2023 MD, PhD, and Dual Degree Commencement (English)

ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI

2023 COMMENCEMENT

THURSDAY, MAY 11

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ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES

THURSDAY, MAY 11, 2023

DAVID GEFFEN HALL

LINCOLN CENTER NEW YORK CITY

COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM

PROCESSIONAL

Performed by Megan Biesinger

Viola, MSBS Program - 2nd Year

Annie Chang

Violin, MD Program - 1st Year

Matthew Lin

Cello, MD/PhD Program - 5th Year

Joshua Mathew

Violin, MD Program - 1st Year

ACADEMIC PROCESSION

GRAND MARSHAL

Lauren Linkowski, EdD

Director of Programs and Resources for Academic Excellence

Leni and Peter W. May Department of Medical Education

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

PROCESSION MARSHALS

Arjana Habili

Program Coordinator, Curricular Affairs & Program Administration

Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Jeffrey T. Laitman, PhD, D. Med. Sc (hon).

Distinguished Professor and Director of Anatomy and Functional Morphology

Professor, Leni and Peter W. May Department of Medical Education and Department of Otolaryngology

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Staci Leisman, MD, FASN

Associate Professor, Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine and Leni and Peter W. May Department of Medical Education

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Dunstanette Macauley-Dukuly

Program Manager, Career Services and Alumni Relations

Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Ann-Gel S. Palermo, DrPH, MPH

Senior Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Associate Professor, Leni and Peter W. May Department of Medical Education and Jack and Lucy Clark Department of Pediatrics

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Roland Pinzon

Program Manager

MS in Biomedical Data Science & MS in Biomedical Science

Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Cristian Rosario

Program Manager

PhD Programs in Biomedical Sciences and Neuroscience

Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Herman Supoyo

Lab Technician

Leni and Peter W. May Department of Medical Education

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

ORDER OF PROCESSION

Platform Party Candidates for Degrees Faculty

Guests are asked to remain seated during the processional.

COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM

PRESIDING

Dennis S. Charney, MD

Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai President for Academic Affairs

Mount Sinai Health System

GREETINGS

Kenneth L. Davis, MD

Chief Executive Officer

Mount Sinai Health System

Richard A. Friedman

Co-Chairman, Boards of Trustees

Mount Sinai Health System

COMMENCEMENT ADDRESSES

Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD

President, Mount Sinai Heart Physician in Chief, The Mount Sinai Hospital

PhD STUDENT SPEAKER

Jessica Pintado Silva

MD STUDENT SPEAKER

James Wheeler Johnson

AWARDING OF HONORARY DEGREES

DOCTOR OF SCIENCE

Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD President, Mount Sinai Heart Physician in Chief, The Mount Sinai Hospital

Citation by Dennis S. Charney, MD Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai President for Academic Affairs

Mount Sinai Health System

Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, is a physician, researcher, and educator whose nearly five-decade long career and research into the causes, prevention, and treatment of cardiovascular disease has transformed the care of patients with heart disease around the world. President of Mount Sinai Heart and Physician-in-Chief of the Mount Sinai Hospital, Dr. Fuster is General Director of the National Center for Cardiovascular Investigation, or CNIC in Madrid, Spain.

After completing medical school at the University of Barcelona, Dr. Fuster continued his studies in the U.S. and served as Professor in Medicine and Cardiovascular Diseases first at the Mayo Clinic Medical School and then at the Medical School of Mount Sinai Hospital in 1982. From 1991 to 1994, he served as the Mallinckrodt Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Chief of Cardiology at Massachusetts General Hospital. He returned to Mount Sinai in 1994, when he was named director of the Cardiovascular Institute at Mount Sinai, a post he has combined with that of Physician-in-Chief of the Hospital since 2012.

Dr. Fuster has served in numerous leadership positions in societies, academies, and associations focused on heart health in the U.S. and abroad, including serving as President of the American Heart Association, the World Heart Federation, and as a member of the National Academy of Medicine, where he chaired a committee promoting cardiovascular health worldwide. As advisor to the U.S. President, he co-chaired the adivsory committee on the U.S. role in global health. Dr. Fuster has served as member of the European Horizon 2020 Scientific Panel of Health, council member of the U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, and president of the training program of the American College of Cardiology. He has served as Editor-in-Chief for Nature Reviews in Cardiology and presently of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Dr. Fuster’s research career exploring the causes, prevention, and treatment of cardiovascular disease globally have ranged from basic science and molecular biology, to clinical studies and large-scale multinational trials, to population sciences and global medicine studies with an h-index of 218 impact. He is one of the most impactful and highly cited American and Spanish research scientists of all times and is the recipient of 35 honorary degrees.

The recipient of numerous prestigious international awards and honors, Dr. Fuster is the only cardiologist to have received the highest awards for research from the four leading cardiovascular organizations: the American Heart Association (Gold Medal and Research Achievement Award), American College of Cardiology (Living Legend and Life Achievement Award), European Society of Cardiology (Gold Medal), and the lnteramerican Society of Cardiology (Research Achievement Award). Recently, Dr. Fuster received the 2020 Prince Mahidol Award Laureate for his lifelong contribution in the field of medicine and, in 2022, the American College of Cardiology instituted the Valentin Fuster Award in Science and Innovation. In 2014, King Juan Carlos I of Spain granted Dr. Fuster the title of Marquis for his “outstanding and unceasing research efforts and his educational outreach work.”

Dr. Fuster’s innumerable scientific, clinical, and educational contributions worldwide have transformed the field of cardiovascular health and have shaped the health of countless patients in his nearly five-decade-long career. His contributions to our understanding of the human heart and to the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease will continue to have an impact for many decades to come.

AWARDING OF HONORARY DEGREES

DOCTOR OF SCIENCE

Ashish Jha, MD, MPH

National Leader on Public Health and COVID-19 Response

Citation by Eric J. Nestler, MD, PhD

Director, Friedman Brain Institute

Dean for Academic and Scientific Affairs

Nash Family Professor, Nash Family Department of Neuroscience

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Chief Scientific Officer

Mount Sinai Health System

Dr. Ashish Jha was appointed in 2022 by President Joseph R. Biden to the role of Coordinator of the COVID-19 Response. A practicing physician, Dr. Jha is globally renowned and a trusted expert on pandemic preparedness and response as well as on domestic and global health policy. Dr. Jha has led groundbreaking research around COVID-19 and Ebola virus, leading national and international analysis of key issues and advising state and federal policy makers throughout the pandemic.

Before his appointment to this role, Dr. Jha served as Dean of the School of Public Health at Brown University. He joined Brown in 2020 after leading the Harvard Global Health Institute and teaching at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School.

Although his research recently has focused intensively on global health policies to address the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Jha’s focus has been primarily on the impact of public health policy on health outcomes and on health care spending both domestically and globally. He spent much of his research career studying national and global policy efforts to improve the quality and efficacy of care, including work on metrics for performance, transparency, incentives, and the use of technology toward improving population health. He has practiced for nearly two decades at Veterans Affairs hospitals, providing direct clinical care to Veterans.

Born in Pursaulia, Bihar, India, Jha moved to Toronto, Canada, in 1979 and to the United States in 1983. He graduated magna cum laude from Columbia University with a bachelor’s degree in economics and received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and a Masters’ degree in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health.

Dr. Jha has published more than 250 original research publications in leading medical and health policy journals and is a frequent contributor to a range of public media. He serves on a number of editorial boards for peer-reviewed academic medical journals and has been a member of the National Academy of Medicine since 2013. He also serves on a number of organizational boards and advisory committees related to human rights and public and global health. He is the recipient of many prestigious awards, honorary degrees, and other recognitions in the United States and abroad.

A trusted voice in health policy and practice, Dr. Jha has dedicated his career to improving the health and well-being of all Americans, and all citizens of the world, now and in the future.

