Staff Profile: Jeremiah Barondess

Jeremiah Barondess, MD
President Emeritus

Jeremiah A. Barondess, MD, is President Emeritus of The New York Academy of Medicine and Professor Emeritus of Clinical Medicine at the Cornell University Medical College. Dr. Barondess was educated at the Pennsylvania State University and the University of Michigan and received his MD from Johns Hopkins, where he was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha and Phi Beta Kappa. His early residency training was in the Department of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital; this was followed by two years as a Research Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and then by completion of his residency training in medicine at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. He remained at Cornell until June of 1990, rising through the ranks to hold the William T. Foley Distinguished Professorship in Clinical Medicine.

Dr. Barondess's particular clinical interests have been in diagnosis and the diagnostic process. He has written extensively on clinical matters in internal medicine, on medical education, clinical ethics, the training of internists and health disparities in urban populations.

He is President Emeritus of the American College of Physicians, and a Past President of Alpha Omega Alpha, the American Osler Society, and the American Clinical and Climatological Association. Dr. Barondess is an emeritus member of the Board of Trustees of the Johns Hopkins University, and chaired the Advisory Council for the School of Medicine from its founding in 1978 until 1992. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Honorary Trustee of the Cushing-Whitney Medical Library at Yale Medical School and the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars.

Throughout Dr. Barondess's tenure as Academy President, from July 1990 through September 2006, The New York Academy of Medicine directed its programmatic activities primarily in the areas of urban health, recruiting to the health professions and medical education, the medicine/science/society interface and the health of the biomedical enterprise itself.

Click here for a list of Dr. Barondess' available publications in PubMed.

Contact information

jbarondess@nyam.org; (212) 822-7351