Neil Halpern, MD graduated from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York City, in 1977. He then completed postgraduate training in Internal Medicine at the Mount Sinai Medical Center and in Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Presbyterian. He is board certified in internal medicine and critical care medicine.
Since 1999, Dr. Halpern has been Attending Physician in Critical Care Medicine, Chief of Critical Care Medicine Service and Medical Director of Respiratory Therapy at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. In this capacity, he chaired the multidisciplinary ICU Design Committee that developed the plan and monitored the construction of Memorial’s new 20-bed medical-surgical adult ICU that opened in April 2007. This ICU was the winner of the 2009 ICU Design Citation, an award co-sponsored by the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), the American Institute of Architecture (AIA) Healthcare Division and the American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN).
Prior to coming to Memorial, Dr. Halpern was the director of the surgical ICU and then facility wide critical care director at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bronx, NY. In that capacity, he directed the renovation of an 8-bed Surgical ICU in 1995 and the design of a 20-bed medical-surgical adult ICU in 1998-1999.