Dr. Eva Andersson-Dubin is a Swedish-American internal medicine specialist and philanthropist. She is the founder of the Tisch Cancer Institute’s Dubin Breast Center at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. Since its establishment in 2011, Eva has worked alongside the Center’s staff, to provide comprehensive, high quality and compassionate care to breast cancer patients from diagnosis through recovery.
Eva has served on the Mount Sinai Medical Center Board of Directors since 2014. She is also on the Medical Advisory Board of the Breast Cancer Alliance, a private foundation that aims to improve survival rates by strategically investing in breast cancer research and education programs. Eva has also held board positions with the Michael J. Fox Foundation, the Alliance for Lupus Research, the Friends of the Karolinska and the Trinity School of New York.
Originally from Uddevalla, Sweden, Eva was the first person in her family to attend university, earning a bachelor’s degree in science and graduating at the top of her class. Intent on pursuing a career in medicine from a young age, she worked as a model to fund her medical studies. After being named Miss Sweden in 1980, she served as a global cultural ambassador.
Eva attended the Karolinska Institutet medical university in Stockholm, as well as UCLA’s School of Medicine, earning her M.D. in 1989. She completed the Lenox Hill Hospital medical residency program and obtained a board certification in internal medicine in 1993. She then served as an in-house physician at NBCUniversal for 18 years, specializing in internal medicine. A breast cancer survivor herself, Eva is a passionate advocate and supporter of innovative approaches to breast cancer research and treatment.
In recognition of her contributions, Eva received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Mount Sinai in 2013. In 2019 Crain’s New York recognized Eva as a Notable Woman in Healthcare for her efforts in pioneering a holistic approach to breast cancer patient care. In a 2020 ceremony, Mount Sinai honored Eva’s decade of leadership at the Dubin Breast Center, where the hospital’s President & CEO, Dr. Kenneth Davis, heralded the Center’s accomplishments, as “nothing less than extraordinary.”