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   Faculty Experts Media Guide
  This guide introduces you to members of our faculty who are authorities in an array of subjects. These individuals can serve as important resources for background and direct commentary when you are researching and writing stories or preparing news and feature programs. The guide includes thumbnail sketches of experts in a variety of fields. If you are looking for information in a category or subject that is not listed, please contact the Media Relations Bureau at (212) 960-5488. We are here to assist you.

   Anatomy
 Bible
 Business and Economics
 Education
 Family and Social Medicine
 Humanities
 Jewish Education
 Jewish History
 Jewish History, Literature and Philosophy
 Jewish History, Literature, and Philosophy
 Jewish Music
 Jewish Studies
 Law
 Medicine
 Nuclear Medicine
 Pediatrics
 Psychology
 Sciences
 Social Welfare
 US Politics and World Affairs

Anatomy  
Ana Maria Cuervo (amcuervo@aecom.yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Medicine; Anatomy & Structural Biology, Developmental & Molecular Biology
Degrees: MD; PhD,University of Valencia (Spain)
Associate Professor
 
Bible  
Moshe Bernstein (mjbrnstn@yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Dead Sea Scroll research, early Jewish biblical interpretation
Degrees: BA, MHL, Yeshiva University; MA, PhD, Fordham University; Ordination, Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary
Professor of Bible
 
Shalom Carmy (carmy@yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Biblical thought, modern Jewish thought with an emphasis on Rabbis Soloveitchik and Kook, religious Zionism, INTERFACE OF JEWISH THOUGHT AND HUMANITIES
Degrees: BA, MS, Yeshiva University; Ordination, Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary
Assistant Professor of Bible
 
Mordechai Cohen (cohenm@yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Bible and biblical exegesis
Degrees: BA, MA, PhD, Yeshiva University; MA, Columbia University; Ordination, Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary
Associate Professor of Bible
 
Naomi Grunhaus (ngrunhau@yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Medieval Jewish biblical exegesis
Degrees: BS, Brooklyn College, City University of New York; MA, MS, PhD, New York University
Assistant Professor of Bible
 
Michelle Levine (levine.michelle@att.net)
Areas of Expertise: Medieval biblical exegesis, Nachmanides' literary approach to Bible
Degrees: BA, Brooklyn College, City University of New York; MS, Yeshiva University; PhD, New York University
Assistant Professor of Bible
 
Business and Economics  
Robert Greenberg (greenbe2@yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Constitutional law, intellectual property law, the Supreme Court, Business organizations (agency law, partnership law, and corporation law), contracts law
Degrees: BA, JD, LLM, Yeshiva University
Assistant Professor of business law
 
Dennis Hoover (hoover@yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Economics, econometrics
Degrees: BA, Ohio University; PhD, Columbia University
Lecturer in economics
 
Moses Pava (mpava@yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Business ethics, Jewish business ethics, corporate social responsibility
Degrees: BA, Brandeis University; MPhil, PhD, New York University
Alvin H. Einbender Professor of Business Ethics; professor of accounting
 
Education  
Karen Bacon (kbacon@yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Institutional leadership, Jewish education, women's education
Degrees: BA, Yeshiva University; PhD, University of California at Los Angeles
The Monique C. Katz Dean, Stern College for Women;Professor of Biology
 
Miriam Grosof (grosof@yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Social science methodologies and associated data analysis strategies, mathematics and statistics education with emphasis on problem-based curricula and quantitative anxiety
Degrees: BA, Barnard College; MA, Columbia University; PhD, Yeshiva University
Professor Emerita of Mathematics
 
Elizabeth Lazaroff (lazaroff@yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Curriculum and teacher education, elementary education, arts in education, dance education
Degrees: BA, Harvard University; PhD, Stanford University
Assistant Professor of Education; Director of Teacher Education
 
Family and Social Medicine  
Darwin Deen (deen@aecom.yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Nutrition; diet
Degrees: BS, University of New Hampshire; MS, Columbia University; MD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Professor, Family & Social Medicine
 
