John W. Zucker
Columbia University · Journalism School
Active 1974–2026
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Research topics
- Medicine
- Virology
- Internal medicine
- Biology
- Pediatrics
- Natural Language Processing
- Intensive care medicine
- Emergency medicine
- Computer Science
- Machine Learning
Selected publications
BMJ · 2020 · 799 citations
OBJECTIVE: To characterize patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19) in a large New York City medical center and describe their clinical course across the emergency department, hospital wards, and intensive care units. DESIGN: Retrospective manual medical record review. SETTING: NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center, a quaternary care academic medical center in New York City. PARTICIPANTS: The first 1000 consecutive patients with a positive result on the reverse…
Mpox in people with advanced HIV infection: a global case series
The Lancet · 2023 · 472 citations
Acute flaccid myelitis: cause, diagnosis, and management
The Lancet · 2020 · 177 citations
Acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) is a disabling, polio-like illness mainly affecting children. Outbreaks of AFM have occurred across multiple global regions since 2012, and the disease appears to be caused by non-polio enterovirus infection, posing a major public health challenge. The clinical presentation of flaccid and often profound muscle weakness (which can invoke respiratory failure and other critical complications) can mimic several other acute neurological illnesses. There is no single sensi…
The Lancet · 2022 · 149 citations
Mpox in people with past infection or a complete vaccination course: a global case series
The Lancet Infectious Diseases · 2023 · 139 citations
Recent grants
Frequent coauthors
- 121 shared
Magdalena E. Sobieszczyk
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
- 76 shared
Peter Gordon
Columbia University
- 71 shared
Caroline Carnevale
NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital
- 54 shared
Alwyn Cohall
Columbia University
- 47 shared
Delivette Castor
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
- 46 shared
Kiran T. Thakur
Columbia University
- 42 shared
Daniel Winetsky
SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
- 40 shared
Deborah Theodore
Columbia University
Education
MD, Infectious Diseases
Columbia University Medical Center
- 2010
M.D.
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
- 2005
M.S., Health Care Policy and Management
Carnegie Mellon University Heinz College
- 2004
B.S., Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Carnegie Mellon University
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