Richard Amerling

Dr. Amerling is a native New Yorker. He graduated Stuyvesant High School, City College of New York, then earned his medical degree at the Catholic University of Louvain in Brussels, Belgium in 1981.

Dr. Amerling completed his Internship and Residency in Internal Medicine, at New York Hospital, Queens in 1986. In 1988 he completed a Nephrology Fellowship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and holds board certification in Internal Medicine and Nephrology.

He is Past-President of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons.

Dr. Amerling’s work has been published as chapters in textbooks and in peer-reviewed medical journals. He has published numerous op-Eds and letters on health care economics and politics.

From 1990-2016 Dr. Amerling was on staff at the Beth Israel Medical Center (now Mount Sinai Beth Israel).

In October 2016, Dr. Amerling accepted a position as Professor at St. George’s University School of Medicine in Grenada. From April-August 2020, after SGU went to online teaching, he volunteered as a nephrologist at NYU/Bellevue to help with their acute dialysis program. In July 2021, Dr. Amerling was placed on administrative leave by SGU for non-compliance with their vaccine mandate, and ultimately terminated in January 2022.

He is a founding member and Principal Academic Officer of The Wellness Company.