• Press Release

Mount Sinai Health System CEO Named to Modern Healthcare’s 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare

Brendan Carr
  • New York, NY
  • (December 30, 2025)

Mount Sinai Health System today announced that Brendan G. Carr, MD, MA, MS, its Chief Executive Officer, has been named one of Modern Healthcare’s 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare. The annual recognition honors leaders whose work is shaping health care delivery, innovation, and impact nationwide. The complete ranking appears in the December issue of Modern Healthcare, with profiles of all honorees available at ModernHealthcare.com/100MostInfluential. 

“I am honored to be recognized by Modern Healthcare, but this distinction truly belongs to the entire Mount Sinai workforce,” said Dr. Carr. “Every day, our teams work to make people’s lives better by translating medical advances and scientific breakthroughs into care that provides comfort and healing. This recognition reflects our shared commitment to ensuring that innovation, discovery, and compassion improve health and well-being for the communities we serve. I would like to especially thank everyone who will be caring for patients over this holiday period in our health system and across the nation. The commitment to service among healthcare providers is humbling and inspiring.” 

Each year, Modern Healthcare identifies leaders who are driving meaningful progress across the health care industry through their influence, leadership, and vision. 

“Influence can be exerted in many ways, but when it is used to improve health care delivery and outcomes, patients and professionals alike benefit,” said Mary Ellen Podmolik, Editor-in-Chief of Modern Healthcare. “Our 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare represent leaders who are advancing medicine and strengthening the health care system.” 

Under Dr. Carr’s leadership, Mount Sinai Health System focuses on encouraging curiosity and compassion so that we can advance scientific discovery, achieve clinical excellence, and train the next generation of scientists and clinicians. Mount Sinai is proud of its world leading clinical programs, its cutting-edge research, and a culture of rapid cycle learning and mission driven service.  

Founded nearly 200 years ago as a community-first institution that provided care to those refused treatment elsewhere due to discrimination, Mount Sinai has remained committed to its mission of service. The Mount Sinai Health System delivers the highest-quality care to those with the greatest need, guided by the belief that health and healing are fundamental to our shared humanity.  

“Dr. Carr’s leadership embodies Mount Sinai’s longstanding commitment to service, innovation, and discovery,” said Richard A. Friedman and James S. Tisch, Co-Chairmen of the Mount Sinai Health System Boards of Trustees. “He leads from the front. He has spent his career studying the healthcare delivery system, pushing for modernization and transformation in service to patients. He is as comfortable in front of a scientific audience or at the policy table as he is at the bedside. Brendan is the leader that healthcare needs at this challenging time.” 

 

About Modern Healthcare 

Modern Healthcare is the leading source of healthcare business news, research, and data, providing healthcare leaders with the insights needed to make informed decisions. To learn more or subscribe, visit www.modernhealthcare.com/subscriptions. 

About the Mount Sinai Health System

Mount Sinai Health System is one of the nation’s leading integrated academic health systems and one of the largest in the New York metropolitan area. The Health System includes approximately 48,000 employees, more than 9,000 physicians, and 8,600 nurses across seven hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, over 600 research and clinical laboratories, a school of nursing, and schools of medicine and graduate school of biomedical sciences.  

As a leading learning health system, Mount Sinai combines clinical expertise with scientific discovery to improve patient care while training the next generation of health care and biomedical leaders. The Health System provides care across every stage of life, from prenatal care through geriatrics, while advancing personalized medicine through artificial intelligence, data science, and biomedical research.  

Mount Sinai is consistently recognized among the nation’s leading academic health systems for patient care, research, and education. The Mount Sinai Hospital is ranked No. 1 in New York and recognized as one of the world’s top Smart Hospital by Newsweek. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ranks No. 11 among U.S. medical schools for National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding and No. 1 among freestanding medical schools, reflecting the strength of its scientific enterprise and leadership in biomedical research. 

For more information, visit https://www.mountsinai.org or find Mount Sinai on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X, and YouTube. To listen to news and stories from Mount Sinai, visit the Mount Sinai Podcast Network.

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