Elizabeth Ayello
Julius Axelrod
Andrea Borghese Apolo
Alfred W. Alberts
Brooklyn
College 1953. Bio materials scientist with Merck Pharmaceuticals who discovered
the process to create Lovastatin, the first cholesterol-lowering statin drug.
Steven Ali
Brooklyn College 1976. Early
proponent of LASIK Eye Surgery and co-founder of Manhattan Vision Associates
and Executive Director of the Institute for Vision Research LP.
Andrea Borghese Apolo
Lehman
College 1999. Clinical Investigator Physician at the National Cancer Institute.
Julius Axelrod
City College 1933.
Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology, 1970.
Elizabeth Ayello
Hunter College 1971.
Authority on wound care; co-author, "Wound Care Essentials: Practice
Principles.."
Sol J. Barer
Brooklyn College 1968. CEO of
Celgene, one of the world's largest biotech companies, who developed
path-breaking techniques in chiral chemistry, including a better tolerated
version of Ritalin and the use of thalidomide to treat leprosy and multiple
myeloma and other forms of cancer.
Amanda Bernal-Carlo
Graduate
Center Ph.D. 1991. Professor, founder Hostos Cultural and Medicinal Plant
Garden; co-founder, Hostos Honors Program.
Oheneba Boachi-Adjai
Brooklyn College 1976.
Orthopedic surgeon and founder of the Foundation of Orthopedics and Complex
Spine (FOCOS), which helps treat adults and children with spinal deformities in
developing nations.
Carol V.R. De Costa
Richard Carmona
Diana Bontá
Diana Bontá
Bronx Community College 1972. An
R.N and Doctor of Public Health, she is the Vice President of Public Affairs
at Kaiser Permanente, the nation's largest not-for-profit health plan and
former Director of the California Department of Health Services.
Wylie Burke
Brooklyn College 1970. Professor
and Chair of Department of Medical History and Ethics, University of Washington
School of Medicine, past President of the American Society of Human Genetics.
Andrew Campbell
York College 1980. Professor,
Department of Molecular Microbiology, Brown University.
Richard Carmona
Bronx Community College 1973.
17th Surgeon General of the United States (2002-2006).
Warren W. Chin
City College 1979. President,
Chinese American Medical Society.
Joe D. Cohen
CUNY Graduate Center 1977.
Researcher for GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals and co-creator of the first
successful vaccine for malaria.
Stanley Cohen
Brooklyn College 1943.
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Biochemistry at Vanderbilt
University School of Medicine and co-recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize in
Physiology or Medicine for his pioneering research on cell growth factors.
Gerald W. Deas
Brooklyn College BA 1952, MA
1956. Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine and Director of Health
Education Communications at SUNY Downstate Medical Center; columnist, poet,
playwright and former President of the American Medical Society.
Lydia de Castro
John Jay
College 1991. Forensic Analyst, New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner.
2007 recipient of the Lydia Martinez Collaboration Award from the New York City
Alliance Against Sexual Assault.
Carol V.R. De Costa
Medgar
Evers College 1978. Clinical Instructor, Sports Medicine, Brooklyn Hospital
Department of Family Medicine.
Marilyn A. DeLuca
Hunter
College 1971. Health policy consultant; former Executive Director, Jonas Center
for Nursing Excellence.
R. Bruce Donoff
Brooklyn College 1963. Dean,
Harvard School of Dental Medicine; Walter C. Guralnick Distinguished Professor
of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.
Jack Drescher
Brooklyn College 1972.
Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, best known for his work on sexual orientation,
and Chairperson of the American Psychiatric Association's Committee on Gay,
Lesbian and Bisexual Concerns.
Charlotte Friend
Debra Fraser-Howze
Gertrude Elion
Gertrude Elion
Hunter College 1937. Recipient
of the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology, 1977.
Rochelle Easton Esposito
Brooklyn College
1962. Yeast geneticist, Professor Emeritus at The University of Chicago, and
past president of the Genetics Society of America.
Jeffrey S. Flier
City College
1968. Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Harvard University, and Carolyn Shields
Walker Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Endocrinologist and
authority on the molecular causes of obesity and diabetes.
Debra Fraser-Howze
Hunter College 1988.
Baruch College MPA, International AIDS activist and authority; appointed to
President Clinton's Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS.
