Mangala Narasimhan DO, FCCP, FASM, FACP

Mangala Narasimhan, DO, FCCP, FASM, FACP, works with all of Northwell Health’s clinical, operational and critical care leadership to help drive greater consistency and standardization across the health system’s Critical Care Services and related operations. Her team is highly focused on improving quality and patient safety outcomes.

Dr. Narasimhan also serves as an attending physician in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, medical director of Northwell’s Acute Lung Injury Center/VV ECMO program, and a professor of Medicine at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. She is a recognized leader who is board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary medicine, critical care medicine, and sleep medicine.

At Northwell, Dr. Narasimhan has helped widen access to critical care trained physicians at community hospitals that do not have on-site intensivists and has helped launch telehealth services in many of our ICUs. In addition, she co-founded the ECMO-to-go program in collaboration with Northwell’s Cardiothoracic Surgery services. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Narasimhan cared for the most severely ill patients at Long Island Jewish Medical Center and North Shore University Hospital, sites that experienced a significant patient surge.

Throughout her tenure at Northwell, Dr. Narasimhan has trained hundreds of physicians, advanced clinical providers, and residents. In 2017, she received the Northwell Health Teacher of the Year Award and she was named a Regional President’s Award finalist for Physician of the Year in 2020. She has more than 65 publications on various topics of critical care medicine and a large number of regional, national and international presentations. Dr. Narasimhan also serves as a co-director for the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) course in Critical Care Ultrasonography and director of the Chest Course for Board Review in Advanced Echocardiography. She sits on the Education Committee at Chest and is the chairperson for the Live Learning Subcommittee.

Dr. Narasimhan holds a bachelor’s degree from Barnard College, a Master’s Degree from CUNY in Molecular Biology, and a medical degree from the University of Health Sciences in Kansas City. She completed her residency, chief residency, and fellowship at Beth Israel Medical Center.