Kiersten Cerveny, Former Brooklyn Dermatologist, Died From Alcohol, Cocaine Intoxication

By PAIGE MCATEE

The New York City Medical Examiner has determined the cause of death for the Long Island dermatologist whose body was discovered in the lobby of a Chelsea apartment building earlier this month.

Kiersten Cerveny, 38, of Manhasset, died from acute cocaine and alcohol intoxication, according to ABC7NY.

The medical examiner ruled her death an accident, ABC reports.

On Sunday, Oct. 4, police responded to a call of a woman who was unconscious and unresponsive in the the doorway of the 223 West 16th St. building at 8:32 a.m.

The woman, identified as Cerveny, was later pronounced dead at Lenox Health Greenwich Village. She was married with three children.

The dermatologist was reportedly partying with an Emmy-nominated HBO producer Marc Johnson, 51, and another man inside the Chelsea apartment on the night of her death, the New York Daily News reports.

Johnson told investigators that Cerveny “turned blue” and he attempted to give her CPR before calling 911, according to the Daily News.

The doctor reportedly went to Manhattan to meet up with Johnson, a Facebook friend who is also married, the New York Post reports.

Residents in the building told the Daily News that Cerveny has been “coming and going” for the past year.

Cerveny, formerly Rickenbach, married Dr. K. Andrew Cerveny in Dec. 2009, according to the couple’s New York Times wedding announcement.

Cerveny graduated magna cum laude from Duke and received a medical degree from Tulane, the announcement said.

Before moving her practice to Manhattan, Cerveny worked for many years at Brooklyn Hospital in Fort Greene.

A reader told Patch that she and her daughter went to see Cerveny as their doctor a few times. She said Cerveny was “sweet and kind to her patients.”

Another reader, a former patient of Cerveny’s in Brooklyn, told Patch: “She was very sweet friendly and caring. I will miss her as a doctor I trusted very much.”