Dr. Gladys M. Ayala

Dr. Gladys M. Ayala

Dean and Chief Academic Officer, NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine

Dr. Gladys M. Ayala is the dean and chief academic officer, as well as a professor of medicine, at NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine in Mineola. The mission of the medical school is to train primary care physicians to become academic leaders and address physician workforce shortages in New York State. Dr. Ayala was integral to the founding team of the innovative accelerated M.D.-granting medical school, which, established in 2019, was the first three-year medical school in the U.S. in more than 100 years. Dr. Ayala became dean in January 2023.

An internal medicine-primary care physician by training, Dr. Ayala has spent 30-plus years as a medical educator, training medical students, developing educational programs and resources for medical students and faculty, implementing diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and mentoring faculty in leadership development. Prior to joining NYU, she spent more than 25 years at New York Medical College, where she held significant academic leadership positions.

A native New Yorker, Ayala grew up in Brooklyn and earned a bachelor’s degree in biology at Long Island University’s Brooklyn campus. She went on to earn her medical degree from the Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and completed her medical internship and residency at Roosevelt Hospital, now known as Mount Sinai West in Manhattan. She also earned a Master of Public Health from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.

 

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