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

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• 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
• 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

• 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