Education

Dr. Daniel Fein completed a medical degree at NYU School of Medicine and an internal medicine residency at Boston University Medical Center. Following residency, he spent five months serving as medical director of the Hillside Health Care Center in Toledo, Belize, and completed fellowship training in pulmonary and critical care at Mount Sinai Beth Israel.

Administrative

Dr. Fein is the director of inpatient pulmonary services for Montefiore Medical Center and the director of the medical and surgical intensive care unit at Montefiore Wakefield where he also serves as the site director for both pulmonary and critical care. Between 2019 and 2022 Dr. Fein served as  the web director for the critical care assembly of the American Thoracic Society.  

Clinical Specialties

• Emergency airway management 
• Ventilator management
• Thoracic point of care critical care ultrasound 
• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

A. Original Communications in Reviewed Journals

Apter A, Cheng J, Small D, Bennett I, Albert C, Fein D, George M, Van Horne S. Asthma Numeracy Skill and Health Literacy. Journal of Asthma 2006;43:705-710. 

Walkey A, Fein D, Horbowicz K, Farber H. Differential Response to Intravenous Prostacyclin Analog Therapy in Patients with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. Pulmonary Pharmacology and Therapeutics 2011;24:421-5.

Sampat D, Filopei J, Rao P, Fein D, Acquah S. Full circle: Extranodal marginal zone B-cell lymphoma of the trachea. Lung Cancer. 2017 Sep;111:12-14.

Hsieh SJ, Otusanya O, Gershengorn HB, Hope AA, Dayton C, Levi D, Garcia M, Prince D, Mills M, Fein D, Colman S, Gong MN. Staged Implementation of Awakening and Breathing, Coordination, Delirium Monitoring and Management, and Early Mobilization Bundle Improves Patient Outcomes and Reduces Hospital Costs. Crit Care Med. 2019 Apr;1047:885-893.

Archontakis P, Palaiodimos L, Fleitas Sosa D, Benes L, Gulani P, Fein D. Combination of low-dose glucocorticosteroids and mineralocorticoids as adjunct therapy for adult patients with septic shock: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized trials and observational studies. Avicenna J Med 2019;9:134-42.

Fein DG, Eisen LA. Video Body Cameras Bridge the Gap Between Simulation and Patient Care During Emergency Airway Management. Chest 2020;158:24-5.

Chua A, Murphy C, Hameed S, Weston G, Abramowitz M, Gershengorn H, Fein DG. Inferior vena cava filters do not increase the risk of bloodstream infections in patients with newly diagnosed VTE. Am J Infect Control. 2020: 10.1016/j.ajic.2020.05.029. [Epub ahead of print]

Kim Y, Dym AA, Yang K, Fein DG, et al. The Effect of Numbered Jerseys on Directed Commands, Teamwork, and Clinical Performance During Simulated Emergencies. J Healthc Qual 2021;43:24-31.

Fein DG, Mastroianni F, Murphy CG, et al. Impact of a Critical Care Specialist Intervention on First Pass Success for Emergency Airway Management Outside the ICU. Journal of Intensive Care Medicine 2021;36:80-8.

Fein DG, Zhao D, Swartz K, et al. The Impact of Nighttime on First Pass Success During the Emergent Endotracheal Intubation of Critically Ill Patients. Journal of Intensive Care Medicine 2021;36:1498-506.

Goligher EC, Bradbury CA, McVerry BJ, et al. (collaborator) Therapeutic Anticoagulation with Heparin in Critically Ill Patients with Covid-19. The New England Journal of Medicine 2021;385:777-89.

Lawler PR, Goligher EC, Berger JS, et al. (collaborator) Therapeutic Anticoagulation with Heparin in Noncritically Ill Patients with Covid-19. The New England Journal of Medicine 2021;385:790-802.

Keene AB, Shiloh AL, Eisen L, Berger J, Karwa M, Fein D, Orsi D, Gong M. 

et al. Critical Care Surge During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Implementation and Feedback From Frontline Providers. Journal of Intensive Care Medicine 2021;36:233-40.

Russotto V, Myatra SN, Laffey JG, et al. (site principle investigator) Intubation Practices and Adverse Peri-intubation Events in Critically Ill Patients From 29 Countries. JAMA 2021;325:1164-72.

Nauka PC, Chen JT, Shiloh AL, Eisen LA, Fein DG. Practice, Outcomes, and Complications of Emergent Endotracheal Intubation by Critical Care Practitioners During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Chest 2021;160:2112-22.

B. Books, Chapters in Books and Review Articles 

Fein D, Tofts R, Kory P. Thoracic Ultrasound Image Acquisition. Point-of-Care Ultrasound. Soni N, Arntfield R, Kory P. Saunders; 2014. 

Fein D, Verzosa S, Walker P. Cystic Lung Disease. Pulmonary Disease Examination and Board Review. Go R. McGraw Hill; 2016. 

Fein D, Verzosa S, Walker P. Bronchiectasis. Pulmonary Disease Examination and Board Review. Go R. McGraw Hill; 2016.

Fein DG, Zaidi AN, Sulica R. Pulmonary Hypertension Due to Common Respiratory Conditions: Classification, Evaluation and Management Strategies. Journal of Clinical Medicine 2016;26;5:9. 

Fein D, Abbasi M. Thoracic Ultrasound Image Acquisition. Point-of-Care Ultrasound, second edition. Soni N, Arntfield R, Kory P. Saunders; 2019.

Douglas IS, Bednash JS, Fein DG, Mallampalli RK, Mansoori J, Gershengorn HB. Update in Critical Care / ARDS 2018. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2019 Jun; 199:1335-1343. 

Islam M, Levitus M, Eisen L, Shiloh AL, Fein D. Lung Ultrasound for the Diagnosis and Management of Acute Respiratory Failure. Lung 2020. [Epub ahead of print]