Notable Alumni of New York Medical College

Bernard J. D. Irwin 1830–1917

Army surgeon and first Medal of Honor recipient by action

Attended until 1852

Also attended: New York University

Child: George LeRoy Irwin (The United States Military Academy at West Point)

Paige Kreegel 1958–

Physician and former Florida state representative

Also attended: University of Miami

Patricia Hymanson

Maine state legislator and neurologist

Also attended: Yale University

Dan Koenig Morhaim 1948–

Maryland legislator, physician and author

Also attended: University of California-Berkeley

Mark Zuckerberg 1984–

Co-founder and CEO of Facebook and Meta

Also attended: Johns Hopkins University, Harvard University, Mercy University

Spouse: Priscilla Chan (University of California-San Francisco, Harvard University)

Sibling: Donna Zuckerberg (Princeton University)

Robert Jay Lifton 1926–2025

Psychiatrist known for his theory of thought reform

Doctor of Medicine · Class of 1948

Also attended: Cornell University, Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Emily Stowe 1831–1903

First female physician to practise in Canada

Doctor of Medicine · Class of 1867

Jane Cooke Wright 1919–2013

Cancer researcher and surgeon, chemotherapy pioneer

Attended until 1945

Also attended: Smith College

Father: Louis T. Wright (Clark Atlanta University, Harvard University)

Paul K. Benedict 1912–1997

Linguist who proposed the Austro-Tai language family

Also attended: Harvard University, University of New Mexico-Main Campus, Cornell University

Helen Singer Kaplan 1929–1995

Psychiatrist and sex therapist

Also attended: Columbia University in the City of New York, Syracuse University

Kin Yamei 1864–1934

Chinese-born American-raised doctor and educator

Myra Adele Logan 1908–1977

African-American surgeon who performed open-heart surgery

Doctor of Medicine · Class of 1933

Also attended: Columbia University in the City of New York

Spouse: Charles Alston (Columbia University in the City of New York, Teachers College at Columbia University)

William Harkness 1837–1903

Astronomer and Civil War surgeon

Doctor of Medicine

Also attended: University of Rochester, Lafayette College

Morton Birnbaum 1926–2005

Physician and lawyer who coined the term sanism

Also attended: Columbia University in the City of New York

Susan McKinney Steward 1847–1918

Physician and author, first African-American woman doctor in New York

Attended until 1870

Spouse: Theophilus Gould Steward (Wilberforce University)

Marie Nyswander 1919–1986

Psychiatrist who popularized methadone for heroin addiction

Also attended: Cornell University, Sarah Lawrence College

Spouse: Vincent Dole (Harvard University, Stanford University)

Anna Manning Comfort 1845–1931

Physician, first woman medical graduate practicing in Connecticut

Spouse: George Fisk Comfort (Wesleyan University)

Lucy Ozarin 1914–2017

Psychiatrist who served in the US Navy

Also attended: Harvard University, New York University

Jennie de la Montagnie Lozier 1841–1915

Physician and educator from New York City

Hans Einstein 1923–2012

Physician and leading authority on Valley Fever

Also attended: Furman University

Lurana W. Sheldon 1862–1945

Author, poet and newspaper editor

Adelaide Wallerstein 1869–1942

Translator, physician and lawyer

Also attended: New York University

Joseph Plumb Cochran 1855–1905

Missionary doctor who founded Iran's first Western medical school

Harriet Jemima Winifred Clisby 1830–1931

English physician, founder of Boston's Women's Educational and Industrial Union