Joel Forman, MD Email Joel Forman

Joel Forman, MD, is Associate Professor and Vice-Chair for Education in the Jack and Lucy Clark Department of Pediatrics and Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Forman is Divison Chief of the Department of Pediatric Hospital Medicine at the Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital. He also serves as the Pediatric Hospital Medicine Fellowship Director at the Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital and a faculty member in the Mount Sinai Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit.

Dr. Forman began his training at the University of Vermont College of Medicine in Burlington, Vermont, where he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Society and received the New England Pediatric Society Prize. He then served as a Pediatric intern, resident and chief resident at Mount Sinai Hospital where he received the Association of Attending Staff/ Bella Trachtenberg Award for House Staff Excellence.

Subsequently, he joined the general pediatrics faculty at Mount Sinai. Dr. Forman served as Assistant Pediatric Residency Program Director from 1996-2002 and Residency Program Director from 2002 - 2019. He assumed the role of Vice-Chair for Education in 2002. Dr. Forman helped Dr. Philip J. Landrigan to create a Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (PEHSU) and fellowship at Mount Sinai. Dr. Forman served for 6 years as a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Environmental Health and worked as a member of the NYC DOH and CDC Lead in Pregnancy Workgroups to formulate local and national lead in pregnancy guidelines. He served on the EPA Children’s Health Protection Advisory Committee from 2014 - 2019 and has served as a member of the New York City Board of Health since 2010.