SEAVER CENTER - Key Persons
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- Associate Professor of Medicine
- Chairman of the American Society for Transplant
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- SENIOR ASSOCIATE DEAN for GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION
Adriana K. Malone, MD, is Associate Professor of Medicine (Hematology and Medical Oncology) and Medical Education at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Dr. Malone has a strong interest in medical education and leadership. She directs both the Hematology and Medical Oncology and Stem Cell Transplant and Cellular Therapy fellowships, and is Senior Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education (GME), the largest GME program in the United States. In her career, Dr. Malone has served as an educator and mentor for medical students, residents, and fellows. She demonstrates a long-standing commitment as educator for undergraduate medical students in the second-year hematology course, as an advisor for residents, and as a member of the Clinical Competency Committee. In her role as fellowship director, Dr. Malone led the merger of The Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hematology and Medical Oncology fellowship programs, creating the first Mount Sinai Health System-wide fellowship.
Dr. Malone's clinical focus is on stem cell transplantation and cellular therapy. She is particularly interested in allogeneic stem cell transplantation for the treatment of acute leukemia. She is a co-investigator and has served as site investigator on numerous clinical trials focused on the application of stem cell transplantation for the treatment of various hematologic malignancies and on improving outcomes from transplantation. Dr. Malone is a member of the Bone Marrow Transplant Disease Focus Group at The Tisch Cancer Institute.
Dr. Malone serves as Chair of the American Society for Transplant and Cellular Therapy (ASTCT) Committee on Education and is a member of the Professional Development and Education Advances Committee for the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO).
Alexander Kolevzon, MD is a Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and serves as the Clinical Director of the Seaver Autism Center and the Director of the Child Behavioral Health and Science Center for the Mount Sinai Health System.
His research interests pertain to understanding the neurobiology of autism and developing novel therapeutics. Most recently, his group has focused on studying specific genetic forms of autism, including Fragile X syndrome and Phelan-McDermid syndrome, in order to better understand the clinical presentation and to explore possible targets for pharmacological intervention.
Dr. Kolevzon leads the Experimental Therapeutics Program at the Seaver Autism Center, which conducts studies that range from small pilot trials to multi-centered pivotal FDA studies and are funded internally, through industry, and through the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Kolevzon also leads a national Rare Disease Clinical Research Consortium in Phelan-McDermid syndrome and is the Principal Investigator on the only clinical trial in the United States of a novel therapeutic for this rare disorder.
Dr. Kolevzon is a frequently invited speaker regionally, nationally, and internationally and has published numerous papers on autism, won teaching and mentoring awards for the past 10 years and written several books.
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- Associate Dean for Alumni Affairs
- Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
- PROFESSOR Orthopedics
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Dr. Alexis Chiang Colvin is a Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Associate Dean for Alumni Affairs at Mount Sinai. A graduate of Princeton University, she received her medical degree from Mount Sinai and completed her orthopaedic surgery residency at NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases. During her residency, Dr. Colvin was selected for one of the most prestigious Sports Medicine Fellowships in the country at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pittsburgh, PA. While in Pittsburgh, Dr. Colvin cared for professional athletes, including the Pittsburgh Steelers and Penguins, collegiate athletes at the University of Pittsburgh, and numerous other collegiate and high school athletes.
Dr. Colvin specializes in the surgical treatment of knee, shoulder, and hip disorders. She has authored numerous scientific publications and has presented both at national and international meetings on sports medicine and orthopaedic surgery. Dr. Colvin is a board certified orthopaedic surgeon and member of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, The American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine, Arthroscopy Association of North America and International Society for Hip Arthroscopy. Dr. Colvin is the Chief Medical Officer for the US Open, the team physician for the USA's Billie Jean King (former Fed Cup) team, and served as the Chief Medical Officer for the United States Tennis Association until its relocation to Florida. Dr. Colvin has also served as a physician at the US Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, CO. Crain's New York Business recognized her on their inaugural "Notable Women in the Business of Sports" list in 2019 and 2022 and she has been selected as one of New York Magazine's Best Doctors since 2016.
Dr. Colvin is also nationally recognized as a leader in the field of orthopaedics.
