The Institute for Personalized Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai provides an academic home for faculty members interested in working together to advance precision medicine. Our faculty members are based in many of the departments, centers, and institutes at the Mount Sinai Health System, reflecting our interdisciplinary and innovative programs. As our research programs mature, our Core Faculty and Affiliated Faculty membership is expected to grow.
Core Faculty
Judy H. Cho, MD
Director, The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine
Ward-Coleman Professor of Translational Genetics
Professor, Department of Medicine and Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences
Ruth J.F. Loos, PhD
Co-Director, The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine
Director, Genetics of Obesity and Related Metabolic Traits Program
Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine
Member, Child Health and Development Institute
Noura Abul-Husn, MD, PhD
Clinical Director, Center for Population Genomic Health
Senior Faculty, Department of Medicine and Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences
Ron Do, PhD
Assistant Professor in Genetics and Genomic Sciences
Member, The Center for Statistical Genetics
Member, The Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology
Member, The Zena and Michael A. Weiner Cardiovascular Institute
Yuval Itan, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences
Member, The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine
Eimear Kenny, PhD
Director, Center for Population Genomic Health
Associate Professor, Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences
Member, Center for Statistical Genetics
Member, Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology
Girish Nadkarni, MD, MPH, CPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Clinical Director of the Institute for Personalized Medicine
Aniwaa Owusu Obeng, PharmD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine and Department of Pharmacy
Quingbin Song, MD, MSc
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Ghislain Rocheleau, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences
Affiliated Faculty
Erwin Bottinger, MD
Founding Director, The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine
CEO, Berlin Institute of Health
Stuart Scott, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences
Associate Director, Mount Sinai Genetic Testing Laboratory
Joel Dudley, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences
Carol Horowitz, MD
Associate Professor, Population Health Science and Policy
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
Co-Director, Center for Health Equity and Community-Engaged Research
Matthew Levin
Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Division of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia
Eli Stahl, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences
Trainees
Michael Preuss, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Nathalie Chami, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Daiane Hemerich
Postdoctoral Fellow
Zhe (JJ) Wang
Postdoctoral Fellow
Roelof Smit
Postdoctoral Fellow
Gillian Belbin
Postdoctoral Fellow
Daniel Jordan
Postdoctoral Fellow
Amanda Dobbyn
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ha My Vy Thi
Postdoctoral Fellow
Daniel Balick
Postdoctoral Fellow
Kumardeep Chaudhary
Postdoctoral Fellow
Cigdem Sevim
Postdoctoral Fellow
Yiming Wu, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Staff
Administration
Amanda Merkelson, MPH
BioMe Managing Director
Stacy Paris
Administrative Manager
Akosua Twumasi
Grants Manager
Neil Netherly
Administrative Secretary
Krystal Hargett
Administrative Assistant
Rose Vallines
Administrative Coordinator
Rachel Posner, MPA
Administrative Director (Office of Translational Research Institutes)
Christian Chino
Finance Manager (Office of Translational Research Institutes)
Research Personnel
Arden Moscati
Bioinformatician
Jacqueline Odgis, MS
Genetic Counselor
Sabrina Suckiel, MS
Genetic Counselor
Emily Roper
Genetic Counselor
Katherine Donohue
Genetic Counselor
Dean Bobo
Bioinformatician
Sumita Kohli
Associate Researcher II
Jessica Rodriguez
Clinical Research Coordinator
Nicole Yelton
Clinical Research Coordinator
Giovanna Braganza
Clinical Research Coordinator
Shantanu Bafna
Associate Bioinformatician
Lili Chan
Clinical Instructor
Tielman Van Vleck, PhD
Computational Scientist
Aparna Saha
Project Manager
Quoc Nguyen
Trainee
Alanna Gomez
Clinical Research Coordinator
Ana Mejia
Clinical Research Coordinator
Michell Yee
Clinical Research Coordinator
Carlton Bailey
Clinical Research Coordinator
Sheryl Cruz
Clinical Research Coordinator
Klaren Ng
Clinical Research Coordinator
Bernadette Liggayu
Laboratory Supervisor
Janice Morinigo
Laboratory Coordinator
Sinead Cullina, MSc
Bioinformatician
Aine Duffy, MS
Bioinformatician
Informatics and Information Technology
Steve Ellis
Senior Director
Tom Kaszemacher
Senior Software Engineer
Rajiv Nadukuru
Senior Database Analyst
Quingbin Song, MD, MSc
Senior Application Specialist