Kenneth L Davis

Kenneth Davis is president and chief executive officer of the Mount Sinai Medical Center, and was dean of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine from 2003–2007. Under his leadership, Mount Sinai entered a new era of innovation in research, education, and clinical care. The Medical Center grew in both scope and ambition, accelerating the pace of scientific discovery and strengthening interdisciplinary collaboration. He joined the faculty at Mount Sinai in 1979, becoming Chief of Psychiatry at the Bronx Veterans Administration Medical Center, and later rose to chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 1987. At Mount Sinai, Dr. Davis spearheaded research investigating the biology of neuropsychiatric disease. From 1984 to 2002, he directed Mount Sinai's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center. He also directed the National Institute of Mental Health-funded Silvio O. Conte Center for the Neurosciences of Mental Disorders. He received a bachelor's degree magna cum laude from Yale College. He earned his medical degree from Mount Sinai School of Medicine, where he was valedictorian, and then completed his postdoctoral training in psychiatry and pharmacology at Stanford University Medical Center.