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- ASSOCIATE DEAN for MEDICAL STUDENT WELLNESS and STUDENT AFFAIRS
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- SENIOR ASSOCIATE DEAN for GENDER EQUITY in RESEARCH AFFAIRS
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- ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
- Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
- Director, Drug Discovery and Development
Ana Kostic, PhD is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and the Director of Drug Discovery and Development at the Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment. Dr. Kostic is a clinical scientist with expertise in drug development, biomarkers, patient selection and stratification. She received her PhD and postdoctoral training in molecular and cell biology at Columbia University.
Dr. Kostic spent eleven years in the biotech/pharmaceutical industry prior to joining Mount Sinai. She worked in various roles across preclinical, clinical and precision medicine at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and as Senior Director of Translational Medicine at Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals.
The main focus of Dr. Kostic's research at Mount Sinai is to identify potential drug candidates for treatment of autism, design experimental strategies for testing in neuronal cell systems and animal models, as well as to discover and validate molecular biomarkers in autism. Specifically, her group is interested in ADNP, DDX3X, FOXP1, and Phelan-McDermid syndromes, common single-gene causes of autism.
Dr. Kostic co-leads collaborations between the Seaver Autism Center and several pharmaceutical companies as well as with other academic groups. The main goal of these collaborations is to build a drug discovery pipeline and enable testing of existing drug candidates. Current partners include Scripps Florida, Rumi Scientific, Oryzon and NeuCyte.
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- Dean of Global Health, Social Justice
- Dean of Global Health, Social Justice, and Human Rights
- Director of the Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center
- Member of the Board of Directors of the New York City Department of Health
- Member of the National Academy of Medicine
- PROFESSOR Pediatrics, Adolescent Medicine
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Angela Diaz, MD, PhD, MPH is Dean of Global Health, Social Justice, and Human Rights, the Jean C. and James W. Crystal Professor in Adolescent Health, Department of Pediatrics and Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, and Professor, Department of Global Health and Health Systems Design at the Icahn School of Medicine. After earning her medical degree at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, she completed her post-doctoral training at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and subsequently received a Master of Public Health from Harvard University and Ph.D. in Epidemiology from Columbia University.
Dr. Diaz is the Director of the Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center, a unique program that provides high quality, comprehensive, integrated, interdisciplinary primary care, sexual and reproductive health, behavioral and mental health, health education, nutrition, and legal services to adolescents and young adults-all under one roof, at no cost to patients. The Center emphasizes wellness and prevention. Under her leadership, the Center has grown to serve more than 12,000 youth each year, many of whom are uninsured and would otherwise lack access to health services. This program addresses health disparities and aims for health equity.
Dr. Diaz is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, where she has sat on its governing council, been a member of the Health and Medicine Division, and served as Chair of the Board on Children, Youth, and Families, of which she is still a member. She is currently also Co-Chair of the Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability and a member of the Policy and Global Affairs Division.
She has been a White House Fellow, a member of the Food and Drug Administration Pediatric Advisory Committee, and a member of the Board of Directors of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. She also served on an advisory panel for the NIH Reproductive Sciences Branch and been a member of the National Institutes of Health State of the Science Conference on Preventing Violence and Related Health Risk Social Behaviors in Adolescents.
Dr. Diaz reviews grants for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and for the NIH Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the NIH Partners in Research Program, the NIH Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The NIH has awarded several major grants to Dr. Diaz and her research team at the Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center.
Dr. Diaz has been a member of the Board of Directors of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and President and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Children's Aid Society of New York. In 2009, Dr. Diaz was appointed by Mayor M. Bloomberg to the New York City Commission for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning (LGBTQ) Runaway and Homeless Youth Taskforce. In 2003, Dr. Diaz chaired the National Advisory Committee on Children and Terrorism for the Department of Health and Human Services.
Dr. Diaz is active in public policy and advocacy in the U.S. and has conducted many international health projects in Asia, Central and South America, Europe and Africa. She is a frequent speaker at conferences throughout the country and around the world.
Dr. Diaz has had a long-standing interest in adolescent disclosure of abuse in primary care settings, and screening for and disclosure of childhood maltreatment and trauma among urban adolescents.
