Alan Kadish, MD, is Pres­i­dent of Touro Col­lege and Uni­ver­si­ty Sys­tem, the largest Jew­ish-spon­sored edu­ca­tion­al insti­tu­tion in the Unit­ed States. Before suc­ceed­ing Dr. Bernard Lan­der as Touro’s sec­ond pres­i­dent in March 2010, Dr. Kadish dis­tin­guished him­self as a promi­nent car­di­ol­o­gist, ded­i­cat­ed teacher and researcher, and expe­ri­enced admin­is­tra­tor. A grad­u­ate of Colum­bia Col­lege, the Albert Ein­stein Col­lege of Med­i­cine at Yeshi­va Uni­ver­si­ty, Dr. Kadish received post­doc­tor­al train­ing at the Brigham and Women’s Hos­pi­tal and at the Hos­pi­tal of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia. He has pub­lished over 280 peer-reviewed papers, received numer­ous grants, includ­ing from the Nation­al Insti­tutes of Health and the Nation­al Sci­ence Foun­da­tion, and con­tributed to sev­er­al text­books. Dr. Kadish has pub­lished arti­cles on the nexus between sci­ence and religion.