Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Mount Sinai School of Medicine (MSSM), one of the foremost medical schools and medical centers in the world, is home to many leading laboratories and state-of-the-art facilities in anatomical, neuroanatomical, morphological, radiological, osteological, and genomic sciences. NYCEP students often have opportunities to take courses at the medical school and subsequently to serve as teaching assistants. NYCEP students who have been based in laboratories at MSSM or have taught there have gone on to distinguished careers in anatomy, physical anthropology and biomedical sciences and education. NYCEP faculty and students are based in the Center for Anatomy and Functional Morphology and the Department of Orthopaedics.

Core Faculty

Jeffrey Laitman

Distinguished Professor and Director, Center for Anatomy and Functional Morphology

Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Research interests: Comparative anatomy, development and evolution of the mammalian aerodigestive tract (upper respiratory, upper digestive, vocal) and contiguous areas of the cranial base.

Resource Faculty and Postdocs

Joy Reidenberg

Professor, Center for Anatomy and Functional Morphology

and Department of Medical Education, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Research interests: comparative anatomy, development, and evolution of the mammalian upper respiratory tract