Dr. Diaz and MSAHC clinicians and researchers have made use of clinical instrumentation to create an open dialogue between clinicians and adolescents in regard to their general medical and mental health. For example, we developed a mental health intake tool, called the Adquest, to assess adolescent risk exposure and problem behaviors across varied life areas (e.g. substance use, sexuality, safety, and violence). Adquest is focused on risk behaviors and protective factors (e.g. having a trusted adult to confide in) and indicators of thriving, and for the past several years has been used as with all patients seen in MSAHC's mental health program. MSAHC has conducted numerous analyses of aggregate Adquest data from 800+ patients.
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- Associate Dean of Research IT Administration
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- Director, Population Research and Environmental Epidemiology Program ( PREP )
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- Associate Dean for Graduate School Well - Being and Resilience
- Associate Professor at Mt
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- Senior Associate Dean for Student and Postdoctoral Affairs
- SENIOR ASSOCIATE DEAN for STUDENT and POSTDOCTORAL AFFAIRS Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences / ASSOCIATE DEAN for GRADUATE SCHOOL
Dr. Hanss is an Associate Professor at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine with appointments in the Departments of Medicine, Structural and Chemical Biology, and Medical Education. He is also Associate Dean in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. Most recently, Dr. Hanss was appointed as Director of Educational Programs for the Mount Sinai Institute of Technology. He received a Bachelor's Degree from Lewis and Clark College where he studied Biology, and a Ph.D. in Physiology from Tulane University. He spent a year at the National Institutes of Health as a Postdoctoral Fellow before joining the faculty at Mt. Sinai as a Research Assistant Professor in 1996.
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- Senior Associate Dean for Graduate School Administration
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- PROFESSOR Population Health Science and Policy
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- SENIOR ASSOCIATE DEAN for MASTER's PROGRAMS
Brian J. Nickerson, PhD, has over 20 years of multi-faceted experience in academic institutions, including 15 years in senior management positions ranging from Director, Department Chair, Academic Dean, to Senior Vice President. Dr. Nickerson has launched over 20 successful programs or institutes in his career, many of which were "first-of-its kind". He currently serves as the Senior Associate Dean for Master's Programs in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Director for the Health Care Delivery Leadership Program, and Professor in the Department of Population Health Science & Policy. He is responsible for related academic program development and management, digital learning, and academic partnerships.
Professor Nickerson has been teaching undergraduate and graduate students since 1993 and has produced a large body of visible action research appearing in domestic and international publications and forming the basis for changes in public policy, including healthcare issues. Moreover, he has been a frequent guest commentator on critical policy and political questions for several media outlets including The New York Times, National Public Radio, ABC News, and CBS News, as well as others.
Professor Nickerson has earned his PhD from the Rockefeller College of the State University of New York at Albany, a Juris Doctor and an MPA from Pace University, and his BA from Iona College.
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- Associate Dean for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety in Graduate Medical Education
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- DEAN for GENDER EQUITY in SCIENCE and MEDICINE
- Professor of Population Health Science
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Carol R. Horowitz, MD, MPH, is Professor of Population Health Science and Policy and, Professor of Medicine and a practicing general internist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She is the founding Director of Mount Sinai's Institute for Health Equity Research and the founding Dean for Gender Equity in Science and Medicine. Her research focuses on using Stakeholder-Engaged and Community-Based Participatory Research to address health disparities. As a continuously funded NIH investigator, her special interests are in chronic disease prevention and control, and the intersection of social, structural, biological and clinical determinants of health. All of Dr. Horowitz's clinical trial, secondary data, qualitative and mixed method research directly engages stakeholders, including community leaders, and advocates, clinicians, policymakers and entrepreneurs. The diverse and durable partnerships she helped build over three decades have informed and impacted health, policies, systems and environments, related to diabetes, obesity, kidney and cardiovascular disease, genomics, environmental health, youth, cancer, and COVID-19. Dr. Horowitz mentors diverse trainees and faculty in the US and in low and middle income countries. She is active on NIH study sections, leading NIH consortia and as an international lecturer. She received an MD from Cornell University, was a primary care resident at Albert Einstein, and earned an MPH from the University of Washington as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar. Her numerous awards include the US Department of Health and Human Services Award for Excellence for Contributions to Diabetes; Madrina (Godmother) of the NYC Three Kings Day Parade, Spencer Forman Award for Outstanding Community Service, The Rudin NYC Prize in Medicine and Health, The Jacobi Medallion and Crain's New York Business Notable in Healthcare.
