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An Update on the Search for CUIMC's Next Leader

October 21, 2026
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Dear members of the Columbia community,

I write to provide a brief update on the search for the next executive vice president for Health and Biomedical Sciences, dean of the Faculties of Health Sciences and the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, and chief executive officer of Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC). Identifying our next leader is of utmost importance and I am profoundly grateful to the search committee for agreeing to participate in this important process. The members, listed below, are deeply committed to CUIMC and each will contribute meaningfully to identifying priorities for the search and the qualities most necessary for CUIMC’s next leader.

We also have engaged the firm Isaacson, Miller to support this effort. Isaacson, Miller is highly experienced and knowledgeable in this field, and I am confident in its ability to guide us through a successful search.

It is essential that we have a sense of the needs of our community as we proceed through the search, and I encourage you to share your thoughts. Both the firm and the committee will be in touch with the CUIMC community, University leadership, external partners, and others throughout the process.

Though I am only in my fourth month as president, I am already deeply steeped in the excellence and impact CUIMC brings to our University, our city, and beyond. I am committed to a successful search that will identify an outstanding leader for CUIMC and will position us to reach even greater heights. Thank you all for your suggestions and support in this process.

Sincerely,

Jennifer L. Mnookin
President, Columbia University in the City of New York

Search Committee:

  • Jennifer L. Mnookin, President (Chair)
  • Cory Abate-Shen, Professor of Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics and Robert Sonneborn Professor of Medicine; Professor of Urologic Sciences (in Urology) and of Systems Biology (in the Institute for Cancer Genetics)
  • Emile Bacha, Johnson and Johnson Distinguished Professor of Surgery and Valentine Mott Professor of Surgery; Chair, Department of Surgery
  • Celia Cacho, Student, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
  • Shih-Fu Chang, Dean of the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science and Morris A. and Alma Schapiro Professor; Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Virginia Cornish, Helena Rubinstein Professor of Chemistry (in Systems Biology)
  • Brian G. Donley, President and Chief Executive Officer, NewYork-Presbyterian
  • Abigail Black Elbaum, Co-chair of the Columbia Board of Trustees; Co-Founder and Principal, Ogden CAP Properties
  • Noémie Elhadad, Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics; Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics
  • Lorraine Frazier, Dean of Columbia School of Nursing, Mary O’Neil Mundinger Professor of Nursing, Senior Vice President, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
  • Joshua Gordon, Lawrence C. Kolb Professor of Psychiatry; Chair, Department of Psychiatry
  • Kurt Holuba, Student, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
  • Meghan Lane-Fall, E.M. Papper Professor of Anesthesiology; Chair, Department of Anesthesiology
  • Stavros Lomvardas, Roy and Diana Vagelos Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and Professor of Neuroscience; Herbert and Florence Irving Professor at the Zuckerman Institute; Chair, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
  • Derek Mazique, Chief Medical Officer, ColumbiaDoctors; Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center
  • Wil McKoy, Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
  • Jonathan Mermin, Dean of the Mailman School of Public Health and DeLamar Professor of Public Health; Professor of Medicine and Senior Vice President, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
  • Angela Mills, J.E. Beaumont Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center; Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine
  • Dennis Mitchell, Dean of the Faculty of Dental Medicine; Professor of Dental Medicine (Community Health and Periodontics) and Senior Vice President at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center
  • Angela V. Olinto, Provost; Rutherfurd Professor of Astronomy and Professor of Physics
  • Jonathan Rosand, Columbia Trustee; J.P. Kistler (VPS’94) Endowed Chair in Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital; Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School; Associate Member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
  • Ojas Shah, John K. Lattimer Professor of Urology at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center; Chair, Department of Urology
  • Daphna Shohamy, Kavli Professor of Brain Science; Director and Chief Executive Officer, Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute; Co-Director, Kavli Institute for Brain Science
  • Samuel Sternberg, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics; Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  • Brent R. Stockwell, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Biological Sciences, Professor of Chemistry and of Pathology and Cell Biology; Chair, Department of Biological Sciences; Provost’s Senior Faculty Teaching Scholar
  • Megan Sykes, Michael J. Friedlander Professor of Medicine and Professor of Microbiology and Immunology and Surgical Sciences (in Surgery)
  • Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, University Professor and Mikati Foundation Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Medical Sciences and Dental Medicine
  • Olajide Williams, Professor of Neurology and Health Policy and Management; Vice Dean of Community Research and Engagement, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons