System Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer,
Montefiore Health System, Executive Director, Montefiore Medical Group
Andrew D. Racine, MD, PhD, was born in New York City, attended Harvard College and subsequently spent
a year in Tanzania before returning to complete his MD, PhD (economics) at NYU and his pediatric training at the Boston Children’s Hospital.
He is currently System Senior Vice President, Montefiore Einstein, and Executive Director, Montefiore Medical Group. He holds appointments as Professor of Pediatrics at Albert Einstein College of
Medicine and was previously a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in Manhattan. His research collaborations at the NBER have involved the impact of a variety of public health
programs on child health outcomes.
He has also been heavily involved in child health advocacy at the local and national level with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) having served on the AAP’s national Committee on Child Health Financing and Chair of the National Task Force of Poverty and Child Health. Dr. Racine was recently appointed to the Board of Trustees of the NBER and is currently the President of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
He holds a AB in Social Studies from Harvard University, an MD from New York University and a PhD in Economics from New York University.