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- Associate Dean for Faculty and Staff Relations
- Dean for Faculty, Staff, & Trainee Relations
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- Associate Dean for Quality and Patient Safety in Graduate Medical Education
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- Director of Psychology Training
- Director, Graduate Training
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- Director for Faculty and Staff Relations
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- Dean for Marketing and Communications
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- Dean for Medical Education
- DEAN for MEDICAL EDUCATION / PROFESSOR and SYSTEM CHAIR Medical Education
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David Muller, M.D., received his B.A. from Johns Hopkins University and his M.D. from New York University School of Medicine. He completed his Internship and Residency in Internal Medicine at The Mount Sinai Medical Center, where he spent an additional as Chief Resident. Upon completing his training Dr. Muller co-founded and directed the Mount Sinai Visiting Doctors Program. Visiting Doctors is now the largest academic physician home visiting program in the country. In May 2005 Dr. Muller was appointed Dean for Medical Education. His recent honors include the Department of Medicine's Ruth Abramson Humanism in Medicine Award in 2005, induction into the Gold Humanism Honor Society in 2004, and the Casita Maria Community Builder Award in 2002. Dr. Muller is Associate Professor of Medicine and Medical Education and is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine.
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- Chairman and Director of the Mindich Child Health
- Dean for Child Health Research
- DIRECTOR MINDICH CHILD HEALTH and DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
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Dr. Bruce D. Gelb is the Gogel Family Chair and Director of The Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, Dean for Child Health Research at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Director of the Center for Molecular Cardiology, and Professor of Pediatrics and Genetics and Genomic Sciences. He is board certified in Pediatric Cardiology by the American Board of Pediatrics.
In his quest to discover what causes congenital heart disease, Dr. Gelb has developed an extensive program in genomics and gene investigation, focusing on traits associated with heart malformations.
An expert in Noonan syndrome, Dr. Gelb has studied the genetic origins of this disease to understand its pathogenesis. Noonan and related syndromes result from mutations in several genes that encode proteins that cells use to signal from the outer membrane to the nucleus. Dr. Gelb and colleagues examine whether stem cells generated from cultured skin cells malfunction, leading to developmental disorders, and whether it is possible to coax cellular development to function normally.
At The Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, Dr. Gelb has created a collaborative multidisciplinary research environment to advance translational research into prevalent diseases of childhood. The emphasis is on the application of genetics and genomics toward elucidating the causes of illness affecting infants, children, and adolescents. To maximize resources and the impact of investigation, four centers of research areas were initially identified: Allergy and Asthma, Cardiovascular Defects, Neurodevelopmental Disorders, and Obesity and Diabetes; more recently, the MCHDI has expanded its focus to include broader topics in children's health.
Dr. Gelb is a distinguished recipient of the E. Mead Johnson Award from the Society for Pediatric Research and the Norman J. Siegel New Member Outstanding Science Award from the American Pediatric Society. He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine and the American Society of Clinical Investigation. In addition to his research, Dr. Gelb directs the Cardiovascular Genetics Program at Mount Sinai. He is the current President of the International Pediatric Research Foundation and a council member of the American Pediatric Society. After earning a medical degree from the University of Rochester Medical School in Rochester, New York, Dr. Gelb completed a pediatric residency and a pediatric cardiology fellowship at Babies Hospital of Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center and Texas Children's Hospital at the Baylor College of Medicine, respectively. He joined the faculty at Mount Sinai in 1991.
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Cardiovascular Genetics, Heart Transplantation
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- Associate Dean for Continuing Medical Education
- Internal Medicine Physician
- PROFESSOR Medicine, General Internal Medicine
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Dr. David C. Thomas is an Internal Medicine physician and a tenured Professor in the Department of Medicine, Department of Medical Education and Department of Rehabilitation and Human Performance. Since 2011, he has been the Associate Dean for Continuing Medical Education. And in 2012, he became Vice Chair for Education for the Department of Medicine for the Mount Sinai Health System.
