A pediatric radiation oncologist and medical school dean in the South has been named the new CEO and chancellor of health affairs at New York Medical College in Valhalla.
Dr. Edward C. Halperin, currently dean at the University of Louisville School of Medicine, will begin his new duties on May 1. He will replace Dr. Karl P. Adler, who is retiring as CEO of the health sciences university and was its president from 2007 to 2011, when New York Medical College (NYMC) was acquired by the Touro College and University System.
The chancellor”™s post is newly created at NYMC. Halperin also was named provost for biomedical affairs at Touro in Manhattan.  .
During his five-year tenure at Louisville, Halperin helped create new interdisciplinary programs and an autism center. Touro and NYMC officials said applications to the medical school rose 67 percent and fundraising nearly tripled during his time as dean.
Halperin previously was chairman of Duke University”™s radiation oncology department and vice dean of its medical school. He is the senior editor of two textbooks on radiation oncology, both in their fifth editions, and has published 200 articles in the scientific, ethics and historical peer-reviewed literature.
Halperin”™s appointment “will assure that New York Medical College will continue as a top training ground for future generations of physicians and health sciences professionals,” Dr. Alan Kadish, president of Touro and of NYMC, said in a press release. “In Dr. Halperin, New York Medical College will be guided by a renowned educator with an excellent reputation as an administrator.”
Adler, the retiring CEO and a member of the CEO search committee, called Halperin “an outstanding selection with superb academic credentials. New York Medical College is very fortunate to have him.”
Touro, which has 19,000 students in 32 colleges in the U.S. and abroad and is the largest nonprofit, independent institution of higher and professional education under Jewish auspices, assumed sponsorship of NYMC in May 2011 from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York. The 42-year-old school is headquartered in Manhattan.
Founded in 1960 in Manhattan, New York Medical College has 1,500 enrolled students and 1,000 residents and fellows pursuing careers in the medical, health and science professions. The private school moved to the Westchester Medical Center”™s Grasslands campus in 1972.
