Amy Tiersten is a Professor of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She is the Clinical Director of Breast Medical Oncology at Mount Sinai. Dr. Tiersten graduated from NYU School of Medicine in 1990, completed her internal medicine residency at Mount Sinai in 1993 and completed a fellowship in hematology and oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in 1996. Since that time she has specialized in breast and gynecologic malignancies at academic centers in NYC (Columbia 1996-2003, NYU 2003-2013, Mount Sinai 2013 to present). She has a very active clinical practice, has been the Principal Investigators of a large number of trials and has a long history of interest in teaching, having received teaching awards at all 3 institutions.