Barry I. Freedman
Brooklyn
College 1980. Distinguished Professor of Internal Medicine and Nephrology, Wake
Forest University, who isolated the gene responsible for kidney disease in
African-Americans.
Michael Felix Freshwater
Brooklyn College
1968. Hand surgeon who popularized the use of leeches in microsurgery and
performed the world's first forequarter reattachment surgery.
Charlotte Friend
Hunter College 1943. Microbiologist
who discovered the Friend leukemia virus (FLV).
Patricia A. Gentile
LaGuardia
Community College 1980. Administrator, Jamaica Hospital Home Health Agency and
Brookdale Hospital Certified Home Health Agency.
Allen Gibofsky
Brooklyn College 1969.
Professor of Medicine and Public Health at the Weill Medical College of Cornell
University and past President of the American College of Rheumatology.
RIchard Lerner
Arthur Kornberg
Kimberly Glassman
Kimberly Glassman
Hunter College 1984. Senior
VP for patient care services, NYU Langone Medical Center.
David P. Goldstein
Brooklyn College 1959.
Audiologist, founder of the Audiology Foundation of America and recognized as
the "Father of the AuD."
Madelyn Gould
Brooklyn College 1972.
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology in Psychiatry at Columbia University,
College of Physicians and Surgeons and an authority in suicide prevention.
Angelo Gousse
York College 1986. Professor of
Urology, University of Miami School of Medicine.
Alden N. Haffner
Brooklyn College 1948.
Founder and former President of the SUNY College of Optometry.
Charles H. Hennekens
Queens College 1963.
Physician, Researcher and Visiting Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology and
Public Health, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami.
Leonard Herzenberg
Brooklyn College 1953.
Developed the fluorescence-activated cell sorter (FACS) that revolutionized the
study of cancer cells and is the basis for purification of adult stem cells,
recipient of the Kyoto Prize in 2006.
Marjorie Hill
College of Staten Island 1975.
CEO of Gay Men's Health Crisis.
Darren R. Hoyte
New York City College
of Technology 1988. Chief Technologist, Radiology, The Brooklyn Hospital
Center.
Arthur Kornberg
City College 1937. Recipient
of the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology, 1959, for the discovery of DNA polymerase,
an enzyme needed to synthesize the master molecule of heredity.
Beatrice Krauss
CUNY Graduate Center, 1979.
Professor, Director of the Center for Community and Urban Health and Executive
Director of the Schools of the Health Professions Office of Research and Grant
Support, Hunter College.
Robert Lee
New York City College of
Technology 1981. CEO Raulerson Hospital, Okeechobee, FL.
Richard M. Lerner
CUNY
Graduate Center 1971. Bergstrom Chair in Applied Developmental Science and
Director of the Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development at Tufts
University.
Constance Emmer Lieber
Brooklyn College 1945.
President, National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression.
Leila Macey
City College 1990. Physician Assistant,
SUNY Health Science Center/Brooklyn; AIDS educator for women and children;
former Chair of the Women's and Children's Caucus, part of the National
Institutes of Health-funded AIDS research program.
Salvatore R. Maddi
Brooklyn College 1954.
Psychiatrist, author and expert on stress and critical incident management,
founder of the Hardiness Institute. Professor of Psychology and Social Behavior
at the University of California, Irvine.
Richard J. Maraia
Kingsborough Community College.
Senior Investigator and Chief of the Section on Molecular and Cell Biology in
the Intramural Research Program of the National Institute of Child Health and
Human Development.
Jonas Salk
Charlene Prounis
Joan Marren
Joan Marren
Hunter College. Chief Operating Officer,
Visiting Nurse Service of New York.
Arnold Melman
City College 1962. Clinical Surgeon,
Professor and Chairman of the Department of Urology, Montefiore Medical
Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine; past President of the Society for
the Study of Impotence; co-developer of the use of gene transfer for the
therapy of smooth muscle diseases of the genito urinary systems, past chairman
of the FDA's Gastroenterology and Urology devices panel; and President, CUNY
Society of Salk Scholars.
Carol Cooperman Nadelson
Brooklyn College 1957.
First woman elected President of the American Psychiatric Association, and an
advocate for women in the field of medicine.
Lee M. Nadler
Queens
College 1969. First Dean of Clinical and Translational Research, Harvard
Medical School.
