Dr. Cummings is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine at Columbia University. His research interests lie at the intersection of infectious diseases and critical illness in sub-Saharan Africa, a low-income region where the global burden of severe infectious diseases is overwhelmingly concentrated. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Cummings' led the first prospective studies to characterize the clinical epidemiology of severe and critical COVID-19 in the U.S. and Uganda, and served as a co-investigator for international clinical trials of convalescent plasma and hyperimmune immunoglobulin in severe COVID-19.
Primary Specialty
Critical Care Surgeon
PracticeCUIMC/Milstein Hospital Building
GenderMale
Not Accepting New Patients
Insurances AcceptedUnitedHealthcare, WellCare, Medicare, Fidelis Care, World Trade Center Health Plan, CIGNA, Emblem/Hip, Emblem/GHI, Multiplan, Local 1199, RiverSpring, Amida Care, Affinity Health Plan, MVP Health Care, Magnacare (National), Healthfirst, Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield Healthplus, AETNA, VNSNY CHOICE
ServicesMatthew Cummings provides critical care surgery in New York, NY. A Critical Care Surgeon, acute care, emergency medicine, surgery, surgeon, respiratory failure, shock, renal failure, sepsis, life-threatening illness, ICU, intensive care.
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