Grace Glassman, MD

Associate Medical Director

Fellowship Co-Director, Emergency Department Administration

Medical School: Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons

Residency: New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center

Professional Interests: Medical Education, Patient Experience, Emergency Department Operations

Other Interests: Cooking, Skiing with the Kids, Writing

Dr. Glassman joined Department of Emergency Medicine at Maimonides Medical Center in 2011 and is an Associate Medical Director.  She is involved in many aspects of ED operations and is currently Physician Lead for Patient Experience (PX).  To this end, she helped launch, and is co-directing, the successful ED Health Scholars program, an internship for high school and college students in the ED.  She is also leading multiple initiatives on PX-related process improvement.  She is part of the effort to reduce billing denials, serves as an Administrator-on-call, runs the PA rotation in the ED, co-directs the ED Admin and Operations Fellowship, is leading service recovery, and is part of the training and hiring team for new faculty. She helps run the Medical Humanities course for EM residents and is a member of the hospital’s Committee on Mutual Respect. Prior to medical school, she spent 8 years as a project manager at Sony headquarters in Tokyo, Japan and Sony Pictures Entertainment in Culver City, CA. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Yale University, received her medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and did her EM residency at the Columbia and Cornell campuses of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.  She likes to write about medical and human interest topics for general audiences and is pursuing an MFA in creative non-fiction.

Selected Scholarly Activity:

Glassman, Grace. “Trainwrecked In Slow Motion.” Slate, 26 Nov. 2023

Riley D, Glassman G, Hodges K “Emergency department diagnosis of critical aortic stenosis using bedside ultrasonography.” Critical Ultrasound Journal 2012: 2: 87-89

Gamper C, Omene CO, Van Eyndhoven WG, Glassman GD, Lederman S. “Expression and function of TRAF-3 splice-variant isoforms in human lymphoma cell lines.” Human Immunology 2001; 62: 1167-77

Press Mentions:

NY ACEP Unsung Heroes in the Emergency Department