Burton P. Drayer

Biography

Dr. Drayer is executive vice-president for Risk at The Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York and the Dr. Charles M. and Marilyn Newman Professor and Chair of the Department of Radiology (1995-present) at The Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He also served as President of The Mount Sinai Hospital from November 2003 to September 2008.

Dr. Drayer received his undergraduate degree in political science from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. In 1971, he received his medical degree from the Finch University of Health Sciences/The Chicago Medical School and went on to complete an internship and neurology residency at the University of Vermont in Burlington. Dr. Drayer served his radiology residency followed by a neuroradiology fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh.

Dr. Drayer's academic appointments began in 1977 at the University of Pittsburgh Health Center. From 1979 to 1986, Dr. Drayer was at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C., where he became professor of radiology and assistant professor of medicine (neurology). In 1986, he was appointed chair of the Division of Neuroimaging Research-Education at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, where he remained until 1995. Dr. Drayer then moved to The Mount Sinai Medical Center.

Since 1979, Dr. Drayer has been a manuscript reviewer for nine medical journals, including Radiology, and was editor of Neuroimaging Clinics of North America from 1991 to 2005. He has authored or coauthored nearly 200 journal articles, 41 book chapters and two books and is a sought-after lecturer both nationally and internationally, giving over 200 invited lectures and speeches. Dr. Drayer’s major research interest involve CT Scanning and MRI techniques for the diagnosis of cerebral infarctions, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis, vascular malefactions and brain neoplasm. 

Dr. Drayer's many awards and honors include the Cornelius G. Dyke Award from the American Society of Neuroradiology and the Distinguished Service Award from the American Board of Radiology.

Dr. Drayer was a fellow of both the American College of Radiology (ACR) and American Academy of Neurology, and a past-president of the New York Roentgen Society. He is past-President of the American Society of Neuroradiology (ASNR) and founding member. Dr. Drayer was the first Chairman of its research foundation (NERF).

 Dr. Drayer serves on the Board of Trustees of the R&E Foundation at the RadiologicalSociety of North America (RSNA). Dr. Drayer was elected to the RSNA Board of Directors in December 2003 and has acted as liaison for the annual meeting and technology and served as board chairman in 2009.   He was President-elect of the RSNA in 2010 and is RSNA President in 2011.