Jacob Rand, MD

Dr. Rand serves as Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College with a corresponding appointment as Attending Physician at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. Dr. Rand is an internationally recognized hematologist with clinical expertise in the areas of non-malignant (benign/classical) hematology and blood coagulation. He also has a special interest in the diagnosis and treatment of the autoimmune hypercoagulable disorder known as the antiphospholipid syndrome (APS).Dr. Rand received his Medical Degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Subsequently, he completed a year of residency training in Pathology at Montefiore Hospital that was followed by completion of residency training in Internal Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center. He then returned to Montefiore Hospital to pursue a fellowship in Hematology which included a National Institutes of Health training grant in research. That was followed by post-fellowship clinical research training as an American Heart Association Clinician-Scientist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Mount Sinai Medical Center.He was subsequently appointed to the faculty of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine where he rose from Instructor to Professor of Medicine, with an additional appointment as Professor of Pathology, along with appointments as Director, Thrombosis and Hemostasis Section of Hematology Division at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.In 2003, Dr. Rand was recruited to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine where he was appointed Professor of Pathology, with Medicine with joint appointments in the Department of Medicine and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Women's Health. There, he also served as Director of the Hematology, Advanced Coagulation, and Protein Separation Laboratories and as Principal Investigator of National Institutes of Health and Department of Defense research grants.Recruited to Weill Cornell Medicine and New York-Presbyterian Hospital in 2014, for more than a decade Dr. Rand served as Vice Chair for Laboratory Medicine and Director of the Clinical Laboratories and Vice Chair for Lower Manhattan Hospital.He has published over 100 papers in peer-reviewed medical and scientific journals. Dr. Rand has also contributed multiple chapters in the major textbooks of Hematology, Thrombosis and Hemostasis, Laboratory Medicine, Cancer Medicine, and Obstetrics and review articles in medical journals. He has served as a reviewer for hundreds of manuscripts in medical and scientific journals.