Fellowship Director

Name: Anthony J. Dean, MD

EM Residency: Mount Sinai School of Medicine Integrated Residency in EM at Beth Israel and Elmhurst Hospitals, New York, NY

Years in Position: 8

Prior National Positions: Chair, SAEM ultrasound interest group: 2000-1.
Current Bylaws Committee member of WINFOCUS.
Co-author: ACEP Ultrasound Gudelines 2001
Co-author ACEP guide to Ultrasound reimbursement, 2002
Co-author ACEP Imaging Criteria, 2006.
Co-author: ACEP Ultrasound Gudelines 2008
Current Chair: Critical Care Committee, , Ultrasound Section, ACEP.

Other Information
Other areas of interest:
1. International and developing world applications of bedside ultrasonography. As a result of my interest in this field, I am active in WINFOCUS (World Interactive Network Focused on Critical Ultrasound: http://www.winfocus.org/); an organization dedicated to the promulgation and integration of ultrasonography in clinical practice.
2. Ultrasonography in Critical care. As a result of the 15 years of scientific, educational, and political work that has been done by EM as a champion of clinician-performed bedside ultrasonography, our specialty is uniquely poised in the House of Medicine for a leadership role among other clinical specialties as they seek to incorporate ultrasound into their practice. This is particularly true of Critical Care Medicine, since the practice of their specialty and ours face the same challenges: the around-the-clock need to assess unstable patients with time-critical illnesses in a setting with limited temporal, financial, and manpower resources. The unique opportunity for Emergency Medicine to lead in the area of critical care ultrasonography provides one more argument for an EM track into Critical Care Board Certification. I am therefore active in the Critical Care Section as well as the US Section at ACEP.