icahn school of medicine at mount sinai icahn school of medicine at mount sinai the icahn school of medicine at mount sinai (ismms or mount sinai), formerly the mount sinai school of medicine, is a private medical school in new york city, new york, united states. the school is the academic teaching arm of the mount sinai health system, which manages eight hospital campuses in the new york metropolitan area, including mount sinai hospital and the new york eye and ear infirmary. icahn school of medicine at mount sinaiformer namesmount sinai school of medicinetypeprivate medical schoolestablished1963 (1963)parent institutionmount sinai health systemendowment$1.7 billion (2017)deandennis s. charneypresident & ceokenneth l. davisacademic staff1,650+ full-time6,000+ totalstudents560+ md students90+ md/phd students270+ phd studentslocationnew york city, new york, united statescampusurbanwebsiteicahn.mssm.edu mount sinai is ranked #11 among american medical schools by the 2023 u.s. news & world report. in 2021, it was ranked 15th in the country for biomedical research and leads the country in research funding from the national institutes of health for neuroscience (#2) and genetics (#2). it attracted over $400 million in total nih funding in 2021. mount sinai's faculty includes 23 elected members of the national academies of sciences, engineering, and medicine and 40 members of the american society for clinical investigation. in 2018, the md program matriculated 140 students from 6,156 applicants. the median undergraduate gpa of matriculants is 3.84, and the median medical college admission test score is in the 95th percentile. the medical scientist training program is currently training over 90 md/phd students. as one of the most selective medical schools in the u.s., mount sinai received 8,276 applications for approximately 140 md and md/phd positions for the 2021–2022 academic year. history the first official proposal to establish of a medical school at mount sinai was made to the hospital's trustees in january 1958. the school's philosophy was defined by hans popper, horace hodes, alexander gutman, paul klemperer, george baehr, gustave l. levy, and alfred stern, among others. milton steinbach was the school's first president. classes at mount sinai school of medicine began in 1968, and the school soon became known as one of the leading medical schools in the u.s., as the hospital gained recognition for its laboratories, advances in patient care and the discovery of diseases. the city university of new york granted mount sinai's degrees. the buildings at ismms were designed by notable architect i. m. pei. in 1999, mount sinai changed university affiliations from city university to new york university but did not merge its operations with the new york university school of medicine. 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. in 2003, the partnership between the two dissolved. in 2007, mount sinai medical center's boards of trustees approved the termination of the academic affiliation between mount sinai and nyu. in 2010, mount sinai was accredited by the middle states commission on higher education and became an independent degree-granting institution. on november 14, 2012, it was announced that mount sinai school of medicine would be renamed icahn school of medicine at mount sinai, following a us$200 million gift from new york businessman and philanthropist carl icahn. in 2015, mount sinai announced partnerships with the children's hospital of philadelphia as well as national jewish health, the nation's leading institutes for pediatric and pulmonary care respectively, leading to the creation of the mount sinai children’s heart center and the mount sinai – national jewish health respiratory institute. in march 2020, elmhurst hospital center, the public hospital that serves as a major training site for mount sinai students and residents, was the epicenter of new york city's initial covid-19 surge, with mount sinai house staff and faculty serving as the city's first frontline workers treating patients infected with coronavirus. mount sinai has since established itself at the forefront of research to understand and treat covid-19, being named a lead site in a $470 million study to examine the long-term effects of covid-19. 2019 lawsuit in april 2019, the icahn school was named in a lawsuit filed against mount sinai health system and several employees of the icahn school's arnhold institute for global health. the suit was filed by eight current and former employees for "age and sex discrimination as well as improper reporting to funding agencies, misallocation of funds, failing to obtain institutional review board approval prior to conducting research in violation of mount sinai and federal guidelines, and failing properly to adhere to the guidelines of the health insurance portability and accountability act or hipaa." the school denies the claims. more than 150 students at the icahn school and more than 400 icahn and mount sinai health system faculty have signed letters, addressed to the board of trustees, calling on the system to investigate these allegations. academics icahn medical institute at ismms, built in 1997 and designed by davis brody bond. mount sinai's medical curriculum is based on the standard program of medical education in the united states: the first two years of study are confined to the medical sciences, the latter to the study of clinical sciences. the first and second years are strictly pass/fail; the third and fourth years feature clinical rotations at mount sinai hospital (manhattan) and elmhurst hospital center, a major level 1 trauma center and safety-net hospital known for being situated in the "most ethnically diverse community in the world," serving an area of one million people with recent immigrants encompassing 112 different countries. other clerkship and residency training sites include the new york eye and ear infirmary, mount sinai hospital of queens, james j. peters va medical center in the bronx, mount sinai west, mount sinai morningside, and mount sinai kravis children's hospital. student body mount sinai's four-pronged 