Convocation
Convocation 2018 will be held on Thursday, October 4, 2018. Convocation marks the beginning of the academic year for the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. At this ceremony, we renew the School’s commitment to excellence in research, education, and clinical care, and recognize individual faculty for their outstanding contributions to serving science and society. We also honor the generous donors who provide the support our faculty need to succeed. We confer endowed professorships and awards to honor both the accomplishments of our faculty and the vision of our donors.
The ceremony includes two components:
State of the School Address
Dennis S. Charney, MD, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, President for Academic Affairs, Mount Sinai Health System, will present the State of the School Address, an overview of the School’s accomplishments during the past year and describe plans for the coming year.
Presentation of the Endowed Professorships
A cadre of outstanding faculty will be installed into endowed chairs, honoring both their achievements and the generosity and vision of our donors.
Schahram Akbarian, MD, PhD
Mount Sinai Professor in Psychiatric Epigenomics
Kenneth S. Boockvar, MD, MS
Anna A. Greenwall Professor of Geriatrics and Adult Development
Marta Filizola, PhD
Sharon and Frederick Klingenstein/Nathan Kase, MD Professorship
Ethylin Wang Jabs, MD
Mount Sinai Professor in Developmental Genetics
Jian Jin, PhD
Mount Sinai Professor in Therapeutics Discovery
Amy S. Kelley, MD, MSHS
Hermann Merkin Professor in Palliative Care
Andrew B. Leibowitz, MD
Mount Sinai Professor in Perioperative Care
Ruth JF Loos, PhD
Charles Bronfman Professor in Personalized Medicine
Adam A. Margolin, PhD
Jean C. and James W. Crystal Professor of Genetics and Genomic Sciences
Richard B. Rosen, MD
Belinda Bingham Pierce and Gerald G. Pierce, MD Distinguished Chair of Ophthalmology
Rachel Saunders-Pullman, MD, MPH, MS
Bachmann-Strauss Professor
Eric Schadt, PhD
Mount Sinai Professor in Predictive Health and Computational Biology
Paul A. Slesinger, PhD
Lillian and Henry M. Stratton Professor of Neuroscience