Acting Associate Dean for Admission and Student
Ravinder Mamtani, MD is a public health, occupational and preventive medicine physician specialist. As a professor of public health and clerkship director, Dr. Mamtani teaches and directs public health and preventive medicine courses at Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar. In his collaborative role, he participates in meetings, workshops and projects organized and sponsored by local agencies/ health institutions on issues of public importance. Prior to joining WCMC-Q in 2007, Dr. Mamtani was a professor of community and preventive medicine, and associate professor of clinical medicine at New York Medical College and an attending at Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, New York.
At New York Medical College, Dr. Mamtani developed and directed the Master of Public Health (MPH) in International Health, and Diploma in Tropical Medicine programs. Additionally, as a Principal Investigator of an NIH (National Cancer Institute) grant, he developed new curriculum on nutrition and cancer for medical students at the College (1991-95).
Dr. Mamtani is a keen teacher, educator and takes pride in his clinical and research accomplishments. His interests include developing innovative medical and public health education programs, evidence based approach to patient and chronic disease management, occupational medicine, global health, and emerging health care trends such as integrative medicine.
Dr. Mamtani is a Diplomate of the American Board of Preventive Medicine in the specialties of general preventive medicine and public health, and occupational medicine. He has written numerous articles on subjects related to public health, preventive and integrative medicine, as well delivered many lectures/ seminars on various topics in the US and abroad. As a monthly columnist (2001-2007) for a local newspaper in New York, he wrote on contemporary health issues such as vegetarian diets, health care costs, life style medicine, and mind body medicine.
Dr Mamtani serves or has served on many government, hospital and medical school committees. As a consultant member of the New York State Department of Education site-visit teams, he has had the opportunity to evaluate foreign medical schools. And service that deserves special mention is his appointment to the New York State Board of Professional Medical Conduct, and membership to its advisory committee.