Edward C. Halperin, is the chancellor and CEO of New York Medical College (NYMC) where he is also a professor of radiation medicine, pediatrics and history.
He also serves as the Miriam Popack Chair in Biomedical Ethics and director of the Hirth and Samowitz Center for Medical Humanities and Holocaust Studies at NYMC, director of bioethics in the School of Health Sciences and Practice at NYMC, as well as provost for biomedical affairs for the Touro College and University System, a position he has held since 2012.
His research focuses on pediatric cancer, ethics and the history of racial, religious and gender discrimination in higher education.
[13] He completed his internship in internal medicine at Stanford University in 1980 and his residency at Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital in 1983.
[citation needed] Halperin was on the faculty at Duke University for 23 years – starting in 1983 as an assistant professor in the Division of Radiation Oncology.