Etana Zack, MD

Etana Zack, M.D., is a clinical associate in the Department of Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She has expertise in both general pediatrics and pediatric hospital medicine, and she cares for patients in the newborn nursery and on the pediatric inpatient service at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. Her interests include medical education, especially clinical skills, bedside teaching and simulation, as well as quality improvement and patient safety.

Dr. Zack has practiced in academic children’s hospitals, community hospitals and skilled nursing settings. Before coming to Johns Hopkins, she was an associate professor of pediatrics at Albany Medical College, where she cared for patients on the general pediatrics, complex care and sedation services. At Albany, she taught in the clinical skills curriculum and the pediatric clerkship, ran simulations for students and residents, and chaired the division’s journal club. Earlier in her career, she was a hospitalist in the Chicago area, affiliated with Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Advocate Children’s Hospital.

The pediatric residents at Albany gave Dr. Zack their Best New Faculty Award, and she earned an Outstanding Teaching Pin at Feinberg. She has also received a Medical Staff Safety Award and completed the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Advancing Pediatric Educator Excellence (APEX) program.

Dr. Zack earned her undergraduate degree at Yeshiva University. She earned her medical degree and completed her pediatrics residency at Albany Medical College.