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An entrepreneurial spirit unites the Mount Sinai BioDesign team, which brings together a broad spectrum of clinicians, designers, engineers, and entrepreneurs from throughout the Mount Sinai Health System to conceptualize, develop, and evaluate groundbreaking medical device technologies.

Executive Team

Joshua B Bederson, MD
Joshua B Bederson, MD

Co-Founder and Executive Director, Mount Sinai BioDesign; Leonard I. Malis, MD/Corinne and Joseph Graber Professor of Neurosurgery System Chair, Department of Neurosurgery Mount Sinai Health System

Benjamin Rapoport, MD, PhD
Benjamin Rapoport, MD, PhD

Scientific Director, BioDesign; Co-Founder and CSO, Precision Neuroscience;  Assistant Professor, Neurosurgery

ASHLEY L FRIEND
ASHLEY L FRIEND

Executive Administrative Director, Mount Sinai BioDesign; Vice Chair, Administration, Department of Neurosurgery

Iden Kurtaliaj, PhD
Iden Kurtaliaj, PhD

Associate Director, Mount Sinai BioDesign; Assistant Professor, Neurosurgery

Turner Baker, PhD
Turner Baker, PhD

Senior Associate Director, Part-Time Faculty, Mount Sinai BioDesign

PHILIP WILLIAMS
PHILIP WILLIAMS

Business Development, Mount Sinai Innovation Partners

AKUA AFRIYIE SARKODEE
AKUA AFRIYIE SARKODEE

Associate Director, Mount Sinai BioDesign; Assistant Professor, Neurosurgery

WENQI YUE
WENQI YUE

Director, Mount Sinai International

SUKAINA DAVDANI
SUKAINA DAVDANI

Director, Research, Department of Neurosurgery

ISABELLA MORGAN
ISABELLA MORGAN

Biomedical Engineer

Strategy Advisory Board

Joshua B Bederson, MD
Joshua B Bederson, MD

Co-Founder and Executive Director, Mount Sinai BioDesign; Leonard I. Malis, MD/Corinne and Joseph Graber Professor of Neurosurgery System Chair, Department of Neurosurgery Mount Sinai Health System

Benjamin Rapoport, MD, PhD
Benjamin Rapoport, MD, PhD

Scientific Director, BioDesign; Co-Founder and CSO, Precision Neuroscience;  Assistant Professor, Neurosurgery

Thomas J Oxley, MD, PhD
Thomas J Oxley, MD, PhD

Director of Innovation, Mount Sinai BioDesign; Co-Founder and CEO, Synchron

Christopher P Kellner, MD
Christopher P Kellner, MD

Director, Cerebrovascular Center; Director, Intracerebral Hemorrhage Program; Co-Director, Enhanced Stroke Recovery Program; Associate Professor, Neurosurgery

Alfred M.C. Iloreta, Jr., MD
Alfred M.C. Iloreta, Jr., MD

Associate Professor, Otolaryngology and Neurosurgery

Neha S Dangayach, MD
Neha S Dangayach, MD

Associate Professor, Neurosurgery, Neurology, and Rehabilitation and Human Performance;  Unit Director, Neurosciences ICU (NSICU) at Mount Sinai Hospital; Systems Director, Neuroemergencies Management and Transfers (NEMAT)

Raj Shrivastava, MD
Raj Shrivastava, MD

Vice Chair for Education, Department of Neurosurgery and Professor, Neurosurgery and Otolaryngology

Konstantinos Margetis, MD, PhD
Konstantinos Margetis, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, and Rehabilitation and Human Performance; Director, Complex Spine Surgery for the Department of Neurosurgery at The Mount Sinai Hospital; and Director, Spine at Mount Sinai Downtown-Union Square

Alejandro Berenstein, MD
Alejandro Berenstein, MD

Professor, Neurosurgery, Interventional Radiology, and Pediatrics; Director, Vascular Malformations Research Center

David H Adams, MD
David H Adams, MD

System Chair and Professor, Cardiovascular Surgery

Johanna T Fifi, MD
Johanna T Fifi, MD

Associate Director, Cerebrovascular Center; Director, Pediatric Neurovascular Program; Director, Cerebrovascular Services at The Mount Sinai Hospital; Professor, Neurosurgery, Neurology, and Radiology

Student Fellows

JOHN R DURBIN
JOHN R DURBIN

PhD Student; Clinical Research Manager

AUDREY LEE
AUDREY LEE

MD-PhD Candidate, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

IAN CHRISTOPHER ODLAND
IAN CHRISTOPHER ODLAND

MD Candidate, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

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Mount Sinai BioDesign

1428 Madison Avenue

BMC-24, Box 1136

New York, NY 10029

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