Gerald D. Fischbach, M.D., Scientific Director of the Simons Foundation

Gerald D. Fischbach

Gerald D. Fischbach, M.D., is Executive Vice President for Health and Biomedical Sciences; Dean of the Faculties of Health Sciences and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. Dr. Fischbach received his M.D. degree in 1965 from Cornell University Medical School and interned at the University of Washington Hospital. He began his research career at the National Institutes of Health, serving from 1966-1973. He subsequently served on the faculty of Harvard Medical School, first as Associate Professor of Pharmacology from 1973-1978 and then as Professor until 1981. From 1981-1990, Dr. Fischbach was the Edison Professor of Neurobiology and Head of the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology at Washington University School of Medicine. In 1990, he returned to Harvard Medical School where he was the Nathan Marsh Pusey Professor of Neurobiology and Chairman of the Neurobiology Departments of Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital until 1998. He served as Director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health from 1998-2001.





NIH's Gerald D. Fischbach,Named Columbia's Vice President for Health and Biomedical Sciences






Gerald D. Fischbach

Gerald D. Fischbach, M.D., Director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has been named Columbia University's Vice President for Health and Biomedical Sciences, Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Columbia President George Rupp announced Tues., Dec. 5. Fischbach will also be the Harold and Margaret Hatch Professor of the University in the Faculties of Health Sciences and of Medicine.

A pioneering researcher Fischbach was the Nathan Marsh Pusey Professor of Neurobiology and Chairman of the Neurobiology Departments at both the Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital before assuming his current position at NIH in 1998.

At Columbia he will head a division that includes four health science professional schools with 27 academic departments, 3,000 students and 2,300 full-time faculty; a biotechnology park; some 40 biomedical research and treatment centers; and physician practice affiliations with two dozen hospitals. The Health Sciences Division has an annual operating budget of $815 million and has $230 million in sponsored research grants.

Fischbach replaces Herbert Pardes, M.D., who left Columbia in December 1999