Joshua Lipsman, MD, JD, MPH
Commissioner of Health, Westchester County

Joshua Lipsman, M.D., J.D., M.P.H., was appointed by County Executive Andy Spano as Commissioner of Health for Westchester County in May 2000.  Prior to that, Dr. Lipsman was Executive Director of Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC) in Manhattan in 1999, and prior to that, for seven and a half years he led the Alexandria, Virginia, department of health.  He previously was the medical director and administrator of the city’s system of public health clinics in Houston, Texas, and a staff physician and community health director on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation in South Dakota.

Dr. Lipsman received his M.D. degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, and completed a family medicine residency at the St. Paul-Ramsey Medical Center in Minnesota.  He holds an M.P.H. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Public Health and the J.D. from Pace Law School in White Plains, NY.  He is board certified in public health and general preventive medicine.  Dr. Lipsman is a trustee of the American Board of Preventive Medicine.