Neel Naik

Director of Emergency Medicine Simulation Education, Department of Emergency Medicine; Associate Medical Director, WCM/NYP Simulation Center; Simulation Fellowship Director for Emergency Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine | Assistant Attending Physician, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Dr. Neel Naik is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine and the Director of Emergency Simulation Education at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine. Dr. Naik obtained his Bachelor of Science and M.D. degrees from Northwestern University. After completing his Emergency Medicine residency and chief residency at New York University Langone Medical Center/Bellevue Hospital Center, he then pursued a simulation fellowship with a focus on curriculum design and remediation.

As the Director of Emergency Medicine Simulation, Dr. Naik has not only established the simulation education program for the NewYork-Presbyterian Emergency Medicine Residency Program, but he has also continued to develop the program for medical students, residents, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and faculty. In addition, he has led the development of the telemedicine curriculum at the Weill Cornell Medicine Center for Virtual Care and within Weill Cornell Medical School. For these innovations in telemedicine education, Dr. Naik was awarded the 2019 SAEM Simulation Innovator of the Year Award. He has spoken nationally on the topic of telemedicine education and the skills required to practice the art of telemedicine.

Selected publications

• Measuring the effect of a competency-based education conference for PAs and NPs. JAAPA : official journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants. 2019 Academic Article
• Simulation-based Remediation in Emergency Medicine Residency Training: A Consensus Study. The western journal of emergency medicine. 2018 Academic Article
• Gibson's theory of affordances and situational awareness occurring in urban departments of pediatrics, medicine, and emergency medicine. Education for health (Abingdon, England). 2018 Academic Article
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• Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging to predict response of hepatocellular carcinoma to chemoembolization. World journal of gastroenterology. 2010 Academic Article Times cited: 43
• Tumor response after yttrium-90 radioembolization for hepatocellular carcinoma: comparison of diffusion-weighted functional MR imaging with anatomic MR imaging. Journal of vascular and interventional radiology : JVIR. 2008 Academic Article Times cited: 87