AWARDING OF HONORARY DEGREES

DOCTOR OF SCIENCE

Prof. Uğur Şahin, MD

Chief Executive Officer, BioNTech SE

Citation by Miriam Merad, MD, PhD

Director, Mount Sinai Precision Immunology Institute

Mount Sinai Professor in Cancer Immunology

Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine and Department of Oncological Sciences

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Professor U ğ ur Ş ahin, MD, Co-Founder and CEO of BioNTech, is a trained physician, a professor of Translational Oncology and Immunology at the University of Mainz and a Helmholtz Professor focused on mRNA immunotherapy, academic researcher, and entrepreneur.

Working with his spouse Professor Özlem Türeci, MD, BioNTech’s Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer, since the late 1990s, Ş ahin has accomplished a series of fundamental advances in the field of mRNA vaccines. Their work, including the creation of the first mRNA drug, has had a transformative impact on medicine. Professors Ş ahin and Türeci substantially improved mRNA translation, addressing the long-standing challenge of low mRNA stability and potency. They discovered and leveraged specific uptake mechanisms of mRNA by immune cells to boost vaccine effectiveness, leading to the first human trials of nanoparticulate mRNA vaccines and the development of highly potent vaccines for human use. Their pioneering work on neoantigen mRNA vaccines laid the foundation for personalized cancer vaccines, enabling therapies tailored to each patient’s distinct cancer mutation profile.

Under Professor Ş ahin’s leadership as CEO, BioNTech has achieved remarkable successes, most notably the development of BNT162b2 (Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine), the first-ever approved mRNA product, distributed worldwide, which has been instrumental in combating the COVID-19 pandemic.

Professor Ş ahin serves as a professor of Translational Oncology & Immunology at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, where he mentored more than 50 PhD students during his career and remains committed to training the next generation of scientists. He also holds the role of Chairman of the Scientific Management Board of the Helmholtz Institute for Translational Oncology (HI-TRON). Before BioNTech, Professor Ş ahin also co-founded Ganymed Pharmaceuticals, now a subsidiary of Astellas Pharma, with Professor Türeci and immunologist Dr. Christoph Huber in 2001 which focused on a new class of cancer drugs called ideal monoclonal antibodies and later as part of Astellas Pharma developed antibody zolbetuximabto treat esophageal and gastric cancer.

The son of Turkish immigrants to Germany, Professor Ş ahin studied medicine at the University of Cologne where he received his doctorate in 1992 with a thesis on immunotherapy against tumor cells. He later studied mathematics at the Fernuniversität Hagen and worked as a physician in internal medicine and hematology/oncology at the University Hospital of Cologne and Saarland University Hospital. In 2000, he joined the University Medical Center Mainz. Professor Ş ahin contributed to more than 950 international patents and has received numerous prestigious awards, honorary degrees, and recognitions for his work.

Professor U ğ ur Ş ahin is a pioneering immune engineer who seeks ways to leverage the body’s own ability to find and fight disease when the immune system is otherwise unable to fight it. This vision and focus changed the trajectory of a global pandemic and will continue to transform the health of countless people around the world.

AWARDING OF HONORARY DEGREES

DOCTOR OF SCIENCE

Prof. Özlem Türeci, MD

Chief

Medical

Officer, BioNTech SE

Citation by Peter Palese, PhD

Horace W. Goldsmith Professor of Medicine and Chair, Department of Microbiology

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Professor Özlem Türeci, MD, Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer of BioNTech, is a trained physician, academic researcher, and entrepreneur. Her early work made contributions to identifying human tumor antigens, developing monoclonal antibody therapies against novel targets, and creating clinical-stage personalized cancer immunotherapies based on non-synonymous mutations identified through nextgeneration sequencing. Professor Türeci's contributions to the mRNA vaccine field include scientific groundwork, discoveries, technology development, translational and clinical research as well as the development and regulatory approval of the first approved mRNA drug. She and her partner, Professor U ğ ur Ş ahin, MD, overcame the challenge of poor mRNA potency through independent optimizations of structural elements in the mRNA scaffold and pioneering nanoparticulate mRNA vaccines, improving their potency and enabling their successful human use.

Born in Siegen, Germany, Professor Türeci is the daughter of a surgeon and biologist who immigrated to Germany from Türkiye. She studied medicine at Saarland University in Homburg, received her doctorate from the Medical Faculty of Saarland in 1992, and was a Heisenberg fellow of the German Research Foundation, where her research focused mainly on the identification and characterization of tumor-specific molecules and the development of immunotherapies against cancer. In 2002, she completed her habilitation qualification in molecular medicine at the University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. While completing her final year of studies, Türeci met her future partner, Professor Ş ahin, who was working at Saarland University Hospital in Homburg, with whom she shared the scientific interest in harnessing the body’s immune system to fight cancer.

Before she became a co-founding member of BioNTech, Professor Türeci previously served as CEO and Chief Medical Officer of Ganymed Pharmaceuticals, now a subsidiary of Astellas Pharma, which she co-founded with Professor Ş ahin and her mentor, immunologist Dr. Christoph Huber in 2001. Ganymed focused on a new class of cancer drugs called ideal monoclonal antibodies and developed a drug to treat esophageal and gastric cancer. She was chief scientific officer from 2001 to 2008 and then chief executive officer from 2008 to 2016. Professor Türeci is also a professor of Personalized lmmunotherapy at the University Medical Center Mainz and the Helmholtz Institute for Translational Oncology Mainz (HI-TRON) and currently serves as President of the Association for Cancer lmmunotherapy (CIMT) in Germany.

The recipient of many notable awards, honorary degrees, and recognitions, including the German Sustainability Award, Professor Türeci and her partner Professor U ğ ur Ş ahin were named Financial Times ’s People of the Year in 2020 for producing a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine less than a year after the virus’s genetic sequence was released, an achievement cited as “one of the greatest medical breakthroughs of our time.”

Professor Özlem Türeci has deepened our understanding of human immunology and developed effective therapies that have changed the course of global health and extended the lives of people around the world facing infectious diseases, cancer, and diseases of the immune and nervous systems.

AWARDING OF DEGREES

OATH FOR DOCTORAL CANDIDATES

Ethylin Wang Jabs, MD

Mount Sinai Professor of Developmental Genetics

Director of PhD Program in Interdisciplinary Training in Systems and Developmental Biology and Birth Defects

Professor of the Departments of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Cell, Developmental and Regenerative Biology and Jack and Lucy Clark Department of Pediatrics

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

PRESENTATION OF DEGREE CANDIDATES

Basil G. Hanss, PhD

Senior Associate Dean for Postdoctoral and Student Affairs

Associate Dean for Graduate School Wellbeing

Graduate School of Biomedical Science

Associate Professor, Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

HOODING OF DEGREE CANDIDATES

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES AND NEUROSCIENCE

Matthew J. O’Connell, PhD

Senior Associate Dean for PhD Programs

Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

Professor, Department of Oncological Sciences

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN CLINICAL RESEARCH

Janice L. Gabrilove, MD, FACP

Director, Clinical Research Education Program

Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

James F. Holland Professor of Medicine

Associate Director, Education and Training

Tisch Cancer institute

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Dissertation Advisors

AWARDING OF DEGREES

OATH FOR MEDICAL DEGREE CANDIDATES

Tonia Kim, MD

Associate Professor, Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

PRESENTATION OF DEGREE CANDIDATES

Tara K. Cunningham, EdD, MS

Senior Associate Dean for Student Affairs

Associate Professor, Leni and Peter W. May Department of Medical Education

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

HOODING OF DEGREE CANDIDATES

DUAL DEGREE: DOCTOR OF MEDICINE AND DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (MD/PhD)

Talia H. Swartz, MD, PhD

Director, Medical Scientist Training Program

Senior Associate Dean for MD/PhD Education

President, Mount Sinai Alumni Association

Associate Professor, Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

DUAL DEGREE: DOCTOR OF MEDICINE AND MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH (MD/MPH)

Nils Hennig, MD, PhD, MPH

Director, Graduate Program in Public Health

Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health and Jack and Lucy Clark Department of Pediatrics

