Medicine.

List of deans

• John W. Draper, president of the faculty (1850–1873)
• Alfred C. Post, president of the faculty (1873–1877)
• Charles Inslee Pardee, dean (1877–1897)
• Egbert Le Fevre, acting dean (1897–1898)
• Edward G. Janeway, dean (1898–1905)
• Egbert Le Fevre, dean (1905–1914)
• William H. Park, acting dean (1914–1915)
• Samuel A. Brown, dean (1915–1932)
• John H. Wyckoff, dean (1932–1937)
• Currier McEwen, dean (1937–1955)
• Donal Sheehan, acting dean (1943–1954), dean (1955–1960)
• S. Bernard Wortis, dean (1960–1963)
• Saul J. Farber, acting dean (1963–1966)
• Lewis Thomas, dean (1966–1969)
• Ivan L. Bennett Jr., director-dean (1970–1982)
• Saul J. Farber, acting dean (1979–1987), dean (1987–1997)
• Noel L. Cohen, interim provost & interim dean (1997–1998)
• Robert M. Glickman, dean (1998–2007)
• Robert I. Grossman, dean & chief executive officer (2007–2025)
• Alec C. Kimmelman, dean & chief executive officer (2025–present)

Notable people

Alumni

• Arthur Agatston, cardiologist, MD, 1973, author of The South Beach Diet
• Naomi Amir, pediatric neurologist, MD 1952, established first pediatric neurology clinic in Israel
• Mercy Amua-Quarshie, obstetrician-gynecologist
• Glover Crane Arnold, 1873, instructor of anatomy and surgery at Bellevue Hospital Medical College and New York University's Medical College
• Michael Baden, anatomic and forensic pathologist
• Solomona A. Berson, alumnus class of 1945
• Hermann M. Biggs, alumnus class of 1883
• Martin J. Blaser, professor, MD, 1973, established the Foundation for Bacteria
• Simon R. Blatteis (1876–1968), MD 1898, New York pathologist and head of the city's public health efforts; also a faculty member of the school
• Richard A. Cash, global health researcher
• Patricia Charache, MD 1957, microbiologist and infectious disease specialist
• Samuel Charache, hematologist, discoverer of the first effective treatment for sickle cell disease
• Stella Chess, alumna class of 1939
• May Edward Chinn (1896–1980), first Black woman to graduate from Bellevue Hospital Medical College
• James Cimino (1928–2010), internal medicine and palliative care, co-inventor of the Cimino fistula
• Douglas Cines, MD, 1972, hematologist and professor, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania,
• Samuel Cochran (1871–1952), medical missionary who worked in Eastern China for over 20 years
• Barry S. Coller, MD, 1970, vice president of Rockefeller University
• Charles Rea Dickson, 1881, radiologist, electrotherapist, co-founder of the CNIB Foundation
• Edward C. Franklin, MD, pioneering immunologist
• Joseph Goldberger, discovered pellagra killing thousands of southerners in the 1920s, saved millions of lives figuring out a lack of vitamin B12 caused the disease
• William C. Gorgas, 22nd Surgeon General of the US Army, discovered vector of yellow fever in Panama
• Arthur Gottlieb, immunologist, AIDS researcher, professor at Tulane Medical School
• Daniel O. Griffin, MD, infectious disease specialist
• George Grunberger, MD, FACP, 1977
• Sidney V. Haas, MD, pioneer in celiac disease research
• William A. Hammond, alumnus class of 1848
• Frederick W. Hatch, MD, medical pioneer in Sacramento, California, former secretary of the California Board of Health (precursor to the California Department of Public Health)
• Henry Drury Hatfield, MD, 1904, United States Senate (1929–1935)
• William Howard Hay, 1891, founded the East Aurora Sun and Diet Sanatorium
• Kurt Hirschhorn, Austrian-born American pediatrician, medical geneticist, and cytogeneticist
• John Howland, pediatrician, MD, 1897
• Elizabeth Jonas, MD 1986, physician, neuroscientist and professor, Yale School of Medicine
• Eric R. Kandel, psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, MD 1955, 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Augustus C. Kinney (1871), noted expert on tuberculosis at the turn of the 20th century
• Gerald Klerman, psychiatrist and researcher
• Linda Laubenstein, HIV/AIDS researcher
• Andrew Caldwell Mailer, member of the Wisconsin State Senate 1897–1901
• Valentino Mazzia (1922–1999), forensic anesthesiologist
• Aaron E. Miller, neurologist, first chairman of the Multiple Sclerosis section of the American Academy of Neurology
• Matthew Mirones, former member of the New York State Assembly
• Raymond Rocco Monto, orthopedic surgeon, researcher, writer
• Frank Netter, medical artist and author, MD, 1931
• Norman Orentreich, MD, dermatologist, father of modern hair transplantation, creator of Clinique, and the first president of the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery
• Louis A. Perrotta, surgeon, medical researcher, academic, and hospital founder
• Walter Reed, discoverer of the vector for yellow fever
• Nicholas P. Restifo, immunologist researcher
• Walton T. Roth, psychiatrist researcher
• Albert Sabin, medical researcher, MD, 1931, developer of the oral vaccine for polio and President of the Weizmann Institute of Science
• Arthur Sackler, MD, former executive of Purdue Pharma
• Richard Sackler, MD, former chairman and president of Purdue Pharma, widely implicated in US opioid epidemic
• Jonas Salk, medical researcher, MD, 1938, discoverer of the Salk vaccine (the first polio vaccine)
• Rosalyn Scott, first African-American woman to become a thoracic surgeon
• Sam Switzer, MD, medical researcher, class of 1956
• William James Wanless, MD (F.A.C.S.) 1889
• Gerald Weissmann, cell biologist, liposome discovery, rheumatologist, 1954
• Ruth White (born 1951), Olympic fencer