In addition to his medical degree, he has a Master of Health Professions Education from the University of Illinois, College of Medicine. He holds board certifications from the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Since 2004, he has been the Medical Director and Co-Founder of the East Harlem Health Outreach Partnership (EHHOP), which is a student-run, attending directed free clinic for uninsured East Harlem residents.
As Vice Chair for Education, Dr. Thomas is actively involved the development and implementation of educational programs and strategies for the Department of Medicine. He oversees undergraduate medical education, graduate medical education as well as continuing medical education for all physicians in the Department across the seven campus hospitals in the Mount Sinai Health System. He is also actively involved in the recruitment, training and mentoring of interns, residents and fellows.
Additionally, he developed and is currently the Director of the Medical Education Track for the Internal Medicine Residency Programs for the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He is the Director of the Acute Musculoskeletal Medicine Clinic where he precepts for housestaff on ambulatory block rotation. In addition, he is a member of the Institute for Medical Education and an active member of the Selection Committee to help elect and recruit core medical educators for the medical school. He develops curricula and presents both nationally and internationally on topics within Internal Medicine, Primary Care and Continuing Medical Education.
He is the Chair of the Community Advisory Board for The Mount Sinai Hospital and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai where he is intricately involved in the relationship between the hospital, school and community. He is a member of a number of professional organizations including the Association of Specialty Professors, Association of Professors of Medicine, and Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine and has held leadership positions in the Society of General Internal Medicine.
Dr. Thomas has written for a variety of publications on the topics of caring for vulnerable populations, musculoskeletal medicine in primary care and a variety of medical education projects.
For her work as a co-founder of Pre-Health Dreamers (PHDreamers), Class of 2021 graduate, Dr. Denisse Rojas Marquez, jointly receives the Vilcek-Gold Award for Humanism in Healthcare. The organization provides resources to young immigrants who want to pursue and education and career in healthcare and embodies the mission of the Vilcek and Gold Foundations. Dr. Rojas Marquez, and her PHDreamers co-founder, will receive their official award at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Annual Meeting in November 2021.
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- about Dean Charney / Dean Dennis S. Charney, MD, Leads the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
- Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean / Icahn School of Medicine
- Co - Invented Patents Related to Treatment - Resistant Depression
- DEAN Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
- Dean of ISMMS, Congratulates 2017 Graduates
- Dean of ISMMS, Congratulates 2018 Graduates
- Dean of ISMMS, Congratulates 2019 Graduates
- Dean of ISMMS, Congratulates 2022 Graduates
- Dean of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Congratulates Grads
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Dennis S. Charney, MD, is Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and President for Academic Affairs for the Mount Sinai Health System. He is a world-renowned expert in the neurobiology and treatment of mood and anxiety disorders who has made fundamental contributions to the understanding of human anxiety, fear, depression, and resilience, and has played a key role in the discovery of new treatments for mood and anxiety disorders.
Dr. Charney was recruited to Icahn Mount Sinai in 2004 as Dean of Research. In 2007, he became the Dean of the School and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs of what was then known as the Mount Sinai Medical Center. In 2013, he was named President for Academic Affairs for the Health System.
Under Dr. Charney's leadership, Icahn Mount Sinai has become one of the nation's leading medical schools. He has recruited world-class faculty across the biomedical sciences, as well as in computational biology, information technology, and entrepreneurship to cultivate a supercharged, Silicon Valley-style atmosphere in an academic setting.
Icahn Mount Sinai is among the nation's top recipients of National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding, reflecting the fact that Dr. Charney has hired faculty members who are both innovative, ambitious researchers and dedicated educators.
Dr. Charney has prioritized anti-racism initiatives. He established the Mount Sinai Institute for Health Equity Research, which is working to improve health and access to care across the nation's demographic divide, and expanded Icahn Mount Sinai's efforts to promote diversity and gender equity in medicine. In June of 2020, Dr. Charney and Kenneth L. Davis, MD, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Mount Sinai Health System, convened the Mount Sinai Health System Task Force to Address Racism. The Task Force built a roadmap, currently being implemented, for leadership to address and eliminate structural racism and inequities within Mount Sinai, and to serve as a model for dismantling racism and bias in science and medicine.