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

DUAL DEGREE: DOCTOR OF MEDICINE AND MASTER OF SCIENCE IN CLINICAL RESEARCH (MD/MSCR)

Janice L. Gabrilove, MD, FACP

Director, Clinical Research Education Program

Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

James F. Holland Professor of Medicine

Associate Director, Education and Training

Tisch Cancer institute

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

DOCTOR OF MEDICINE

Alicia Hurtado, MD, MA

Associate Dean for Medical Student Wellbeing and Student Affairs

Assistant Professor, Leni and Peter W. May Department of Medical Education and Department of Psychiatry

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Valerie Parkas, MD

Senior Associate Dean of Admissions and Recruitment

Associate Professor, Leni and Peter W. May Department of Medical Education and Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Rainier P. Soriano, MD

Senior Associate Dean for Curricular Affairs

Professor, Leni and Peter W. May Department of Medical Education and Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

AWARDING OF DIPLOMAS

Marta Filizola, PhD

Dean, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

Sharon & Frederick A. Klingenstein-Nathan G. Kase, MD Professor

Department of Pharmacological Sciences

Nash Family Department of Neuroscience

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

David Muller, MD, FACP

Dean for Medical Education

Marietta and Charles C. Morchand Chair

Leni and Peter W. May Department of Medical Education

Professor, Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Assisted by

Alexis Colvin, MD

Dean for Alumni Affairs

Professor, Leni and Peter W. May Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Leni and Peter W. May Department of Medical Education

Icahn School of Mediicne at Mount Sinai

Eric J. Nestler, MD, PhD

Director, Friedman Brain Institute

Dean for Academic and Scientific Affairs

Nash Family Professor, Nash Family Department of Neuroscience

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Chief Scientific Officer

Mount Sinai Health System

RECESSIONAL

Guests are asked to remain seated until the Recessional is completed.

CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES AND NEUROSCIENCE

Dissertation Advisors

Joshua A. Acklin

Our own worst enemy: how viruses utilize host responses to enhance infection

Muhammad Furqan Afzal

Developing Novel Machine Learning

Approaches for Distinguishing Neural Time-Series

Amni Al-Kachak

Histone serotonylation: a novel regulator of stress-induced neuroplasticity

Varun Arvind^

Role of Regulatory T-Cells in Tendon Regeneration

Aaron S. Bender

An integrative network approach to understanding pathophysiology and disease stratification in inborn errors of metabolism

Joseph Borrello

auxVSD: Auxetic Ventricular Support Device for Treatment of Heart Failure Induced by Myocardial Infarction

Kaitlyn Nicole Bosch

Regulation of membrane localization and protein stability by the PTEN translational isoform, PTEN-L

Jean Lim, PhD

Department of Microbiology

Kanaka Rajan, PhD

Nash Family Department of Neuroscience

Helen Mayberg. MD

Department of Neurology

Ian Maze, PhD

Nash Family Department of Neuroscience

Alice Huang, PhD

Leni and Peter W. May Department of Orthopaedics

Sander Houten, PhD

Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences

Carmen Argmann, PhD

Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences

Kevin Costa, PhD

Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine

Junqian Xu, PhD

Nash Family Department of Neuroscience

Ramon Parsons, MD, PhD

Tisch Cancer Institute

CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES AND NEUROSCIENCE

Dissertation Advisors

Kevin Bu^

Detection of Influential Observations in Large Datasets

Steven Chen^

Systemic and local innate immune dysfunction drives acute COVID-19 and Post COVID Syndrome

Arthur Wing Chow

An Antagonist of KSR1-Driven Adaptive Resistance to Clinical RAS-MAPK Inhibitors

Arpit Dave

A Platform to Comprehensively Characterize and Model Complex Heterogeneity in Breast Cancer

Jessica Karina De Freitas

Leveraging Electronic Health Records and Electrocardiograms for Disease

Phenotyping

Zhe Dong

Development and dissemination of novel open-source Miniscope technology

Randy Jordan Ellis

Data-driven investigations of opioid use disorder: clinical risk factors and translational targets

Abora Ettela

The Role of 25 Hydroxycholesterol in the Progression of Triple Negative Breast Cancer

Jose Clemente, PhD

Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences

Miriam Merad, MD, PhD

Precision Immunology Institute

Arvin Dar, PhD

Department of Oncological Sciences

Robert Sebra, PhD

Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences

Isotta Landi, PhD

Department of Psychiatry

Alexander Charney, MD, PhD

Department of Psychiatry

Denise Cai, PhD

Nash Family Department of Neuroscience

Yasmin Hurd, PhD

Nash Family Department of Neuroscience

Derek LeRoith, MD, PhD

Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine

Sasha Fulton

Identification of novel cell-type specific epigenetic regulators of neuropsychiatric and neurodevelopmental disease

Arthur Godino

Cell-type-specific dopamine signaling in ventral hippocampus – Anatomical, circuit, and behavioral studies

John A. Grout

Transcriptomic and topological analyses of human lung tumors identify cancerassociated fibroblast subsets associated with T cell exclusion

Christopher Guevara

The effects of a Parkinson’s-linked mutation on corticostriatal circuit development and stress-related behaviors

Margaret Hung

Regulation of Muscle Stem Cell Quiescence By Niche Adhesion

Keino Kenny Hutchinson

Rational Ligand Discovery for Solute Carrier Transporters using Computational Approaches

Md Kabir

Development of Bifunctional Modalities for the Treatment of Cancer

Thomas Kehrer

Molecular and Functional

Characterization of the SARS-CoV-2

Accessory Protein ORF6

Dissertation Advisors

Ian Maze, PhD

Nash Family Department of Neuroscience

Eric Nestler, MD, PhD

Nash Family Department of Neuroscience

Helene Salmon, PhD

Department of Oncological Sciences

Miriam Merad, MD, PhD

Department of Oncological Sciences

George Huntley, PhD

Nash Family Department of Neuroscience

Deanna Benson, PhD

Nash Family Department of Neuroscience

Robert Krauss, PhD

Department of Cell, Developmental & Regenerative Biology

Avner Schlessinger, PhD

Department of Pharmacological Sciences

Jian Jin, PhD

Department of Pharmacological and Oncological Sciences

Adolfo García-Sastre, PhD

Department of Microbiology

Lisa Miorin, PhD

Department of Microbiology

^ MD/PhD

CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES AND NEUROSCIENCE

Dissertation Advisors

Fred Kwon^

Methods for the Clinical Deployment of Machine Learning Algorithms

Vanessa Lehmann

A stress-responsive circRNA alters behavioral, molecular, and transcriptional phenotypes in mouse models of depressive-like behavior

Amanda Beth Leithead

The Role of the Posterior Intralaminar Complex of the Thalamus in Social Behavior.

