System Chief
Hilda and J. Lester Gabrilove Division of
Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Disease
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Health System

Andrea Dunaif, MD, is System Chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Bone Disease for the Mount Sinai Health System and the Lillian and Henry M. Stratton Professor of Molecular Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine. She is internationally recognized for her research on the mechanisms linking metabolism and reproduction. She has shown that PCOS is a major cardiometabolic disorder and a leading risk factor for type 2 diabetes mellitus. She has used modern genomic approaches to discover PCOS causal pathways. Most recently, she has identified genetically distinct PCOS subtypes. She has published almost 200 scientific articles and book chapters that have more than 55,000 citations, 30% since 2019 indicating the ongoing impact of her research. Dr. Dunaif has received numerous awards and honors including the Endocrine Society’s highest award for patient-oriented research, the Clinical Investigator Award, and the Mount Sinai Faculty Council Lifetime Achievement Award. She is listed in Research.com’s best re-searchers in the world in the discipline of Medicine. She has been elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians.

Dr. Dunaif is a past president of the Endocrine Society, a former associate editor of The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism and of Obesity, a past Chair of the NIH Integrative and Clinical Endocrinology and Reproduction Study Section, and a former member of the NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health Advisory Committee on Research on Women’s Health.