James (Jim) Tsai

Affiliation

New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai

Biography

Dr. Tsai serves as President of the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai, the first and longest operating specialty hospital in the United States (founded in 1820), as well as Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS). In addition, he is the inaugural Delafield-Rodgers Professor of Ophthalmology at ISMMS. Prior to joining the Mount Sinai Health System, Tsai served as 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. Author of more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific publications and 80 invited medical articles, book chapters, and textbooks, including the Oxford American Handbook of Ophthalmology and Medical Management of Glaucoma (4 editions), Tsai has served as editorial board member for 9 medical journals and manuscript reviewer for over 100 additional scientific journals. Tsai currently serves as Chair of the Ophthalmology Section for the New York Academy of Medicine, an Examiner for the American Board of Ophthalmology, and President of the International Joint Commission on Allied Health Personnel in Ophthalmology (IJCAHPO). A Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Amherst College (BA in Neuroscience), Tsai received his MD from Stanford University School of Medicine and his MBA from the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University.