Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is a private medical school on Manhattan's Upper East Side and the sole academic partner of the Mount Sinai Health System.西奈山伊坎医学院是位于曼哈顿上东区的私立医学院，也是西奈山医疗系统唯一的学术合作伙伴。

It was proposed in 1958, chartered in 1963 and opened in 1968, and took its present name in 2012 after a $200 million gift from the investor Carl Icahn.该院于 1958 年提出动议，1963 年获特许状，1968 年正式开学，2012 年因投资人卡尔·伊坎捐赠 2 亿美元而改用现名。

It sits in the 101-150 band of the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026 and 46th in the U.S. News global ranking for 2026-2027, but is absent from the THE 2027 and QS 2027 tables.该院在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中处于第 101 至 150 名区间，在 2026 至 2027 年度《美国新闻与世界报道》全球大学排名中位列第 46 名，但未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育与 QS 世界大学排名主榜。

History

• In January 1958 a proposal to the trustees of The Mount Sinai Hospital called for a medical school supported by a teaching hospital, with graduate programmes in the biological and physical sciences and education in allied health.1958 年 1 月，提交给西奈山医院董事会的一份方案主张创办一所由教学医院支撑的医学院，同时开设生物与物理科学研究生项目及联合卫生教育。
• That design was shaped by Hans Popper, Horace Hodes, Alexander Gutman, Paul Klemperer, George Baehr, Gustave L. Levy and Alfred Stern, who wanted a school embedded in a working hospital.这一构想由汉斯·波珀、霍勒斯·霍兹、亚历山大·古特曼、保罗·克莱姆佩雷尔、乔治·贝尔、古斯塔夫·利维与阿尔弗雷德·斯特恩等人塑造，他们希望学院扎根于运转中的医院。
• Milton Steinbach served as the school's first president, and the institution was chartered by the state in 1963, five years after the original proposal.米尔顿·斯坦巴赫出任首任院长，学院于 1963 年获得州特许状，距最初动议已过去五年。
• Teaching began in 1968 under an affiliation with the City University of New York, which awarded the school's degrees until the arrangement changed at the end of the 1990s.教学于 1968 年开始，当时学院隶属纽约市立大学，学位由后者授予，这一安排一直延续到 1990 年代末。
• In 1969 the school created the Edith J. Baerwald Professorship of Community Medicine and Social Work, an early sign of its community-health focus.1969 年，学院设立伊迪丝·贝尔瓦尔德社区医学与社会工作教席，这是其关注社区健康的早期标志。
• A Department of Neoplastic Diseases followed in 1973, which the American Association for Cancer Research described as the first of its kind at an American medical school.1973 年又设立肿瘤疾病学系，美国癌症研究协会称其为美国医学院中的首创。
• In 1982 Mount Sinai established the first academic department of geriatrics in the United States, a field in which its hospital later built a national reputation.1982 年，西奈山设立美国第一个老年医学学术系，其附属医院此后在这一领域建立了全国声誉。
• The Department of Emergency Medicine became operational in 1994, formalising a service that later handled the first confirmed COVID-19 case in New York City.急诊医学系于 1994 年正式运作，这一部门后来诊断了纽约市首例确诊新冠病例。
• In 1998 the school set up the Center for Multicultural and Community Affairs to increase representation of groups underrepresented in medicine and to support surrounding communities.1998 年，学院设立多元文化与社区事务中心，以提高医学领域代表性不足群体的比例并服务周边社区。
