Danielle Laraque-Arena

Danielle Laraque-Arena is an American pediatrician, academician and administrator. She is currently a senior scholar-in-residence at the New York Academy of Medicine. Prior to her role at the academy, she was a professor at Einstein College and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, as well as chair of the pediatrics department at Maimonides Medical Center. From 2016 to 2018, Laraque-Arena was president of State University of New York Upstate Medical University, succeeding Gregory Eastwood as the first woman to be president. In that role, she also was CEO of the Upstate Health System.

Laraque-Arena was born in Haiti and moved with her family to the United States in the early 1960s. She graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a medical doctorate; she then fulfilled a postdoctoral internship and residency at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. She has spent most of her career in New York City. Provided by Wikipedia