Dr. Neil Panchal was born and raised in New Jersey, completed a 7-year accelerated BS/DO program with his Undergraduate Degree at SUNY New Paltz, and medical degree at the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine. After medical school, Dr. Neil completed his Emergency Medicine and Trauma residency training in New York City at Mount Sinai Beth Israel as well as rotating for Adult Trauma at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, Pediatric Trauma at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, & Pediatric ICU at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Manhattan. In his final year of residency, he served as the Administrative Chief Resident building his foundational passion for clinical operations, process improvement, and intersecting with healthcare technology. Since training 10 years ago, he has continued to practice Emergency Medicine across multiple geographies, and currently practices Emergency Medicine in the NJ/NY/CT area.
In the year of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Neil founded Paging Dr. Neil, a house-call-based medical practice in northern New Jersey, initially providing in-home COVID testing and care, which has now evolved into primary and urgent care with at-home physician visits, mobile IV infusions, mobile blood draw and specimen collection, mobile ultrasound, and direct access to a doctor via phone, text messaging, or video consultation. As an Emergency Doctor, his goal is to keep people out of the ER.