Humanities  
Adrienne Asch (asch@yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Ethics in genetics, abortion, assisted reproduction, end of life, health disparities, disability
Degrees: BA, Swarthmore College; MS, PhD, Columbia University
Edward and Robin Milstein Professor of Bioethics; Professor, Epidemiology & Population Health
 
Louis Feldman (lfeldman@yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Hellenistic Judaism, Jewish attitudes toward Jesus and Christianity, conversion to Judaism, anti-Semitism, Hanukkah, Josephus and Philo
Degrees: BA, MA, Trinity College; PhD, Harvard University
Abraham Wouk Family Professor of Classics and Literature
 
Paula Geyh (geyh@yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Comparative literature, literary theory, American literature, American postmodernism, 20th-century American fiction
Degrees: BA, Miami University; MA, PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Assistant Professor of English
 
David Glaser (dglaser@yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Music of the 20th-century, music composition
Degrees: BA, Hunter College, City University of New York; MA, Queens College, City University of New York; DMA, Columbia University
Visiting Assistant Professor of Music
 
Joanne Jacobson (jacobson@yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: American literature, American culture, American autobiography, creative nonfiction, American Jewish literature
Degrees: BA, University of Illinois; MA, PhD, University of Iowa
Associate Dean of Yeshiva College
 
Nora Nachumi (nachumi@yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: 18th-century British literature, theater history, women's literature, women's studies, popular culture
Degrees: BA, State University of New York at Purchase; PhD, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Assistant Professor of English
 
Peninnah Schram (peninnah1@aol.com)
Areas of Expertise: Storytelling, speech communication, oral interpretation of literature, history of theater
Degrees: BA, University of Connecticut; MA, Columbia University
Associate Professor of Speech and Drama
 
David Shatz (shatz@yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Relationship between science and religion, philosophy of law and religion, Jewish political philosophy, Jewish ethics
Degrees: BA, MS, Yeshiva University; MA, New York University; MPhil, PhD, Columbia University; Ordination, Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary
Professor of Philosophy
 
Carole Silver (csilver@yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Victorian poetry and prose, 18th-century poetry and prose, 19th-century writer William Morris
Degrees: BA, Alfred University; MA, University of Michigan; PhD, Columbia University
Professor of English
 
Jewish Education  
Aharon Fried (friedaha@yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Educating Orthodox children with learning disabilities, special education
Degrees: MA, PhD, New School University
Associate Professor of psychology
 
Scott Goldberg (sjgoldbe@yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Multilingual literacy development and assessment, the connection between learning disabilities and behavioral disorder, bilingual education, special education
Degrees: BA, University of Chicago; MS Ed, Bank Street College of Education; PhD, New York University
Assistant Professor of education and psychology
 
David Pelcovitz (dpelcovi@yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Parenting, adolescent development, family trauma, child abuse, at-risk children
Degrees: BA, MS, Brooklyn College, City University of New York; PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Gwendolyn and Joseph Strauss Professor of Education and Psychology
 
Jacob J. Schacter (jschacte@yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Contemporary American Jewish community, religious Zionism, thought of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, early modern Jewry, autobiography
Degrees: BA, Brooklyn College, City University of New York; MA, PhD, Harvard University
Senior Scholar at the Center for the Jewish Future and University Professor of Jewish History and Jewish Thought at Yeshiva University
 
Alvin Schiff (schiffish18@aol.com)
Areas of Expertise: Communal Jewish education, central agencies for Jewish education, Jewish day school in America, effectiveness in teaching, administration and supervision of education
Degrees: BA, PhD, Yeshiva University; MA, Columbia University
Irving I. Stone Distinguished Professor of Jewish Education
 
David Schnall (dschnall@yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Jewish education, human resources and development, professional ethics, Jewish family/community, Israel, gerontology, training for health, mental health, and social service organizations
Degrees: BA, MS, Yeshiva University; MA, PhD, Fordham University; Ordination, Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary
Dean, Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration
 
Moshe Sokolow (msokolow@yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Jewish education, Islam
Degrees: BA, MA, PhD, Yeshiva University
Fanya Gottesfeld-Heller Professor of Jewish Education
 
