Dr. Isadore Rosenfeld is the Ida and Theo Rossi Distinguished Professor of Clinical Medicine. Throughout his career as a Cardiologist at NYP-Weill Cornell, which spans over 50 years, Dr. Rosenfeld has had a consistent focus on clinical care, teaching, and patient education. He is passionate about empowering patients to be proactive in relation to their health and is strongly interested in the importance of influencing government policy in response to health policy.
Dr. Rosenfeld's interest in health policy has led him to serve as a consultant for the NIH in several task forces, including Arteriosclerosis, Hypertension, Special Devices (Artificial Heart), as well as on the joint Soviet-American task force on Sudden cardiac death. He has been an official advisor to two Secretaries of Health and was appointed by President George W. Bush as Consultant to the White House Conference on Aging. Dr. Rosenfeld was president of the New York County Medical Society, has been an Overseer of Weill Cornell Medical School for some 30 years and was named Citizen of the World by the United Nations in 1999. He was recently elected Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Sackler school of medicine in Tel Aviv.
Dr. Rosenfeld is the author of 13 books for the lay public, several of which were New York Times bestsellers; he co-authored a textbook in medicine, and has written 55 papers in peer reviewed journals. He was Health Editor of Parade Magazine for 10 years and is currently medical consultant for the Fox News Network In which capacity he broadcasts to a national and international audience every week. The Rosenfeld Heart Foundation has supported cardiovascular research here and abroad for almost 30 years.
