David Siscovick, MD, MPH

Senior Research Scientist, Research, Evaluation & Policy

David Siscovick, MD, MPH is a Senior Research Scientist at the New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM). He was formerly the Senior Vice President for Research at NYAM. He is Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Epidemiology at the University of Washington (UW), and he formerly co-directed the UW Cardiovascular Health Research Unit and Cardiovascular Epidemiology Training Program. He was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar, American College of Physicians (ACP) Teaching and Research Scholar, NHLBI Preventive Cardiology Academic Awardee, and a Donald W. Reynolds Scholar at the University of Texas Southwestern. For more than three decades, he was an academic general internist and clinical cardiovascular epidemiologist with a focus on bridging clinical medicine and public health. Dr. Siscovick has a highly successful track record of research related to chronic disease prevention, health disparities, and successful aging, with more than 850 peer-reviewed publications and multiple grants from the National Institutes of Health. His research has focused broadly on the epidemiology and prevention of cardiometabolic diseases across the lifespan.

In 2014 and 2018, he was listed among the World's Most Influential Scientific Minds by Thomson Reuters. He has served on the Board of Scientific Counselors (BSC) of the National Institute on Aging (NIA).  He served on the Scientific Advisory Committee of the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation.  He also is the past Chair of the American Heart Association (AHA) Council on Epidemiology and Prevention. Dr. Siscovick was a member of the Regional Plan Association (RPA) Committee on the Fourth Regional Plan for Metropolitan New York, where he collaborated on efforts to integrate health and equity into long-range planning for the tri-state region. He currently is a member of the New York Committee and the Energy and Environment Task Force of the RPA. In collaboration with the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, he was the co-Principal Investigator of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded Health Data for New York City (HD4NYC). He also was the co-principal investigator of Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) grants assessing the impact of Medicaid Health Homes on the Process and Outcomes of Care for Patients with Diabetes before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in NYC.

Contact Info:

• (212) 822-7263
• dsiscovick@nyam.org