• With support from the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Department of Preventive Medicine opened the Center for Children's Health and the Environment in 1999 to study childhood illness and toxic exposure.在皮尤慈善信托资助下，预防医学系于 1999 年成立儿童健康与环境中心，研究儿童疾病与有毒物质暴露的关联。
• In 1998 Mount Sinai and NYU merged their medical centres into the Mount Sinai–NYU Medical Center and Health System, and the school's degrees passed to NYU in 1999.1998 年，西奈山与纽约大学把各自医疗中心合并为西奈山—纽约大学医学中心与医疗系统，学院的学位授予权于 1999 年转归纽约大学。
• The two institutions began dissolving the partnership in 2003, the trustees approved termination of the academic affiliation in 2007 and the link formally ended in 2008.双方于 2003 年开始解除合作，董事会 2007 年批准终止学术隶属关系，这一关系于 2008 年正式结束。
• In 2010 the Middle States Commission on Higher Education accredited Mount Sinai as an independent degree-granting institution, ending four decades of dependence on another university's charter.2010 年，中部诸州高等教育委员会认证西奈山为独立授予学位的机构，结束了四十年来依附于其他大学特许状的局面。
• On 14 November 2012 the school announced its renaming as the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai after a $200 million gift from Carl Icahn, one of the largest ever made to an American medical school.2012 年 11 月 14 日，学院宣布因卡尔·伊坎捐赠 2 亿美元而更名为西奈山伊坎医学院，这是美国医学院历史上最大的捐赠之一。
• In 2017 the school began a fetal medicine programme with the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and affiliated its children's heart centre with CHOP's cardiac centre.2017 年，学院与费城儿童医院合作开设胎儿医学项目，并把其儿童心脏中心与费城儿童医院心脏中心建立隶属关系。
• Mount Sinai also partnered with National Jewish Health to create the Mount Sinai–National Jewish Health Respiratory Institute, extending its pulmonology work beyond New York.西奈山还与国家犹太健康中心合作建立西奈山—国家犹太健康呼吸研究所，把其呼吸医学研究延伸到纽约之外。
• The first confirmed case of COVID-19 in New York City was diagnosed by Angela Chen, a Mount Sinai emergency physician, which placed the school at the start of the city's outbreak.纽约市首例确诊新冠病例由西奈山急诊医生安杰拉·陈诊断，这使学院处于该市疫情暴发的最初节点。
• In March 2020, during the first New York City surge of COVID-19, faculty, residents and fellows from Mount Sinai treated patients at Elmhurst Hospital Center in Queens.2020 年 3 月纽约市第一波新冠疫情期间，西奈山的教师、住院医师与专科培训生在皇后区埃尔姆赫斯特医院参与救治患者。
• In April 2019 eight current and former employees of the Arnhold Institute for Global Health sued alleging discrimination and retaliation, and the case led New York City to create a hospital gender-equity advisory board.2019 年 4 月，阿恩霍尔德全球健康研究所的八名现任与前任雇员提起诉讼，指称歧视与报复，此案促使纽约市设立医院性别平等咨询委员会。
• A federal court dismissed all claims of four plaintiffs in April 2022 while allowing others to proceed, and in May 2024 an appellate court affirmed dismissal of several state and city human-rights claims.联邦法院于 2022 年 4 月驳回四名原告的全部请求，同时允许其余请求继续审理，2024 年 5 月上诉法院维持了对若干州与市人权请求的驳回。

