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Jason Zimmerman, DO, FACEP
Assistant EMS Fellowship Program Director
Medical Director of Volunteer Ambulance Services
Medical School: New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine
Residency: Newark Beth Israel Medical Center
Fellowship - EMS: FDNY - Northwell Health
Professional Interests: Prehospital Emergency Care, Operations
Prehospital Affiliations: Maimonides EMS, InstaCare EMS, Hatzalah Volunteer Ambulance Services
Dr. Jason Zimmerman attended medical school at NYIT COM and completed a residency in Emergency Medicine at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center followed by an EMS fellowship with the FDNY and Northwell LIJ. After fellowship, he returned to his EMS home at Maimonides, where he had been an EMT, as the associate EMS medical director. He is currently the Medical Director of the largest volunteer EMS system in the country, Chevra Hatzalah of NY, as well as InstaCare EMS. He also serves as the chief medical officer for Centers Health Care
Selected Scholarly Activity:
Cross-sectional analysis reveals autoantibody signatures associated with COVID-19 severity. Baiocchi GC, Vojdani A, Rosenberg AZ, Vojdani E, Halpert G, Ostrinski Y, Zyskind I, Filgueiras IS, Schimke LF, Marques AHC, Giil LM, Lavi YB, Silverberg JI, Zimmerman J, et al. J Med Virol. 2023 Feb;95(2):e28538. doi: 10.1002/jmv.28538. PMID: 36722456
Predictors of chronic COVID-19 symptoms in a community-based cohort of adults. Silverberg JI, Zyskind I, Naiditch H, Zimmerman J, Glatt AE, Pinter A, Theel ES, Joyner MJ, Hill DA, Lieberman MR, Bigajer E, Stok D, Frank E, Rosenberg AZ. PLoS One. 2022 Aug 4;17(8):e0271310. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0271310. eCollection 2022. PMID: 35925904
SARS-CoV-2 Seroprevalence and Symptom Onset in Culturally Linked Orthodox Jewish Communities Across Multiple Regions in the United States. Zyskind I, Rosenberg AZ, Zimmerman J, Naiditch H, Glatt AE, Pinter A, Theel ES, Joyner MJ, Hill DA, Lieberman MR, Bigajer E, Stok D, Frank E, Silverberg JI. JAMA Netw Open. 2021 Mar 1;4(3):e212816. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.2816. PMID: 33688968