Dr. Lisa S. Coico

PRESIDENT OF THE CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK

Dr. Lisa Staiano-Coico, a nationally prominent educator and researcher in microbiology and immunology, is the 12th President of The City College, founded in 1847 as New York City first public institution of higher education, The Free Academy. President Coico came to City College from Temple University, where as Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs, and Professor of Surgery, where she was responsible for 17 schools and colleges, including campuses in Tokyo and Rome; its undergraduate, graduate and professional programs, and a budget of more than $600 million. She has also served as executive director of the Tri-Institutional Research Program, a $160 million research consortium of Cornell University, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Rockefeller University. She has held senior academic and administrative leadership positions at Cornell Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College in New York City, and professorships in microbiology in surgery, microbiology in dermatology, and public health.

A native of Brooklyn, President Coico earned a B.S. with honors in biology from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York in 1976, and is the first CUNY alumna to serve as president of City College. Dr. Coico currently researches alcohol and drug abuse prevention among traditional college-aged students. Recent publications include mpact of an Online Alcohol Education Course on Behavior and Harm for Incoming First-Year College Students: Short-Term Evaluation of a Randomized Trial?in the Journal of American College Health.