Academics

• The school awards M.D., Ph.D., combined M.D.–Ph.D. and master's degrees, with doctoral training run through its Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.学院授予医学博士、博士、医学博士与博士双学位以及硕士学位，博士培养由生物医学研究生院负责。
• Doctoral programmes cover biomedical sciences, neuroscience, clinical research and health sciences engineering, and the M.D.–Ph.D. track is funded by the National Institutes of Health.博士项目涵盖生物医学、神经科学、临床研究与健康科学工程，医学博士与博士双学位项目由美国国立卫生研究院资助。
• Master's programmes are offered in biomedical science, public health, clinical research and health administration, mostly aimed at clinicians and researchers who want formal training in methods.硕士项目设于生物医学、公共卫生、临床研究与健康管理方向，主要面向希望接受正规方法学训练的临床医生与研究人员。
• Applicants to the M.D. programme need a bachelor's degree and coursework in biology, chemistry, physics and related subjects, and regular applicants submit MCAT scores.医学博士项目申请者须拥有学士学位并修读生物、化学、物理及相关课程，常规申请者还需提交医学院入学考试成绩。
• The FlexMed early-assurance route lets college sophomores from any major apply without the traditional premedical sequence or the MCAT, provided they complete required science work later.弹性医学预科通道允许任何专业的大二学生免修传统预医课程、免考医学院入学考试提前申请，条件是此后补足规定的理科课程。
• Clinical teaching runs through the Mount Sinai Health System's seven hospital campuses, including The Mount Sinai Hospital and the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary.临床教学在西奈山医疗系统所属的七家医院院区展开，其中包括西奈山医院与纽约眼耳医院。
• Elmhurst Hospital Center in Queens is a major training site, and its patient population gave students early exposure to epidemic disease during the 2020 surge.皇后区的埃尔姆赫斯特医院是主要教学点，其患者群体使学生在 2020 年疫情高峰期间较早接触传染病救治。
• In 2025 the school, ARC Innovation at Israel's Sheba Medical Center and NVIDIA began a three-year project to build large language models for genomic research.2025 年，学院与以色列舍巴医疗中心创新中心及英伟达启动为期三年的合作，开发用于基因组研究的大语言模型。
• Also in 2025 the research funder BD² awarded a Mount Sinai team led by Ignacio Saez up to $4.5 million over three years to record brain activity during shifts in bipolar mood.同年，研究资助机构向伊格纳西奥·萨埃斯领导的西奈山团队提供最多 450 万美元、为期三年的经费，用于记录双相情感障碍情绪转换期间的脑活动。
• A five-year $10.8 million NIH grant expanded the Einstein–Mount Sinai Diabetes Research Center into the New York Regional Diabetes Research Center with Weill Cornell, involving more than 140 scientists.一项为期五年、金额 1080 万美元的国立卫生研究院资助，把爱因斯坦—西奈山糖尿病研究中心扩展为与威尔康奈尔合作的纽约区域糖尿病研究中心，吸纳 140 多名科学家。
• The school received $501.7 million in NIH funding in fiscal 2025 and ranked 11th among American medical schools by total NIH awards.2025 财年，学院获得 5.017 亿美元国立卫生研究院资助，按资助总额在美国医学院中排名第 11 位。
• As of the 2025-26 academic year, 27 faculty members had been elected to the National Academy of Medicine or the National Academy of Sciences.截至 2025 至 2026 学年，学院有 27 位教师当选美国国家医学院或美国国家科学院院士。
• The Levy Library Press publishes the Journal of Scientific Innovation in Medicine and The Practical Implementation of Nursing Science, and the Annals of Global Health was founded at Mount Sinai in 1934 as the Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine.利维图书馆出版社出版《医学科学创新杂志》与《护理科学实践应用》，而《全球健康年鉴》则于 1934 年以西奈山医学杂志之名在此创刊。
• Departments created in the school's first decades, including neoplastic diseases, geriatrics and emergency medicine, remain the framework for its clinical and research organisation.学院早期设立的肿瘤疾病、老年医学与急诊医学等学系，至今仍是其临床与科研组织的基本框架。
• The school's research spans cancer, neuroscience and addiction, cardiovascular disease, genomics, immunology, diabetes and environmental health, with named institutes in each area.学院研究覆盖癌症、神经科学与成瘾、心血管疾病、基因组学、免疫学、糖尿病与环境健康，并在各领域设有冠名研究所。
• Graduate medical education is delivered across the health system's seven hospital campuses, giving residents rotations that range from a large academic hospital to smaller community sites.毕业后医学教育在医疗系统的七家医院院区展开，使住院医师的轮转既包括大型学术医院，也包括较小的社区站点。
• The Arnhold Institute for Global Health extends the school's work into global and community health, and its programmes link New York clinicians with partners abroad.阿恩霍尔德全球健康研究所把学院的工作延伸到全球健康与社区健康领域，其项目把纽约的临床医生与海外伙伴连接起来。
• The school's M.D. class size is small relative to its research enterprise, so most laboratory and clinical output comes from graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and residents.相对于其科研规模，学院医学博士班级人数较少，因此大部分实验室与临床产出由研究生、博士后与住院医师完成。

