Andrew W. Litt, M.D.
Executive Vice President and Vice Dean, Chief of Staff
Dr. Andrew W. Litt, Executive Vice President and Vice Dean, Chief of Staff, was previously Vice Chair for Financial Affairs in the Department of Radiology. He was significantly responsible for the fantastic economic success of the department, tripling its revenues over the last six years. He also substantially grew the scope and size of the radiology clinical practice by improving its marketing and service, and adding multiple additional imaging sites. Dr. Litt also has extensive experience in the managed care and health policy arenas, negotiating all of the department’s managed care contracts over the last 10 years and developing new programs with the payors. He was the department’s leader in the negotiation of the strategic alliance with Siemens Medical Solutions, a complex, highly successful relationship that has brought and will continue to bring substantial value to NYU Langone Medical Center.
Dr. Litt has played an important role in radiology socioeconomic policy development on the national scale. For the last ten years, he has served on the Executive Committee of the American Society of Neuroradiology and as a member of the society’s Clinical Practice Committee. He has been the society’s delegate to the American Medical Association House of Delegates for over 10 years where he was active in addressing crucial issues in healthcare, from developing coherent scientific policy, to creating fundamental educational principles, to tackling the economic problems that threaten the health system in general and academic medicine in particular. A Fellow of the American College of Radiology, he also has served on multiple national committees for that organization and the Radiological Society of North America.
Dr. Litt was a magna cum laude graduate of Brown University and a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Honors Society. He has been at NYU Langone Medical Center for 28 years, as a medical student, intern, resident, fellow and attending. He has served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Attending Association since 1998. He is a member of NYU’s Alpha Omega Alpha honor society and is a Fellow of the American College of Radiology.
Dr. Litt has an extensive research background in neuroradiology and was the first to compare magnetic resonance angiography of the extracranial carotid arteries with conventional catheter angiography. A former Associate Editor of Radiology, he has also written in the field of health policy and magnetic resonance imaging techniques.
