Gary C. Butts
Executive Vice President, Mount Sinai Health System
Dean for Multicultural and Community Affairs, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Dr. Butts is Executive Vice President of the Mount Sinai Health System and Dean for Multicultural and Community Affairs of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He is a visionary leader with more than 25 years’ experience in designing, developing, implementing, and managing programs and strategies in executive-level academic health care.
Dr. Butts has overseen the development of one of the nation’s (if not the world’s) most comprehensive, full-thickness, and impactful equity and inclusion programs for an academic health care system. In these roles, Dr. Butts is responsible for oversight, management, and integration of all aspects of equity and inclusion programs and policies for the Mount Sinai Health System, including the medical and graduate schools, graduate medical education, and the Mount Sinai hospitals and ambulatory network. In 2019, as Principal Founder, he co-founded the Discovery and Innovation Hub (DIH): A Mount Sinai Venture. A first for a health care system, the DIH intentionally intersects priorities of equity and inclusion with innovation and technology, addressing the lack of inclusion in the health innovation and technology space by expanding the inclusion and capacity of entrepreneurs with tech and innovation pathways and a focus on local community entrepreneurship.
Dr. Butts has been the leading senior representative and voice for deans and leaders in New York State through Associated Medical Schools of New York as Chair for the Committee on Diversity and Multicultural Affairs since 2006 and has mentored dozens of leaders in D&I for medical schools and health systems.
Dr. Butts completed his training in pediatrics at The Mount Sinai Hospital after graduating from Cornell Medical College. He holds joint appointments as Professor with tenure in the Departments of Pediatrics, Medical Education, and Environmental Medicine and Public Health.