Campus

• The campus occupies Manhattan's Upper East Side between Fifth and Madison Avenues, from East 98th to East 102nd Street, adjacent to Central Park and Museum Mile.校园位于曼哈顿上东区第五大道与麦迪逊大道之间、东 98 街至东 102 街一带，毗邻中央公园与博物馆大道。
• The 18-storey Icahn Medical Institute provides about 350,000 square feet of laboratory, treatment and education space, the largest single building on the campus.18 层的伊坎医学研究所提供约 35 万平方英尺的实验室、诊疗与教学空间，是校园内最大的单体建筑。
• The Mount Sinai Hospital, the school's original teaching hospital, was placed on the 2025-26 U.S. News Honor Roll for hospital care.学院最初的教学医院西奈山医院入选《美国新闻与世界报道》2025 至 2026 年度医院荣誉榜。
• The Mount Sinai Health System operates seven hospital campuses in the New York metropolitan area, including the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, one of the oldest specialty hospitals in the city.西奈山医疗系统在纽约都会区运营七家医院院区，其中包括纽约眼耳医院，这是该市历史最悠久的专科医院之一。
• The main campus sits on a dense Manhattan grid, so classrooms, laboratories, the hospital and faculty offices are stacked vertically rather than spread across lawns.主校区位于密集的曼哈顿街区，教室、实验室、医院与教师办公室因此沿垂直方向叠置，而非铺展在草坪之间。
• A short walk connects the campus to Central Park, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim, giving students cultural amenities unusual for a medical school.步行不久即可从校园抵达中央公园、大都会艺术博物馆与古根海姆博物馆，这为医学生提供了少见的城市文化资源。
• The school's clinical footprint extends to Queens through Elmhurst Hospital Center, a public hospital that serves one of the most diverse populations in the country.学院的临床版图经埃尔姆赫斯特医院延伸到皇后区，这家公立医院服务着全美最多元的社区之一。
• Research space is distributed across the Icahn Medical Institute, the hospital floors and the health system's other campuses rather than concentrated in a single research park.科研空间分布在伊坎医学研究所、医院各楼层以及医疗系统的其他院区，而非集中于单一研究园区。
• The school shares its address with the hospital and the health system's corporate offices, reflecting the founding idea of a medical school inside a working hospital.学院与医院及医疗系统总部共用同一地址，体现了把医学院办在运转医院之中的建院理念。
• New York's subway and bus network connects the Upper East Side campus to the rest of the city, and most students live within a short commute of the hospital.纽约地铁与公交网络把上东区校园与全城连接起来，多数学生住在距医院通勤很短的范围之内。

