Edward C. Halperin

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.^[1][2]

Halperin is a pediatric radiation oncologist, medical historian and health sciences educator. His research focuses on pediatric cancer, ethics and the history of racial, religious and gender discrimination in higher education. He is the co-author/editor of the first through sixth editions of Pediatric Radiation Oncology,^[3][4][5] the fourth through eighth editions of Principles and Practice of Radiation Oncology^[6][7][8] and more than 240 articles in peer-reviewed scientific, historical, education and ethics literature.

Halperin is on the website editor of the Paediatric Radiation Oncology Society.^[9] He was previously associate editor of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics,^[10] on the editorial boards of Academic Medicine and Radiology, associate editor and deputy editor of the North Carolina Medical Journal.^[11]

He is a member of the American Association for the History of Medicine, American College of Radiology, American Medical Association, Alpha Omega Alpha, American Society of Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology, Beta Gamma Sigma, New York Academy of Medicine, and Sigma Xi.^[12]