Michael S. Niederman

Dr. Niederman is Clinical Director and Associate Chief in the division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, at Weill Cornell Medical Center, and Professor of Clinical Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College. Dr. Niederman previously was Professor of Medicine and Vice-Chairman of the Department of Medicine at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Winthrop-University Hospital in Mineola, for 16 years. He erved for 6 years as a member of the Board of Regents of the American College of Chest Physicians and in 2013 was elected as a Master of the American College of Physicians. Dr. Niederman is Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Pulmonary Medicine and serves on the editorial boards of Critical Care Medicine, Intensive Care Medicine, Critical Care and Chest. Dr. Niederman holds expertise in respiratory tract infections, mechanisms of airway colonization, the management of community and hospital-acquired pneumonia, the role of guidelines for pneumonia, and the impact of antibiotic resistance on the management and outcomes of respiratory tract infections. Dr. Niederman has published over 400 peer-reviewed or review articles, and has lectured widely, both nationally and internationally. Dr. Niederman previously served as co-chairman of the committees that created the American Thoracic Society 1993 and 2001 guidelines for the treatment of community-acquired pneumonia and the 1996 and 2005 committees that wrote guidelines for the treatment of nosocomial pneumonia.