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. jack peter green, founding professor and chairman of the department of pharmacology; expert in molecular pharmacology; established the first methods for measuring acetylcholine (ach) in the brain, and the evidence for histamine as a neurotransmitter alon harris, inventor and co-principal investigator on the thessaloniki eye study, reportedly ophthalmology's largest population-based study andrew c. hecht, assistant professor of both orthopaedic surgery and neurosurgery and spine surgical consultant to the new york jets, the new york islanders and the new york dragons horace hodes, former herbert h. lehman professor and chairman of pediatrics ravi iyengar, professor and founder of the iyengar laboratory, icahn school of medicine at mount sinai ethylin wang jabs, pediatrician and medical geneticist who identified the first human mutation in a homeobox-containing gene andy s. jagoda, professor and chair of the department of emergency medicine and editor or author of 13 books, including the good housekeeping family first aid book (isbn 0688178944) and the textbook neurologic emergencies (isbn 0071402926) rené kahn, neuropsychiatrist (schizophrenia, neuroimaging), klingenstein professor arnold martin katz, the first philip j. and harriet l. goodhart professor of medicine (cardiology), and author of physiology of the heart jeffrey p. koplan, former director of the centers for disease control and prevention (cdc) annapoorna kini, associate professor of cardiology and co-author of definitions of acute coronary syndromes in hurst's the heart daniel m. labow, chief of the division of surgical oncology and associate professor of surgery and surgical oncology, reputable for his work with cytoreductive and intraperitoneal hyperthermic chemoperfusion (hipec) philip j. landrigan, advocate of children's health jeffrey laitman, anatomist and physical anthropologist, distinguished professor of the icahn school of medicine at mount sinai, professor and director of the center for anatomy and functional morphology, professor of otolaryngology and professor of medical education mark g. lebwohl, the sol and clara kest professor and chairman of the department of dermatology and author of leading book on dermatologic therapy, treatment of skin disease (isbn 0323036031). i michael leitman, professor of surgery and dean for graduate medical education ihor r. lemischka, an internationally recognized stem cell biologist and stem cell research advocate derek leroith, chief of the division of endocrinology, diabetes and bone disease and director of the metabolism institute and the first to demonstrate the link between insulin-like growth factor-1 (igf-1) and cancer blair lewis, clinical professor of gastroenterology and instrumental in developing the international conference of capsule endoscopy's consensus statement for clinical application of the capsule endoscopy barry a. love, cardiologist specializing in pediatric and congenital heart problems and director of mount sinai's congenital cardiac catheterization laboratory and director of the pediatric electrophysiology service henry zvi lothane, clinical professor, internationally recognized psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and historian of psychoanalysis michael l. marin, professor and chairman of the department of surgery, the first in the u.s. to perform minimally invasive aortic aneurysm surgery and one of the first to perform a successful stent graft procedure sean e. mccance, clinical professor of orthopaedics and listed as one of the "best doctors" for spinal fusion in money magazine roxana mehran, interventional cardiologist diane e. meier, geriatrician and macarthur fellow, 2008 marek mlodzik, chair of the department of molecular, cell and developmental biology, professor of oncological sciences and ophthalmology david muller, co-founder of the mount sinai visiting doctors program, the largest academic physician home visiting program in the u.s. eric j. nestler, dean for academic and scientific affairs and director of the friedman brain institute at the icahn school of medicine at mount sinai medical center in new york paul j. kenny, chairman of the nash family department of neuroscience and director of the drug discovery institute at the icahn school of medicine at mount sinai medical center in new york herminia palacio, class of 1987, deputy mayor of new york city under bill de blasio and ceo of the guttmacher institute michael palese, medical director of the department of urology and among the few surgeons in the u.s. trained in open, laparoscopic and robotic kidney procedures. peter palese, expert on influenza giulio maria pasinetti, saunders family chair and professor of neurology. program director, center for molecular integrative neuroresilience at the icahn school of medicine sean p. pinney, director of both the advanced heart failure and cardiac transplant program and the pulmonary hypertension program john puskas, first totally thoracoscopic bilateral pulmonary vein isolation procedure and co-editor of ''state of the art surgical coronary revascularization the first textbook solely devoted to coronary artery surgery. kristjan t. ragnarsson, physiatrist and professor and chair of rehabilitation medicine with an international reputation in the rehabilitation of individuals with disorders of the central nervous system david l. reich, president and chief operating officer of the mount sinai hospital, chairman of the department of anesthesiology, and a pioneer in the use of electronic medical records ronald rieder, vestermark award recipient (american psychiatric association) john rowe, ceo and executive chairman of aetna from 2000 to 2006 elisa rush port, director and co-founder of the dubin breast center at mount sinai health system eric schadt, computational biologist, dean for precision medicine alan l. schiller, professor and chair of the department of pathology and member of the board of directors of the national space biomedical research institute charles schleien, pediatrician and medical researcher bernd schröppel, transplant nephrologist and assistant professor of nephrology stuart c. sealfon, identified the primary structure of the gonadotropin-releasing hormone receptor aryeh shander, recognized in 1997 by time magazine as one of america's "heroes of medicine" rené simard, co-author of on being human: where ethics, medicine and spirituality converge joseph sonnabend, physician, scientist and hiv/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 benjamin (benji) ungar (born 1986), ncaa-champion fencer i. michael leitman, surgeon and dean for graduate medical education, professor, department of medical education, professor, department of surgery upinder singh bhalla, neuroscientist, shanti swarup bhatnagar laureate samuel waxman, distinguished service professor of oncological sciences