Neil W. Schluger, M.D., has been appointed the Barbara and William Rosenthal chair of the Department of Medicine at New York Medical College (NYMC) School of Medicine (SOM) and director of medicine at Westchester Medical Center (WMC). He will assume the role July 13. The Rosenthal Chair was endowed in 2001 by William Rosenthal, M.D., and his wife Barbara. A significant contributor to scientific advancement in the field of gastroenterology, Rosenthal, became the college”™s first endowed professor in 1969.
Since 2004, Schluger has served as chief of the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine in the Department of Medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC). Under his leadership, the division grew from 10 faculty with an $8 million operating budget to 50 faculty with an operating budget of $40 million. Most recently, he served as professor of medicine, epidemiology and environmental health sciences, director of the Population and Global Health Track for the Scholars Projects Program and co-director of the Program for Education in Global and Population Health for the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University.
“I am thrilled to assume the role of chair of the Department of Medicine at NYMC and to join Dean (Jerry) Nadler and the leadership team to develop innovative programs in education, research and patient care that will help shape the future of medicine locally, nationally and internationally,” said Schluger, who has been a principal investigator in the Tuberculosis Trials Consortium, an international collaboration sponsored by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for 25 years and was the chair of the consortium from 2000-2016.
Author of more than 170 articles, Schluger earned his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania, completed a residency and served as chief resident in internal medicine at St. Luke”™s Hospital in New York. He later completed a three-year fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at The New York Hospital/Cornell Medical Center.
