2020
DR. JASMIN
MOSHIRPUR
CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER
NYC HEALTH + HOSPITALS/ELMHURST AND QUEENS
Dr. Jasmin Moshirpur is the Chief Medical Officer for NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst and
Queens, as well as a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Dean for Elmhurst/Queens
Programs at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Moshirpur received her MD
degree from the Shiraz University School of Medicine in Iran and emigrated to the US for
residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Mount Sinai Medical Center. She completed a
fellowship in GYN Endocrinology and is Board Certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology.
As Director of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Out-Patient Department at Elmhurst Hospital
Center, she pioneered an outstanding program for the community that rigorously emphasized
preventive medicine; including routine pap smears for detecting early cervical neoplasia, a
cancer detection team that performed breast physical exams on all adult female hospital
admissions when clinically feasible. This laid the foundation for a career passionately
committed to improving and redefining women’s health care and medical education and
helping to establish the Cancer Center of Excellence at Queens Hospital Center.
Dr. Moshirpur’s many honors include Transitional Services for New York 2016 Physician
of the Year, The 2015 Jacobi Medallion, Outstanding Clinical Teacher of Obstetrics and
Gynecology and Alpha Omega Alpha at Sinai, Torchbearers for Excellence in Health Care at
Elmhurst Hospital Center, President of the Saul B. Gusberg Society, President of the Queens
Gynecology Society, and Vice-Chairman of the Board of the Iranian American Medical
Association in the United States and is a member of the American Academy of Medical
Directors.
Dr. Moshirpur has three children and ten grandchildren that she is very proud of.
HEALTHCARE HEROES/ELMHURST HOSPITAL