Dr. Sarah J. Schlesinger is currently an Associate Professor of Clinical Investigation at The Rockefeller University and the Clinical Director of The Laboratory of Molecular Immunology and Senior Physician at The Rockefeller University Hospital. Sarah was graduated with honors from Wellesley College and then obtained her medical doctorate from Rush Medical College in Chicago, Illinois. Dr Schlesinger then trained in Anatomic Pathology at the New York Hospital/Cornell Medical Center, where she was chief resident in Anatomic Pathology and then joined the faculty. Following her time at Cornell, she spent three years on the faculty of SUNY Buffalo Medical School as an Assistant Professor of both Pathology and Ophthalmology. She was an award winning teacher and served as a mentor to female medical students at SUNY. In 1994, Dr Schlesinger moved to Washington DC and led The Dendritic Cell section of The Division of Retrovirology at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (“WRAIR”). Dr Schlesinger’s responsibilities at WRAIR included participation in the design and development of HIV vaccines. She was also a member of the Division of Infectious and Parasitic Disease Pathology at The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (“AFIP”). In 2002, Dr Schlesinger returned to live in New York City and worked with the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative as a Scientist in Vaccine Research and Design. Since rejoining the Rockefeller University in 2002, Dr Schlesinger has led the clinical efforts to bring new HIV vaccine candidates developed at Rockefeller into the clinic. In this time, eight phase I studies have been completed to evaluate the safety and immunogenicity of HIV vaccine candidates and adjuvants. Dr Schlesinger is working on the pre-clinical and regulatory plans to ensure a substantial pipeline of innovative HIV vaccine candidates and vaccine adjuvants for future testing In addition to these responsibilities, Dr Schlesinger has been a member of the Rockefeller Hospital’s Institutional Review Board since 2003 and she is now co-chair. She is the Co-Director of the education and training programs at The Rockefeller University Center for Clinical and Translational Science and serves on the Medical Staff Executive Committee of the Rockefeller University Hospital. Sarah serves on the board two non-profit organizations: AVAC The AIDS Vaccines Advocacy Coalition and Global Viral. She is also a corporate director of Ariad Pharmacueticals. 

Anatomic Pathology