Mone Zaidi#
| Membership Number: | 6899 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Affiliated section(s): | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
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Present and Previous Positions
- 2021 - present Mount Sinai Professor of Clinical Medicine (Endowed) and Director, Center for Translational Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York
- 2001 - 2003 Director, Geriatrics Research, Education and Clinical Center, Veterans Affairs Hospital, New York
- 1999 - present Professor of Medicine, Geriatrics and Pharmacology, Mount Sinai, New York
- 1999 - 2004 Chief, Division of Endocrinology, Veterans Affairs Hospital, New York
- 1997 - 1999 Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean, Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- 1996 - 1997 Associate Chief of Staff and Chief of Geriatrics, Veterans Affairs Hospital, Philadelphia
- 1996 - 1997 Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia
- 1995 - 1996 Professor of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, little Rock, Arkansas
- 1990 - 1995 Senior Lecturer and Consultant Physician, St. George’s Hospital Medical School, London University
- 1987 - 1989 Lecturer, Endocrine Unit, Royal Postgraduate Medical School (now Imperial College), London
Fields of Scholarship
- Endocrinology
- Translational medicine
- Pharmacology
- Neurodegeneration
- Skeletal medicine
- Obesity
- Metabolism
Honours and Awards
- 2023 Doctor of Science Honoris Causa and Commencement Speaker, University of Connecticut
- 2023 Special Recognition Award, Alliance of Academic Internal Medicine (society of U.S. Departments of Medicine)
- 2022 Award of Honorary Fellowship, British Pharmacological Society (of 150 Honorary Fellows)
- 2022 Elected as Fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Inventors
- 2022 Doctor of Science Honoris Causa, King Georges Medical College, Lucknow, India
- 2022 Austrian International Research Prize (awarded every 3 years in the bone field)
- 2019 Elected as Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- 2019 Elected as Fellow of American Society for Bone and Mineral Research
- 2018 Harrison Society Visiting Professor and Honorary Member, Harrison Society, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA
- 2018 Elected as Foreign Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences of India
- 2017 Harrington Scholar–Innovator Award, Harrington Discovery Institute, USA
- 2017 Master, American College of Physicians (MACP) (highest accolade from the American College of Physicians)
- 2013, 17 Doctor of Science Honoris Causa, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute (2013); Amity University (2017), India
- 2016–18 President, Interurban Clinical Club (Founder: Sir William Osler, 1905) (society of physicians on the East Coast)
- 2016 Elected Member, The Practitioners Society (by invitation, oldest medical society in the U.S.)
- 2014 Member, Association of Professors of Medicine (society of Chairs and leaders of Departments of Medicine)
- 2014 Honorary Member, International Chinese Musculoskeletal Research Society
- 2010 Doctor of Medicine Honoris Causa, University of Bari, Italy
- 2000, 05 Elected to Association of American Physicians (2004), American Society for Clinical Investigation (2005)
- 1996 Elected Fellow, Institute of Biologists. London (now Royal Society of Biology, FRSB)
