of medicine with 97% of them board-certified. approximately 917 graduates had served on an american medical school faculty, including 18 department chairs. affiliated hospitals and organizations located on campus, westchester medical center is the main academic medical center of new york medical college school of medicine. it is ranked among the top five hospitals in new york state for bariatric surgery, and one of 25 hospitals in the nation to receive the american heart association's 2008 triple performance award. westchester medical center has the highest case mix index of all hospitals in the united states. a significant portion of the medical school class relocates to new york city for clinical rotations, for which the primary site is metropolitan hospital center in manhattan. housing is provided for rotations that are further from the main campus, such as those in connecticut, new jersey or staten island. new york medical college affiliated hospitals and health care organizations for graduate and undergraduate medical education: westchester and upstate new york westchester medical center main hospital building westchester medical center (university hospital) maria fareri children's hospital (university hospital) phelps memorial hospital center, sleepy hollow keller army community hospital, west point saint joseph's medical center, yonkers va hudson valley health care system, montrose new york city metropolitan hospital center in manhattan metropolitan hospital center (university hospital) (manhattan) brookdale university hospital and medical center (brooklyn) calvary hospital (bronx, brooklyn) jamaica hospital medical center, (queens) lenox hill hospital (manhattan) richmond university medical center (staten island) terence cardinal cooke health care center (manhattan) wyckoff heights medical center (brooklyn) connecticut greenwich hospital norwalk hospital st. vincent's medical center (bridgeport) new jersey hoboken university medical center, hoboken st. joseph's regional medical center, paterson saint michael's medical center, newark west virginia veterans affairs medical center, beckley ambulatory care programs center for comprehensive health practice westchester institute for human development open door family medical centers matriculation and residency match on-campus housing for most medical students and some graduate students. medical students are selected from colleges and universities across the country and the first-year class typically arrives with an average composite mcat score of 512 and an average gpa of 3.6. notable alumni alumni house: colonial farmhouse saved from demolition in 1982 by nymc alumni association cornelia chase brant qualified here in 1903 and rose to lead the college. ronald l. arenson, m.d. – alexander r. margulis distinguished professor and chairman, department of radiology, university of california at san francisco. larry boxt, m.d. – chief, cardiac imaging, department of radiology, north shore lij. michael j. bronson, m.d. – co-director of joint replacement services at the mount sinai medical center. m. belle brown, m.d. – one of the few women in medicine of her time who practiced surgery harry j. buncke, m.d. - pioneering plastic surgeon, considered "the father of microsurgery." past president of the american association of plastic surgery, the american society for surgery of the hand, and the international society of reconstructive microsurgery. former professor of surgery at stanford university and the university of california san francisco. camille a. clare, m.d. – obstetrician and gynecologist, chair of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at suny downstate medical center. liz jaffee, m.d. – co-director, gastrointestinal cancers program, sidney kimmel comprehensive cancer center at johns hopkins university. nominated by president barack obama to the national cancer advisory board in 2012. clarence sumner janifer m.d. – physician, public health official, world war i medical officer, and first african american member of the new jersey state medical society. harold i. kaplan, m.d. – professor of psychiatry at nyu school of medicine and founding editor of the comprehensive textbook of psychiatry, used by generations of psychiatrists in this country and around the world. helen singer kaplan m.d., ph.d. – a pioneer in the field of sex therapy and founder of the human sexuality program at the payne whitney clinic. anurita kapur, m.d. – neurosurgeon, executive secretary of the northern new jersey united nations association, and co-chair of the institute of all nations for advanced studies. joel kupersmith, m.d. – former dean of the texas tech university school of medicine, and head of the office of research and development of the department of veterans affairs dale j. lange, m.d. – chairman, neurology, hospital for special surgery. robert jay lifton, m.d. - psychiatrist and writer william anthony paddon, m.d. - second-generation physician with grenfell mission; ship's surgeon in royal canadian navy in world war ii, including battle of the atlantic and normandy invasion; lieutenant-governor of newfoundland and labrador; officer of the order of canada. fahim rahim, m.d. – nephrologist, recipient of ellis island medals of honor, in 2011. recipient of congressional record by us house of representatives in july, 2011 (hon. dan burton of indiana, co-chair congressional pakistan caucus) naeem rahim, m.d. – nephrologist, co-founder of idaho kidney institute. recipient of ellis island medals of honor. david rose, m.d. – chairman, department of medicine, brookdale university hospital and medical center. steven l. sivak, m.d. – chairman, internal medicine, einstein medical center. nitsana spigland, m.d. – chief, division of pediatric surgery, newyork-presbyterian/weill cornell medical center. anthony smith, m.d. – chairman, department of medicine, new york downtown hospital. kenneth p. steinberg, m.d. – program director for internal medicine residency at the university of washington susan mckinney steward, m.d. – first african-american female physician in new york state and third in the nation. graduated in 1870, valedictorian of her class. isabella vandervall, md. - african-american physician, graduated in 1915. notable faculty flemming gomme graae – chief of child psychiatry william v. silverberg – professor of psychiatry, co-founder of the american academy of psychoanalysis and dynamic psychiatry