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Oleg Epelbaum, M.D., joined the faculty at New York Medical College in 2016 and, since 2020, has served as program director of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship at Westchester Medical Center (WMC). Prior to his arrival at NYMC/WMC, Dr. Epelbaum spent over five years as faculty at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
He has been an active member of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) and of the American College of Chest Physicians, including as chair and speaker at multiple sessions at ATS and CHEST annual conferences and as co-author of several clinical practice guideline documents. He is also a past president of the New York State Thoracic Society. His published work has appeared in such high-impact specialty journals as The American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, The Annals of the American Thoracic Society, CHEST, and Intensive Care Medicine. He regularly contributes editorial and reviewer services to a number of prominent journals in his field.
Dr. Epelbaum is clinically active across a broad range of academic practice in pulmonary and critical care medicine with a focus on infections, diagnostic bronchoscopy, pleural diseases, and ARDS. He has been a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society since medical school and is perennially listed as a Top Doctor in Pulmonology by both New York Magazine and Westchester Magazine.
Education
- Fellowship, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, The Mount Sinai Hospital
- Residency, Internal Medicine, The Mount Sinai Hospital
- M.D., Cum Laude, State University of New York Downstate College of Medicine
- B.A., Judaic Studies, Magna Cum Laude, City University of New York, Brooklyn
Areas of Expertise
- Fungal Infections in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
- Diagnostic Bronchoscopy
- Pleural Disease
- Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)
Honors and Awards
- Top Doctors: New York Magazine, 2024
- Top Doctors: Westchester Magazine, 2024
- Housestaff Faculty Teaching Award, Westchester Medical Center/New York Medical College, 2018
- Housestaff Faculty Teaching Award, Elmhurst Hospital Center/Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 2013
Publications
- Al-Bermani T, Sabang R, Epelbaum O, et. al. "Chylothorax complicating extrathoracic sarcoidosis." Respiratory medicine case reports, 56(), (2025) 102230. doi: 10.1016/j.rmcr.2025.102230
- Huang L, Pradhan T, Epelbaum O, et. al. "Hemothorax resulting from hemorrhagic degeneration of giant uterine leiomyomata: A rare variant of pseudo-Meigs' syndrome." Respiratory medicine case reports, 55(), (2025) 102207. doi: 10.1016/j.rmcr.2025.102207
- Epelbaum O, Marinelli T, Pennington KM, et. al. "Reply to Martin-Loeches and Rodriguez: Clinical Guidelines: Asking the Right Questions to Guide Fungal Infection Management." American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine, 211(6), (2025) 1097-1098. doi: 10.1164/rccm.202501-0152LE
- Epelbaum O, de Moraes AG, Olson JC, et. al. "Invasive fungal infections in patients with liver disease: immunological and clinical considerations for the intensive care unit." Intensive care medicine, 51(2), (2025) 364-377. doi: 10.1007/s00134-025-07797-1
- Mathew J, Hara N, Han L, et. al. "Benign ectopic intrapulmonary thyroid: Further proof of its existence." Pulmonology, 31(1), (2025) 2435092. doi: 10.1080/25310429.2024.2435092
- Epelbaum O, Marinelli T, Haydour QS, et. al. "Treatment of Invasive Pulmonary Aspergillosis and Preventive and Empirical Therapy for Invasive Candidiasis in Adult Pulmonary and Critical Care Patients. An Official American Thoracic Society Clinical Practice Guideline." American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine, 211(1), (2024) 34-53. doi: 10.1164/rccm.202410-2045ST
- Desai A, Kleinman G, Lefkovitz Z, et. al. "Hard Thing to Swallow: The Backstory of a Case of Dysphagia." The American journal of medicine, 137(12), (2024) 1213-1215. doi: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2024.08.009
Memberships and Affiliations
- American Thoracic Society
- American College of Chest Physicians
- American College of Physicians
- Critical Care Medicine
Teaching Responsibilities
- Small Group Preceptor, Pulmonary Pathophysiology Block (MS2)
- Clinical Teaching (MS3-4)
