James C. Tsai MD, MBA, MA (Hon)
Dr. James Tsai serves as President of the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai (NYEE), the first and longest-operating specialty hospital in the Western Hemisphere, as well as System Chair and the inaugural Delafield-Rodgers Professor of Ophthalmology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He is the Founding Director of the Barry Family Center for Ophthalmic Artificial Intelligence and Human Health at Icahn Mount Sinai. Before joining Mount Sinai, Tsai was the inaugural Robert R. Young Professor and Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science at Yale University School of Medicine and Chief of Ophthalmology at Yale-New Haven Hospital.
A Magna Cum Laude graduate and Trustee Emeritus of Amherst College, Tsai earned his M.D. from Stanford University School of Medicine, his M.B.A. from Vanderbilt University, and a M.A. (Hon) from Yale University. He completed his residency in ophthalmology at the LAC-USC Medical Center and Doheny Eye Institute. Tsai received his glaucoma fellowship training at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami Health System, and at Moorfields Eye Hospital/Institute of Ophthalmology in London. He is the recipient of the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s Life Achievement Honor Award, Fight for Sight’s Physician Scientist Award, USC/Doheny Eye Institute’s Distinguished Alumnus Award, and Crain’s New York Business’ 2022 Notable Health Care Leaders Award.
