At the time of his appointment, Touro's Board of Trustees stated that Kadish eventually would succeed Lander as president.
[2] Born in Brooklyn, Kadish graduated summa cum laude from Columbia University in 1977 and was elected Phi Beta Kappa.
[3][4] At Columbia, he was classmates with future United States Ambassador to Belgium Howard Gutman and New York Governor David Paterson.
In 1990, Kadish began his long association with Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago.
He was named the Chester C. and Deborah M. Cooley Distinguished Professor of Cardiology in 1993 and eventually rose to the position of Associate Chief of Cardiology and Director of Clinical Trials at the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, the primary teaching affiliate for the Feinberg School of Medicine.