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. this participation includes the east harlem health outreach partnership, which was developed by the students of mount sinai to create a health partnership with the east harlem community, providing quality health care, regardless of ability to pay, to uninsured residents of east harlem. admissions since 1989, mount sinai has featured a unique early-admissions program, the humanities and medicine program, which guaranteed students admitted to the program a place in the medical school. these students, known colloquially as "humeds," applied during the fall of their sophomore year in college or university and did not take the medical college admission test (mcat). humeds made up about 25% of each year's ismms medical class. in 2013, the humanities and medicine program was expanded into the flexmed program. students admitted to the ismms via flexmed can pursue any major and are required to take additional coursework in ethics, statistics, and health policy in lieu of or in addition to several of the traditional pre-med requirements. the school plans to recruit half of each incoming class through the flexmed program. individual educational programs are accredited through the appropriate bodies, including but not limited to lcme, ceph, accme and acgme. the tuition for 2020 was set at us$55,316. publications the annals of global health was founded at mount sinai in 1934, then known as the mount sinai journal of medicine. levy library press publishes the journal of scientific innovation in medicine. reputation mount sinai was ranked 11th overall among research-based medical schools in the 2023 edition of u.s. news & world report. the mount sinai hospital, the teaching hospital of ismms, was listed in the 2022 edition of u.s. news & world report honor roll, with multiple specialties ranked in the top 20 nationwide (geriatrics #1, cardiology #6, endocrinology #10, neurology & neurosurgery #10, orthopedics #14, rehabilitation #14, gastroenterology #15, urology #16, pulmonology #20). the new york eye and ear infirmary of mount sinai is ranked #14 in ophthalmology. mount sinai was ranked 8th among medical schools in the u.s. receiving nih grants in 2022, and 2nd in research dollars per principal investigator among u.s. medical schools by the association of american medical colleges (aamc). mount sinai was the first u.s. medical school to establish a department of geriatrics in 1982. mount sinai's phd program was ranked 3rd among 53 u.s. institutions in a survey conducted by academic analytics in 2008 and 7th on the organization's list of top 20 specialized research universities in biomedical health sciences. notable people stuart a. aaronson, internationally recognized cancer biologist and the jane b. and jack r. aron professor of neoplastic diseases and chairman of oncological sciences judith aberg, infectious disease researcher, george baehr professor of clinical medicine and dean of system operations for clinical sciences at the icahn school of medicine at mount sinai david h. adams, co-creator of the carpentier-mccarthy-adams imr etlogix ring and the carpentier-edwards physio ii degenerative annuloplasty ring jacob m. appel, novelist and short story author 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 solomon berson, american physician and scientist whose discoveries, mostly together with rosalyn yalow, caused major advances in clinical biochemistry tamir bloom, olympic epee fencer michael j. bronson, associate professor of orthopaedic surgery and creator of the vision total hip system michael l. brodman, chair and professor of the department of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive science and pioneer in the field of urogynecology steven j. burakoff, cancer specialist, author of both therapeutic 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, known for his role in the development of the randomized controlled trial and meta-analysis in medical research dennis s. charney, current dean of the school and expert in the neurobiology and treatment of mood and anxiety disorders sophie clarke, winner of survivor: south pacific michelle copeland, d.m.d., m.d., assistant clinical professor of surgery, particularly known for her expertise on ankle liposuction and the treatment of gynecomastia kenneth l. davis, chairman and chief executive officer 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 who launched the human genome project burton drayer, president of mount sinai hospital (2003–2008) and president of the radiological society of north america (rsna) marta filizola, computational biophysicist, dean of the graduate school of biomedical sciences raja m. flores, thoracic surgeon and chief of the division of thoracic surgery, was instrumental in creating vats lobectomy as the standard in the surgical treatment of lung cancer sandra fong, olympic sport shooter valentín fuster, editor-in-chief of the journal of the american college of cardiology, the only cardiologist to receive all four major research awards from the world's four major cardiovascular organizations, and among the first to demonstrate that acute coronary events arise from small plaques jeffrey scott flier, dean of the harvard medical school scott l. friedman, president of the american association for the study of liver diseases and pioneering researcher in the field of hepatic fibrosis janice gabrilove, hematologist-oncologist and inventor of patent describing initial isolation and characterization of human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (g-csf) rivka galchen, author steven k. galson, former 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 isabelle m. germano, professor of neurosurgery, neurology, oncological sciences pioneer of image-guided neurosurgery, radiosurgery, and gene therapy for brain tumors stanley e. gitlow, professor of medicine and former president of the american society of addiction medicine stuart gitlow, former president of the american society of addiction medicine and executive director of the annenberg physician training program in addictive diseases alison goate, director of the loeb center for alzheimer's disease randall