Francesca M. Gany, MD, MS
Francesca M. Gany, MD, MS, Chief of the Immigrant Health and Cancer Disparities Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, was awarded a 2022 Excellence in Health Care Award by the United Hospital Fund. The award was established in 2019 to honor extraordinary personal leadership to improve quality of care, patient safety, and patient experience. Honorees are selected for their vision and accomplishments by participating hospital systems, long-term care facilities, home care organizations, independent practice associations, and federally qualified health centers from across the greater New York metropolitan region.
Dr. Gany is Chief of the Immigrant Health and Cancer Disparities Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering, Director of the Center for Immigrant Health and Cancer Disparities, and Director of the community-based participatory South Asian Health Initiative. She works to bridge immigrants, minority community members, and the medically underserved with the health-care system, and to eliminate health disparities. Her groundbreaking work has led to an improvement in health outcomes and to the development of long-term clinical, health policy, and programmatic changes.
Prior to joining Memorial Sloan Kettering, Dr. Gany was Founder and Director of the Center for Immigrant Health at the New York University School of Medicine; of the NYU Cancer Institute CORE Center (Cancer Outreach, Outcomes and Research for Equity); and of the Health Promotion, Disease Prevention, and Human Migration concentration in the New York University Global Masters of Public Health program. She has served as the Principal Investigator on a number of pioneering immigrant health studies in the areas of cancer, language access and cultural competence, technology and immigrant health, health-care access, and cardiovascular disease.
The United Hospital Fund was founded by hospital trustees and other interested New Yorkers in 1879 as an innovative approach to organizing charitable support for voluntary, nonprofit hospitals in New York City and to help solve shared problems.