Jewish History  
Jeffrey Gurock (gurock@yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Religious and social life of Jews, New York Jewish history
Degrees: BA, City College, City University of New York; PhD, Columbia University
Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History
 
Ephraim Kanarfogel (kanarfog@yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Medieval Jewish history and culture
Degrees: BA, MA, PhD, Yeshiva University; Ordination, Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary
Director, Rebecca Ivry Department of Jewish Studies; E. Billi Ivry Professor of Jewish History
 
Haym Soloveitchik (solo@yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Halakhic history, medieval religious movements, medieval communal organization, contemporary haredi world
Degrees: BA, Harvard University; MA, PhD, Hebrew University
Merkin Family Professor of Jewish History and Literature
 
Joshua Zimmerman (zimmerm@yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Modern East European Jewish history, Polish-Jewish relations, the origins of anti-Semitism in Europe before and during the Holocaust
Degrees: BA, University of California, Santa Cruz; MA, University of California at Los Angeles; PhD, Brandeis University
Eli and Diana Zborowski Professor of Interdisciplinary Holocaust Studies; assistant professor of interdisciplinary Holocaust studies and Easter European Jewish history
 
Jewish History, Literature and Philosophy  
David Berger (dberger@yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Medieval Jewish History; Intellectual History of the Jews; Jewish-Christian Relations; Jewish Messianism; contemporary Orthodox Judaism
Degrees:
Professor of Jewish History, Bernard Revel Graduate Schoo
 
Jewish History, Literature, and Philosophy  
Debra Kaplan
Areas of Expertise: Early Modern Europe, Jewish-Christian Relations, Protestant Reformation, self-texts
Degrees: BA, Barnard College, MA, PhD, Universoty of Pennsylvania
 
Jewish Music  
Bernard Beer (beer@yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Synagogue music, Jewish music and liturgy
Degrees: BA, City College, City University of New York; Cantorial Diploma, Belz School of Jewish Music
Director, Philip and Sarah Belz School of Jewish Music
 
Jewish Studies  
Benjamin Blech (eblech@juno.com)
Areas of Expertise: Jewish communal concerns and contemporary issues, fundamentals of Judaism
Degrees: BA, Yeshiva University; MA, Columbia University; Ordination, Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary
Assistant Professor of Talmud
 
J. David Bleich (bleich@yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Jewish law, ethics, bioethics, applications of Jewish law to contemporary social issues, the interface of Jewish law with the American legal system
Degrees: BA, Brooklyn College, City University of New York; MA, Columbia University; PhD, New York University
Herbert and Florence Tenzer Professor of Jewish Law and Ethics; professor of law; rosh yeshiva, Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary
 
Rabbi Kenneth J. Brander ((brander@yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Jewish perspective on end of life issues, cloning and stem cell research, organ donation, infertility, religious Zionism, and contemporary society.
Degrees: BA, Yeshiva University; MA, Florida Atlantic University; Ordination, RIETS; Ordination in Medical Ethics (Fertility & Jewish Law), Machon Puah
 
Zevulun Charlop
Areas of Expertise: Rabbinic studies, religion in American government, religion and the Founding Fathers, American history
Degrees: BA, Yeshiva University; MA, Columbia University; Ordination, Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary
Max and Marion Grill Dean, Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary
 
Yaakov Elman (yelman3@aol.com)
Areas of Expertise: History of the oral Torah, the effects of oral transmission, the relationship of oral to written Torah, the function of both in Jewish history
Degrees: BS, City College, City University of New York; MA, Columbia University; PhD, New York University
Associate Professor of Jewish studies
 
Steven Fine (sfine2@yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Second Temple and Talmudic History, Jewish art and archaeology, History of the Synagogue, ancient Christianity, Samaritanism
Degrees: BA (Religious Studies), University of California, Santa Barbara; MA (History of Art), University of Southern California; PhD (Jewish History), Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Professor of Jewish History; Director, YU Center for Israel Studies
 
Arthur Hyman (ahyman@yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: History of medieval Jewish and Islamic philosophy, modern Jewish thought, Maimonides, Jewish ethics
Degrees: BA, St. John's College; MA, PhD, Harvard University
Dean, Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies; Distinguished Service Professor of Philosophy
 