Ryan Ashford Neff^

Multi omic Methods for the Identification and Characterization of Molecular Subtypes of Alzheimers Disease

Justine C. Noel

The impact of depression on maternal and newborn immunity

Kasopefoluwa Y. Oguntuyo^

Functional characterization and neutralization of emerging Henipaviruses and SARS-CoV-2

Roosheel Sandeep Patel

Atypical Immune Responses to Viral Infections and Therapeutic Approaches to Harnessing Them

Jessica Pintado Silva

Immunogenicity of NIAID LATV in primary human systems

Anthony Costa, PhD

NVIDIA

Paul Kenny, PhD

Nash Family Department of Neuroscience

Hala Harony-Nicolas, PhD

Department of Psychiatry

Bin Zhang, PhD

Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences

Cecilia Berin, PhD

Jack and Lucy Clark Department of Pediatrics

Benhur Lee, PhD

Department of Microbiology

Brad Rosenberg, MD, PhD

Department of Microbiology

Dusan Bogunovic, PhD

Department of Oncological Sciences

Ana Fernandez-Sesma, PhD

Department of Microbiology

Iya Prytkova

Upregulated GIRK2 counteracts ethanolinduced changes in excitability and respiration in human neurons

Lily Sarrafha

Investigating cell type-specific vulnerability in Parkinson’s Disease using an in vitro genetic model

Arielle Strasser

Elucidating the Pathogenesis of Limb

Reduction in a Cohesinopathy Mouse Model of Roberts Syndrome

Jessica Tan^

Anti-neuraminidase antibodies as potential biopharmaceuticals for the prevention and treatment of influenza

Collin D. Teague

Circuit-wide gene network analysis reveals a role for phosphodiesterase enzymes in cocaine addiction

Alice Wang^

Multiscale Modeling Approaches Dissect the Complexity of High Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer

Robert Jordan Wiener

Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Mechanobiology in Aortopathies

Dissertation Advisors

Paul Slesinger, PhD

Nash Family Department of Neuroscience

Alison Goate,DPhil

Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences

Joel Blanchard, PhD

Nash Family Department of Neuroscience

Ethylin Wang Jabs, MD

Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences

Harm van Bakel, PhD

Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences

Florian Krammer, PhD

Department of Microbiology

Eric Nestler, MD, PhD

Nash Family Department of Neuroscience

Bin Zhang, PhD

Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences

Kevin Costa, PhD

Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine

^ MD/PhD

CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES AND NEUROSCIENCE

Dissertation Advisors

Nanyi Zhao

Characterization of Hepatocellular Carcinoma 3D Organoids as Models to Identify Novel Targeted Therapies

Allen Zheng^

Influenza Virus Vaccines: Enhancing Immunogenicity of the Viral Neuraminidase

Royce Zhou^

Cell-extrinsic super-enhancer reprogramming contributes to tumor growth

Tongtong Zhu

Dengue Virus Modulates Innate Immune Responses by Antagonizing DNA Sensing Pathways

Ernesto Guccione, PhD

Department of Oncological Sciences

Peter Palese, PhD

Department of Microbiology

Ramon Parsons, MD, PhD

The Tisch Cancer Institute

Ana Fernandez-Sesma, PhD

Department of Microbiology

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN CLINICAL RESEARCH

Dissertation Advisors

Andrew Delgado

Pain after Neurotrauma: a comparative approach in model selection between literature-guided hierarchical regression and machine learning

Aaron J. Weiss

Machine learning using institutionspecific multi-modal electronic health records improves mortality risk prediction for cardiac surgery patients

Lisa Spielman, PhD

Department of Rehabilitation and Human Performance

Ravi Iyengar, PhD

Department of Pharmacological Sciences

DOCTOR OF MEDICINE

Unwana Mfon Abasi

Eric Gabriel Alerte

Varun Arvind^

Nicholas Athayde-Rizzaro

Emily Michelle Bachner**

Elena Lynn Baldwin

Esha Bansal**

Hanna Jantzen Barnes

Lucia B. Bederson

Christopher Peter Bellaire

Sewit Bereket

Natalie Frances Berger

Beselot Birhanu

Kevin Bu^

Alexandra Donchak Capellini*

Steven Chen^

Julia Cheng

Benjamin H. Chi

Samuel Robert Chiacchia

Kenny Chin

Mimi Chung

Lindsay Danielle Clark

Ariella Belle Cohen

Ella Cohen

Peter Vicars Cooke

Arielle Catherine Coughlin

Joshua Dan

George Danias

Jared Scott Dashevsky

Priya Dave

Stephanie Deeb

John Everett Denton

Tahera Murtaza Doctor

Alexandra McClure Dunn**

Daniel J. Fulop*

Michael Gao

Eric Allen Geng

Matthew Joseph Gluck

Brandon Samuel Gold

Cody Paige Goldberger

Jacques Pierre George Guyot

Joseph S. Han

Kaitlin Elizabeth Hanss**

Taylor Marie Harrell

Josimar Hernandez Antonio

Jeff Jinglu Huang

Terence Martin Hughes

Isla E. Hutchinson Maddox

Tyler Brandon Italiano

Chioma Anne Iwelumo

James Wheeler Johnson

Alexander V. Kalicki

Samir Madhav Kamat

Derek DR Kao*

Harrison Jacob Kaplan

Sophia Zehara Karwoska Kligler

Dustin P. Kee

Sara Nikki Kiani**

Eliott Saemin Kim

Emma Danielle Klein

David Francis Carl Kohler

Niathi Reddy Kona

Alyce Mei-Shiuan Kuo

Fred Kwon^

Margarita Labkovich

Mukanga Marcia Lange**

Dayle Lapolla

Jessica D. Lee

Samuel Jae Hwan Lee

Tin Htet Kyaw Leong

Sherman Leung

Matthew R. Liebers

Christine Charlotte Little

Caroline Liu

Kaitlyn Grace London*

Madeline Marie Lui

Cynthia Yixin Luo

Luke Patrick Maillie

Samuel Zev Maron

Naomi Adalia Mayman

CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES

DOCTOR OF MEDICINE

Cecily Claire McIntyre

Meredith Foster Mihalopoulos

Ariana C. Mills

Kate Alexandra Moody

Claire Elizabeth Frances Morley

Olivia Nicole Moscicki

Juan Esteban Muñoz Eusse

Devika Nadkarni

Ryan Ashford Neff^

Omar Edward Njie

Danielle Elizabeth Novack

Ross William O'Hagan

Kasopefoluwa Y. Oguntuyo^

Samuel Oh

Jeffrey Oluwaseyilayo Okewunmi

Paloma Claire Orozco Scott

Parth Bhargav Patel

Kevin Matthew Paul

Jonah Poster

Sonya Prasad

Ezequiel Alexandro Ramos

Daniel Lawrence Ahlbeck Ranti*

Manasa Geeta Rao

Paige Rattner

Krishna Teja Ravivarapu

Ivy Ren

Ricardo Andres Rodriguez Colon

Halle M. Ronk

Shoshana Jo Rosenzweig

GRADUATION ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS

DR. JOSEPH R. JAGUST ANESTHESIOLOGY AWARD

Emily Michelle Bachner

Gabriel Malave Santos

Charles Field Saylor

Ira Nathan Schlosberg

Lilli Schussler

Ruhee Divyang Shah

Dhruv Sundar Shankar

Akarsh Sharma

Himanshu Kumar Sharma

Jennifer Olivia Shmukler

Emily Danielle Spiera**

Mary Daotung Sun*

Jessica Tan^

Michelle Tong

Claudia Raquel Torres

Jessica Hong-My Tran*

Ashesh Madhukar Trivedi

Aly Al-Amyn Valliani

Girish Valluru*

Dillan Villavisanis

Rachel Coe Waldman

Alice Wang^

Mark Raphael Weingarten

Kevin Matthew Weiss

Stephanie Yushiuan Wu

Haley Elizabeth Zarrin

Makda Getachew Zewde

Allen Zheng^

Royce Zhou^

EXCELLENCE IN PUBLIC HEALTH

Emily Michelle Bachner

PATRICIA LEVINSON AWARD FOR THE ADVANCEMENT AND INCLUSION OF WOMEN IN MEDICINE

Esha Bansal

THE JUDITH AND NATHAN KASE HUMANITIES IN MEDICINE PRIZE

Natalie Frances Berger

Dillan Villavisanis

JEFFREY MODELL CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY PRIZE

Steven Chen

STEVEN B. TAMARIN, MD, MEMORIAL AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN FAMILY MEDICINE

Lindsay Danielle Clark

DR. HOWARD RAPPAPORT PEDIATRIC AWARD

Ariella Belle Cohen

THE ARTHUR CEDERBAUM MENTORING BY A GRADUATE STUDENT AWARD

Chrisopher Guevara

THE MIKI RIFKIN GRADUATE SCHOOL SERVICE AWARD

Margaret Hung

MEDICAL SCIENTIST TRAINING PROGRAM SERVICE AWARD

DeAnalisa Jones

MRS. DAVID A. DREILING SURGERY PRIZE IN MEMORY OF HER MOTHER, FLORENCE L. OPPENHEIMER

Harrison Jacob Kaplan

BURTON DRAYER PRIZE IN RADIOLOGY AND BIOMEDICAL IMAGING

Fred Kwon

BARRY STIMMEL AWARD FOR MEDICAL EDUCATION

Mukanga Marcia Lange

GRADUATION ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS

THE ADVANCEMENT OF WOMEN IN SCIENCE

Amanda Beth Leithead

GEORGE JAMES EPIDEMIOLOGY AWARD

Elizabeth Magill

UNITED STATES PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE PHYSICIANS PROFESSIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE EXCELLENCE IN PUBLIC HEALTH AWARD

