NYMC Biographies Index

A

• Timothy Field Allen, A.M., M.D., LL.D., 1837-1902
  • Physician and distinguished botanist who served as Dean of the College from 1882 to 1893.
• Horace E. Ayers, M.D. 1909, c1878-1967
  • Class of 1909 graduate; Professor Emeritus of Obstetrics & Gynecology.

B

• William M. Baldwin, 1862-1942
  • President of the Board of Trustees from 1923 to 1926.
• Harry Barowsky, M.D. 1931, 1904-1983
  • Class of 1931 graduate; Director of the Sarah C. Upham Gastroenterological Clinic.
• Jacob Beakley, A.M., M.D., 1812-1872
  • Founding Dean of New York Medical College from 1860 to 1870.
• William Waldo Blackman, M.D. 1877, 1856-1943
  • Class of 1877 graduate; Professor of Anatomy and Trustee of the College.
• Warner F. Bowers, M.S., M.D., Ph. D., F.A.C.S., 1906-1994
  • Director of the Graduate School of Basic Medical Sciences from 1963 to 1966.
• Linn J. Boyd, M.D., F.A.C.P., F.A.C.G. (Hon.), F.A.C.C., 1895-1981
  • Director of the Department of Medicine from 1926 to 1958.
• Frank Hopkins Boynton, M.D. 1874, 1850-1913
  • Class of 1874 graduate; Professor of Ophthalmology.
• Geraldine Burton Branch, M.D. 1936, 1908-2016
  • Class of 1936 graduate; public health leader and founder of the Watts Health Center.
• William Cullen Bryant, M.D., 1794-1878
  • Founder of the Homeopathic Medical College of the State of New York
• Claude Adalbert Burrett, M.D., 1878-1941
  • Professor of Surgery who served as Dean of the College from 1925 to 1939.

C

• Right Reverend Monsignor James P. Cassidy, Ph.D., 1925-2015
  • Member of the board of trustees from 1972-1987, Chancellor of the college 1987-1992.
• John J. Connolly, Ed.D. 
  • President of the college from 1981-1992, acquired millions of dollars in research funding and expanded the school's network of hospitals and affiliates.
• Royal Samuel Copeland, M.D., 1868-1938
  • Professor of Ophthalmology and Dean of the College from 1908 to 1918; United States Senator for New York, 1923-1938.
• Walter Gray Crump, M.D., 1869-1945
  • Class of 1895 graduate, established the Walter Gray Crump Scholarship and worked as a professor at the college for the majority of his medical career

D

• William H. Dieffenbach, M.D., 1865-1937
  • Class of 1900 graduate, pioneering radiation oncologist, and dedicated trustee whose fundraising saved the College.

F

• Anson R. Flower, 1843-1909
  • President of the Board of Trustees from 1901 to 1908.
• Roswell P. Flower, 1835-1899
  • Treasurer of the Board of Trustees from 1887 to 1899 and namesake donor of the Flower Hospital.
• Robert Maxwell Franklin, M.D., 1901-1941
  • Clinician in the Grasslands Hospital Tuberculosis Division from 1932 to 1939.

H

• Edwin L. Harmon, M.D., 1901-1994
  • Director of Grasslands Hospital from 1939 to 1958.
• William Tod Helmuth, M.D., LL.D, 1833-1902
  • Professor of Surgery who served as Dean of the College from 1893 to 1902.
• Jacob Adam Werner Hetrick, M.D. 1918, 1895-1979
  • Class of 1918 graduate; Director of Otolaryngology who served as Dean of the College from 1941 to 1953.
• Alonzo Potter Burgess Holly, M.D. 1888, 1865-1943
  • Class of 1888 graduate; first New York Medical College graduate of African descent.

J

• Edwin Brown Jenks, M.D. 1901, 1877-1945
  • Class of 1901 graduate; founder of the Diamond Point Emergency Medical Service.

K

• Edwin D. Kilbourne, M.D., 1920-2011
  • Professor of Microbiology and Immunology; expert in influenza and global health.
• Marcus David Kogel, M.D. 1927, 1903-1989
  • Class of 1927 graduate; founding dean of Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

L

• Robert Jay Lifton, M.D. 1948, 1926-
  • Class of 1948 graduate; renowned psychiatrist and expert on the psychology of totalitarianism.
• Myra Adele Logan, M.D. 1933, 1908-1977
  • Class of 1933 graduate; first African-American woman elected to the American College of Surgeons.

M

• Charles McDowell, M.D. 1878, 1857-1945
  • Class of 1878 graduate; Director of the Department of Physiology.
• Charles Henry Miller, M.D. 1863, 1842-1922
  • Class of 1863 graduate; noted American painter and member of the National Academy of Design.
• Claude W. Munger, M.D., 1889-1950
  • Director of Grasslands Hospital from 1924 to 1937.
• Edwin Sterling Munson, M.D. 1894, 1870-1958
  • Class of 1894 graduate; Professor of Ophthalmology and namesake of Munson's sign.

N

• George S. Norton, M.D. 1872, 1851-1891
  • Class of 1872 graduate; Professor of Ophthalmology.

R

• Ira Remsen, M.D. 1865, 1846-1927
  • Class of 1865 graduate; distinguished chemist who served as President of Johns Hopkins University from 1901 to 1912.
• George Watson Roberts, M.D. 1889, 1866-1931
  • Class of 1889 graduate; Professor of Surgery and Gynecology.

S

• Philipp J.R. Schmahl, M.D. 1911, 1885-1965
  • Class of 1911 graduate; Professor of Medicine.
• Jeremiah T. Simonson, M.D. 1891, 1869-1944
  • Class of 1891 graduate; Director of Pediatrics.
• Jackson E. Spears, 1906-2003
  • Long-time member of the board of trustees, vice-chair of the board from 1956-1964, and chair of the board from 1965 to 1970.
• Lawrence B. Slobody, M.D. 1936, 1910-2001
  • Class of 1936 graduate; Director of Pediatrics who served as Acting Dean in 1965-1966 and as President of the College from 1972 to 1978.
• Emily Howard Jennings Stowe, M.D. 1867, 1831-1903
  • Class of 1867 graduate of the New York Medical College and Hospital for Women; first female physician in Canada.

T

• Leo M. Taran, M.D., 1902-1959
  • Director of the Cardiopulmonary Program at New York Medical College.

W

• James William Ward, M.D. 1883, 1862-1939
  • Class of 1883 graduate; Dean of the Hahnemann Medical College of the Pacific from 1899 to 1917.
• Leonard Paul Wershub, M.D. 1927, 1901-1968
  • Class of 1927 graduate; Professor of Urology and historian of New York Medical College.
• Jane Cooke Wright, M.D. 1945, 1919-2013
  • Class of 1945 graduate; pioneering chemotherapist and first African-American woman to hold a senior administrative position at a U.S. medical school.