Radiation oncologist Alec Kimmelman, MD, PhD, will become CEO of NYU Langone Health and dean of the NYU Grossman School of Medicine on September 1, upon the retirement of radiologist Robert "Bob" Grossman, MD, who has led since 2007.
However, Grossman will continue to serve the organization: Having transformed it from a small regional hospital with $2 billion in revenue in 2007 to a leading academic health system with $14.2 billion in revenue in 2024, he will assume a new role as executive vice president to the NYU Langone Health board of trustees.
An article published August 15 in Fortune describes Grossman's role in the NYU Langone turnaround story. Grossman was also featured in Episode 2 of AuntMinnie's Keeping Up with the Radiologists Podcast Series, where he talked about his life and advocated for tuition-free medical school.
Soon to be at the helm, Kimmelman most recently served as director of the Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone since 2023 and has been a leader at the institution since 2016. Under his leadership, Perlmutter Cancer Center established its new Center for Molecular Oncology in October 2024.
Kimmelman's body of work has served to define the metabolic landscape of pancreatic cancer, paving the way for multiple clinical trials in the disease, according to NYU Langone.
