Brendan G. Carr

Dr. Carr is the Chief Executive Officer of the Mount Sinai Health System. Mount Sinai, based in New York City, is one of the nation’s most recognized free-standing academic health systems. Mount Sinai is home to the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, the Mount Sinai Phillips School of Nursing, the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, seven hospitals, and more than 400 ambulatory practices. Dr. Carr is a nationally recognized leader in academic medicine and health policy. He leads as a physician-scientist. He completed his residency in emergency medicine, as well as fellowships in trauma and surgical critical care and in health policy research. In addition to clinical practice, he maintained a decades-long funded research portfolio and served in multiple policy roles within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. His career has focused on transforming the health care delivery system in order to improve patient outcomes. Dr. Carr is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, and an advisor to domestic and international health care organizations.

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