#6, endocrinology #10, neurology & neurosurgery #10, orthopedics #14, rehabilitation #14, gastroenterology #15, urology #16, pulmonology #20). The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked #14 in ophthalmology. Mount Sinai was ranked 8th among medical schools in the U.S. receiving NIH grants in 2022, and 2nd in research dollars per principal investigator among U.S. medical schools by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). Mount Sinai was the first U.S. medical school to establish a Department of Geriatrics in 1982. Mount Sinai's PhD program was ranked 3rd among 53 U.S. institutions in a survey conducted by Academic Analytics in 2008 and 7th on the organization's list of top 20 specialized research universities in biomedical health sciences. Notable people Stuart A. Aaronson, internationally recognized cancer biologist and the Jane B. and Jack R. Aron Professor of Neoplastic Diseases and chairman of Oncological Sciences Judith Aberg, infectious disease researcher, George Baehr Professor of Clinical Medicine and Dean of System Operations for Clinical Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai David H. Adams, co-creator of the Carpentier-McCarthy-Adams IMR ETlogix Ring and the Carpentier-Edwards Physio II degenerative annuloplasty ring Jacob M. Appel, novelist and short story author Michael Arthur, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds Ambati Balamurali, youngest person ever to become a doctor, according to Guinness Book of Records Joshua B. Bederson, professor and chief of neurosurgery and the first neurosurgeon at Mount Sinai to receive an NIH R01 grant as principal investigator Solomon Berson, American physician and scientist whose discoveries, mostly together with Rosalyn Yalow, caused major advances in clinical biochemistry Tamir Bloom, Olympic epee fencer Michael J. Bronson, associate professor of orthopaedic surgery and creator of the Vision Total Hip System Michael L. Brodman, chair and professor of the department of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive science and pioneer in the field of urogynecology Steven J. Burakoff, cancer specialist, author of both Therapeutic Immunology (2001) and Graft-Vs.-Host Disease: Immunology, Pathophysiology, and Treatment (1990), and the director of Mount Sinai Hospital's Cancer Institute Robert Neil Butler, physician, gerontologist, psychiatrist, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and the first director of the National Institute on Aging Alain F. Carpentier, hailed by the president of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery as the father of modern mitral valve repair Thomas C. Chalmers, known for his role in the development of the randomized controlled trial and meta-analysis in medical research Dennis S.