Elizabeth Magill

DR. MORRIS B. BENDER AWARD IN CLINICAL NEUROLOGY

Naomi Adalia Mayman

THE MILTON C. ENGEL, MD, AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN GERIATRIC MEDICINE

Cecily Claire McIntyre

THE BARRY COLLER AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN CLINICAL MEDICINE

Claire Elizabeth Frances Morley

IRWIN GELERNT, MD, AWARD FOR SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY

Paloma Claire Orozco Scott

JAMES FELT AWARD FOR THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL AND RACIAL JUSTICE

Paloma Claire Orozco Scott

THE LEONARD TOW HUMANISM IN MEDICINE STUDENT AWARD

Paloma Claire Orozco Scott

THE TERRY ANN KRULWICH DOCTORAL DISSERTATION PRIZE

Roosheel Sandeep Patel

DR. HAROLD LAMPORT BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH PRIZE

Daniel Lawrence Ahlbeck Ranti

DR. ALAN F. GUTTMACHER OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY PRIZE

Manasa Geeta Rao

DR. M. RALPH KAUFMAN PSYCHIATRY PRIZE

Mary Daotung Sun

OFFICE OF WELL-BEING AND RESILLIENCE MEDICAL STUDENT WELL-BEING

LEADERSHIP AWARD

Rachel Coe Waldman

HAROLD ELSTER MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR CLINICAL ACUMEN

Kevin Matthew Weiss

DR. DAVID K. MCDONOGH AWARD FOR DIVERSITY IN MEDICAL EDUCATION

Makda Getachew Zewde

MOUNT SINAI ALUMNI STUDENT LEADERSHIP AWARD

Christopher Peter Bellaire

PATIENT-ORIENTED RESEARCH TRAINING AND LEADERSHIP THESIS AWARD IN CLINICAL RESEARCH

Alexandra Donchak Capellini

Daniel J. Fulop

Derek DR Kao

Kaitlyn Grace London

Daniel Lawrence Ahlbeck Ranti

Mary Daotung Sun

Jessica Hong-My Tran

STUDENT COUNCIL AWARDS

DEAN CHARNEY RESILIENCE AWARD

James Wheeler Johnson

EXCELLENCE IN COMMUNITY SERVICE

Devika Nadkarni

EXCELLENCE IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION

Dillan Villavisanis

MD CLASS OF 2023 DISTINCTIONS

GOLD HUMANISM HONOR SOCIETY

Sewit Bereket

Beselot Birhanu

Julie Byrnes

Elizabeth Clifton

Tahera Murtaza Doctor

Michael Gao

Kaitlin Elizabeth Hanss

Josimar Hernandez Antonio

Terence Martin Hughes

Krsna Kothari

Riva Letchinger

James Meyers

Olivia Nicole Moscicki

Victoria Mroz

Paloma Claire Orozco Scott

Ivy Ren

Ruhee Divyang Shah

Akarsh Sharma

Jason Storch

Mary Daotung Sun

Kevin Matthew Weiss

DISTINCTION IN COMMUNITY SERVICE/GLOBAL HEALTH

Unwana Mfon Abasi

Esha Bansal

Beselot Birhanu

Cody Paige Goldberger

Terence Martin Hughes

Dustin P. Kee

Sara Nikki Kiani

Mukanga Marcia Lange

Cynthia Yixin Luo

Luke Patrick Maillie

Cecily Claire McIntyre

Olivia Nicole Moscicki

DISTINCTION IN RESEARCH

Esha Bansal

Christopher Peter Bellaire

Natalie Frances Berger

Kevin Bu

Alexandra Donchak Capellini

Steven Chen

Chih Peng Chin

Peter Vicars Cooke

Arielle Catherine Coughlin

Stephanie Deeb

Daniel J. Fulop

Eric Allen Geng

Matthew Joseph Gluck

Brandon Samuel Gold

Joseph S. Han

Terence Martin Hughes

Alexander V. Kalicki

Devika Nadkarni

Danielle Elizabeth Novack

Jeffrey Oluwaseyilayo Okewunmi

Paloma Claire Orozco Scott

Parth Bhargav Patel

Gabriel Malave Santos

Emily Danielle Spiera

Ashesh Madhukar Trivedi

Dillan Villavisanis

Kevin Matthew Weiss

Stephanie Yushiuan Wu

Makda Getachew Zewde

Samir Madhav Kamat

Derek DR Kao

Harrison Jacob Kaplan

Dustin P. Kee

Sara Nikki Kiani

Eliott Saemin Kim

Alyce Mei-Shiuan Kuo

Fred Kwon

Margarita Labkovich

Mukanga Marcia Lange

Jessica D. Lee

Samuel Jae Hwan Lee

Christine Charlotte Little

Caroline Liu

Cynthia Yixin Luo

Luke Patrick Maillie

Samuel Zev Maron

Naomi Adalia Mayman

Cecily Claire McIntyre

Ariana C. Mills

Kate Alexandra Moody

Olivia Nicole Moscicki

Devika Nadkarni

Ryan Ashford Neff

Danielle Elizabeth Novack

Ross William O'Hagan

Kasopefoluwa Y. Oguntuyo

Samuel Oh

Jeffrey Oluwaseyilayo Okewunmi

Paloma Claire Orozco Scott

Parth Bhargav Patel

Daniel Lawrence Ahlbeck Ranti

Manasa Geeta Rao

Krishna Teja Ravivarapu

Ivy Ren

Halle M. Ronk

DISTINCTION IN MEDICAL EDUCATION

Esha Bansal

Christopher Peter Bellaire

Terence Martin Hughes

Alexander V. Kalicki

Dustin P. Kee

Shoshana Jo Rosenzweig

Gabriel Malave Santos

Charles Field Saylor

Lilli Schussler

Dhruv Sundar Shankar

Jennifer Olivia Shmukler

Emily Danielle Spiera

Mary Daotung Sun

Jessica Tan

Jessica Hong-My Tran

Aly Al-Amyn Valliani

Girish Valluru

Dillan Villavisanis

Yuanshuo Alice Wang

Mark Raphael Weingarten

Kevin Matthew Weiss

Haley Elizabeth Zarrin

Makda Getachew Zewde

Royce Zhou

Sara Nikki Kiani

Mukanga Marcia Lange

Paloma Claire Orozco Scott

Dillan Villavisanis

Jessica Hong-My Tran

GRADUATE SCHOOL LIST OF AWARDS AND PRIZES

DISTINCTION IN RESEARCH

Sasha Fulton

Arielle Strasser

Royce Zhou

RESEARCH AWARDS

RUTH L. KIRSCHSTEIN NATIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE AWARD (NRSA/NIH)

Joshua A. Acklin, 2022 -2023

Varun Arvind, 2020-2022

Joseph Borrello, 2019-2022

Steven Chen, 2019-2023

Randy Jordan Ellis, 2021-2022

Sasha Fulton, 2020-2022

Amanda Beth Leithead, 2021-2023

Kasopefoluwa Y. Oguntuyo, 2020-2023

Iya Prytkova, 2019-2022

Allen Zheng, 2019-2023

Royce Zhou, 2019-2023

BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM FONDS PhD FELLOWSHIP

Arthur Godino, 2019-2021

SEAVER GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP AWARD

Amanda Beth Leithead, 2020-2021

TRAVEL AWARDS

AMERICAN COLLEGE OF NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY CONFERENCE

