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15 unusual facts about New York University School of Medicine


Arnold S. Relman

In November 1988 Relman was awarded Honorary Fellowship by the New York University School of Medicine.

Brian David Dynlacht

Brian David Dynlacht (born September 3, 1965 in Brooklyn, New York ), is a Jewish-American biochemist and Professor in the Department of Pathology of New York University School of Medicine.

Drew Casen

He is an accountant by formal training, his former careers being the budget director at NYU Medical School and options trading at the NY Stock Exchange.

Eric R. Braverman

He received his medical degree from New York University School of Medicine with honors in 1983, and obtained internal medicine experience at Greenwich Hospital, a Yale School of Medicine affiliate and research experience at Massachusetts General Hospital, a Harvard Medical School affiliate.

Fred H. Albee

After a brief general practice, he became an assistant orthopedic surgeon at the New York Postgraduate Medical School Clinic.

Housing First

Pioneered by Dr. Sam Tsemberis, a faculty member of the Department of Psychiatry of the New York University School of Medicine, and the organization Pathways to Housing in New York City in the early 1990s, Housing First for the chronically homeless is premised on the notion that housing is a basic human right, and so should not be denied to anyone, even if they are abusing alcohol or other substances.

Isaac Perlmutter

in 1993, Perlmutter and his wife established the Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Professorship and Chair in Cell Biology at the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine (part of the New York University School of Medicine).

Janine Canan

In her thirties, she attended New York University School of Medicine and completed a psychiatric residency at Herrick and Mt Zion Hospitals in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Mark Epstein

He is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine.

Marsha Harris

As of 2005 she was the University Athletic Association's all-time leading scorer and she was in her third year as a surgical resident at the New York University School of Medicine.

Neal Flomenbaum

Dr. Flomenbaum has held academic appointments as Assistant Professor of Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and New York University (NYU) School of Medicine.

Richard F. Edlich

Three years later, he enrolled as an early admission student at New York University School of Medicine.

Steven J. Burakoff

Before joining Mount Sinai, he was recruited by NYU to revitalize the research and treatment mission of NYU's Cancer Institute, which during his tenure experienced a 31 percent growth and a 50 percent increase in NCI funding.

The Daniel Jordan Fiddle Foundation

It is a collaborative effort among DJF, The Epilepsy Foundation of New Jersey, Autism Family Services of New Jersey, and Dr. Ruth Nass, Professor of Child Neurology and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine and a nationally recognized pediatric behavioral neurologist.

William Mackenzie McLeod

In 1889 and 1890 he also took special courses in the diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat at New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital.


Graeme Hammond

Hammond graduated from the Columbia School of Mines in 1877 and earned a Doctor of Medicine degree from New York University School of Medicine in 1881.

Sanger Brown

He was born in Bloomfield (Ontario), Canada, graduated in 1880 at the Bellevue Hospital Medical College (New York City), was assistant physician at the Bloomingdale Asylum for the Insane (White Plains, N. Y.) in 1882–1885, and acting medical superintendent there in 1886.