# 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–)

## 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
* 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
* Sara J. Baker, Alumna class of 1917
* 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
* Edward C. Franklin, (1928-1982)
* 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
* Sidney V. Haas, MD, pioneer in celiac disease research
* Dr Mercy Amua-Quarshie, obstetrician-gynecologist
* William A. Hammond, Alumnus Class of 1848
* Henry Drury Hatfield, MD, 1904, United States Senate (1929–1935)
* William Howard Hay, 1891, Founded The East Aurora Sun and Diet Sanatorium
* Kurt Hirschhorn, (1926 - still living)
* Rochelle Hirschhorn
* John Howland, pediatrician, MD, 1897
* Elizabeth Jonas (neurologist), 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
* H. Sherwood Lawrence, (1916-2004)
* Andrew Caldwell Mailer, member of the Wisconsin State Senate from 1897 to 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, the first African-American woman to become a thoracic surgeon
* 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

* Steven Abramson, MD
* Iannis Aifantis, PhD
* 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
* Ken H. Cadwell, PhD, HHMI Faculty Scholars
* Aravinda Chakravarti, Professor, Department of Medicine
* Kathryn A. Colby, MD, PhD
* Max Costa, PhD
* Claude Desplan, PhD, National Academy of Sciences
* Orrin Devinsky, MD
* Michael L. Dustin, PhD, AAAS
* Robert J. Femia, MD
* Steven Flanagan, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine
* Robert C. Froemke, PhD, HHMI Faculty Scholars
* Steven L. Galetta, MD
* Aubrey C. Galloway, MD
* William L. Goldberg, Assistant Professor and Assistant Director of Emergency Medicine, and published author
* Lewis R. Goldfrank, MD The Herbert W. Adams Professor of Emergency Medicine, Ronald O. Perelman Department of Emergency Medicine
* John G. Golfinos, MD
* Dana R. Gosset, MD
* Marc Gourevitch, MD, MPH
* Avram Hershko, Adjunct Professor, 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
* Alec Kimmelman, MD, PhD
* Herbert Lepor, MD
* Rodolfo Llinas, Professor of Physiology & Neuroscience
* Dan Littman, Professor of Microbiology and Pathology and HHMI Investigator
* Catherine Scott Manno, MD
* Charles Marmar, MD
* Robert Montgomery, MD, DPhil
* Kathryn J Moore, PhD, National Academy of Sciences and Director of the Cardiovascular Research Center
* Richard P. Novick, MD, National Academy of Sciences
* Evegeny Nudler, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology and HHMI Investigator
* Victor Nussenzweig
* Seth J. Orlow, MD, PhD
* Michele Pagano, Professor and Chair of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology and HHMI Investigator
* Michael Recht, MD
* Danny Reinberg, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology and HHMI Investigator
* Eduardo D. Rodriguez, MD, DDS
* J. Thomas Roland Jr., MD
* William N. Rom, Sol and Judith Bergstein Professor of Medicine and Environmental Medicine, Emeritus
* Andrew D. Rosenberg, MD
* David D. Sabatini, MD, PhD, The 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
* Jessica E. Treisman, PhD
* Fred Valentine, MD, Professor of Medicine and Microbiology, co-director of the Center for AIDS Research and former head of the AIDS Clinical Trials Unit at NYU Langone Health
* Frank J. Veith, MD, Professor of Surgery, pioneer in both open and minimally invasive vascular surgery
* Jan T. Vilcek, MD, PhD
* Jeffrey N. Weiser, MD
* Joseph D. Zuckerman, surgeon-in-chief of NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital

### Former faculty

* Baruj Benacerraf, Immunologist, Professor, (1956-1968) 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
* Gunning S. Bedford (1806–1870)
* Joseph Dancis, former Chairman, Department of Pediatrics
* Dr. Austin Flint Sr. (1812–1886)
* Thomas Francis Jr. Francis was the first person to isolate influenza virus in the United States, discovered influenza B and mentored Jonas Salk
* Dr. Alvin E. Friedman-Kien, frontline AIDS fighters
* Milton Helpern (1902-1977)
* Charles S. Hirsch (1937-2016)
* William Holme Van Buren (1819-1883)
* L. Emmett Holt Jr., former Director of Pediatrics
* Saul Krugman (1911-1995)
* Alfred Lebbeus Loomis (1831-1895)
* Edith M. Lincoln (1891-1977)
* Otto Loewi, Professor of Pharmacology, 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
* 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
* Zoltan Ovary, immunologist at New York University
* Martyn Paine (1794-1877)
* Granville Sharp Pattison (1791-1851)
* Joseph P. Ransohoff, MD
* John Revere (1787-1847)
* 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
* Job Lewis Smith, described by Harold Faber as the "Father of the American Pediatric Society"
* Stephen Smith, Physician, MD, Founder, American Public Health Association
* Frank C. Spencer (1925–2018)
* Chandler A. Stetson (1921-1977)
* Howard C. Taylor Jr (1900-1885)
* William Smith Tillet (1892-1974)
* William Welch, pathologist whose curriculum started Johns Hopkins Medical School
* Arthur Zitrand, Chairman of Department of Psychiatry – died at 104. Headed psychiatry at Bellevue for at least four decades