18 Notable alumni of Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Updated: June 23, 2026 EliteDegrees
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked #310 in the world and #117 in United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 18 notable alumni from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Jeffrey Brent
1946-. (aged 80)
toxicologist
Jeffrey A. Brent is a medical toxicologist who is a distinguished clinical professor of medicine and emergency medicine at the University of Colorado, School of Medicine. In addition, he is a professor at the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at the Colorado School of Public Health. He is also the past president of the American Academy of Clinical Toxicology,...
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2. Elisa Rush Port
oncologist
physician
Elisa Rush Port FACS is Associate Professor of Surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital, as well as cofounder and director of the Dubin Breast Center at the Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai Health System, since 2010. She has received four research grants, has served as an investigator or co-investigator on 15 clinical trials, published...
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3. Nary Ly
1972-. (aged 54)
athletics competitor
scientist
Nary Ly is a Cambodian long-distance runner. She finished in last place in the 2016 Olympic marathon of the 133 athletes to complete the course.
4. Joel S. Schuman
1980-1984 (aged 4)
ophthalmologist
researcher
physician
Joel S. Schuman, MD, FACS is Professor of Ophthalmology, the Kenneth L. Roper Endowed Chair, Vice Chair for Research Innovation, co-director of the Glaucoma Service at Wills Eye Hospital, Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Drexel University School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems, Collaborative Community of Ophthalmic Imaging president, and American Glaucoma Society (AGS) Foundation advisory board chair. Prior...
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5. Jeffrey Scott Flier
1948-. (aged 78)
university teacher
biomedical scientist
academic administrator
Jeffrey Flier is an American physician, endocrinologist; widely cited scientist; the Higginson Professor of Medicine and Physiology at Harvard Medical School; and a Distinguished Service Professor at the same institution. He was the 21st Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard University from 2007 to 2016.
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6. Scott L. Friedman
1955-. (aged 71)
researcher
physician
Scott L. Friedman is an American scientist, professor and physician who works in the field of hepatology. Friedman has conducted pioneering research into the underlying causes of scarring, or fibrosis, associated with chronic liver disease, by characterizing the key fibrogenic cell type, the hepatic stellate cell His laboratory has also discovered a novel tumor suppressor gene, KLF6 that is inactivated...
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7. Hank Chien
1974-. (aged 52)
professional gamer
Hank Chien is a former world record holder and two-time "Kong-Off" Champion of the video game Donkey Kong. As of January 2016, his personal best sits at 1,138,600. Chien won the first Kong-Off, a Donkey Kong competition which occurred on March 19–20, 2011. The competition featured Steve Wiebe, Billy Mitchell and eight other competitors. Chien won with a score of...
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8. Sharon Moalem
1977-. (aged 49)
writer
geneticist
scientist
physician
Sharon Moalem is a Canadian–American physician, scientist, and author. Dr. Moalem is an expert in the fields of rare diseases, sex differentiation, neurogenetics, biotechnology and has been described as a polymath. He is the author of the New York Times bestselling book Survival of the Sickest, as well as How Sex Works, Inheritance and The Better Half. His clinical genetics...
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9. Kenneth L. Davis
1947-. (aged 79)
academic
psychiatrist
Kenneth L. Davis is the executive vice chairperson of the board of trustees at the Mount Sinai Health System in New York City, and an American author and medical researcher who developed the Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale, the most widely used tool to test the efficacy of treatments for Alzheimer's disease designed specifically to evaluate the severity of cognitive and...
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10. Vincent Racaniello
1953-. (aged 73)
immunologist
writer
biologist
university teacher
microbiologist
Vincent R. Racaniello is a Higgins Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is a co-author of a textbook on virology, Principles of Virology.
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11. Steven K. Galson
1956-. (aged 70)
physician
Steven Kenneth Galson is an American public health physician. He is currently a Senior Advisor at the Boston Consulting Group and Independent Board Member at Biocryst Pharmaceuticals and Elephas Biosciences. Until 2021 he was Senior Vice President for Research and Development at Amgen, the California-based biopharmaceutical company. He is also a Trustee and Professor-at-Large at the Keck Graduate Institute for...
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12. Scott Gottlieb
1972-. (aged 54)
politician
physician
Scott Gottlieb is an American physician and investor who previously served as the 23rd commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from May 2017 until April 2019. He is presently a senior fellow at the conservative think tank the American Enterprise Institute (AEI); a partner at the venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates (NEA); and a member of the...
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13. Rivka Galchen
1976-. (aged 50)
university teacher
novelist
writer
Rivka Galchen is a Canadian American writer. Her first novel, Atmospheric Disturbances, was published in 2008 and was awarded the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. She is the author of five books and a staff writer at The New Yorker.
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14. Jacob M. Appel
1973-. (aged 53)
university teacher
psychiatrist
journalist
medical writer
writer
Jacob M. Appel is an American polymath, author, bioethicist, physician, lawyer, and social critic. He is best known for his short stories, his work as a playwright, and his writing in the fields of reproductive ethics, organ donation, neuroethics, and euthanasia. He is also an authority on the health of United States Presidents.
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15. Balamurali Ambati
1977-. (aged 49)
ophthalmologist
Balamurali Krishna "Bala" Ambati is an Indian-American ophthalmologist, educator, and researcher. On May 19, 1995, he entered the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's youngest doctor, at the age of 17 years, 294 days.
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16. Deepak T. Nair
1973-. (aged 53)
academic
Deepak Thankappan Nair is an Indian Structural Biologist and a scientist at the Regional Centre for Biotechnology. He is known for his studies on DNA and RNA polymerases. Deepak was a Ramanujan fellow of the Science and Engineering Research Board (2008–2013) and a recipient of the National BioScience Award for Career Development (Dept of Biotechnology). The Council of Scientific and...
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17. Kanaka Rajan
neuroscientist
Kanaka Rajan is a computational neuroscientist in the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School and founding faculty in the Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard University. Rajan trained in engineering, biophysics, and neuroscience, and has pioneered novel methods and models to understand how the brain processes sensory information. Her research seeks to understand...
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18. Upinder Singh Bhalla
1963-. (aged 63)
neuroscientist
Upinder Singh Bhalla is an Indian computational neuroscientist, academic and a professor at National Centre for Biological Sciences of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. He is known for his studies on neuronal and synaptic signalling in memory and olfactory coding using computational and experimental methods and is an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and the Indian...
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