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Who

The president and CEO of Mount Sinai and the dean of the school of medicine, Davis oversees one of the city's largest medical institutions.

Backstory

A Syosset native, Davis made his first trip to Mount Sinai for emergency surgery as a child, returning to the hospital two decades later to attend medical school. (He was valedictorian of Sinai's second graduating class in 1973.) After moving to the West Coast to complete his psychiatry residency at Stanford, Davis returned to Mount Sinai to take a teaching position, and built a reputation for his research on disorders of the brain like schizophrenia and Alzheimer's. In 1987, Davis was named chairman of the department of psychiatry. He was appointed dean of the school of medicine in 2003 as well as president of the medical center.

Of note

When Davis took the reigns in 2003, Mount Sinai wasn't in the best of shape. The hospital had lost more than $200 million since 2000 and was still reeling from the embarrassment of having one of its transplant programs shut down in 2002 following the death of a liver donor. Davis immediately set about improving operations, streamlining the billing process and reducing costs, in part by decreasing the average stay for patients. He also beefed up the faculty, hiring a bevy of experts in fields like diabetes, depression, and pregnancy. Davis has largely turned things around while managing to avoid massive layoffs: In 2005, Sinai reported a $46.7 million surplus, its first in years.

Davis has proven himself a skillful fundraiser, too. Sinai's endowment has grown from $500 million to $700 million since he took over, thanks to his ability to extract donations from board members like Glenn Dubin, Leon Black, and Carl Icahn, who donated $25 million in 2004 to stamp his name on the state-of-the-art research facility at 1425 Madison Avenue. (It was also on Davis's watch that Martha Stewart donated $5 million to create the Martha Stewart Center for Living; she made the donation on her mother's 91st birthday.) The fruits of Davis's labor: U.S. News and World Report ranked Sinai in the top 3% of hospitals nationwide in 2006.

Keeping score

He took home $773,075 in 2006.

Personal

He's married to Dr. Bonnie Davis; they graduated in the same med school class. They live in Syosset in a home they purchased for $700,000 in 1998. Their daughter Jordanna was an accomplished golfer at Yale; she now works for the Greater New York Hospital Association.