Dr. Joan Cangiarella, MD is the Senior Associate Dean for Education, Faculty and Academic Affairs at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, Director of the Accelerated Three-Year MD Pathway, Vice-Chair for Clinical Operations and Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology. As Senior Associate Dean for Education, Faculty and Academic Affairs, Dr. Cangiarella oversees faculty appointments, promotions, and tenure at NYU Grossman School of Medicine.

Dr. Cangiarella leads the Accelerated Three-Year MD Pathway and was a co-Principal Investigator for the Josiah Macy Foundation grant that created the Consortium of Medical Schools with Accelerated Pathway Programs (CAMPP). In this role, she leads a group of now 30 medical schools with three-year MD programs to establish best practices, assess outcomes of accelerated pathway programs and provide guidance to institutions considering the development of an accelerated pathway program. She has lectured nationally at the American Association of Medical Colleges meeting and at the Beyond Flexner Conference on Three-Year MD programs. She has also served as a content expert to medical schools considering the development of an accelerated medical pathway program. She was lead author on several recently published articles in Academic Medicine related to Accelerated Three Year MD Pathway programs.

In her Vice-Chair of Clinical Operations in the Department of Pathology she manages the anatomic and clinical laboratories at NYU-Langone Health. She has research interests in breast pathology and cytopathology and has authored over 120 papers, 17 book chapters and edited the book "Breast Cytohistology".