As the sole medical school partnering with the eight hospitals of the Mount Sinai Health System, the Icahn School of Medicine has one of the most expansive training and research footprints in the nation. Early in his tenure as Dean, Dr. Charney unveiled a strategic plan that laid the foundation for the more than two dozen research institutes that Mount Sinai is known for today. These institutes are hubs of scientific and clinical enterprise, working together to challenge the limits of science and medicine. Within-and across-them, scientists and physicians, who themselves are members of the teaching faculty, facilitate the development of effective treatments for the most serious medical conditions. In 2017, Dr. Charney launched afive-year strategic plan for the School focusing on research and education. It provides a roadmap for continued interdisciplinary collaboration, innovation and discovery, with special emphasis on growth in precision medicine, immunotherapy, neurosciences, cancer, and cardiology.
To further advance research and achieve breakthrough results that translate to improved patient care, Dr. Charney encourages collaborative research efforts, not only within Mount Sinai, but also with leading scientific organizations. Dr. Charney established a partnership with the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany to develop digital health products that can advance precision medicine. Dr. Charney also led the development of partnerships between Mount Sinai and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, and between Mount Sinai and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. These relationships are designed to pool Mount Sinai's expertise in biomedical research and patient care with Rensselaer's and Stony Brook's talents in engineering, computation, and prototyping. Together, the institutions are developing the educational programs, research projects, and infrastructure needed to invent novel biomedical technologies while training a new breed of translationally-focused scientists.
Dr. Charney's career began in 1981 at Yale, where, within nine years, he rose from Assistant Professor to Professor of Psychiatry with tenure, a position he held for a decade. At Yale, he chaired the National Institute of Mental Health's (NIMH) Board of Scientific Counselors, which advises the Institute's director on intramural research programs. In 2000, NIMH recruited Dr. Charney to lead its Mood and Anxiety Disorder Research Program - one of the largest programs of its kind in the world -and the Experimental Therapeutics and Pathophysiology Branch.
Dr. Charney's own research on depression has led to new hypotheses regarding the mechanisms of antidepressant drugs and discovery of new and novel therapies for treatment resistant depression including lithium and ketamine. The work demonstrating that ketamine is a rapidly acting antidepressant has been hailed as one of the most exciting developments in antidepressant therapy in more than half a century. He is a co-inventor on a patent for the use of ketamine as a therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In recent years, his pioneering research has expanded to include the psychobiological mechanisms of human resilience to stress.
Elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 2000, Dr. Charney has been honored with every major award in his field for his scientific research. Thomson Reuters named Dr. Charney one of the world's most influential scientific minds in 2015. In 2016, Cybermetrics Lab (a research group belonging to the largest public research body in Spain) named Dr. Charney one of the world's most highly cited life science researchers; he stands as number 48 in a list of 1,360 researchers that appear most prominently in Google Scholar Citations. In 2017, the Cleveland Clinic identified Dr. Charney's discovery of the use of ketamine for treatment-resistant depression as one of the top 10 medical innovations of the year. He was among the recipients of the 2020 Empire Whole Health Heroes awards which recognized him for his outstanding leadership in the pandemic helping to advance biomedical exploration and safeguard the well-being of New York City's health care providers
A prolific author, Dr. Charney has written or co-authored more than 700 publications, including groundbreaking scientific papers, chapters, and books. His studies on human resilience, which identified ten key resilience factors for building the strength to weather and bounce back from stress and trauma, are summarized in an inspiring book, Resilience: The Science of Mastering Life's Greatest Challenges, co-authored with Steven Southwick and published by Cambridge University Press in 2012. Dr. Charney's other books include Charney & Nestler's Neurobiology of Mental Illnes s (Oxford University Press, USA, Fifth Edition, 2018); The Peace of Mind Prescription: An Authoritative Guide to Finding the Most Effective Treatment for Anxiety and Depression (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004); The Physician's Guide to Depression and Bipolar Disorders (McGraw-Hill Professional, 2006); and Resilience and Mental Health: Challenges Across the Lifespan (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
Drew Kiraly, M.D., Ph.D., received his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. He next completed his residency in Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine where he was a two-year chief resident and was awarded an Outstanding Resident Award from the National Institutes of Mental Health among many other accolades.
