NYMC Biographies Index

A

• Horace E. Ayers, M.D. 1909, c1878-1967
  • Class of 1909 graduate; Professor Emeritus of Obstetrics & Gynecology.

B

• Harry Barowsky, M.D. 1931, 1904-1983
  • Class of 1931 graduate; Director of the Sarah C. Upham Gastroenterological Clinic.
• William Waldo Blackman, M.D. 1877, 1856-1943
  • Class of 1877 graduate; Professor of Anatomy and Trustee of the College.
• 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.

H

• 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

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.