Davis, Samuel

Samuel Davis was born on September 30, 1931. He grew up in Washington Heights in New York City. Davis earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology and Economics from the City College of New York, completed post-graduate work in Accounting and Personnel Administration at Baruch College, and received his Master of Science degree in Hospital Administration from Columbia University. He began working in hospitals in 1949. Davis served in the U.S. Army from 1952-1954. He was Executive President of Mount Sinai Hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Executive Vice President of Hillside Hospital in Queens, New York.

Davis served as Director of the Mount Sinai Hospital from 1975-1981 and President of the Mount Sinai Hospital from 1981-1984. During this period, Davis also served as Senior Vice President (1975-1977) and Executive Vice President (1978-1984) of the Mount Sinai Medical Center. He was an Associate Professor and Acting Chairman of Administrative Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, where, in 1980, he became the second Edmond A. Guggenheim Professor in Administrative Medicine, succeeding Dr. S. David Pomrinse.

When Davis left Mount Sinai in 1984, he became President of the healthcare complex EcuMed. He died on November 5, 2017.

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