Nathan Zapolsky, MD, FACEP

Nathan Zapolsky is the Assistant Medical Director and Trauma Liaison at Maimonides, and an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine with academic appointments at Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine and the SUNY Downstate College of Medicine. Dr. Zapolsky is former ED Director of Simulation at Staten Island University Hospital. He majored in Philosophy, Ethics and Public Policy from George Washington University, earned his MD from University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, and completed residency at Mount Sinai Beth Israel. His primary clinical, simulation, and research concentrations have been on integrating residency education and ED operations, with a focus on airway management, post cardiac arrest medicine and ethics, physician finance, and reproductive health justice.

Selected Scholarly Activity:

Zapolsky N, Wong V, Thiel S, Garrido J, Motov S. "Survival and Characteristics of Elderly Patients with Cardiac Arrest in the Field Surviving to Emergency Department Care or Arresting in the Emergency Department: A Single Center Retrospective Study." Maimonides Evening of Research. May 2023

Zapolsky N, Frisch S, Cardell A, Desai R, Jobeun N, Novak D, Chung A. “Teaching New Tricks: An Educational Intervention on Resident Documentation for the New 2023 Coding Requirements” Pub. Academic Emergency Medicine (AEM). 2023 May.

Kaminsky J, Greenstein J, Livshitz D, Friedlander A, Sokup B, Jones M, Fombonne B, Vigh N, Warshaw D, Hardin J, Sumner B, Khalid W, Mastanduono A, Zapolsky N, McLean M, Steinberg E, Curato M, Jeong J, Jones M, Kanter M, Santiago L, Zapata L, Husain A.   “Perspectives in Post-Pandemic Employment for Emergency Medicine Trainees.” The Best of: Research Abstracts 2022, CORD. 2022 Mar.

Shin-Kim J, Zapolsky N, Wan E, Steinberg E, Heller M, Jacoby JL. Left ventricular perforation with catheter decompression. Am J Emerg Med. 2019 Feb;37(2):377.e5-377.e6. doi: 10.1016/j.ajem.2018.10.055. Epub 2018 Oct 26. PMID: 30413368.

Dreisinger, N., & Zapolsky, N. (2018). Complexities of consent: Ethics in the pediatric emergency department. Pediatric Emergency Care, 34(4), 288-290.

Zapolsky N, Zapolsky IJ, Lim CA. Point-of-Care Ultrasound Diagnosis of Multiple Mandibular Fractures in an Adolescent Presenting to the Pediatric Emergency Department. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2017 Sep;33(9):652-653. doi: 10.1097/PEC.0000000000001253. PMID: 28763407.

Dreisinger N, Zapolsky N. Ethics in the Pediatric Emergency Department: When Mistakes Happen: An Approach to the Process, Evaluation, and Response to Medical Errors. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2017 Feb;33(2):128-131. doi: 10.1097/PEC.0000000000001004. PMID: 28141771.

Wan EE, Zapolsky N, Nembhard N, Rose J, Heller M, Hsu C. Platypnea-orthodeoxia syndrome: a simple clinical observation that heralds critical but treatable disease. Am J Emerg Med. 2016 Oct;34(10):2053.e3-2053.e4. doi: 10.1016/j.ajem.2016.03.011. Epub 2016 Mar 5. PMID: 27037131.

Zapolsky N, Heller M, Felberbaum M, Rose J, Steinberg E. Calcific Tendonitis of the Longus Colli: An Uncommon but Benign Cause of Throat Pain that Closely Mimics Retropharyngeal Abscess. J Emerg Med. 2017 Mar;52(3):358-360. doi: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2016.08.016. Epub 2016 Oct 17. PMID: 27765436.

Krieger P, Zapolsky N, Lowery SJ. A case of severe rhabdomyolysis with minor trauma: Is sickle cell trait to blame? Am J Emerg Med. 2016 Feb;34(2):341.e3-4. doi: 10.1016/j.ajem.2015.06.035. Epub 2015 Jun 18. PMID: 26259920.