Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Mount Sinai School of Medicine of New York University
Established	1963
Type	Private
Dean	Dennis S. Charney, MD
Location	Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Website	www.mssm.edu

This page is about a medical school in New York. For other uses, please see: Mount Sinai (disambiguation)

Mount Sinai School of Medicine of New York University (MSSM) is an American medical school in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. MSSM was chartered by Mount Sinai Hospital in 1963.

MSSM and the Mount Sinai Hospital occupy a four-block area adjacent to Central Park between the communities of Carnegie Hill and Spanish Harlem, with architecture designed by I.M. Pei. MSSM and Mount Sinai Hospital comprise the Mount Sinai Medical Center, of which Kenneth L. Davis, MD, is the president and CEO.

History

The first official proposal for the establishment of the medical school was made to the hospital's trustees in January 1958. Although almost half a century had passed since a medical school had been successfully created without the participation of a university, in 1963, a charter for the school was established.^[1] The challenge of defining the new school's needs and refining its philosophy was met by, among other people, Hans Popper, Horace Hodes, Alexander Gutman, Paul Klemperer, George Baehr, Gustave L. Levy, and Alfred Stern.^[1] Milton Steinbach was MSSM's first president.^[1]

In 1968, MSSM commenced its first class of future physicians and quickly became one of the leading medical schools in the U.S., with Mount Sinai Hospital gaining international recognition for its laboratories as well as advances in patient care and the discovery of diseases.^[1]. The City University of New York (CUNY) granted MSSM's degrees.^[2]

On July 1, 1999, MSSM changed university affiliations from CUNY to New York University (NYU) but did not merge its operations with the New York University School of Medicine.^[2] This affiliation change took place as part of the merger, in 1998, of Mount Sinai and NYU medical centers to create the Mount Sinai-NYU Medical Center and Health System.^[2] This merger was dissolved in 2007, though NYU still grants MSSM’s degrees.^[3]

MSSM publishes the Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine: A Journal of Translational and Personalized Medicine six times a year.

Academic profile

Mount Sinai School of Medicine

MSSM's medical curriculum is based on the standard division of medical education in the United States (U.S.): the former two years of study are confined to the medical sciences, the latter to the study of clinical sciences. The first and second years at MSSM are strictly pass/fail; the third and fourth years feature clinical rotations at Mount Sinai Hospital as well as affiliate hospitals – including Elmhurst Hospital Center, the Mount Sinai Hospital of Queens, Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, James J. Peters VA Medical Center in the Bronx, Englewood Hospital Medical Center, and the Jersey City Medical Center in New Jersey.^[4]

MSSM's quadruplet missions (quality education, patient care, research, and community service) follow the "commitment of serving science," and the majority of students take part in some aspect of community service. Notably, this participation includes The East Harlem Health Outreach Partnership (EHHOP), which was developed by the students of MSSM to create a health partnership between the East Harlem community and the MSSM, providing quality health care, regardless of ability to pay, to uninsured residents of East Harlem.

MSSM also features a unique early-admissions program, The Humanities and Medicine Program, [1] which guarantees students admitted to that program a place in the medical school. These students, known colloquially as "HuMeds," apply during the fall of their sophomore year in college or university and do not take the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT). HuMeds make up about 25% of each year's MSSM medical class.

MSSM's student body is diverse, with the class of 2011 representing graduates of 55 colleges and universities.^[5]

Despite its academic affiliations with CUNY and NYU, MSSM owns its facilities and has its own administration, student body, faculty, admission offices and admission policies, tuition fees, and endowment. MSSM also raises its own funds. Mount Sinai is institutionally accredited through its academic affiliation with New York University. Individual educational programs are accredited through the appropriate bodies, including but not limited to LCME, CEPH, ACCME and ACGME. All degree-granting programs are registered with the New York State Department of Education.

Educational programs

Reputation

• MSSM's PhD program is ranked #3 among 53 U.S. institutions in a survey conducted by Academic Analytics in 2008 and #7 on the organization’s list of top 20 specialized research universities in biomedical health sciences.^[6].
• MSSM is ranked #22 in medical research and #2 in geriatrics among U.S. medical schools by U.S. News & World Report^[7][8]
• MSSM received $210.75 million in National Institutes of Health peer-review research funds.^[9]
• MSSM is ranked #18 among medical schools in the U.S. receiving NIH grants.^[10]
• According to an American Medical Student Association survey, MSSM is one of eight medical schools in the U.S. to receive an "A" for its conflicts of interest policies relating to pharmaceutical industry marketing.^[11]

Notable MSSM alumni and faculty

• David H. Adams, co-creator of the Carpentier-McCarthy-Adams IMR ETlogix Ring and the Carpentier-Edwards Physio II degenerative annuloplasty ring.
• Michael Arthur, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds.
• Ambati Balamurali, youngest person ever to become a doctor, according to Guinness Book of Records.
• Joshua B. Bederson, Professor and Chief of Neurosurgery and the first neurosurgeon at Mount Sinai to receive an NIH R01 grant as principal investigator.^[12]
• H. A. Berlin, American neuroscientist.
• Solomon Berson, American physician and scientist whose discoveries, mostly together with Rosalyn Yalow, caused major advances in clinical biochemistry.^[13]
• Dr. Tamir Bloom, accomplished American epee fencer.
• Dr. Steven J. Burakoff, cancer specialist, author of both Therepeutic Immunology (2001) and Graft-Vs.-Host Disease: Immunology, Pathophysiology, and Treatment (1990), and the Director of Mount Sinai Hospital's Cancer Institute.
• Robert Neil Butler, physician, gerontologist, psychiatrist, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and the first director of the National Institute on Aging.
• Alain F. Carpentier, hailed by the President of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery as the father of modern mitral valve repair.
• Thomas C. Chalmers, famous for his role in the development of the randomized controlled trial and meta-analysis in medical research.^[14][15][16]
• Dennis S. Charney, current Dean of the school and one of the world's leading experts in the neurobiology and treatment of mood and anxiety disorders.^[17]
• Kenneth L. Davis, current Chairman and C.E.O. of Mount Sinai Medical Center, who developed what is now the most widely used tool to test the efficacy of treatments for Alzheimer's Disease.
• Charles DeLisi, former Professor and Chair of Biomathematical Sciences and Professor of Molecular Biology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
• Jeffrey Flier, dean of Harvard Medical School.
• Steven K. Galson, Acting Surgeon General of the United States.
• Eric M. Genden, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Otolaryngology, who performed the first successful jaw transplant in New York State.^[18]
• Randall B. Griepp, Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery who collaborated with Norman Shumway in the development of the first successful heart transplant procedures in the U.S.^[19]
• David A. Halperin, expert on cults.
• Ravi Iyengar, Professor and founder of the Iyengar Laboratory, Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
• Jeffrey P. Koplan, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
• Philip J. Landrigan, one of the world's leading advocates of children's health.^[20]
• Michael L. Marin, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Surgery, the first in the United States to perform minimally invasive aortic aneurysm surgery^[21] and one of the first to perform a successful stent graft procedure.^[22]
• Diane E. Meier, M.D., geriatrician and MacArthur Fellow, 2008.
• Juan Mezzich, M.D., Ph.D., president of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA).
• Sean P. Pinney, current Director of both the Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Program and the Pulmonary Hypertension Program^[23]
• David L. Reich, Chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology and a pioneer in the use of electronic medical records.^[24]
• John W. Rowe, CEO and executive chairman of Aetna from 2000 to 2006.
• Aryeh Shander, recognized in 1997 by Time magazine as one of America's "Heroes of Medicine".
• Dr. Gillian Small, current University Dean for Research at the City University of New York.
• René Simard, co-author of On Being Human: Where Ethics, Medicine and Spirituality Converge.
• Joseph Sonnabend, physician, scientist and AIDS researcher, notable for pioneering community-based research, the propagation of safe sex to prevent infection, and an early and unconventional multifactorial model of AIDS.
• Paul Stelzer, professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, who helped establish the Ross procedure as the standard for aortic valve replacement.
• Samin K. Sharma, Director of Interventional Cardiology at Mount Sinai Heart.
• Dr. Annapoorna Kini
• Dr. Valentin Fuster

References

Coordinates: 40°47′22″N 73°57′14″W / 40.789475°N 73.953781°W / 40.789475; -73.953781

External links

• Official site