Michael Steven Niederman MD

Critical Care Medicine, Pleural Disease

Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical College

425 East 61st st4th FloorNew York, NY 10065
Phone+1 646-962-2333
Fax+1 646-962-0330

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Education & Training

Yale-New Haven Medical CenterFellowship, Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine, 1980 - 1983
McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern UniversityResidency, Internal Medicine, 1977 - 1980
Boston University College of Liberal ArtsA.B, Summa Cum Laude, 1973 - 1977
Boston University School of MedicineClass of 1977

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Certifications & Licensure

FL State Medical License 2022 - Present
IL State Medical License 1978 - Present
NY State Medical License 1983 - 2027
NJ State Medical License 1983 - 2025
ME State Medical License Active through 1993
American Board of Internal Medicine Internal Medicine
American Board of Internal Medicine Critical Care Medicine
American Board of Internal Medicine Pulmonary Disease

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

CMS Meaningful Use Stage 2 Certification EpicCare Ambulatory 2014 Certified EHR Suite, Epic Systems Corporation, 2012, 2014-2017
CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification workflowEHR, Workflow.com, LLC, 2012, 2014-2017
America's Top Doctors Castle Connolly, 2002-2014

Clinical Trials

Use Of Procalcitonin Level For Guidance of The Treatment of Suspected Community Acquired Pneumonia
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Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Customizing Antibiotic Treatment for Pneumonia: Can We Have a Single Unified Algorithm for All Types of Pneumonia?
Takaya Maruyama, Michael S Niederman
Clinics in Chest Medicine. 2026-06-01
1 citations
Molecular pathways driving clarithromycin benefit in community-acquired pneumonia: analysis of the ACCESS randomised trial.
Emmanouil Stylianakis, Nikolaos Kakavoulis, Spyros Foutadakis, Panagiotis Koufargyris, George Niotis
Ebiomedicine. 2026-05-01
Severe community-acquired pneumonia: current concepts and controversies.
Pierre-François Dequin, Antoni Torres, Matteo Bassetti, Miguel Ferrer, Evangelos J Giamarellos-Bourboulis
Intensive Care Medicine. 2026-01-01

Journal Articles

A Therapeutic Strategy for All Pneumonia Patients: A 3-Year Prospective Multicenter- Cohort Study Using Risk Factors for Multidrug Resistant Pathogens to Select Initia...
Michael S Niederman, Veronica Brito, Clinical Infectious Diseases
The Research Agenda in VAP/HAP: Next Steps
Michael Niederman, MD, Intensive Care Medicine
Asthma and other severe respiratory diseases during pregnancy - recognition and management. In: Critical Care of the Obstetric Patient.
Niederman, MS, Matthay, RA, 335-366

Books/Book Chapters

Pneumoni
Chapter: Considerations for the critically ill patient
Niederman, MSParrillo & Dellinger
Current Opinion in Critical Care
Chapter: Infectious Diseases
Page 369 - 498Niederman, MS
Current Opinion In Critical Care.
Chapter: Infectious Diseases
Niederman, MS

Abstracts/Posters

Variance from standard practice guidelines in management of patients admitted with community-acquired pneumonia in a teaching hospital.
Arunabh, Niederman, MS, Fein, AM, Chest;112(3):6S.
Cost-Effectiveness of Gatifloxacin versus Ceftriaxone+/-Macrolide For the Treatment of Community-Acquired Pneumonia.
Dresser, L., Niederman, M, Paladino, J, Inter science Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
Treatment of acute exacerbations of complicated chronic bronchitis- A comparison of ciprofloxacin and clarithromycin.
Anzueto, A, Niederman, M, Haverstock, D, Tillotson, G, and the Bronchitis Study Group, 8th International Congress on Infectious Diseases Meeting, Boston, MA.

Lectures

Critical Care Medicine 2019
2019 ACP Internal Medicine Meeting, Philadelphia - 4/10/2019
Hot Topics in Internal Medicine - CME Getaways Las Vegas
CME Getaways, Las Vegas, Nevada - 9/28/2012
Nosocomial Pneumonia.
Grand Rounds, Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA.

Press Mentions

New Pneumonia Vaccine Gets CDC Nod: Should You Get It?July 19th, 2024
Hospital Acquired Sepsis: Less Common Than Community Acquired, but More LethalJune 21st, 2024
Get Your Flu Shot: It Might Shield You from Severe COVIDNovember 2nd, 2020