Deans
Before 1845, there was no dean. Nathan Smith, followed by Jonathan Knight, provided leadership in the early years.
- Charles Hooker (1845–1863), Professor of Anatomy and Physiology. His practice included surgery, obstetrics, and practical medicine.
- Charles Augustus Lindsley (1863–1885), Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics; later of the Theory and Practice of Medicine.
- Herbert Eugene Smith (1885–1910), physician and chemist
- George Blumer (1910–1920)
- Milton Winternitz (1920–1935), pathologist
- Stanhope Bayne-Jones (1935–1940), physician and bacteriologist
- Francis Gilman Blake (1940–1947)
- Cyril Norman Hugh Long (1947–1952), physician and biochemist
- Vernon W. Lippard (1952–1967)
- Frederick Carl Redlich (1967–1972), psychiatrist
- Lewis Thomas (1972–1973), physician and author
- Robert Berliner (1973–1984)
- Leon Rosenberg (1984–1991)
- Robert M. Donaldson (acting) (1991–1992)
- Gerard N. Burrow (1992–1997)
- David Aaron Kessler (1997–2003), pediatrician, lawyer and former commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- Dennis Spencer (acting) (2003–2004), neurosurgeon
- Robert Alpern (2004—), nephrologist.
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