Anne L. Taylor

Sen. Anne L. Taylor, M.D., joined Columbia University Medical Center in 2007 as Vice Dean of Academic Affairs in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and the John Lindenbaum Professor of Medicine at the Columbia University Medical Center. In 2014, Dr. Taylor was appointed Senior Vice President for Faculty Affairs and Career Development for the Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

As Senior Vice President for Faculty Affairs and Career Development for CUIMC, Dr. Taylor supports faculty recruitment, appointment and promotion processes, professional development and conflict of interest programs for faculty and trainees at the four health sciences schools at CUIMC. Dr. Taylor’s key initiatives include the reorganization of faculty academic tracks, the creation of the Virginia Kneeland Frantz Society for Women Faculty at the College of Physicians & Surgeons, management of conflict of interest and appointment and promotion processes.

A native of New York City, Dr. Taylor received her bachelor’s degree from Hofstra University and studied cello at the Manhattan School of Music. She completed medical school, an internal medicine residency, and a clinical cardiology fellowship at the University of Chicago, with cardiovascular research training at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Iowa. Dr. Taylor’s clinical research focuses on cardiovascular disease in underrepresented minorities and disease in women, as well as the “knowledge gap” in diverse communities, determining how well women in different ethnic and racial groups understand their risk for cardiovascular disease.