Core and Affiliated Faculty
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
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
Eimear Kenny, PhD
Assistant 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
Inga Peter, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences
Member, Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology
Quingbin Song, MD, MSc
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Stuart Scott, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences
Associate Director, Mount Sinai Genetic Testing Laboratory
Affiliated Faculty
Erwin Bottinger, MD
Founding Director, The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine
CEO, Berlin Institute of Health
Neil Calman, MD
Professor and System Chair, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health
CEO, The Institute for Family Health
Ilse Daehn, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
George Diaz, MD
Professor, Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences
Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Joel Dudley, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences
Omri Gottesman, MD
Assistant Professor (Adjunct), Department of Medicine
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
Randi Zinberg, MS
Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences
Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science
Trainees
Gillian Belbin
Graduate Student
Daniel Jordan, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ryan Walker, PhD, MS
Postdoctoral Fellow
Marie Verbanck, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Abhishek Vishnu, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Staff
Administration
Leonardo P. Imatani
Administrator
Amanda Merkelson, MPH
BioMe Managing Director
Neil Netherly
Administrative Secretary
Stacy Paris
Administrative Coordinator
Rachel Posner, MPA
Administrative Director (Office of Translational Research Institutes)
Christian Chino
Finance Manager (Office of Translational Research Institutes)
Research Personnel
Alanna Gomez
Clinical Research Coordinator
Sumita Kohli
Associate Researcher II
Bernadette Liggayu
Laboratory Coordinator
Ana Mejia, MSM
Clinical Research Coordinator
Stephanie Pagan
Clinical Research Coordinator
Patrick Shanley
Laboratory Coordinator
Liping Yu
Associate Researcher
Informatics and Information Technology
Steve Ellis
Senior Director
Tom Kaszemacher
Applications Analyst
Rajiv Nadukuru
Senior Systems Software Specialist
Quingbin Song, MD, MSc
Director, IT Core Lab