Albert Einstein College of Medicine - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

• Raymond Vahan Damadian (M.D., Class of 1960), Pioneer of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI); founder, president, and chairman, FONAR Corporation; professor of medicine and radiology, SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn.
• Howard Dean (M.D., 1978), a former Vermont governor and chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and 2004 presidential candidate. Dean met his wife, Judith Steinberg Dean, while they were both students at Einstein.
• Baruch Goldstein, perpetrator of the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre.
• Ken Shubin Stein, Founder & Portfolio Manager, Spencer Capital Management; Healthcare investor
• Sankar Ghosh, Silverstein & Hutt Family Professor and Chairman of Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Columbia University. Noted luminary in study of transcription factor NF-KB.
• Ronald Hoffman (M.D., 1983), a champion of holistic medicine, an author and a radio talk show host.
• Harvey Karp (M.D., Class of 1976), assistant professor of pediatrics, UCLA School of Medicine; author of The Happiest Baby on the Block.
• Jonathan Zizmor (M.D., 1969), is a dermatologist and renowned personality amongst New York City subway riders.
• Ronald A. DePinho, a cancer biologist