Christopher Guevara, 2021, 2022

AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR PHARMACOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL THERAPEUTICS CONFERENCE

Arthur Wing Chow, 2022

SOCIETY FOR BEHAVIORAL NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY CONFERENCE

Christopher Guevara, 2021

ANNUAL SOCIETY FOR VIROLOGY 39TH ANNUAL MEETING

Kasopefoluwa Y. Oguntuyo, 2020

GORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCE

Justine C. Noel, 2020

INTERNATIONAL BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE SOCIETY CONFERENCE

Amanda Beth Leithead, 2022

SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE TRAINEE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE

Amanda Beth Leithead, 2021

KEYSTONE SYMPOSIUM

Arpit Dave, 2022

GORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCE

Arpit Dave, 2022

ORTHOPEDIC RESEARCH SOCIETY CONFERENCE

Varun Arvind, 2019, 2021

SOCIETY FOR MUSCLE BIOLOGY, FRONTIERS IN MYOGENESIS CONFERENCE, 2019

Margaret Hung, 2019

SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE

Arthur Godino, 2022

CONFERENCE ON BRAIN RESEARCH

Arthur Godino, 2022

SOCIETY OF BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY

Sasha Fulton, 2023

SOCIETY OF INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY

Fred Kwon, 2018

CELL SYMPOSIA “MECHANISMS OF PSYCHIATRIC DISEASE” CONFERENCE

Sasha Fulton, 2022

STUDENT COUNCIL AWARDS

AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE

Margaret Hung, 2018

EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING AWARD

Fred Kwon, 2020

ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI DEPARTMENT CHAIRS

David H. Adams, MD

Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Professor and System Chair, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery

Cardiac Surgeon-in-Chief, Mount Sinai Health System

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Joshua B. Bederson, MD

Leonard I. Malis, MD/Corinne and Joseph Graber Professor of Neurosurgery and System Chair, Department of Neurosurgery

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Neil S. Calman, MD

Professor and System Chair, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Brendan Carr, MD, MS

Professor and System Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Jonathan A. Cohen, DVM, MS, DACLAM Associate Professor and Director, Center for Comparative Medicine and Surgery

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Carlos Cordon-Cardo, MD, PhD

Irene Heinz Given and John LaPorte Given Professor of Pathology and System Chair, Lillian and Henry M. Stratton-Hans Popper Department of Pathology, Molecular and Cell-Based Medicine

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Ana Fernandez-Sesma, PhD

Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Raja M. Flores, MD

Steven and Ann Ames Professor in Thoracic Surgery and System Chair, Department of Thoracic Surgery

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Leesa Galatz, MD

Mount Sinai Professor in Orthopaedics and System Chair, Leni and Peter W. May Department of Orthopaedic Surgery

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Annetine C. Gelijns, PhD

Edmond A. Guggenheim Professor of Health Policy and Chair, Department of Population Health Science and Policy

Co-Director, Institute for Transformative Clinical Trials

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Eric M. Genden, MD

Dr. Isidore Friesner Professor and System Chair, Department of Otolaryngology

Director, Mount Sinai Head and Neck Institute

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Emma Guttman-Yassky, MD, PhD

Waldman Chair of Dermatology and System Chair,

The Kimberly and Eric J. Waldman Department of Dermatology

Director, Center of Excellence in Eczema

Director, Laboratory of Inflammatory Skin Diseases

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Joseph Herrera, DO

Dr. Lucy G. Moses Professorship in Rehabilitation Medicine and System Chair, Department of Rehabilitation and Human Performance

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

René Kahn, MD, PhD

Esther and Joseph Klingenstein Professor and System Chair, Department of Psychiatry

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Paul J. Kenny, PhD

Chair, Nash Family Department of Neuroscience

Ward-Coleman Chair in Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

Director, Drug Discovery Institute

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Monica Kraft, MD

System Chair, Department of Medicine

Murray M. Rosenberg Professor of Medicine

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI DEPARTMENT CHAIRS

Andrew Leibowitz, MD

Mount Sinai Professor in Perioperative Care and System Chair, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Michael L. Marin, MD

The Julius H. Jacobson, II, MD Chair in Vascular Surgery and System Chair, The Ruth J. & Maxwell Hauser and Harriet & Arthur H. Aufses, Jr., MD

Department of Surgery

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Surgeon-In-Chief, Mount Sinai Health System

Marek Mlodzik, PhD

Lillian and Henry M. Stratton Professor and Chair, Department of Cell, Developmental and Regenerative Biology

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

R. Sean Morrison, MD

Ellen and Howard C. Katz Chair in Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine and System Chair, Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Judy Lee Moy, DMD

Assistant Professor and Chair, Department of Dentistry

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

David Muller, MD

Marietta and Charles C. Morchand Chair in Medical Education and Chair, Leni and Peter W. May Department of Medical Education Dean for Medical Education

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Ramon E. Parsons, MD, PhD

Ward-Coleman Chair in Cancer Research and Chair, Department of Oncological Sciences

Director, The Tisch Cancer Institute

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Director, Mount Sinai Tisch Cancer Center

Mount Sinai Health System

Neil M. Rofsky, MD, MHA, FACR

Professor and System Chair,

Department of Diagnostic, Molecular and Interventional Radiology

The Charles M. and Marilyn Newman Professor

Senior Associate Dean of Wellness and Coaching

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Kenneth Rosenzweig, MD

Professor and System Chair,

Department of Radiation Oncology

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Lisa M. Satlin, MD

Herbert H. Lehman Professor of Pediatrics and System Chair, Jack and Lucy Clark Department of Pediatrics

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Pediatrician-in-Chief

Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital

Joanne L. Stone, MD

Professor and System Chair

Ellen and Howard C. Katz Chair

Raquel and Jaime Gilinski Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Ashutosh Tewari, MD

Kyung Hyun Kim, MD Chair in Urology and System Chair, Milton and Carroll Petrie Department of Urology

Director of Center of Excellence for Prostate Cancer at the Tisch Cancer Institute

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

James C. Tsai, MD, MBA

Delafield-Rodgers Professor of Ophthalmology and Chair, Department of Ophthalmology

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

President, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai

Barbara G. Vickrey, MD, MPH

Henry P. and Georgette Goldschmidt Professor in Neurology and System Chair, Estelle and Daniel Maggin Department of Neurology

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI DEPARTMENT CHAIRS

Rachel Vreeman, MD, MS

Professor and Chair,

Department of Global Health and Health Systems Design

Director, The Arnhold Institute for Global Health

Professor, Jack and Lucy Clark Department of Pediatrics

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Robert Wright, MD, MPH

Ethel H. Wise Professor of Community Medicine and Chair, Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health

Director, Mount Sinai Institute for Exposomic Research

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Ming-Ming Zhou, PhD

Dr. Harold and Golden Lamport Professorship in Physiology and Biophysics and Chair, Department of Pharmacological Sciences

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI INSTITUTE DIRECTORS

Emilia Bagiella, PhD

Director, The Center for Biostatistics

Department of Population Health Science and Policy

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Deepak L. Bhatt, MD, MPH

Dr. Valentin Fuster Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine

Department of Cardiovascular Medicine

Director of Mount Sinai Heart and the Cardiovascular Institute

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Erwin Bottinger, MD

Co-Director, The Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Health at Mount Sinai

Professor, Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Susan Bressman, MD

Director, The Mirken Family Clinical Neuroscience Institute

Professor, Estelle and Daniel Maggin Department of Neurology

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Brian Brown, PhD

Director, Icahn Institute for Data Science and Genomic Technology

Associate Director, The Precision Immunology Institute

Professor, Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Alexander Charney, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Genetics and Genomic Sciences

