Katrina Armstrong

Katrina Armstrong, MD, leads Columbia University’s medical campus as Chief Executive Officer of the Columbia University Irving Medical Center and Dean of the Faculties of Health Sciences and the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons (VP&S). Dr. Armstrong is also Executive Vice President for Health and Biomedical Sciences for Columbia University and the Harold and Margaret Hatch Professor in the Faculty of the University. She is the 25th dean of VP&S and the first woman to lead Columbia’s medical school and medical center.

Across an accomplished career spanning decades, Dr. Armstrong has demonstrated leadership in medical education and training; a commitment to educating, recruiting, and retaining diverse talent across all areas of medicine; and a devotion to advancing equity and access to reduce health disparities across all populations.