William E. Paul
Brooklyn College 1956. Chief
of the Laboratory of Immunology at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases; he did groundbreaking research on the function of a key regulator of
the immune system, interleukin 4 (IL-4).
Deborah Persaud
York College 1981. Associate
Professor, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University School of
Medicine.
Iris J. Prager
Brooklyn College 1965. Past President
of the American Association for Health Education, expert on menstrual periods
and puberty, and North American Education Manager for Tampax.
Joe Pressley
CUNY Baccalaureate for Unique and
Inter-disciplinary Studies. Senior Director of Policy/Government Relations for
Harlem United Community AIDS Center.
Winston Price
Brooklyn College 1970. Health care
advocate, former President of the National Medical Association, representing
African-American physicians.
Charlene Prounis
Queensborough Community College
1976. Co-President and Managing Partner at Flashpoint Medica, a full-service
marketing and advertising agency that specializes in health care.
Barnett Rosenberg
Brooklyn College 1948. Professor
of Biophysics and Chemistry at Michigan State University, best known for his
development of cisplatin, one of the world's most widely used and successful
anti-cancer drugs.
Zev Rosenwaks
Brooklyn College 1968. Director and
Physician-in-Chief of the Ronald O. Perelman and Claudia Cohen Center for Reproductive Medicine at the Weill Cornell
Medical College and the New York Presbyterian Hospital.
Alexis Malpica Sackor
Bronx
Community College 1984. Family Nurse Practitioner, Pediatrics Department of
Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC.
Jonas Salk
City College 1934. Developed the first
polio vaccine.
Nava Sarver
Brooklyn College 1973. AIDS researcher and Chief,
Targeted Drug Discovery Section, Division of AIDS, National Institute of
Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
M. Monica Sweeney
Celina Sotomayor
Jane Jeffrie Seley
Jane Jeffrie Seley
Hunter College M.S.N.
1998. Diabetes Nurse Practitioner and Certified Diabetes Educator at New York
Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center, leader in diabetes education and
clinical management.
Lori Shah
Brooklyn College 1995. Associate Medical
Director, Lung Transplantation Program, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center.
Lucy Shapiro
Brooklyn College 1961. Microbiologist,
Ludwig Professor of Cancer Research and Director of the Beckman Center for
Molecular and Genetic Medicine at Stanford University.
Debra T. Silverman
Brooklyn College 1970. Chief,
Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer
Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute.
Amy Smith
Borough of Manhattan Community College
2008. Emergency Department Nurse Fellow at North Shore University Hospital.
Celina Sotomayor
Hostos Community College 1973,
Emergency Room Supervisor, Prospect Hospital, New York. M. Monica Sweeney, Bronx Community College.
Assistant Commissioner for the Bureau of HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control at the
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
Gregorio Valdez
Jerome Tobis
Thomas Tam
Thomas Tam
City College 1968. Founder of the
Chinatown Health Clinic (now the Charles B. Wang Community Health Center),
former Executive Director of the Asian/Asian-American Research Institute
Queens College and former member of the
CUNY Board of Trustees.
Jerome Tobis
City College 1936. Distinguished doctor
of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Albert Einstein College of
Medicine and the University of California Medical School at Irvine. Winner of
Outstanding Physician in New York State award. Teaches residents and conducts
research at age 95.
Eileen Treacy
Lehman College 1974. Psychologist;
Founder of Bronx Women Against Rape; expert witness on sex crimes.
Julio Urbina
CUNY Baccalaureate for Unique and
Interdisciplinary Studies 1989. LaGuardia Community College, 1987. Director,
Healthy Aging Program, Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Inc.
Gregorio Valdez
Lehman College 1996. Postdoctoral
Research Fellow at Harvard University's Department of Molecular and Cellular
Biology.
Miriam T. Vincent
York College 1973. Professor and
Chair, Department of Family Practice, SUNY Downstate.
Mary Baranowski Walsh
Hunter College 1974, M.S.N.
1979. Vice President, Patient Care Services and Chief Nursing Officer, Beth
Israel Medical Center.
Ora Williams
Bronx Community College 1981. President
of the Atlanta Black Nurses Association.
Roslyn Yalow
Rosalyn Yalow
Hunter
College 1941. Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology, 1977.
Dr. David Yew
Brooklyn College 1995. Medical
Director and Flight Director, AirMed Hawaii.
