Message from the President
At Touro, we are proud of a half a century of academic excellence and innovation. We take great pride in our institution’s past and maintain an unwavering optimism in its future.
Touro College opened with a small cohort of students. Today, enrollment stands at 19,000, encompassing 37 schools around the world, stretching from coast to coast in the United States, with additional programs in Berlin and Israel. Our mission is to serve both the Jewish and general populations. In doing so, we provide neighborhood-based undergraduate programs and offer a comprehensive range of baccalaureate degree programs in the liberal arts and sciences, pre-professional courses, and specialized career-oriented programs. In addition, we also offer advanced degrees in education, law, medicine, pharmacy, allied health sciences, social work, psychology, business and technology. Touro graduates attend the most competitive advanced degree programs in the country, and alumni lead nationally and internationally renowned organizations.
Touro’s past reflects the bold leadership of its visionary founder, Dr. Bernard Lander. Building on that foundation, Touro University has emerged as a vibrant wellspring of educational achievements. Expanding upon our unprecedented growth, we are forming an integrated network of centers of academic excellence, synthesizing the best of our past with our future aspirations. As part of our mission, we continue to preserve a heritage that has not only sustained religious ideals for generations, but also influenced world civilizations—the Jewish intellectual tradition.
Touro is deeply committed to serving humanity and building a better world, as well as to providing personal attention for students seeking to maximize their personal and professional growth. In carrying out our goals, we continue to work with our students in a collective effort to help make the world a better place for everyone.
The Touro College of Pharmacy (TCOP), together with Touro’s other medical school campuses, plays a crucial role in helping us carry out our mission. TCOP prepares students to become outstanding pharmacists who uphold the values, philosophy and practice of pharmacology. Thank you for joining us in pursuit of our mission. I wish you the greatest success in achieving your academic and professional aspirations.
Alan Kadish, M.D.
Alan Kadish, M.D. is President of Touro University, the largest Jewish-sponsored educational institution in the United States.
Before succeeding Dr. Bernard Lander as Touro’s second president in March 2010, Dr. Kadish distinguished himself as a prominent cardiologist, dedicated teacher and researcher, and experienced administrator.
From the Classroom to the Boardroom
A graduate of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University, Dr. Kadish received postdoctoral training at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School, and at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a fellow in cardiology. He is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular disease, and cardiac electrophysiology.
Prior to joining Touro in 2009 as Senior Provost and Chief Operating Officer, Dr. Kadish taught at the University of Michigan and held a 19-year tenure at Northwestern University. He served Northwestern as the Chester and Deborah Cooley Professor of Medicine, Senior Associate Chief of the Cardiology Division, Director of the Cardiovascular Clinical Trials Unit, and sat on the finance and investment committees of the Northwestern clinical practice plan.
An accomplished and prolific research scientist as well, he has published over 250 peer-reviewed papers, received numerous grants, including from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, and contributed to several textbooks.
Dr. Kadish is a past chair of the Clinical Cardiology Program Committee of the American Heart Association, and has been elected to prestigious scientific research and education societies including the American Association of Professors, the American Society for Clinical Investigation, and the American Society of Physicians.
Jewish Values, Global Vision
As a forward thinker and a deeply committed observer of the Jewish faith, Dr. Kadish was a natural fit with our mission to serve the educational needs of our varied constituencies throughout the country and around the world.
He has helped Touro expand its unique offerings for Jewish and underserved communities while becoming a top-tier institution for the study of health sciences and medicine. Our distinct medical programs—two colleges of pharmacy, four colleges of medicine, and graduate schools and programs in health sciences— serve increasingly large and dynamic student populations. Touro University is one of the largest healthcare educational systems in the U.S., and Dr. Kadish has positioned Touro to lead a new era in medicine.
In providing educational opportunities that are rigorous, accessible, and—perhaps most of all—relevant, Dr. Kadish keeps our vision clear and progressing ever forward. Under his leadership, we continue to prepare a new generation of scholars, entrepreneurs, and leaders for the world ahead.
Dr. Kadish, who was born in Brooklyn, raised in Queens, and educated in yeshivas in New York, is married with four children.