Robert I. Grossman

Robert I. Grossman is chief executive officer of NYU Langone Health and dean of NYU School of Medicine, which was renamed in his honor in 2019 as NYU Grossman School of Medicine. As CEO, he oversees more than 45,000 employees, students, and noncompensated faculty across 6 inpatient locations and over 320 sites. As dean, he led the historic and unprecedented initiative of providing tuition-free medical education for all current and future students in its MD degree program. He also curated a new approach to medical education, called Curriculum for the 21st Century (C21), which emphasizes clinical training from the beginning of medical school and includes a revolutionary three-year MD program for select candidates. Recently, Grossman led the creation of NYU Long Island School of Medicine—a partnership between NYU and NYU Langone Health—offering full-tuition scholarships with an accelerated three-year curriculum exclusively devoted to training primary care physicians.

Grossman himself has trained more than 100 fellows and has authored hundreds of publications, including the book Neuroradiology: The Requisites.

Dr. Grossman received his BS in biology from Tulane University and his MD from the University of Pennsylvania. He completed his internship at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, two years of a neurosurgery residency at the University of Pennsylvania, a radiology residency at the University of Pennsylvania, and a two-year fellowship in neuroradiology at Massachusetts General Hospital.