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Heidi Baer, MD, has served as NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi/North Central Bronx’s Patient Safety Officer since 2022. In this leadership role, she works collaboratively to improve Patient Safety at both campuses through strategic planning.
Dr. Baer has been a known and respected clinician-leader at Northwell’s Staten Island University Hospital and at Mount Sinai’s St. Luke’s and Roosevelt Hospital. Dr. Baer has held multiple clinical and administrative positions in addition to her prior roles as the Co-Director of Simulation for Emergency Medicine for the Mount Sinai system, including the Medical Director of the Patient Safety Institute at Northwell’s Staten Island University Hospital.
Dr. Baer has developed an internationally recognized expertise in the field of healthcare simulation as a quality/safety tool. An advocate of resident mentoring, she is the recipient of American College of Emergency Physicians’ National Emergency Medicine Faculty Teaching Award 2021.
Dr. Baer completed her undergraduate degree at Duke University, a Master of Arts in Health Sciences. She completed medical school at Drexel University College of Medicine. She has had further training in education through a fellowship program sponsored by the American College of Emergency Physicians as well as advanced simulation training at the Harvard Center for Medical Simulation, where she has also served as faculty. In 2025, she completed the Greater New York Hospital Association and United Hospital Fund Clinical Quality Fellowship program.
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