Steven Mankowitz Horwitz MD

Summary

• Dr. Steven Horwitz is a board-certified pediatric intensivist and healthcare executive serving as Pediatric Medical Director and Pediatric Service Line Director of Integration at RWJBarnabas Health, one of New Jersey's largest academic health systems. In these roles, he oversees pediatric clinical programs across a 12-hospital network anchored by Bristol-Myers Squibb Children's Hospital at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick. He also serves as Medical Director of the Pediatric Transport Service, directing interfacility critical care transport operations throughout the region.
  Dr. Horwitz holds a joint appointment as Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Critical Care at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, where he contributes to clinical education and faculty development. His administrative portfolio spans pediatric service line strategy, quality and safety program development, regional care coordination, and system-wide integration initiatives — including telehealth subspecialty consult services, pediatric stroke program development, and ED-to-ED transfer pathway optimization.
  
  His clinical work is focused in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Bristol-Myers Squibb Children's Hospital, where he manages critically ill infants and children across a broad spectrum of medical and surgical diagnoses. He has particular interests in pediatric sepsis, transport medicine, and pediatric systems of care.
  
  Dr. Horwitz has contributed to the peer-reviewed literature on pediatric critical illness, with publications in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and JAMA Neurology, including work on COVID-19 outcomes in critically ill children and adolescents. His scholarly interests align with his systems-level work — focusing on care coordination, outcomes improvement, and regional access to pediatric subspecialty care.