Dr. Uppal serves as chief medical officer of NYCHH/Bellevue, overseeing clinical operations, quality, patient safety, capacity management and strategic service planning at the nation’s oldest public hospital. He provides direct oversight of physician chiefs, advanced practice providers and social work teams, aligning interdisciplinary care delivery with regulatory standards and system priorities. A career Bellevue physician, Dr. Uppal previously served as chief quality officer, strengthening risk management, incident response and performance improvement infrastructure across the hospital. He has led longitudinal initiatives that positioned Bellevue among the highest-performing hospitals in New York State for sepsis care, while advancing airway safety and expanding critical care capacity. During Superstorm Sandy, he helped execute Bellevue’s first-ever hospital evacuation, and he later led preparedness and frontline response during the Ebola outbreak and the Covid-19 pandemic, guiding critical care operations at both the hospital and system levels. Most recently, he has driven improvements in bed flow and throughput to expand access and operational efficiency in a high-acuity safety-net environment. An intensivist who continues to practice in the ICU and an associate professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, Dr. Uppal pairs crisis-tested leadership with sustained quality improvement to advance equitable care for New York City’s most diverse patient population.
