Carol R. Horowitz, MD, MPH, is Professor of Population Health Science and Policy, Professor of Medicine and a practicing general internist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She is the founding Dean for Gender Equity in Science and Medicine and the Director of the new Institute for Health Equity Research. Her research focuses on using Stakeholder-Engaged and Community-Based Participatory Research to address health disparities. As Principal and Co-investigator for federally-funded studies, her special interests are in chronic disease prevention and control, and how social, clinical, biological and behavioral determinants impact health disparities and health. Dr. Horowitz mentors diverse trainees and faculty interested in addressing disparities and inequities faced by individuals from underrepresented racial, ethnic, gender and sexual minority groups, as well as women. She partners with community and clinical stakeholders to use lessons learned to inform health, policies, systems and environments. She received an MD from Cornell University, was a primary care resident at Albert Einstein, and earned an MPH from the University of Washington as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar.