NYU Grossman School of Medicine department chairs appoint and empower “mentoring champions” to oversee the design, implementation, and maintenance of their faculty mentoring program. A mentoring champion organizes a department’s mentors and serves as the department’s liaison to the Office of Mentoring and Faculty Development.

The Office of Mentoring and Faculty Development recommends that departments consider including their mentoring champions on the departmental appointments and promotion committee.

Our Mentoring Champions

Our mentoring champions are responsible for creating and maintaining mentoring programs within their departments.

Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Care, and Pain Medicine

Peter J. Neuburger, MD

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology

Erika Bach, PhD

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Nader Moazami, MD

Department of Cell Biology

Elaine Wilson, PhD

Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Sarah Horwitz, PhD, research faculty mentoring
Alan D. Schlechter, MD, clinical faculty mentoring

Ronald O. Perelman Department of Dermatology

Alisa N. Femia, MD

Ronald O. Perelman Department of Emergency Medicine

Katherine M. Jahnes, MD

Department of Medicine

David Stern, MD, PhD
Lynn Buckvar-Keltz, MD

Department of Microbiology

Ana Rodriguez, PhD

Department of Neurology

Laura J. Balcer, MD
Daniel Friedman, MD
Rajeev S. Motiwala, MD

Department of Neuroscience and Physiology

Gyorgy Buzsaki, MD, PhD
Richard Tsien, PhD

Department of Neurosurgery

Douglas Kondziolka, MD

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Hye-Chun Hur, MD

Department of Ophthalmology

Elisabeth J. Cohen, MD

Department of Orthopedic Surgery

Kenneth A. Egol, MD

Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery

Susan Waltzman, PhD

Department of Pathology

Aylin Simsir, MD, clinical faculty mentoring
Jane Skok, PhD, research faculty mentoring

Department of Pediatrics

Colin K. Phoon, MD

Hansjörg Wyss Department of Plastic Surgery

Ernest S. Chiu, MD

Department of Population Health

Mark D. Schwartz, MD

Department of Psychiatry

Mary Anne Badaracco, MD
Molly E. Poag, MD
Naomi M. Simon, MD, research faculty mentoring

Department of Radiation Oncology

Anand Mahadevan, MD
Peter B. Schiff, MD, PhD

Department of Radiology

Georgeann McGuinness, MD

Department of Rehabilitation Medicine

Alex Moroz, MD

Department of Surgery

Kepal N. Patel, MD

Department of Urology

Ellen Shapiro, MD

Center for Human Genetics and Genomics

Aravinda Chakravarti, PhD

Institute for Systems Genetics

David Fenyö, PhD

Neuroscience Institute

Gyorgy Buzsaki, MD, PhD

NYU Health Sciences Library

Su-Shan Chin, MA

Perlmutter Cancer Center

Michael L. Grossbard, MD

Mark Philips, MD