Career Profile:
. Clinical practice as an Internist, Pulmonologist and Critical
Care specialist
. Current and past experience includes critical care intensivist
in medical, surgical, cardiac, cardiothoracic & neurologic
intensive care units and as a pulmonologist. Team leader of
medical residents, nurses and physician assistants; medical
director, medical education. Medical Advisory Boards: Gerson
Lehman and Medefield
. I am a devoted team player; my strength is leading, managing and
organizing the team I am working with.
Staff Positions:
Somerset Medical Center : Somerville, N.J.
8/2011 - current
Associate medical attending, medical intensivist
Pulmonary & critical care medicine
Staten Island University Hospital: S.I., N.Y.
2/2001 - current
Associate medical attending, pulmonary & critical care medicine, and
cardiothoracic surgical intensivist: Management of peri-operative
cardiothoracic surgical and medical
Intensive care unit patients
. Teaching and leading a large team of nurses, physicians-
assistants and medical residents
. Pulmonary-Critical Care consultant
New York Community Hospital: Brooklyn, N.Y. 4/1997 -
current.
Associate medical attending
Medical, cardiac & surgical intensive care unit intensivist, pulmonary
consultant
Mitchell L. Horowitz,
MD
Previous Affiliations
JFK Medical Center: Edison, NJ 1993 -
2001
St. Peters Medical Center: New Brunswick, NJ
2005 - 2007
Robert Wood Johnson Medical Center : New Brunswick, NJ
2005 - 2007
Medical Training:
Critical Care fellowship and Clinical Instructor of Medicine
7/92 - 7/93
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Winthrop University Hospital
Pulmonary Fellowship 7/90 -
7/92
Cornell University Medical Center
North Shore University Hospital
Internal Medicine Internship & Residency
7/87 - 7/90
State University of New York Downstate, Brooklyn, NY
Maimonides Medical Center
Medical School:
State University of New York Health Science Center at Downstate.
7/86 - 7/87
Fifth Pathway
University of Noreste: Tampico, Tams, Mexico 8/82 -
7/86
College:
State University of New York at Buffalo 9/78 -
9/81 Brooklyn College
9/77 - 7/78
Medical Licenses:
New York 1988 & New Jersey1993.
Mitchell L. Horowitz,
MD
Lectures/Publications:
. Morbidity & Mortality Conference, North Shore University Hospital
Diagnosis and Treatment of Massive Pulmonary Embolism
. State of the Art in the Diagnosis and Treatment Asthma.
. Diagnosis and Treatment of Pneumothorax for ACLS
. Pulmonary Grand Rounds, North Shore University Hospital.
Etiology of Respiratory Failure & Diaphragmatic Dysfunction Post
Cardiothoracic Surgery
. Pneumocystis carinii Pleural effusion: Pathogenesis and Pleural Fluid
Analysis:
American Review of Respiratory Disease July, 1993
. Delayed Onset Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome from Babesosis:
Chest, 1994
Research:
. Deep Venous Thrombosis Prevention after cardiothoracic surgery:
Heparin vs. Placebo
. Atrial Fibrillation Prevention after Cardiothoracic Surgery:
Amiodarone vs. Pronestyl
. Effects of Leukotriene Antagonist in the Treatment of Asthma:
Singulair by Merck
. Aerosolized rhDNA-ase for the Treatment of Chronic Bronchitis,
Pulmozyme: Roche
. Rescue Bed for the Treatment of Nosocomial Pneumonia
. Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF) Antibody for the Treatment of Sepsis:
Centocor
. Human Recombinant Interleukin-1 Antagonist for the Treatment of
Sepsis: Cortec
Certification:
Board certified Internal Medicine: 1991
Board certified Critical Care Medicine: 2002
Board certified Pulmonary Medicine: 2006
Advanced Cardiac Life Support Instructor (ACLS) since 1997
Extracurricular Activities
Biomedical Ventures: A home based entrepreneurial hobby which searches for
early phase biotechnology, medical devices and diagnostics that have
potential for clinical use
Sports, particularly golf & softball.