page_title: New York Medical College
section_title: Notable alumni
hierarchical_section_title: New York Medical College / Notable alumni
caption_attribution_description: English: NYMC Alumni House
context_page_description: New York Medical College is a private biomedical health sciences university based in Valhalla, New York. Founded in 1860, it is a member of the Touro College and University System.
  NYMC offers advanced degrees through its three schools: the School of Medicine, the Graduate School of Basic Medical Sciences and the School of Health Sciences and Practice. Total enrollment is 1,660 students in addition to 800 residents and clinical fellows. NYMC employs 1,350 full-time faculty members and 1,450 part-time and voluntary faculty. The university has more than 12,000 alumni active in medical practice, healthcare administration, public health, teaching and research.
  Part of the Touro College and University System since 2011, New York Medical College is located on a shared suburban 600-acre campus with its academic medical center, Westchester Medical Center and the Maria Fareri Children's Hospital. Many of NYMC’s faculty provide patient care, teach, and conduct research at WMC.
context_section_description: Ronald L. Arenson, M.D. – Alexander R. Margulis Distinguished Professor and chairman, Department of Radiology, University of California at San Francisco.
  Larry Boxt, M.D. – Chief, Cardiac Imaging, Department of Radiology, North Shore LIJ.
  Michael J. Bronson, M.D. – Co-Director of Joint Replacement Services at the Mount Sinai Medical Center.
  Liz Jaffee, M.D. – Co-Director, Gastrointestinal Cancers Program, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University. Nominated by President Barack Obama to the National Cancer Advisory Board in 2012.
  Harold I. Kaplan, M.D. – Professor of Psychiatry at NYU School of Medicine and founding editor of The Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, used by generations of psychiatrists in this country and around the world.
  Helen Singer Kaplan M.D., Ph.D. – A pioneer in the field of sex therapy and founder of the Human Sexuality Program at the Payne Whitney Clinic.
  Anurita Kapur, M.D. – Neurosurgeon, Executive Secretary of the Northern New Jersey United Nations Association, and Co-Chair of the Institute of All Nations for Advanced Studies.
  Joel Kupersmith, M.D. – former dean of the Texas Tech University School of Medicine, and head of the Office of Research and Development of the Department of Veterans Affairs
  Yamei Kin, M.D. - Graduate of the forerunner Women's Medical College of New York. First woman of Chinese descent to graduate medical school in America. Introduced tofu to America and researched soybean as a source of additional proteins for World War I soldiers at the USDA.
  Dale J. Lange, M.D. – Chairman, Neurology, Hospital for Special Surgery.
  Robert Jay Lifton, M.D. - Psychiatrist and writer
  William Anthony Paddon, M.D. - second-generation physician with Grenfell Mission; ship's surgeon in Royal Canadian Navy in World War II, including Battle of the Atlantic and Normandy Invasion; Lieutenant-Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador; Officer of the Order of Canada.
  Fahim Rahim, M.D. – Nephrologist, recipient of Ellis Island Medals of Honor, in 2011. Recipient of Congressional Record by US House of Representatives in July, 2011 (Hon. Dan Burton of Indiana, Co-Chair Congressional Pakistan Caucus)
  Naeem Rahim, M.D. – Nephrologist, Co-founder of Idaho Kidney Institute. Recipient of Ellis Island Medals of Honor.
  David Rose, M.D. – Chairman, Department of Medicine, Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center.
  Lurana W. Sheldon (1862–1945), writer
  Steven L. Sivak, M.D. – Chairman, Internal Medicine, Einstein Medical Center.
  Nitsana Spigland, M.D. – Chief, Division of Pediatric Surgery, NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center.
  Anthony Smith, M.D. – Chairman, Department of Medicine, New York Downtown Hospital.
  Kenneth P. Steinberg, M.D. – Program Director for Internal Medicine Residency at the University of Washington
  Susan McKinney Steward, M.D. – first African-American female physician in New York State and third in the nation. Graduated in 1870, valedictorian of her class.
  Karen Zuckerberg, M.D. – Psychiatrist and mother of Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of Facebook
caption: Alumni House is a former white colonial farmhouse that was set for demolition in 1982 but was purchased by the NYMC Alumni Association and restored to its original construction.
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