Norman Lamm (nlamm@att.global.net)
Areas of Expertise: Jewish philosophy and thought, Hasidism, Modern Orthodoxy
Degrees: BA, PhD, Yeshiva University; Ordination, Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary
Chancellor, Yeshiva University; Rosh Hayeshiva, Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary
 
Zafrira Lidovsky-Cohen (lidovsky@yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Modern Hebrew poetry, Hebrew prose
Degrees: BA, Hebrew University; MA, Yeshiva University; PhD, New York University
Associate Professor of Hebrew
 
Hershel Schachter
Areas of Expertise: Contemporary applications of Jewish law, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik
Degrees: BA, MA, Yeshiva University; Ordination, Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary
Nathan and Vivian Fink Distinguished Professor of Talmud; rosh yeshiva, Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary
 
Richard Steiner (rsteiner@yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Biblical and mishnaic Hebrew, Aramaic dialectology, Semitic linguistics, Hebrew linguistics in the Middle Ages
Degrees: BHL, BA, Yeshiva University; PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Professor of Semitic languages and literatures
 
Moses Tendler (doctend@aol.com)
Areas of Expertise: Medical ethics, relationship of medicine and science to Jewish law, organ donations, end of life issues
Degrees: BA, MA, New York University; PhD, Columbia University
Rabbi Isaac and Bella Tendler Professor of Jewish Medical Ethics; professor of biology; rosh yeshiva, Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary
 
Mordechai Willig
Areas of Expertise: Leading authority on aguna, laws of family purity
Degrees: BA, MS, Yeshiva University; Ordination, Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary
Rabbi Dr. Sol Roth Professor of Talmud and Contemporary Halakhah; rosh yeshiva, Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary
 
Law  
J. David Bleich (bleich@yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Jewish law, bioethics
Degrees: BA, Brooklyn College, City University of New York; MA, Columbia University; PhD, New York University
Herbert and Florence Tenzer Professor of Jewish Law and Ethics; Professor of Law; Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary
 
Lester Brickman (brickman@yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Asbestos/smoking cases, lawyers’ ethics, lawyers’ fees, tort reform, contingency fee reform
Degrees: BS, Carnegie-Mellon University; JD, University of Florida; LLM, Yale University
Professor of Law
 
David Carlson (dcarlson@yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Bankruptcy
Degrees: BA, University of California at Santa Barbara; JD, Hastings College of Law, University of California
Professor of Law
 
Daniel Crane (dcrane@yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Contracts, antitrust
Degrees: BA, Wheaton College; JD, University of Chicago
Assistant Professor of Law
 
Susan Crawford (scrawfor@yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Intellectual property law, law of cyberspace
Degrees: BA, JD, Yale University
Assistant Professor of Law
 
Toby Golick (tgolick@yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Law and aging, Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, legal issues affecting the elderly, disabled, and poor
Degrees: BA, Barnard College; JD, Columbia University
Director, Bet Tzedek Legal Services Clinic; director, Clinical Legal Education; Clinical Professor of Law
 
Malvina Halberstam (halbrstm@yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: International law, US foreign relations law, international criminal law, human rights, the Arab-Israeli conflict, laws on terrorism
Degrees: BA, Brooklyn College, City University of New York; JD, MIA, Columbia University
Professor of Law
 
Marci A. Hamilton (hamilton@yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Constitutional law, First Amendment, law & religion, intellectual property law
Degrees: B.A. Vanderbilt University, M.A. Pennsylvania State University, J.D. University of Pennsylvania
Paul R. Verkuil Chair in Public Law
 
Michael Eric Herz (herz@yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Environmental law, administrative law, constitutional law
Degrees: B.A. Swarthmore College, J.D. University of Chicago
Professor of Law and Codirector, Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy
 
Justin Hughes (hughes@yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Intellectual property law, law of cyberspace, copyright, trademark
Degrees: BA, Oberlin College; JD, Harvard University
Assistant Professor of Law, Director of The Intellectual Property Program
 