Reputation

• The Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026 places Mount Sinai in the 101-150 band, a tied interval rather than a single number.2026 年软科世界大学学术排名把西奈山列入第 101 至 150 名区间，这是一个并列区间而非单一数字。
• U.S. News ranks the school 46th in its 2026-2027 Best Global Universities list, its highest position in the four major global tables.《美国新闻与世界报道》在 2026 至 2027 年度全球最佳大学榜单中把该院列为第 46 名，这是它在四大全球榜单中的最高位次。
• The school does not appear in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027, and no THE position is recorded for it.该院未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名，因此没有对应的泰晤士名次。
• It is also absent from the QS World University Rankings 2027, because QS's overall table is built around broad multi-faculty universities rather than freestanding medical schools.该院同样未进入 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名，因为 QS 综合榜以学科齐全的多科性大学为对象，而非独立设置的医学院。
• In the separate U.S. News hospital rankings for 2025-26, The Mount Sinai Hospital reached the Honor Roll, with cardiology and heart surgery second nationally and geriatrics third.在《美国新闻与世界报道》另行发布的 2025 至 2026 年度医院排名中，西奈山医院进入荣誉榜，其心脏内科与心脏外科位列全美第二、老年医学位列第三。
• Seven other specialties were also in the national top 20: gastroenterology fifth, cancer sixth, urology sixth, neurology and neurosurgery 11th, orthopaedics 14th, obstetrics and gynaecology tied 17th and diabetes and endocrinology 19th.另有七个专科进入全美前 20，分别是胃肠病学第 5、癌症第 6、泌尿科第 6、神经内外科第 11、骨科第 14、妇产科并列第 17、糖尿病与内分泌第 19。
• That hospital table is a separate assessment from the global university ranking, where the school is 46th for 2026-2027.这一医院榜单与全球大学排名属于两套不同评估，学院在 2026 至 2027 年度全球大学榜中位列第 46 名。
• NIH funding of $501.7 million in fiscal 2025 placed the school 11th among American medical schools by total awards, ahead of several larger universities.2025 财年 5.017 亿美元的国立卫生研究院资助使该院在美国医学院资助总额中排名第 11，超过若干规模更大的大学。
• Twenty-seven faculty members have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine or the National Academy of Sciences, and Miriam Merad won the 2025 Sjöberg Prize for cancer immunology.该院有 27 位教师当选美国国家医学院或美国国家科学院院士，米里亚姆·梅拉德因癌症免疫学获得 2025 年舍贝里奖。
• Its clinical reputation in geriatrics rests on the first academic geriatrics department in the country, founded in 1982, and on a hospital ranked third nationally in the field.其在老年医学的临床声誉依托于 1982 年设立的美国首个老年医学学术系，以及该领域全美第三的附属医院。
• The school's global-health work runs through the Arnhold Institute, whose 2019 discrimination lawsuit drew attention to governance questions there.学院的全球健康工作通过阿恩霍尔德研究所开展，该所 2019 年的歧视诉讼使其治理问题受到关注。

Student life

• Most students live off campus in Manhattan apartments, and the school's Upper East Side address puts them within walking distance of Central Park and the museum district.多数学生在校外租住曼哈顿公寓，上东区的地理位置使他们步行即可到达中央公园与博物馆区。
• The FlexMed programme brings undergraduates from humanities, engineering and social-science majors into medicine, which gives each entering class an unusually mixed academic background.弹性医学预科通道把人文学科、工程与社会科学背景的本科生引入医学，使每届新生的学科背景格外多元。
• M.D. students share classes and journal clubs with Ph.D. candidates in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, and many take a research year between clinical clerkships.医学博士生与生物医学研究生院的博士生共同上课并参加文献讨论会，许多人还在临床见习之间安排一年的研究时间。
• Elmhurst Hospital Center gives students a public-hospital experience in Queens, where many patients speak languages other than English and present advanced disease.埃尔姆赫斯特医院让学生在皇后区获得公立医院体验，那里许多患者不说英语，且就诊时病情往往已较晚。
• During the 2020 COVID-19 surge, residents and fellows staffed Elmhurst and other system hospitals, an experience that became part of the school's informal training lore.2020 年新冠疫情期间，住院医师与专科培训生在埃尔姆赫斯特等系统内医院值守，这段经历成为学院口耳相传的训练记忆。
• Master's students in public health, clinical research and health administration take evening and part-time routes, so the student body includes working clinicians and researchers.公共卫生、临床研究与健康管理硕士项目提供晚间与在职学习路径，学生群体因此包含在职临床医生与研究人员。
• Student advocacy has been visible: more than 150 medical students signed a 2019 letter asking trustees to investigate misconduct allegations at the Arnhold Institute.学生的公共参与相当醒目：2019 年有 150 多名医学生联名致信董事会，要求调查阿恩霍尔德研究所的不当行为指控。
• The Levy Library and its press give students access to two in-house journals and a historical collection that dates back to the 1934 founding of the Annals of Global Health.利维图书馆及其出版社为学生提供两份院内期刊，以及可追溯至 1934 年《全球健康年鉴》创刊的历史馆藏。

