Dr. Neal Flomenbaum, a leading expert in emergency medicine and clinical toxicology, has been named emergency physician-in-chief at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center.
As head of emergency medicine at the medical center, Flomenbaum is responsible for the medical center's emergency programs, urgent-care center and the emergency ambulance services based at the hospital.
Flomenbaum was most recently chairman of emergency medicine at the Long Island College Hospital and associate professor of clinical medicine at the State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn.
From 1979 to 1987, Flomenbaum was an assistant professor of clinical medicine at NYU and served as a teaching attending physician on the internal medicine service at both Bellevue and NYU hospitals. Flomenbaum also served as director or co-director for two dozen NYU post-graduate medical courses in emergency medicine and clinical toxicology.
Between 1983 and 1985, Flomenbaum was chairman of the Medical Advisory Committee for New York City's emergency medical service.
Flomenbaum has co-authored over 20 review papers and several peer-reviewed clinical research papers. He has contributed to medical textbooks on toxicology, diagnostic testing and emergency medicine.
Flomenbaum earned his A.B. degree at Columbia College and is an Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) graduate of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
He completed his internal medicine residency at Jacobi Medical Center and afterward served as associate director of emergency services at Bronx Municipal Hospital Center (1977-79).