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Dr. Halpern graduated from The Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City in 1981. He trained in Internal Medicine at Mount Sinai and then completed a Critical Care Medicine Fellowship at Presbyterian University Hospital of Pittsburg, PA. In 1985 he became the Director of Surgical Critical Care and Surgical Stat Lab at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Bronx, NY and was a member of the faculty at The Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He subsequently became the Patient Care Center Director for all Critical Care services. At the VA, Dr. Halpern constructed a remote wireless computerized cart and developed a computerized physician order entry system years before it gained its current popularity. In 1999, Dr. Halpern became Chief of Critical Care Medicine and Medical Director of Respiratory Therapy at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York City as well as Professor of Clinical Medicine and Professor of Medicine in Clinical Anesthesiology at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University. At MSKCC, Dr. Halpern has continued to pursue his interests in the national administrative aspects of critical care medicine and has published articles that deal with the use and cost of critical care in the USA. He oversees a CCM fellowship training program, has designed and implemented software to streamline care of the critically ill and helps guide major technology initiatives at MSKCC. Besides authoring over 50 articles on various critical care related topics and speaking nationally, Dr. Halpern has a special interest in Point of Care laboratory testing and is a Member of the Medical Advisory Board of Instrumentation Laboratories, Lexington, MA. He also is interested in wireless communication and serves as a member of the Medical Advisory Board of Cardiopulmonary Corp. of Milford, CT. | 