Management Committee
BRANY was formed by 5 leading academic institutions in 1998. The founders are:- Montefiore Medical Center
- Mount Sinai School of Medicine
- New York University School of Medicine
- North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System
- Saint Vincents Catholic Medical Centers
The BRANY Management Committee includes the senior officials from the owner institutions.
MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
Brian P. Currie, M.D., MPH
Chairman of Management Committee
Brian P. Currie is Vice President and Medical Director for Research at Montefiore Medical Center and Assistant Dean for Clinical Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Dr. Currie has served in a senior administrative capacity at Montefiore Medical Center, the University Hospital and Academic Medical Center for the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, for fifteen years. A regional integrated delivery system, Montefiore operates four hospital divisions with 1500 beds, ambulatory care centers at forty locations, a rehabilitation facility and a home care program. With 16,000 employees, 100,000 inpatient discharges, 2 million outpatient visits and an annual operating budget of 2.0 billion, Montefiore ranks among the largest academic medical centers in the country.
He is a graduate of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and completed residency training in Internal Medicine at Bellevue Hospital / NYU and an Infectious Diseases Fellowship at AECOM/Montefiore Medical Center. Dr. Currie also received an MPH degree in Epidemiology from the Columbia University School of Public Health. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases. He has been on the faculty of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine for the past 20 years and has a joint appointment as Professor of Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health.
In addition to his administrative responsibilities, Dr. Currie continues to practice and teach in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Montefiore Medical Center and he has been actively involved as a principal investigator in grant funded clinical and translational research activities. He is a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America and the New York Academy of Medicine.
James M. Crawford, M.D., PhD
Vice Chairman
Stephen T. Harvey
Secretary
David N. Deutsch
Treasurer
Mr. Deutsch is the Founder and President of David N. Deutsch & Company LLC. Prior to establishing the firm, Mr. Deutsch was Managing Director, Investment Banking at Congress Financial Corporation, a leading lender specializing in the structuring, financing and refinancing of middle-market leveraged acquisitions and troubled companies. Before joining Congress, he was Vice President of Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc., where he directed a wide variety of corporate finance and merger & acquisition transactions for leading middle-market companies. Mr. Deutsch was previously a member of the corporate finance and high-yield and convertible bond departments of Drexel Burnham Lambert Incorporated. He began his career, prior to graduate school, at Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb Incorporated. Mr. Deutsch is the author of numerous articles related to, and a frequent speaker on, the subject of mergers, acquisitions and corporate finance. He is a contributing author of The Mergers & Acquisitions Handbook (McGraw-Hill) and has been described as one of the "leading buyout professionals" by Securities Data Publishing. He has been profiled in The Deal, Crain's New York Business, Corporate Financing Week, Mergers and Corporate Policy and Buyouts, and his comments have appeared in numerous national business publications and news services including The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Investor's Business Daily, Corporate Finance, The Secured Lender, The Associated Press and on the Discovery Channel. For six consecutive years, Mr. Deutsch was invited to participate in Mergers & Acquisitions Journal's prestigious middle-market roundtable.
Mr. Deutsch holds a Bachelor of Arts from Middlebury College and a Master of Business Administration from Columbia University Graduate School of Business, where he delivered the valedictory address on behalf of his class.
He is a member of the Executive Advisory Board of Columbia University Graduate School of Business' Heilbrunn Center for Graham & Dodd Investing and serves as a Columbia Business School Admissions Ambassador. He is a member of the Family Firm Institute, the Bond Club of New York (one of the oldest and most august associations of Wall Street professionals), and the New York City Investment Fund (organized by Mr. Henry Kravis). Mr. Deutsch is a member of the Board of BRANY (the Biomedical Research Alliance of New York), the New York Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth and former member of the Advisory Board of the New York Capital Roundtable. He is Trustee and Chairman of the Nominating Committee of the Museum of American Finance in association with the Smithsonian Institution, Founder of the Wall Street Council of the Consolidated Corporate Fund of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, member of the Financial Leadership Forum of the Science, Industry and Business Library (New York Public Library), and a former member of the Executive Committee of the Wall Street Division of UJA-Federation. Mr. Deutsch resides with his wife and three children in Chappaqua, NY.
Anthony E. Shorris
Robert I. Grossman, M.D.
As Dean & CEO of NYU Medical Center, Robert I. Grossman, M.D., leads both its School of Medicine and Hospitals comprising Tisch Hospital, the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, and the NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases.
Dr. Grossman joined NYU in 2001 as the Louis Marx Professor of Radiology, Chairman of the Department of Radiology, and Professor of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Physiology and Neuroscience. In his previous position at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania., he had been Professor of Radiology, Neurosurgery, and Neurology; Chief of Neuroradiology; and Associate Chairman of Radiology.
A prolific and highly respected scientist, Dr. Grossman was awarded the Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1999 for his work on multiple sclerosis. He was a member (1995-2000) and Chairman (1997-2000) of the Diagnostic Radiology Study Section at NIH, was appointed to the NIH’s National Advisory Council for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (2003-2007), and, in 2004, became the first recipient of the American Society of Neuroradiology Education and Research Foundation’s annual Outstanding Contributions in Research Award in recognition of lifelong accomplishment and consistent excellence in clinical neuroscience.
Alongside his award-winning research, Dr. Grossman has been a passionate educator and widely published scholar. He has trained over 100 fellows, many of whom occupy prominent positions world-wide, and authored over 300 publications and four books.
Dr. Grossman received his B.S. in biology, Phi Beta Kappa, from Tulane University, and his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1973, where he was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha. He completed his internship at the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston in 1973, a residency in neurosurgery from 1974 to 1977 at the University of Pennsylvania, a radiology residency at the University of Pennsylvania in 1979, and a two-year fellowship in neuroradiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He is board-certified in radiology and neuroradiology.
Perry Golkin
Mr. Golkin has been with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. for 18 years and a Member of the firm since 1995. He is a lawyer, certified public accountant and taught accounting for three years at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. Mr. Golkin currently serves on numerous boards of directors including Willis Group Holdings Ltd., Bristol West Insurance Group, PRIMEDIA, Inc., Alea Group Holdings and Walter Industries. Mr. Golkin received a B.S. and M.S. from the University of Pennsylvania, a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and currently serves as a member of the University of Pennsylvania Law School Board of Overseers.
Eileen Hilton, M.D.
Founding Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Hilton is the Founding Chief Executive Officer and former President of BRANY. Prior to joining the Alliance, Dr. Hilton conceived and developed the Clinical Research Program at North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System.
Dr. Hilton has served as the Director of the Office of Grants and Contracts and Director of the Institutional Review Board at Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Medical Center. Clinical positions include Directorships of the Lyme Disease and the Travel and Immunization Centers at LIJ.
Dr. Hilton is a Professor of Medicine at the Albert Einstein School of Medicine. She is the author of numerous peer-reviewed articles, chapters, and books. She graduated from Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons and holds board certifications in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases.
