Pascal Imperato MD, MPH TM, DSc, MACP

Dr. Pascal James Imperato, MD, MPH TM, DSc, MACP is a Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Chief Academic Officer of the SUNY Downstate Medical Center.

He is a distinguished and internationally respected physician, epidemiologist, public health administrator, anthropologist, African art historian, editor, author, and authority on global health. He is the Founding Dean and Dean Emeritus of the SUNY Downstate School of Public Health. He is also a Distinguished Service Professor and former Director of the School’s Center for Global Health. He is the Editor of the Journal of Community Health.

Dr. Imperato has held a number of important leadership positions in government and academia throughout his career. He is the former Director of the Bureau of Infectious Disease Control of the New York City Department of Health, a former First-Deputy Health Commissioner of New York City, and former Commissioner of Health of New York City, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation. He has served as the Chair of the New York State Board for Medicine, and Editor of the New York State Journal of Medicine.

Dr. Imperato was the recipient of a Glorney-Raisbeck Fellowship of the New York Academy of Medicine in order to study public health and tropical medicine at the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine under the mentorship of leading experts in the field. While at Tulane, he spent time at the International Center for Medical Research and Training (ICMRT) located at the Universidad del Valle in Cali, Colombia. He served as a medical epidemiologist for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for six years in West Africa. During his time with the CDC, he was responsible for assisting with the eradication of smallpox, and the control of measles in West Africa. He also played a major role in the control of major epidemics of cholera, yellow fever, and meningococcal meningitis in West Africa.