Current faculty

• Dafna Bar-Sagi, PhD, professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology and chief scientific officer
• Jef D. Boeke, PhD, National Academy of Sciences
• Maurice Brodie, polio researcher
• György Buzsáki, MD, PhD, National Academy of Sciences
• Aravinda Chakravarti, professor, Department of Medicine
• Claude Desplan, PhD, National Academy of Sciences
• Orrin Devinsky, MD
• Steven Flanagan, professor and chairman of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine
• William L. Goldberg, assistant professor and assistant director of Emergency Medicine, and published author
• Avram Hershko, adjunct professor, 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Dan Littman, professor of Microbiology and Pathology; HHMI investigator
• Rodolfo Llinas, professor of Physiology & Neuroscience
• Kathryn J Moore, PhD, National Academy of Sciences and director of the Cardiovascular Research Center
• Evgeny Nudler, professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology; HHMI investigator
• Michele Pagano, professor and chair of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology; HHMI investigator
• William N. Rom, Sol and Judith Bergstein Professor of Medicine and Environmental Medicine, emeritus
• David D. Sabatini, MD, PhD, Frederick L. Ehrman Professor Emeritus of Cell Biology and research professor, Department of Cell Biology
• Regina Sullivan, PhD, professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
• Richard Tsien, DPhil
• Frank J. Veith, MD, professor of Surgery, pioneer in both open and minimally invasive vascular surgery
• Jan T. Vilcek, MD, PhD
• Joseph D. Zuckerman, surgeon-in-chief of NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital

Former faculty

• Gunning S. Bedford (1806–1870)
• Baruj Benacerraf, immunologist, professor (1956–1968), 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Joseph Dancis, former chairman, Department of Pediatrics
• Thomas Francis Jr., first person to isolate influenza virus in the United States; discovered influenza B; mentored Jonas Salk
• Charles S. Hirsch (1937–2016)
• William Holme Van Buren (1819–1883)
• L. Emmett Holt Jr., former director of Pediatrics
• Saul Krugman (1911–1995)
• Edith M. Lincoln (1891–1977)
• Otto Loewi, professor of Pharmacology, 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Alfred Lebbeus Loomis (1831–1895)
• William Thompson Lusk, president of the Bellevue Hospital Medical College
• Colin Munro Macleod (1909–1972)
• Valentine Mott (1785–1865)
• Charles Norris (1867–1935)
• Ruth S. Nussenzweig (1928–2018)
• Severo Ochoa, professor (1942–1974), 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Granville Sharp Pattison (1791–1851)
• Joseph P. Ransohoff, MD
• Howard A. Rusk (1901–1989)
• Oliver Sacks, professor of Neurology and author
• John E. Sarno, professor of Clinical Rehabilitation Medicine
• Lewis A. Sayre, first professor of Orthopedic Surgery in America
• Joseph Schlessinger, professor of Pharmacology (1990–2001)
• Homer Smith (1895–1962), professor and director of the Physiology Laboratories at NYU
• Stephen Smith, physician, MD, founder of American Public Health Association
• William Smith Tillet (1892–1974)
• William Welch, pathologist whose curriculum started Johns Hopkins Medical School

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