Andy Jagoda

Andy Jagoda, MD, FACEP, is Professor and Chair Emeritus of Emergency Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He trained at Georgetown University and completed his emergency medicine residency in 1987. He spent a total of 13 years in the Navy, inclusing service in Desert Shield / Desert Storm for which he received a Navy Commendation Medal for “meritorious service.” He came to Mount Sinai in 1995 and has been instrumental in building the department into one of the leading programs in the country. Dr. Jagoda is nationally recognized for his involvement in EM education, and for his work in the area of neurologic emergencies and practice guideline development. He has edited nine books and has authored 81 peer reviewed publications and 54 book chapters. He is the Editor-in-Chief of a NLM-indexed monthly publication, Emergency Medicine Practice.

Dr. Jagoda is a member of the Executive Committee of the Brain Attack Coalition at the NINDS and on the advisory board of the Brain Trauma Foundation. He is a team leader for a NFL Neurotrauma Consultants team; Chair of the Credentialing Committee for the NFL’s Airway Management Physician Program; he helps coordinate the NFL’s Visiting Team Medical Liaison program. Internationally, Dr. Jagoda has been involved in the development of emergency medicine in Italy and Holland. He was inducted as a "Master Educator" into the Mount Sinai Institute for Medical Education in 2009. In 2011, he received the Mount Sinai Alumni Association "Achievement in Medical Education" award and was presented with the NYACEP “Physician of the Year" award. In 2015, he received a Mount Sinai Alumni Jacobi Medallion. Dr. Jagoda is the immediate past President of the Mount Sinai Hospital Medical Board.