Lela Porter Love (love@yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Alternative dispute resolution, mediation, arbitration
Degrees: BA, Harvard University; MEd, Virginia Commonwealth University; JD, Georgetown University
Director, Kukin Program for Conflict Resolution and Cardozo Mediation Clinic; professor of law
 
Monroe Price (price@yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: International broadcasting, media studies and law, copyright and the arts, cable television
Degrees: BA, LLB, Yale University
Director, Howard M. Squadron Program in Law, Media and Society; Joseph and Sadie Danciger Professor of Law
 
Sheri Rosenberg (sprosenb@yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: International law, international human rights, international criminal law, minority rights, ethnic conflicts, genocide
Degrees: BA, New York University; JD, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law; LLM, Columbia Law School
Director, Human Rights and Genocide Clinic; deputy director, Program in Holocaust and Human Rights Studies
 
David Rudenstine (rudenstn@yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Constitutional law, federal courts, cultural property
Degrees: B.A. M.A.T. Yale University, J.D. New York University
Dean, Sheldon H. Solow Professor of Law, Vice President for Legal Education
 
Barry Scheck
Areas of Expertise: Criminal law, forensic DNA
Degrees: BS, Yale University; JD, MCP, University of California at Berkeley
Director, Innocence Project; Professor of Law
 
Jeanne Schroeder (shroedr@yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Securities law, corporate law
Degrees: BA, Williams College; JD, Stanford University
Professor of Law
 
Edward Stein (ed@edstein.com)
Areas of Expertise: Family law, sexual orientation and law, gender and law, evidence, philosophy of science, epistemology, philosophy of mind, civil rights, statutory interpretation
Degrees: BA, Williams College; PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; JD, Yale University
Codirector, Program for Family Law, Policy, and Bioethics; Professor of Law
 
Suzanne Stone (sstone@yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Jewish law
Degrees: BA, Princeton University; JD Columbia University
Director, Program in Jewish Law and Interdisciplinary Studies; Professor of Law
 
Richard H. Weisberg (rhweisbg@yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Law and literature, constitutional law, trusts and estates
Degrees: B.A. Brandeis University, Ph.D. Cornell University, J.D. Columbia University
Walter Floersheimer Professor of Constitutional Law and Director, Program in Holocaust and Human Rights Studies
 
Ed Zelinsky (zelinsky@yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Tax law
Degrees: BA, MA, JD, MPhil, Yale University
Professor of Law
 
Medicine  
Michael Alderman (alderman@aecom.yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Hypertension
Degrees: BA, Harvard College; MD, Yale Medical School
Professor, medicine; Epidemiology & Social Medicine, Atran Foundation Professor of Social Medicine
 
Adrienne Asch (asch@yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Ethics in genetics, abortion, assisted reproduction, end of life, health disparities, disability
Degrees: BA, Swarthmore College; MS, PhD, Columbia University
Edward and Robin Milstein Professor of Bioethics; Professor, Epidemiology & Population Health
 
Nir Barzilai (barzilai@aecom.yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Genetics (of Ashkenazi Jews) to shed light on longevity, diabetes
Degrees: MD, Israel Institute of Technology Medical School
Associate Professor, Medicine; Director, Institute for Aging Research
 
Michael Brownlee (brownlee@aecom.yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Diabetes - biochemical mechanism involved in the development of diabetes, as well as genetic-based studies
Degrees: BS, Strathmore College; MD, Duke School of Medicine
Anita and Jack Saltz Professor of Diabetes Research; Professor, Medicine; Pathology
 
Robert Burk (burk@aecom.yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Role of genetics in prostate cancer, role of human papilloma virus in cervix cancer
Degrees: Bachelor's, McGill University; MD George Washington University School of Medicine
Professor, Microbiology & Immunology; Pediatrics; Obstetrics & Gynecology and Women's Health
 
Nancy Carrasco (carrasco@aecom.yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Identified role of iodide in thyroid cancer, studying similar role with relation to breast cancer
Degrees: BS, Instituto Cultural, Mexico City; MD, MS National Autonomous Universidad de Mexico
Professor, Molecular Pharmacology
 
