Carol R Horowitz, MD, MPH
- DEAN FOR GENDER EQUITY IN SCIENCE AND MEDICINE
- DIRECTOR | INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH EQUITY RESEARCH
- PROFESSOR | Population Health Science and Policy
- PROFESSOR | Medicine, General Internal Medicine
Specialties:
Internal Medicine, Primary CareCarol R. Horowitz, MD, MPH, is Professor of Population Health Science and Policy and, Professor of Medicine and a practicing general internist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She is the founding Director of Mount Sinai’s Institute for Health Equity Research and the founding Dean for Gender Equity in Science and Medicine. Her research focuses on using Stakeholder-Engaged and Community-Based Participatory Research to address health disparities. As a continuously funded NIH investigator, her special interests are in chronic disease prevention and control, and the intersection of social, structural, biological and clinical determinants of health. All of Dr. Horowitz’s clinical trial, secondary data, qualitative and mixed method research directly engages stakeholders, including community leaders, and advocates, clinicians, policymakers and entrepreneurs. The diverse and durable partnerships she helped build over three decades have informed and impacted health, policies, systems and environments, related to diabetes, obesity, kidney and cardiovascular disease, genomics, environmental health, youth, cancer, and COVID-19. Dr. Horowitz mentors diverse trainees and faculty in the US and in low and middle income countries. She is active on NIH study sections, leading NIH consortia and as an international lecturer. She received an MD from Cornell University, was a primary care resident at Albert Einstein, and earned an MPH from the University of Washington as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar. Her numerous awards include the US Department of Health and Human Services Award for Excellence for Contributions to Diabetes; Madrina (Godmother) of the NYC Three Kings Day Parade, Spencer Forman Award for Outstanding Community Service, The Rudin NYC Prize in Medicine and Health, The Jacobi Medallion and Crain’s New York Business Notable in Healthcare.
Multi-Disciplinary Training Areas
Cancer Biology [CAB], Immunology [IMM]Education
MD, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
MPH, University of Washington (Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program)
Residency, Internal Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine-Yeshiva University
Residency, Internal Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine-Yeshiva University
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Ithaca Mayoral Award, Outstanding Community Service -
Dean's Award, Cornell University, Merit in Independent Research -
US Department of Health and Human Services, Excellence for Contributions to Diabetes -
Hartford Rising Star Business Award, Addressing Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare -
Mount Sinai School of Medicine: Community Service Award -
Madrina (Godmother) Three Kings Day Parade -
Spencer Forman Award for Outstanding Community Service (AAMC), Part of Awardee Team -
Partnership Award, Lighthouse International -
Delta Omega Public Health Honor Society -
National Leadership Award, Academy for the Public’s Health -
Cornell Council of Alumni Women -
Healthy Communities Promising Practice Award -
Rudin NYC Prize in Medicine and Health
Dr. Horowitz conducts mixed method (quantitative and qualitative research), implements community and clinically-based clinical trials to improve health, and works with large datasets locally and globally. Currently, she chairs the NIH-NHGRI CSER consortium within which she is PI of a NYC Grant seeking to study the effectiveness of integrating genome sequencing into the clinical care of diverse and medically underserved individuals; is PI of an NHGRI translational genomics clinical trial network (IGNITE); and is PI and engagement director for Mount Sinai’s Clinical Translational Science Award- Conduits, of a NYC-wide clinical data research network- INSIGHT funded by PCRF, and of an NIH Children’s Environmental Health Grant (TCEEE). She also leads studies returning renal risk variants to African ancestry adults and their providers. Her work has also included NIH and CDC-funded grants focused on prevention and control of diabetes, obesity, hypertension, heart failure and stroke, and on associations between the built environment, genomics and health.
Research Interests:
- Health Disparities and Health Equity Research
- Community-Based Participatory Research
- Chronic Disease Prevention and Control
- Community Based Interventions
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Dr. Horowitz did not report having any of the following types of financial relationships with industry during 2022 and/or 2023: consulting, scientific advisory board, industry-sponsored lectures, service on Board of Directors, participation on industry-sponsored committees, equity ownership valued at greater than 5% of a publicly traded company or any value in a privately held company. Please note that this information may differ from information posted on corporate sites due to timing or classification differences.
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