Bernard A. Birnbaum, M.D.

Senior Vice President and Vice Dean, Chief of Hospital Operations

Dr. Bernard A. Birnbaum, Senior Vice President and Vice Dean, Chief of Hospital Operations, was previously Vice-Chair of Clinical Affairs and Operations, and Chief of Service of the Department of Radiology. A practicing abdominal radiologist and CT expert, Dr. Birnbaum is a Fellow of the Society of Computed Body Tomography and Magnetic Resonance and recipient of this society’s prestigious Hounsfield Award for his research on CT reconstruction algorithms. Dr. Birnbaum is a former Associate Editor of Radiology, the premier imaging journal, and has authored over 80 peer-reviewed research publications, reviews and chapters, and the textbook, Clinical Imaging of the Small Intestine. During his six-year tenure as Vice Chair, he was responsible for radiology clinical operations and workflow enhancement, faculty recruitment and credentialing, policy development and implementation, quality improvement and compliance, and oversight of the department’s strategic planning initiatives.

Dr. Birnbaum also previously held the position of Vice Chair of the Executive Committee of the Medical Board of NYU Hospitals Center, actively serving on many patient care, clinical safety and operational steering committees. He has served as Co-Chair of the Service Standards Campaign and Oversight Committee since 2003. He is a passionate advocate of professional learning and development, and is the program director and physician leader of NYU Langone Medical Center’s Physician Leadership Development Program. Dr. Birnbaum co-chaired the PACS (Picture Archiving and Communications System) Steering Committee and was responsible for overseeing the successful installation and deployment of PACS throughout the institution.

Dr. Birnbaum received his B.A. in biology, Phi Beta Kappa, from Brown University, and his M.D. from the NYU School of Medicine in 1983, where he was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha. He completed his medicine internship at New York Hospital in 1984, and his radiology residency and abdominal imaging fellowship at NYU from 1984 to 1988. He was a member of the NYU Department of Radiology faculty from 1988 until 1993, when he left to become the Chief of Computed Tomography at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He returned to NYU in 2001 to assume his prior role in Radiology.