Arturo Casadevall (casadeva@aecom.yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Role of microbes in infectious diseases, countering use of microbes for developing biological weapons
Degrees: BS, Queens College, City University of New York; MS, PhD-MD, New York University School of Medicine
Selman & Dr. Jaques Mitrani Professor of Cardiology; Professor, Medicine; Microbiology & Immunology
 
John Condeelis (condeeli@aecom.yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Countering metastasis in cancer at cellular level
Degrees: BS, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; PhD, State University of NY, Albany
Professor and Cochair, Anatomy & Structural Biology;Faculty supervisor, Analytical Imaging Facility
 
Peter Davies (davies@aecom.yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Role of protein tau in Alzheimer's, neurobiology of human neurodegenerative diseases
Degrees: BS, PhD, University of Leeds, England
Judith & Burton P. Resnick Professor of Alzheimer's Disease Research; Professor,Neuroscience; Pathology
 
Susan Horwitz (shorwitz@aecom.yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Pioneer in the development of Taxol
Degrees: BA Bryn Mawr College; PhD, Brandeis University
Rose C. Falkenstein Professor of Cancer Research; Professor and Cochair, Molecular Pharmacology, Professor, Cell Biology
 
William Jacobs, Jr. (jacobs@aecom.yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Tuberculosis, developed "Bronx box" for determining presence of drug resistant strains of TB
Degrees: BA, Edinboro State University; PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Professor, Molecular Genetics; Microbiology & Immunology; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
 
Mark Mehler (mehler@aecom.yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Stem cell research relevant to diseases affecting the central nervous system
Degrees: BA, Columbia University; MD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Alpern Family Foundation Professor of Cerebral Palsy Research; Professor and Vice Chair, Neurology; Professor, Neuroscience; Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
 
David Prezant (prezant@aecom.yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: pulmonary ailments, effects of 9/11 response on first responders
Degrees: BS, Columbia College; MD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Professor, Medicine (Pulmonary)
 
Cedric Raine (raine@aecom.yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Multiple Sclerosis
Degrees: BS, Kings College University of Durham (United Kingdom); PhD, University of New Castle Tyne
Wollowick Family Foundation Professor of Multiple Sclerosis Research; Professor, Neurology; Neuroscience; Pathology
 
Nanette Santoro (glicktoro@aol.com)
Areas of Expertise: Reproductive health, premenopause and menopause
Degrees: BS, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; BS, MD, Albany Medical College of Union
Professor, Medicine; Obstetrics and Gynecology and Women's Health; Professor, Cell Biology
 
Robert Singer (rhsinger@aecom.yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Expression and transit of RNA within cell; developed technology, in situ hybridization, to view specific nucleic acid sequences within individual cells
Degrees: BS, Oberlin College; PhD, Brandeis University
Professor and Cochair, Anatomy & Structural Biology; Professor, Cell Biology
 
Judith Wylie-Rosett (jrosett@aecom.yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Nutrition/obesity; diabetes
Degrees: BS, University of Arkansas; EdD, MEd, Teacher’s College of Columbia University
Professor, Epidemiology & Social medicine; Assistant Professor, Medicine
 
Nuclear Medicine  
Ekaterina Dadachova (edadacho@aecom.yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: radioimmunotherapy, nuclear medicine, cancer
Degrees: BS; PhD, Moscow State University (Russia)
Associate Professor, Nuclear Medicine; Microbiology & Immunology
 
Pediatrics  
Harris Goldstein (hgoldste@aecom.yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: HIV/AIDS
Degrees: BS, Yeshiva College; MD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Professor, Pediatrics; Microbiology & Immunology; Assistant Dean for Scientific Resources; Director, Einstein/MMC Center for AIDS Research
 
Psychology  
Norman Adler (adler@yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Neuroendocrinolgy, developmental psychobiology
Degrees: BA, Harvard University; MA, PhD, University of California at Berkeley
University Professor and Special Assistant for Curriculum Development and Research Initiatives
 
Moshe Anisfeld (anisfeld@aecom.yu.edu)
Areas of Expertise: Cognitive and linguistic development, psycholinguistics, memory, bilingualism
Degrees: PhD, McGill University
Professor of Psychology