Academic appointments
Grossman joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine as an assistant instructor in the Department of Neurosurgery. [6] He later served as chief of neuroradiology, associate chairman of the Department of Radiology, and professor of radiology, neurosurgery, and neurology. [7] [1]
In 2001, he was appointed the Louis Marx Professor of Radiology, Chairman of the Department of Radiology, [7] and professor of neurology, neurosurgery, and neuroscience and physiology at NYU School of Medicine. [8]
In 2007, he was named dean of NYU School of Medicine, later renamed NYU Grossman School of Medicine, and chief executive officer of NYU Medical Center, later renamed NYU Langone Health. [9] [1] NYU Langone is one of the largest health systems in the Northeast, with more than 53,000 employees, stretching across seven inpatient facilities and more than 320 locations throughout the New York City region and in Florida. [9] [1]
In 2025, Grossman retired from his role as CEO of NYU Langone and Dean of NYU Grossman School of Medicine. He has assumed a new role as executive vice president to the NYU Langone Health Board of Trustees. [10]
Milestones
In 2008, Grossman launched a decade-long Campus Transformation Plan, an infrastructure modernization program that has expanded NYU Langone’s footprint to more than 14 million square feet of clinical, educational, and research space across its campuses in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Long Island. [13]
On October 29, 2012, he oversaw the safe evacuation of 322 patients during Hurricane Sandy, which flooded NYU Langone Health’s midtown Manhattan campus with more than 15 million gallons of water from the East River, inflicting more than $1 billion of damage to the institution’s infrastructure and forcing a temporary shutdown. [14] [15] [16] Grossman coordinated restoration efforts and NYU Langone Health was able to reopen major clinical units on December 27, 2012. [16]
In 2013, he established an accelerated three-year MD pathway for select medical students to ease the financial burden of medical school and launch medical careers one year earlier than traditional students. [17] [18] The initiative made NYU School of Medicine the first nationally ranked medical school in the U.S. to enable medical students to graduate in three years, providing a directed pathway into any one of NYU Langone’s twenty residency programs and accelerated entry into a variety of medical specialties. [17] [18] A paper published in Academic Medicine shows that graduates who went to medical school for three years performed equally well on tests of skill and knowledge as their peers who followed a four-year program. The study, led by Joan F. Cangiarella, MD, the Elaine Langone Professor of Pathology in the Department of Pathology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, represents the largest analysis of three-year MD programs introduced in the last decade. [19]
In 2018, the medical school implemented full-tuition scholarships for all current and future students in NYU School of Medicine’s MD degree program, [20] [1] [21] making the school the first top-10-ranked medical school in the nation to provide full-tuition scholarships to all of its students. [1]
In 2024, NYU Langone Health was ranked the #1 comprehensive academic medical center for quality in the U.S. by Vizient, Inc., the nation's largest healthcare performance improvement organization. [22] In 2024, NYU Langone's revenue was $14.2 billion, including more than $5 billion in philanthropy since 2007. [23]
