The Mount Sinai Alumni Association

Alumni Association History

The Mount Sinai Alumni Association was founded in 1896 to support lifelong educational and social relationships among former house staff and attending physicians of the Mount Sinai Hospital. The Alumni Association expanded to welcome members of the School of Medicine with the graduation of its first class in 1970. As the School grew, so did the membership of the Association. The alumni community now consists of: graduates of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, including the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences; current and former house staff of The Mount Sinai Hospital; and current and former faculty members. The Alumni Association focuses its philanthropic goals and priorities on those which advance the the education and training of our physicians and scientists, and the School at large.

The Alumni Board voted in October 2014 to dissolve the corporation, a move that was officially completed in April 2015. The Office of Alumni and Development was created in the Icahn School of Medicine to take over the function of the group. The name Mount Sinai Alumni Association is used in communications but is not a legal entity.

Alumni Association Members

Noura Abul-Husn ISMMS '09, MSH '14

Vice President, Genomic Health, 23andMe

Associate Professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Alan Adler MSH '93

Physician, New York Obstetrics and Gynecology, P.C.

Donald Bergman MSH '77

Clinical Professor, Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, ISMMS

Justin Bird ISMMS '04, MSH '09

Assistant Professor, Orthopaedic Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Elise Brett ISMMS '94, MSH '99

Associate Clinical Professor, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Burton Cohen, MD, MSH ’79

Associate Clinical Professor, Diagnostic, Molecular and Interventional Radiology, ISMMS

Caroline Cromwell

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology, ISMMS

Medical Director, Thrombosis Services Program, MSHS

Associate Medical Director, Cardiovascular Surgery Bloodless Management Program, MSHS

Ebby Elahi MSSM’96 MSH'00

Director, FACES Fifth Avenue and Fifth Ave. Eye Associates

Clinical Professor, ISMMS

Fanny Elahi ISMMS '11

Associate Professor, ISMMS

Ana Fernandez-Sesma, PhD, MSSM '98

Professor Medicine, Microbiology, Infectious Diseases, ISMMS

Alumni Association Members

Jeff Freed MSH '13

Owner, Jeffrey S. Freed, MD, PC

Wayne Fuchs ISMMS '79, MSH '83

Clinical Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, ISMMS

Eric M. Genden, MD, ISMMS ’92, MSH ’99

Sr. Assoc. Dean for Clinical Affairs, ISMMS

Professor and System Chair, Otolaryngology, ISMMS

Professor, Neurosurgery, ISMMS

Martin Goldstein MSH '71

Sam Guillory ISMMS '75, MSH '76

Associate Clinical Professor, Dept. of Opthalmology, ISMMS

Leo Keegan ISMMS '86, MSH '94

Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery, ISMMS

Jeffrey T. Laitman, PhD

Distinguished Professor and Director of Anatomy and Functional Morphology, ISMMS

Professor, Dept. of Otolaryngology, ISMMS

Professor, Dept of Med Ed, ISMMS

Roger Levy MSH '60

Professor, Dept. of Orthopaedics, ISMMS

Sandra Masur, PhD

Professor, Dept. of Ophthalmology, ISMMS

Richard Moss MSH '60

Assistant Clinical Professor, Dept. of OB/GYN ISMMS

Alumni Association Members

Elliot Rayfield, MD

Clinical Professor of Medicine for Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Disease at ISMMS

Jessica Reid-Adam, MD, MSH '11,'14, MSCR'17

Senior Associate Dean, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in GME, ISMMS

Program Director, Pediatrics Residency, ISMMS

Associate Professor, Pediatric Nephrology

Lyris A. Schonholz, MD, MSSM ’83

Radiologist, Schaffer Schonholz & Drossman LLP
Past President, The Mount Sinai Alumni Association

William Stein MSH '63

Asst. Clinical Professor, Dept. of Cardiology, ISMMS

Talia H. Swartz, MD, PhD, ISMMS '06, ’08, MSH ’10, '13

Senior Associate Dean for M.D.-Ph.D. Education, ISMMS

Asst. Professor, Medical Education, Infectious Disease, ISMMS

Talia H. Swartz, MD, PhD, ISMMS '06, ’08, MSH ’10, '13

Susan Wasserman ISMMS '83

Founder/Owner, Endocrine Associates of Nassau & Queens

Nathaniel Wisch MSH '61

Past Presidents

++ Alumni business suspended during World War II, 1943-46
* Died December 1903 of "a stroke of apoplexy" at age 48
** Died before taking office