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Andrea Dunaif, MD

Professor
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, New York, United States

Andrea Dunaif, M.D., is the Lillian and Henry M. Stratton Professor of Molecular Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York. She served as System Chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Bone Disease for the Mount Sinai Health System from 2017 to 2026. She received her M.D. from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, completed Internal Medicine training at Presbyterian Hospital in New York, and subspecialty training in Endocrinology and Metabolism at the Massachusetts General Hospital. She has held senior leadership roles at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

Dr. Dunaif's research established PCOS as a major metabolic disorder and leading risk factor for early-onset type 2 diabetes, redefining the condition beyond its reproductive features and providing the scientific foundation for subsequent efforts to rename the syndrome. Her genomic studies identified PCOS susceptibility loci, rare and regulatory causal variants, and genetically distinct subtypes derived from phenotypic clustering. This work provides an objective, data-driven framework for classifying PCOS as biologically distinct conditions rather than a single syndrome. She has maintained continuous NIH funding as a principal investigator for four decades and has authored approximately 200 scientific articles and book chapters.

Her work has been recognized with many awards and honors, including the Endocrine Society Clinical Investigator Award, an honorary Doctorate from the University of Athens Medical School, and the Mount Sinai Faculty Council Lifetime Achievement Award. She is elected to both the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians, has served as Associate Editor of The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism and Obesity, has chaired numerous NIH review panels, and has served on the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health Advisory Committee. She is a former President of the Endocrine Society.

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