Co-Director, Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine

Executive Director of the Blau Center

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Roy Cohen, MD

Director, Primary Care Institute

Associate Professor, Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Linda V. Decherrie, MD

Director, Institute for Care Innovations at Home

Professor, Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI INSTITUTE DIRECTORS

Douglas Dieterich, MD

Director, Institute for Liver Medicine

Professor, Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Zahi A. Fayad, PhD

Director, Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Institute

Dr. Lucy G. Moses Professorship in Medical Imaging and Bioengineering

Department of Diagnostic, Molecular and Interventional Radiology

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Sander S. Florman, MD

Director, Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute

Charles Miller, MD Professor, Ruth J. & Maxwell Hauser and Harriet & Arthur H. Aufses, Jr., MD, Department of Surgery

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Thomas Fuchs, PhD

Dean for Artificial Intelligence and Human Health

Professor, Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD

President, Mount Sinai Heart

Physician in Chief, The Mount Sinai Hospital

Director, The Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute and Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Center for Cardiovascular Health

Richard Gorlin, MD/Heart Research Foundation Professor

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Adolfo García-Sastre, PhD

Director, Global Health and Emerging Pathogens Institute

Irene and Dr. Arthur M. Fishberg Professor of Medicine

Professor, Department of Microbiology

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Bruce D. Gelb, MD

Director, Mindich Child Health and Development Institute

Gogel Family Professor of the Child Health and Development Institute, Jack and Lucy Clark Department of Pediatrics

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Eric Genden, MD, MHA

Director, Ear Institute

Director, Mount Sinai Head and Neck Institute

Dr. Isidore Friesner Professor and System Chair, Department of Otolaryngology

Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Alison Goate, D.Phil.

Jean C. and James W. Crystal Professor and Chair, Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences

Director, Ronald M. Loeb Center for Alzheimer’s Disease

Professor of Neuroscience, Professor of Neurology

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Carol Horowitz, MD, MPH

Dean for Gender Equity in Science and Medicine

Director, Institute for Health Equity Research

Professor, Department of Population Health Science and Policy

Icahn school of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Yasmin Hurd, PhD

Director, Addiction Institute at Mount Sinai

Ward-Coleman Chair in Translational Research

Professor, Nash Family Department of Neuroscience and Department of Psychiatry

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Luis M. Isola, MD

Gerald J. Friedman Chair in Oncology

Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Director, Cancer Clinical Programs

Director, Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Transplantation Program

Director, Cancer Network

Chief Clinical Officer, Ambulatory Care

Mount Sinai Health System

Reena Karani, MD, MHPE

Director, Institute for Medical Education

Professor, Leni and Peter W. May Department of Medical Education

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Eimear Kenny, PhD

Director, Institute for Genomic Health

Associate Professor, Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI INSTITUTE DIRECTORS

Roopa Kohli-Seth, MBBS

System Director, Institute for Critical Care Medicine

Professor, The Ruth J. & Maxwell Hauser and Harriet & Arthur H. Aufses, Jr., MD Department of Surgery

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Patricia Kovatch

Dean for Scientific Computing and Data

Professor, Departments of Genetics and Genomic Sciences and Systems Pharmacology

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Madhu Mazumdar, PhD

Director, Institute for Health Care Delivery Science

Professor, Department of Population Health Science and Policy

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Miriam Merad, MD, PhD

Director, Mount Sinai Precision Immunology Institute

Mount Sinai Professor in Cancer Immunology, Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine and Department of Oncological Sciences

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Sarah Millar, PhD

Director, Black Family Stem Cell Institute

Senior Associate Dean for Basic Research

Professor, Departments of Cell, Developmental and Regenerative Biology and Dermatology

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Alan Moskowitz, MD

Professor, Department of Population Health Science and Policy

Co-director of the International Center for Health Outcomes and Innovation Research (InCHOIR)

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Michael Mullen, MD

Director, Mount Sinai Institute for Advanced Medicine

Professor, Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Girish N Nadkarni, MD, MPH

System Chief, Division of Data-Driven and Digital Medicine (D3M)

Director, Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine

The Irene and Dr. Arthur Fishberg Endowed Professor of Medicine

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Eric J. Nestler, MD, PhD

Director, Friedman Brain Institute

Dean for Academic and Scientific Affairs

Nash Family Professor, Nash Family Department of Neuroscience

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Chief Scientific Officer

Mount Sinai Health System

Katherine A. Ornstein, PhD

Director, Institute for Care Innovations at Home

Associate Professor, Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Louis Pasquale, MD

Director, Eye and Vision Research Institute

Professor, Department of Ophthalmology

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Charles Powell, MD

Director and Chief Executive Officer, Mount Sinai-National Jewish Health Respiratory Institute

Janice and Coleman Rabin Professorship in Pulmonary Medicine

Professor, Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Lynne Richardson, MD

Mount Sinai Endowed Professor of Emergency Medicine and Health Equity Science

Founding Co-Director, Institute for Health Equity Research

Professor of Population Health Science & Policy

Professor of Artificial Intelligence & Human Health

Icahn school of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Leslee Shaw, PhD

Director, Blavatnik Family Women’s Health Research Institute

Vice-Chair for Research in Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Science

Professor, Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine; Department of Population

Health Science and Policy and Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Albert Siu, MD

Director, Institute for Care Innovations at Home

Professor, Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI INSTITUTE DIRECTORS

Andrew Stewart, MD

Director, Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism Institute

Irene and Dr. Arthur M. Fishberg Professor of Medicine, Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Filip Swirski, PhD

Director, Cardiovascular Research Institute

Professor, Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Emanuela Taioli, MD, PhD

Director, Institute for Translational Epidemiology

Professor, Department of Population Health Science and Policy

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Ronald Tamler, MD, PhD

Professor, Department of Medicine, Endocriniology, Diabetes and Bone Diseases

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Director, Digital Health Implementation

Mount Sinai Health System

Rachel Vreeman, MD, MS

Director, Arnhold Institute for Global Health

Professor and Chair, Department of Global Health and Health System Design

Professor, Jack and Lucy Clark Department of Pediatrics

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Robert Wright, MD, MPH

Director, Mount Sinai Institute for Exposomic Research

Ethel H. Wise Professor of Community Medicine and Chair, Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Rosalind Wright, MD

Professor, Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health and Department of Pediatrics

Horace W. Goldsmith Professorship in Children's Health Research

Dean for Translational Biomedical Research

Director, Conduits (Mount Sinai's CTSA Program)

Director for Research, Mount Sinai Parenting Center

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

THE MOUNT SINAI COMBINED BOARDS OF TRUSTEES

Mount Sinai Health System, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, The Mount Sinai Medical Center, Mount Sinai Hospitals Group, The Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai

Beth Israel, Mount Sinai St. Luke’s, Mount Sinai West, and the New York Eye and Ear

Infirmary of Mount Sinai

CO-CHAIRMEN

Richard A. Friedman

James S. Tisch

CHAIRMAN EMERITUS

Peter W. May

Andrew M. Alper

Glenn R. August

Frank J. Bisignano

Leon D. Black

Jeff T. Blau

Thomas R. Block

Anthony Cancellieri

Gerald J. Cardinale

Edith W. Cooper

Henry Cornell

James W. Crystal

Jean C. Crystal

Edgar M. Cullman, Jr.

Susan R. Cullman

Bonnie M. Davis, MD

Eva Andersson Dubin, MD

Glenn Dubin

Joel S. Ehrenkranz

Joseph J. Fennessy

Eric J. Friedman

Robert Friedman

Raquel K. Gilinski

Arne Glimcher

Donald J. Gogel

Scott Gottlieb, MD

Kimberley D. Harris

John B. Hess

Steven Hochberg

Nathan Hoffman

Amaziah Howell

Carl C. Icahn

Gail Golden Icahn

Hamilton E. James

Brad S. Karp

James L. Kempner

Thomas L. Kempner, Jr.

