Attending Physician Pediatric Critical Care and Emergency Medicine
New York Presbyterian Hospital - Weill Cornell Medical Center
New York
Robert Finkelstein, M.D.,C.M. is Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine, New York City. He is Assistant Attending Physician in Pediatric Critical Care and Emergency and the Associate Pediatric Trauma Medical Director at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Komansky Center.
He received his medical degree from McGill University Faculty of Medicine, completed pediatric residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital/Yale University, fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard, and fellowship in Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Boston Medical Center/Boston University. He is board certified in General Pediatrics, Pediatric Critical Care, and Pediatric Emergency Medicine.
Dr. Finkelstein regularly provides virtual urgent care for children, and did so for adults of all ages during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, and co-developed a curriculum on ventilator management for non-intensivists using tele simulation.
He directs the multi-disciplinary pediatric trauma simulations at NewYork-Presbyterian and is Master Faculty for the Trauma In Kids (TRIK) course through the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons (Canada), and directed the first TRIK course in NYC. He serves on the Pediatric Trauma Society Guidelines Committee developing national guidelines for cervical spine trauma and massive hemorrhage and was a site principal investigator for the NIH funded multi-center prospective study on Life-Threatening Bleeding in Children.
He is on the Pediatric Subcommittee of the NY State Trauma Advisory Committee and a member of the NYC Medical Reserve Corps and NYC Pediatric Disaster Coalition serving on the Pediatric Intensivist Response Team and Clinical Advisory Group.
He teaches at the annual Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellow Base Camp, the NYC Pediatric Residency Simulation Olympics, the NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Protected Airway and Transition to Residency courses. He also teaches point of care ultrasound to medical students, fellows and physician assistants and procedural and resuscitation skills to incoming and rising pediatric residents.
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Wednesday, April 20, 2022
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM US CST