Notable people

• Eric J. Nestler, the Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean, is a neuroscientist known for molecular studies of addiction and depression.现任院长埃里克·内斯特勒是神经科学家，以成瘾与抑郁的分子机制研究闻名。
• Balamurali Ambati graduated in 1995 at the age of 17 and was widely reported as the world's youngest physician.巴拉穆拉利·安巴蒂 1995 年毕业时年仅 17 岁，被广泛报道为世界上最年轻的医生。
• Jeffrey Scott Flier, a Mount Sinai graduate, later served as dean of Harvard Medical School, and Jeffrey P. Koplan directed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.西奈山毕业生杰弗里·弗利尔后来出任哈佛医学院院长，杰弗里·科普兰则担任过美国疾病控制与预防中心主任。
• Scott L. Friedman, class of 1979, is a liver researcher and former president of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases.1979 届毕业生斯科特·弗里德曼是肝脏研究者，曾任美国肝病研究协会主席。
• Herminia Palacio, a graduate, was deputy mayor of New York City and later president of the Guttmacher Institute, and Rivka Galchen and Jacob M. Appel are writers with Mount Sinai degrees.毕业生埃尔米尼娅·帕拉西奥曾任纽约市副市长及古特马赫研究所所长，里夫卡·加尔琴与雅各布·阿佩尔则是拥有西奈山学位的作家。
• Robert Neil Butler, founding chair of geriatrics, was the first director of the National Institute on Aging and a Pulitzer Prize-winning author.老年医学创始系主任罗伯特·巴特勒是美国国家老龄化研究所首任所长，也是普利策奖得主。
• Kenneth L. Davis co-developed the Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale, and Dennis S. Charney, a former dean, studied the neurobiology of mood and anxiety disorders.肯尼思·戴维斯参与开发了阿尔茨海默病评估量表，前任院长丹尼斯·查尼研究情绪与焦虑障碍的神经生物学。
• Valentín Fuster, a cardiologist and former editor of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, and Deepak Bhatt, an interventional cardiologist, are among its clinical researchers.心脏病学家、曾任《美国心脏病学会杂志》主编的瓦伦丁·富斯特与介入心脏病学家迪帕克·巴特都属于其临床研究者。
• Adolfo García-Sastre pioneered plasmid-based reverse genetics for influenza, and Peter Palese developed genetic methods for studying the virus.阿道弗·加西亚-萨斯特雷开创了流感病毒的质粒反向遗传学，彼得·帕莱塞则开发了研究该病毒的遗传学方法。
• Miriam Merad won the 2025 Sjöberg Prize for identifying immune-system targets for cancer therapy, and Helen Mayberg pioneered deep-brain stimulation for treatment-resistant depression.米里亚姆·梅拉德因发现癌症治疗的免疫系统靶点获得 2025 年舍贝里奖，海伦·梅伯格则开创了用脑深部刺激治疗难治性抑郁。
• Alain Carpentier developed mitral-valve repair techniques used worldwide, and Eric Genden led the first human long-segment tracheal transplant.阿兰·卡彭蒂耶开发的二尖瓣修复技术在世界范围内使用，埃里克·根登则主刀了首例人体长段气管移植。
• Charles DeLisi launched the Human Genome Project from a base in biomathematical sciences at Mount Sinai, and Solomon Berson's work with Rosalyn Yalow advanced clinical biochemistry.查尔斯·德利西在西奈山的生物数学科学岗位启动了人类基因组计划，所罗门·伯森与罗莎琳·雅洛的合作推动了临床生物化学的发展。