Mission Statement

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai advances science, medicine, and health care delivery for the benefit of humanity through a culture of excellence, innovation, collaboration, and belonging. We conduct groundbreaking research; educate and nurture the next generation of exceptional clinicians, researchers, teachers, and leaders; and deliver the most advanced compassionate care with an unwavering commitment to health equity.

Our Vision

We pursue innovative approaches to education, research, and patient care, combining the best traditions of biomedicine and health care delivery with the principles and entrepreneurial thinking of a startup, to uncover novel insights about disease and health. Building this culture of innovation requires making large investments and taking a transformative approach to discovery, which means taking risks and disrupting the status quo. In this way, we are transforming the practice of medicine while reinventing medical research to produce radically better outcomes for patients.

We seek students who can contribute open-mindedness, empathy, broad thinking, and medical, scientific, technological, and engineering expertise to change the very nature of biomedicine. We have developed a number of admissions and training programs to foster these advances and recruit multitalented students.

We continually pioneer innovative approaches in our medical and graduate education curricula that instill entrepreneurism, encourage critical thinking, and equip the next generation of basic and clinical scientists with leading-edge methodological and technological skills to translate scientific discovery into practice and improve public health.

We have ambitious goals, preparing scientists, physicians, and leaders who will make significant contributions to local and global health care, remaining forever inquisitive in their quest for lifelong growth, learning, and contribution. We train in the classroom and the laboratory, at the bedside, and in the community. Our unwavering commitment to intellectual exchange, multidisciplinary teamwork, and innovation continually drives us forward in discoveries, advances, and service.

As a leader in biomedical research, we have hired highly accomplished scientists and executives with startup experience and melded them with Mount Sinai’s doctors and researchers, spurring new levels of collaboration among our faculty. We are an engine of discovery, creating new treatments for the patients who need them the most, working in partnership with leading high-tech companies. We are on the threshold of a new era in precision medicine, and our mission is to cure diseases once thought incurable, changing the lives of patients worldwide.

A Foundation of Service

Our values are deeply ingrained in the School. When our School’s doors opened in 1968, our founding trustees envisioned a new and progressive institution, embedded within the real-world environment of a working hospital. They called for the levels of passion, inquiry, dedication, knowledge, leadership, and innovation for which the School is renowned.

Today, we train nearly 2,000 students and postdoctoral fellows and more than 2,600 clinical residents and fellows each year, with a faculty of 4,500 full-time and part-time scientists, educators, and clinicians working within and across 38 academic departments and 45 multidisciplinary institutes.

We are now one of the nation’s elite biomedical and clinical institutions. Our National Institutes of Health funding is among the highest nationwide. Our Health System is one of the largest and best in the country. We have built inspirational leadership, a comprehensive infrastructure, strategic affiliates, and a solid support system, as we train health care and research leaders for the 21st century in the vibrant and diverse city of New York.