National Children’s Study Federal Advisory Committee Member
Dr. Gelb is the Director of the Center for Molecular Cardiology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He is the Arthur J. and Nellie Z. Cohen Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Genetics and Genomic Sciences. Dr. Gelb completed a pediatric residency and pediatric cardiology fellowship at Babies Hospital of Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center and Texas Children’s Hospital at the Baylor College of Medicine, respectively. He joined the faculty at Mount Sinai after fellowship and has remained there since. He developed an extensive program in genomics/gene discovery for congenital heart disease. Dr. Gelb has received the E. Mead Johnson Award from the Society for Pediatric Research and the Norman J. Siegel New Member Outstanding Science Award from the American Pediatric Society. He was elected to the American Society of Clinical Investigation. In addition to his research, he directs the Cardiovascular Genetics and Pediatric Heart Transplantation Programs at Mount Sinai.