Dr. Ira J. Wagner

Ira Wagner, MD is a New York City native who graduated from Stuyvesant High School before going on to his undergraduate degree at SUNY Buffalo. He graduated from SUNY Downstate Medical School in 1976 and then did his internal medicine residency at St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan. He completed his critical care medicine fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh and returned to New York, working at St. Vincent's for many years before joining the faculty at Lenox Hill Hospital in 2010. At St. Vincent's, he helped established one of the first multidisciplinary critical care fellowships and practice groups in the country. His roles at St. Vincent's including serving as the Chief of the Medical Intensive Care Unit for several years, and later serving as the Clinical Service Chief of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Division. Since joining the staff of Lenox Hill Hospital in 2010, he has been the Chief of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit. Dr. Wagner is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. He is board-certified in internal medicine and critical care medicine, and he also has a particular interest in medical ethics, with many years serving on the ethics committees at St. Vincent's, where he was the committee vice chair, and at Lenox Hill. Dr. Wagner is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American College of Critical Care Medicine, and has been voted one of New York's Best Doctors from 1999-2015. He has published over 20 articles in peer-reviewed journals and textbooks.Dr. Wagner is a brilliant diagnostician in both the inpatient and outpatient settings. He remains an active intensivist at Lenox Hill, with time dedicated to patients in the medical and surgical intensive care units. He also maintains a busy general internal medicine outpatient practice, where his intelligence, skill, and kindness are highly sought in the care of even the most medically complex adult patients.Dr. Wagner is consistently ranked among Castle Connolly's Top Doctors and is beloved by his patients, as evidenced in reviews such as the following: Dr. Wagner goes over and beyond in every way. Wish there were more physicians like him. He is absolutely wonderful. Countless other patient reviews describe his intelligence, compassion, and kindness, with multiple patients proudly mentioning that he has been their physician for over 20 years.

Dr. Wagner is highly rated in 1 condition, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are ALK-Positive Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer, Vitamin D Deficiency, Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF), Gastrostomy, and Ureteroscopy.