Michael Klein

Henry R. Kravis

Eric S. Lane

John A. Levin

Anton Levy

Marc S. Lipschultz

Daniel S. Loeb

Dina Powell McCormick

Kenneth B. Mehlman

Eric Mindich

Michael Minikes

Joshua Nash

James Neary

Daniel Neff

Nnamdi Okike

Lee Olesky

Doug I. Ostrover

Zibby Owens

Lewis C. Pell

Joel I. Picket

Joseph J. Plumeri

Richard Ravitch

Carolyn Rowan

Judith O. Rubin

The Honorable Robert E. Rubin

Joshua Ruch

Eric M. Ruttenberg

Alejandro Santo Domingo

The Honorable Andrew M. Saul

Robert F. Savage, Jr.

Amy Schulman

Stephen L. Schwartz

Adam Shapiro

Thomas W. Strauss

The Honorable William C. Thompson, Jr.

EX OFFICIOS

Michael S. Gross

Vicki Gross

PHYSICIAN REPRESENTATIVES

Brett Bernstein, MD

Louis R. DePalo, MD

EMERITUS TRUSTEES

Charles R. Bronfman

Jane Friedman

Jerome R. Goldstein

Judah Gribetz

George J. Grumbach, Jr.

Merrill M. Halpern

Lawrence S. Huntington

Lewis P. Jones

Eric Waldman

David E. Wheadon, MD

William H. Wright II

David M. Zaslav

Michael J. Zimmerman

Daniel Katz, MD

Joanna Sirulnick

Theresa A. Mack, MD

Richard B. Rosen, MD

Ellen P. Katz

Stanley Komaroff

Jo Carole Lauder

Eugene Mercy, Jr.

Joan Sarnoff

Edie Schur

John S. Winkleman

The caps and gowns worn by the participants in today’s Commencement exercises are patterned after the attire of scholars in the Middle Ages, when a warm gown and hood were needed for study in unheated buildings. While European institutions continue to show great diversity in their academic costume, an Intercollegiate Commission met in 1895 to standardize the style and color for robes and hoods to be worn at colleges and universities of the United States. Since then the costume code has been revised and clarified several times by the American Council on Education, most recently in 1986. The governing force, however, is tradition tracing back to the academic symbols of the Middle Ages.

Black gowns were originally recommended for all degrees at all institutions, with the style of the gown denoting the degree: pointed sleeves for Bachelor’s, long closed sleeves for Master’s, and full, round sleeves for the Doctor’s degrees. In addition, the Doctor’s gown was to be faced in black velvet down the front and with three bars of the same velvet across the sleeves. Some universities have begun to adopt more colorful robes. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai robe is blue; other colors currently in use are violet for New York University, slate gray for Columbia, crimson for Harvard, blue for Yale.

Much information is represented by the colors of hoods worn by holders of doctoral and master’s degrees. The colors of the interior lining of the hood are those of the institution from which the degree was earned. The hood is bordered in velvet in a color that signifies the discipline of the degree: In the case of the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree, the dark blue color is used to represent the mastery of the discipline of learning and scholarship in any field and is not intended to solely represent the field of philosophy.

Members of the Board of Trustees at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai wear a specially designed costume.

Arts, Letters, Humanities White

Business Light Brown

Dentistry Lilac

Education Light Blue

Law Purple

Library Science Lemon Yellow

Medicine Green

Nursing Apricot

Philosophy Dark Blue

Public Administration Peacock Blue

Public Health Salmon Pink

Science Golden Yellow

Social Work Citron Yellow

Veterinary Science Gray

OATH FOR DOCTORAL CANDIDATES

With my Doctor of Philosophy, I willingly pledge to uphold the highest levels of integrity, professionalism, scholarship and honor.

I will conduct my research and professional endeavors with honesty and objectivity.

I will apply the highest standards of rigor and respect for the generation and application of knowledge, and fully acknowledge the contributions of others.

I will not allow financial gain or ambition to cloud my judgment or decision-making nor cause harm to society or subjects of research.

I will embark on the furthering of knowledge through respectful interaction and collaboration with my colleagues and community, without prejudice or exclusion.

I will be a role model, and use my skills to inspire, mentor and empower future generations, instilling in them the highest principles of ethical behavior.

As witnessed by all present today, and in the tradition of Graduates before me, I do affirm to uphold these guiding principles.

OATH FOR MEDICAL DEGREE CANDIDTES

HIPPOCRATIC OATH (MODERN VERSION)

I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:

I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.

I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures which are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.

I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon’s knife or the chemist’s drug.

I will not be ashamed to say “I know not,” nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient’s recovery.

I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God.

I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person’s family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick.

I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.

I will attend to my own health, well-being, and abilities in order to provide care of the highest standard.

I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.

If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter. May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help.

Originally written in 1964 by Dr. Louis Lasagna, Academic Dean of the School of Medicine at Tufts University, and used in many medical schools today.

HONOR YOUR GRADUATE

To Our Dear Son Kevin

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We salute your hard work. We admire your perseverance. We celebrate your amazing achievement in life.

Congratulations to you on this special day!

We are so proud of you!

WITH ALL OUR LOVE, MOM & DAD

Brandon Gold,

We are so proud of your accomplishments!

We are thrilled to call you Dr. Gold!

Congratulations and love to both you and our future daughter in law, Dr. Emily Spiera … a power couple!

MOM, DAD AND THE ENTIRE FAMILY

Danielle,

We are so proud of your accomplishments and success in and out of medical school. You have excelled to the highest degree. Your grit and determination attest to your character as a role model who improves the lives of others!

MOM, DAD & FAMILY

Dear John,

We can’t believe so much time has passed and you are graduating medical school. We’re so proud of all you have achieved.

You’ve earned your success!

Always know how much we love and support you.

GAN, DAD & MOM

To our graduate, Dr. Emma Klein, and all the Mt. Sinai Doctors of 2023CONGRATULATIONS!!

LOVE, THE KLEIN FAMILY

Dr. Meredith,

We are so proud of you!

Papou and Mom are smiling down.

LOVE,

DAD, ALEX, ARTHUR, FORD, HANNAH AND THE BABIES

Paige, We are so proud of your spirit and achievements!

It’s an honor to share this day with the new doctors!

LOVE, THE FAM

Terence, Your caring heart shines in every life you touch! WE LOVE YOU!

Alex & Ella, Thrilled by your achievements –And that you found each other!

LOVE, JEAN & JAN

Congrats, Dr. Eliott Kim! Go brighten the world by restoring sight with your hands & mind!

Hooray, Madeline!

We are so proud of you!

LOTS OF LOVE, MOMMY, DADDY, BRENDAN & GABBY

Congratulations

Kevin Matthew Paul!

We are so proud of you.

LOVE, MOM AND DAD

So proud of our #1 Niece

Danielle Novack MD

♥ S&M R&D & COUSINS

Danielle, You did it! Congrats on earning your MD!

LOVE, J & M

To infinity & beyond!

So proud of you, Harrison Kaplan!

LYSM ♥

Congratulations and love to our “DANGER MOUSE” MS’23!!!

Mary, We are SO proud of you!

Dr. Claire Morley, So proud of you!

LOVE, MUM, DAD & FAMILY

Dr. Njie, Mom and I are proud of your accomplishment.

LOVE, DAD

Congrats!

Sope MD-PhD

We’re SO proud of you.

Congratulations Kevin: Welcome to the Drs. Weiss!

Congrats Taylor! So proud of you! Keep elevating!

The Office of Alumni Affairs and the Office of Medical Student Affairs at ISMMS is proud to present the Mount Sinai Alumni Connect Program!

An online easy-to-use platform designed to cultivate meaningful advising and hosting opportunities for the global ISMMS community.

Students and alumni can use the platform to connect with alumni in various career fields.

Alumni from all class years, programs, and schools may participate as volunteer advisors and hosts.

For more information please contact Jason Soto, Director of Alumni Affairs @ Jason.soto@mountsinai.org