Matthew S. Lazarus, MD

Matthew S. Lazarus, MD, PhD, is an attending radiologist at Montefiore Einstein and Assistant Professor, Radiology at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Lazarus’s clinical focus is on cardiothoracic imaging. This includes computerized tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and radiographs for the chest, and dedicated CT and MRI for the heart.

After obtaining his Bachelor of Arts in biology from Cornell University in 2005, Dr. Lazarus completed the MD/PhD program at Stony Brook University, earning his Doctorate of Philosophy in Neuroscience in 2011 and his Doctorate of Medicine in 2013. Following this, Dr. Lazarus completed an internship in medicine at Winthrop University Hospital in 2014, followed by his radiology residency at Montefiore Einstein in 2018. He remained here to complete a cardiothoracic radiology fellowship in 2019.

Dr. Lazarus’s research primarily focuses on pulmonary embolism, specifically how a diagnosis of pulmonary embolism relates to clinical outcomes. His work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, review articles and abstracts, and he has given several invited presentations.

Dr. Lazarus is board certified by the American Board of Radiology in Diagnostic Radiology and by the Certification Board of Nuclear Cardiology in Nuclear Cardiology. He is a member of the Radiological Society of North America, the Society of Thoracic Radiology and the American College of Radiology. In 2020, Dr. Lazarus was awarded the Commendation for Excellence in Teaching from Montefiore Einstein. In 2022, he was awarded a Certificate of Excellence in Reviewing for Clinical Imaging.