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–)

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

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