Top Researchers
Top Medicine Researchers at City University of New York for 2026
The City University of New York has an active and varied presence in Medicine, with recent work spanning clinical questions, population health, and research that connects biological mechanisms to real-world care. Across the last year, the institution’s scholars have contributed to discussions on liver disease, HIV prevention, mental health, maternal health, and aging.
Below, you’ll find a snapshot of researchers whose recent output reflects both depth in specific specialties and a broad medical perspective. Their work shows how medical research at CUNY moves between laboratory insight, epidemiologic analysis, and applied studies that speak to urgent health needs.
Featured Researchers
Jeffrey V. Lazarus
Jeffrey V. Lazarus focuses on hepatology, epidemiology, and infectious diseases, with recent publications on metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease and the global burden of alcohol-related liver conditions.
Activity over the last year: 19 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease in adults (Mar 2025)
- Global Consensus Recommendations for Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease and Steatohepatitis (Apr 2025)
- Global epidemiology of alcohol-related liver disease, liver cancer, and alcohol use disorder, 2000–2021 (Jan 2025)
Onur Başer
Onur Başer brings together economics and econometrics with cardiology and rheumatology, publishing on topics that range from sepsis and alcohol use disorder to postpartum depression diagnosis.
Activity over the last year: 14 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- The protective effects of a single dose myricetin application on CLP-induced rat sepsis model by analyzing some immune mechanisms (Feb 2025)
- Prevalence and Risk Factors Among Patients with Alcohol Use Disorder During COVID-19: National Survey on Drug Use and Health Analysis (Jan 2025)
- The Effect of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization on Clinical Diagnosis of Postpartum Depression (Feb 2025)
Denis Nash
Denis Nash’s recent work centers on infectious diseases, epidemiology, and virology, including long COVID, HIV care coordination, and PrEP uptake among gender and sexual minorities.
Activity over the last year: 15 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- The Current and Future Burden of Long COVID in the United States (Jan 2025)
- “We’re Going to Be Here”: Providers’ Perspectives on Implementing a Revised HIV Care Coordination Program (Jun 2025)
- Intravenous Methamphetamine Use, HIV Status and PrEP Uptake Among a U.S. Sample of 29,880 Gender and Sexual Minorities, 2022–2023 (Aug 2025)
Laura A. Rabin
Laura A. Rabin works across psychiatry and mental health, experimental and cognitive psychology, and epidemiology, with studies linking subjective cognitive concerns to blood-based Alzheimer’s biomarkers.
Activity over the last year: 13 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
Christian Grov
Christian Grov combines infectious diseases, epidemiology, and social psychology in research on HIV prevention, stimulant use, and cohort design for sexual and gender minority populations.
Activity over the last year: 13 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Intravenous Methamphetamine Use, HIV Status and PrEP Uptake Among a U.S. Sample of 29,880 Gender and Sexual Minorities, 2022–2023 (Aug 2025)
- Getting to yes: Pilot sequential multiple assignment randomized trial of motivational enhancement interventions targeting preexposure prophylaxis use in sexual minority men who use stimulants. (Feb 2025)
- The American Transformative HIV Study: Protocol for a US National Cohort of Sexual and Gender Minority Individuals With HIV (Apr 2025)
Khosrow Kashfi
Khosrow Kashfi’s recent publications span pharmacology, biochemistry, and physiology, addressing iNOS, inflammation-targeting therapies, and maternal health disparities in preeclampsia.
Activity over the last year: 10 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS): More than an inducible enzyme? Rethinking the classification of NOS isoforms (May 2025)
- Current Approaches and Innovations in Managing Preeclampsia: Highlighting Maternal Health Disparities (Feb 2025)
- Reprogramming inflammation: Mechanisms and therapeutic targeting of eicosanoids and pro-resolving mediators (Jul 2025)
C. Mary Schooling
C. Mary Schooling draws on pediatrics, genetics, and public health to examine GLP-1 receptor agonists, the obesity paradox, and genetic approaches to ketone metabolism.
Activity over the last year: 8 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- A Hypothesis That Glucagon-like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists Exert Immediate and Multifaceted Effects by Activating Adenosine Monophosphate-Activate Protein Kinase (AMPK) (Feb 2025)
- Has the “obesity paradox” been resolved by semaglutide trials? (Mar 2025)
- Search for common genetic variants to allow reliable Mendelian randomization investigations into ketone metabolism (Jun 2025)
Tyrel J. Starks
Tyrel J. Starks works at the intersection of infectious diseases, social psychology, and general health professions, with studies on couples-based HIV interventions, alcohol use, and communication in testing sessions.
Activity over the last year: 5 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Pilot Results of Masibambisane: Couples Motivational Interviewing with Mobile Breathalyzers to Address Unhealthy Drinking and Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy in South Africa (Jun 2025)
- Interdependence and Sexual Health: Relationship factors associated with sexual behavior among sexual minority males in non-monogamous relationships who use drugs (Jul 2025)
- Couples Have a Way of Speaking: Examining the Characteristics and Stability of Communication Style in HIV Testing Sessions With Male Couples (Feb 2025)
What City University of New York's Medicine Community Is Working On
The most common subfields across this CUNY group are epidemiology and infectious diseases, suggesting a strong community focus on understanding disease patterns, prevention, and care delivery at both population and clinical levels. Social psychology also appears repeatedly, especially in work tied to HIV prevention, relationship dynamics, and behavior change. Beyond those core areas, the portfolio extends into hepatology, economics and econometrics, pharmacology, psychiatry, genetics, and pediatrics, showing a medical research community that is not only clinically engaged but also methodologically and interdisciplinarily broad.- Epidemiology - seen across 4 of the featured researchers
- Infectious Diseases - seen across 4 of the featured researchers
- Social Psychology - seen across 2 of the featured researchers
- Hepatology - seen across 1 of the featured researchers
- Economics and Econometrics - seen across 1 of the featured researchers
Together, these researchers illustrate the range of medical inquiry at the City University of New York, from disease burden and prevention to cognition, treatment pathways, and health equity. If you’re exploring related work or organizing your own manuscripts, Resub can help with citation discovery, formatting, and submission preparation.
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