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- Medical Student Distinguished Teacher Award
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- Administrative Coordinator
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- PROFESSOR Environmental Medicine & Public Health
- Professor in the Department of Environmental Medicine
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Elizabeth J. Garland, MD, MS, is Professor in the Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health (EMPH) and the Department of Pediatrics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She has served as Director of the EMPH Division of Preventive Medicine and Community Health since 2002 and as Director of the General Preventive Medicine Residency since 1995. She continues her clinical practice at Mount Sinai's Student Health Center, where she served as Director from 1997 to 2010.
Dr. Garland is a core faculty member in the Mount Sinai Graduate Program in Public Health (MPH), serving as the MD/MPH and DPM/MPH Academic Advisor, the Health Promotion Disease Prevention Track Leader, and Director of three MPH courses. She mentors many resident and student community-based projects in East Harlem.
Dr. Garland's current research interests center on pediatric health disparities in the built environment, active living design, and nutrition. She is Principle Investigator of several projects including: i) American Cancer Society Physician Training Awards in Cancer Prevention; ii) Children's Environmental Health Foundation study to evaluate the impact of LEED-certified green housing on asthma, obesity, and social factors in the South Bronx; iii) Stand up to Work project to evaluate the impact of adjustable workstations on health; iv) Enterprise Community Partners project to evaluate the impact of substantial renovations in affordable housing to green standards on pediatric asthma; and v) An evaluation of the impact of installing bicycle racks in affordable housing on physical activity.
Dr. Garland has worked in the East Harlem community since 1981, focusing first on childhood nutrition, then on disparities in immunizations and barriers to care. Her projects there have had significant positive outcomes, including: i) improvements to New York State Department of Health funded WIC Programs; ii) an increase in immunization averages for adolescents; and iii) City Council support for an East Harlem Center of Excellence and the Harlem Asthma Network. Dr. Garland continues to work with the LSA Family Health Service in East Harlem as well as the James J. Peters VA Medical Center in the Bronx.
Dr. Garland serves on the board of directors of the Center for Active Design in New York, the advisory council for FitCity, the advisory committee for the Partnership for a Healthier New York City, in addition to several local and national guideline development committees. Nationally, Dr. Garland serves as Chair of the Graduate Medical Education Committee of the American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM), Co-Chair of the annual national GPM Residency Workshop, and as the ACPM representative onthe Council of Medical Specialty Societies. She also is a member of numerous journal review committees.
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- Associate Dean for Faculty Well - Being and Development
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- Dean for Academic Affairs / Chief Scientific Officer
- DEAN for ACADEMIC and SCIENTIFIC AFFAIRS / DIRECTOR FRIEDMAN BRAIN INSTITUTE
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Eric J. Nestler receives an honorary doctorate from Concordia University on November 19 for his pioneering research on depression and drug addiction and his advocacy for equity, diversity and inclusion. Listen to his message to the fall 2020 graduates.
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- Dean for Mount Sinai Veterans Affairs
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- DEAN for PRECISION MEDICINE
- Expert on the Generation and Integration
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Biography
Eric Schadt, PhD, is Dean for Precision Medicine, Professor of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, and Mount Sinai Professor in Predictive Health and Computational Biology. He is also founder and CEO of Sema4, a Mount Sinai Venture
Dr. Schadt is an expert on the generation and integration of very large-scale sequence variation, molecular profiling and clinical data in disease populations for constructing molecular networks that define disease states and link molecular biology to physiology. He is known for calling for a shift in molecular biology toward a network-oriented view of living systems to complement the reductionist, single-gene approaches that currently dominate biology in order to more accurately model the complexity of biological systems. He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers in leading scientific journals, and contributed to a number of discoveries relating to the genetic basis of common human diseases such as diabetes, obesity, and Alzheimer's disease.
Prior to joining Mount Sinai in 2011, he was Chief Scientific Officer at Pacific Biosciences. Previously, Dr. Schadt was Executive Scientific Director of Genetics at Rosetta Inpharmatics, a subsidiary of Merck & Co., and before Rosetta, Dr. Schadt was a Senior Research Scientist at Roche Bioscience. He received his B.A. in applied mathematics and computer science from California Polytechnic State University, his M.A. in pure mathematics from University of California, Davis, and his Ph.D. in bio-mathematics from University of California, Los Angeles (requiring Ph.D. candidacy in molecular biology and mathematics).
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- DEAN for BRONX VETERANS ADMINISTRATION AFFAIRS
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- Executive Vice President, Mount Sinai Innovation Partners
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- Assistant Dean for Graduate Medical Education
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- Dean for Diversity
- Dean for Diversity Programs, Policy, and Community Affairs
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- Senior Associate Dean for Human Subjects Research
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- Associate Dean for International Personnel Assistant Deans
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- One Mind Bipolar Research Award
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- Associate Dean for Global Health
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- Dean for Elmhurst and Queens Programs
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- Senior Associate Dean for Sponsored Programs
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- Dean for Well - Being and Resilience
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- Director
- Director of the Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment
Joseph Buxbaum, PhD is a world-renowned molecular geneticist who has been intimately affiliated with the Seaver Autism Center since joining the faculty at Mount Sinai in 1997. He was the Center's Director of Molecular Genetics for seven years prior to becoming the Director of the Center in 2008. Dr. Buxbaum has focused on understanding the molecular and genetic basis of autism, leading to the development of novel therapeutics for the negative aspects of the disorder.
Dr. Buxbaum also heads the Laboratory of Molecular Neuropsychiatry, which has taken the findings of the causes of autism and translated them into animal models where therapeutic approaches can be evaluated. In this context, Dr. Buxbaum has established the Autism Model Systems Initiative, which makes use of multiple experimental systems to develop and evaluate novel therapeutics in autism.
Additionally, he is the founder and co-leader of the Autism Sequencing Consortium, an international group of scientists who share autism samples, data, and ideas in order to accelerate our understanding of the causes and treatments of autism.
Dr. Buxbaum is a G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Professor who has received numerous awards for his research and was elected into the National Academy of Medicine, formerly the Institute of Medicine, in 2015.
Dr. Buxbaum has published more than 200 publications in esteemed journals and his work on autism and related conditions has been published in major journals including Nature, Nature Genetics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Molecular Psychiatry, and Biological Psychiatry. He is the co-editor-in-chief of Molecular Autism, a journal that publishes cutting-edge research in autism genetics.
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- Senior Associate Dean for Information Technology
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- Dean of Translational Genetics
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- Dean for Clinical Affairs
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- Associate Dean for Elmhurst and Queens Programs
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- Chief Executive Officer, Mount Sinai Health System
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- Dean for Digital and Information Technology
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- Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Well - Being and Development
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- Senior Associate Dean for Basic and Clinical Research Training
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- Dean for Clinical Therapeutics
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- Dean of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
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- Associate Dean for Clinical Research
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- Senior Associate Dean for PhD Programs
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- Chief Financial Officer
- Senior Vice President
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- Dean for Graduate Medical Education
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- Director of Community Outreach
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- Senior Associate Dean for Academic Administration
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- Dean Emeritus / Senior Associate Deans
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- Dean for Scientific Computing and Data
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- Senior Associate Dean and Vice President of Academic and Research Informatics
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- Dean for Education and Research Administration
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- Associate Dean for Research Administration
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- Associate Dean of Curriculum and Clinical Competence
- Senior Associate Dean for Curricular Affairs in Medical Education
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- Dean for Planning and Resource Management
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- Dean for Research Operations and Infrastructure
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- Dean for Industry Engagement and Conflicts of Interest
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- Associate Dean of Assessment and Evaluation
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- Dean for Translational Biomedical Research
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- Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education / Associate Dean for Trainee Well - Being in Graduate Medical Education
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- Dean of International Clinical Affiliations
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- Director, Office for Women 's Careers
- Title IX Coordinator
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- Senior Associate Dean for Basic Research
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- Dean for Therapeutic Discovery
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- Associate Dean for Cancer Program Operations
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- Associate Dean for Undergraduate Medical Education
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- Dean for Faculty Affairs and Administration
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- Senior Associate Dean for Enrollment Services
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- Dean for Cancer Innovation
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- Senior Associate Dean for MD / PhD Education / Associate Deans
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- Senior Associate Dean for Student Affairs
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- Associate Dean for Human Subjects Research
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- Dean for Artificial Intelligence and Human Health
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- Senior Associate Dean for Gender Equity in Clinical Affairs
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- Senior Associate Dean of Admissions and Recruitment