29 Notable alumni of New York Medical College

Mary Belle Brown, M.D. was an American physician and surgeon, one of the few women in medicine of her time to perform surgery. She was professor and dean of the New York Medical College and Hospital for Women.

Isabella Vandervall was an African-American physician, gynecologist and a prominent advocate for the birth control movement in New York City. She attended the New York Medical College for Women, from which she graduated at the top of her class.

Adelaide Dorn Wallerstein McConnell was an American translator, medical doctor, lawyer, and clubwoman, based in New York City.

Jeanne de la Montagnie Lozier was an American physician and educator from New York City. She worked as an instructor of languages and literature in Hillsdale College from the age of nineteen, and after earning her medical degree from New York Medical College, became a professor of physiology. She was a delegate to the International Homoeopathic Congress in Paris in...

Harriet Clisby was an English physician, women's rights activist, and founder of the Women's Educational and Industrial Union in Boston.

Harriett Alleyne Rice was the first African American to graduate from Wellesley College. During World War 1, Dr. Rice served with the Service de Santé, the French Medical Corps. She was awarded the Medal of French Gratitude for her medical service.

Paige V. Kreegel is a physician and was previously a Republican representative in the Florida House of Representatives, where he represented District 72 - which covers all of De Soto County and parts of Charlotte County and Lee County. Kreegel was first elected to the Florida House in 2004, and was unopposed for re-election in 2006. He is a physician...

Lurana W. Sheldon was an American author of novels, poems, and short stories, as well as a newspaper editor. Her published work amounted to over one million words. She claimed to have earned her living in fifteen different and totally dissimilar lines of business, including bookkeeping, business management, journalism, work in a chemical laboratory, buying dry goods, and writing stories....

John-Ross Rizzo, M.D.,M.S.C.I, F.A.C.R.M is an American physician-scientist-leader, disability and rehabilitation authority, and inclusion advocate whose work bridges basic neuroscience, computational motor control, clinical rehabilitation, biomedical engineering, and disability policy. His scholarly program connects foundational theories of visuomotor integration and sensorimotor learning with translational approaches in assistive technology, mobile health, and universal design. Rizzo is widely recognized as a national...

Jeffrey P. Nadler was an American Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS expert. His most recent position had been as Acting Director and Assistant Director of the Therapeutics Research Program, Division of AIDS (DAIDS), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) where he oversaw NIH/NIAID-sponsored national and international HIV/AIDS research.

George Herbert Taylor was an American physician and inventor associated with the natural hygiene and physical culture movements. He was known for his practice of homeopathy and introducing Swedish massage to the United States.

Edwin Hamilton Davis was an American physician and self taught archaeologist who completed pioneering investigations of the mound builders in the Mississippi Valley. Davis gathered what, at that time, was the largest privately held collection of prehistoric Indian artifacts in the United States.

Dan Koenig Morhaim is an American politician, physician, and author. He was a member of the Maryland House of Delegates representing northwest Baltimore County from 1995 to 2019. He sponsored legislation concerning healthcare, the environment, and streamlining government operations. As an author, Morhaim has written articles for medical publications and the general media at large.

John S. Marr is an American physician, epidemiologist, and author. His professional life has concerned outbreaks of infectious disease and thus his subsequent writing career has focused on that topic, particularly historical epidemics.

Lucy Dorothy Ozarin was a psychiatrist who served in the United States Navy. She was one of the first women psychiatrists commissioned in the Navy, and she was one of seven female Navy psychiatrists who served during World War II.

Elizabeth M. Jaffee is an American oncologist specializing in pancreatic cancer and immunotherapy.

Joseph Plumb Cochran, M.D., was an American Presbyterian missionary and medical doctor. He is credited as the founding father of Iran's first modern Western medical school, Westminster College (now Urmia University) in 1879.

Kin Yamei also seen as Chin Ya-mei or Jin Yunmei, or anglicized as Y. May King, was a Chinese-born, American-raised doctor, hospital administrator, educator, and nutrition expert. She is credited with introducing tofu to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) during World War I.

Susan Maria McKinney Steward was an American physician and author. She was the third African-American woman to earn a medical degree, and the first in New York state.

Bernard John Dowling Irwin was an assistant army surgeon during the Apache Wars and the first (chronologically by action) Medal of Honor recipient. His actions on February 13, 1861, are the earliest for which the Medal of Honor was awarded.

Myra Adele Logan is known as the first African American female physician, surgeon, and anatomist to perform a successful open-heart surgery. Following this accomplishment, Logan focused her work on children's heart surgery and was involved in the development of the antibiotic Aureomycin which treated bacterial, viral, and rickettsial diseases with the majority of her medical practice done at the Harlem...

Jane Cooke Wright, also known as Jane Jones, was a pioneering cancer researcher and surgeon noted for her contributions to chemotherapy. In particular, Wright is credited with developing the technique of using human tissue culture rather than laboratory mice to test the effects of potential drugs on cancer cells. She also pioneered the use of the drug methotrexate to treat...

Emily Howard Stowe was a Canadian physician who was the first female physician to practise in Canada, the second licensed female physician in Canada and an activist for women's rights and suffrage. Stowe helped found the women's suffrage movement in Canada and campaigned for the country's first medical college for women.

Helen Singer Kaplan was an Austrian-American sex therapist and the founder of the first clinic in the United States for sexual disorders established at a medical school. The New York Times described Kaplan as someone who was "considered a leader among scientific-oriented sex therapists. She was noted for her efforts to combine some of the insights and techniques of psychoanalysis...

Robert Allen Schwartz FRCP Edin is an American physician, biomedical researcher, university professor, and government official. He is Professor and Head of Dermatology, Professor of Medicine, Professor of Pediatrics, and Professor of Preventive Medicine and Community Health at the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Visiting Professor and Scholar of Public Affairs and Administration at the Rutgers School of Public Affairs...

Robert Jay Lifton was an American psychiatrist and author, chiefly known for his studies of the psychological causes and effects of wars and political violence, and for his theory of thought reform. He was an early proponent of the techniques of psychohistory.

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is an American businessman and programmer who co-founded the social media service Facebook and its parent company Meta Platforms. He serves as its chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), and controlling shareholder.

William Harkness was an astronomer. He was born at Ecclefechan, Scotland, a son of James (1803–78) and Jane (née Wield) Harkness. His father was a pastor and moved the family to the United States. Harkness served in the military, traveled extensively, and headed research missions developing techniques and equipment for astronomical study.