Corewell Health / Emergency Care Specialists

Our emergency medicine residency program is a PGY 1-3 program with 30 residents that was started in 1977. Starting in 2021, our health system will have five emergency medicine subspecialties: ultrasound, pediatric emergency medicine, observation, acute behavioral health, and palliative / hospice care.

Our ultrasound fellowship is located at Corewell Health-West Butterworth and Helen DeVos Childrens' Hospitals. They have a combined annual volume of more than 160,000 emergency visits per year and are among the busiest emergency departments in the country.

We currently have 10 ultrasound fellowship-trained physician faculty members who trained in Grand Rapids, Detroit, South Carolina, New York, and Texas to provide future fellows with a diversity of thought and teaching styles.

Our fellows gain experience teaching ultrasound to medical students, emergency medicine residents, pediatric emergency medicine fellows, physician assistants, and attending physicians. The ability to provide customized education to this diverse group of learners strengthens our fellows ability to educate learners with varying degrees of medical knowledge and procedural skill. Our fellows graduate with expertise in image acquisition and interpretation, ultrasound workflow, and administrative and research skills.

2014

Fellows:

Charlie Draznin, MD (2015)

Med School: University of Michigan
Residency: Brown University

Jason Liu, MD (2016)

Medical School: Indiana University
Residency: University of Illinois- Peoria

Alex Brown, MD (2017)

Medical School: Michigan State University- CHM
Residency: Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI

Brian Haber, MD (2018)

Medical School: Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
Residency: Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI

Mariah Barnes (2019)

Medical School: Michigan State University, Grand Rapids, MI
Residency: Spectrum Health, Grand Rapids, MI

Andrew Freeth, MD (2020)

Medical School: Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Residency: Sinai Grace, Detroit, MI

Katy VanDonselaar, DO (2020)

Medical School: Kansas City University, Kansas City, MO
Residency: Central Michigan University, Saginaw, MI

David Moore, DO (2021)

Medical School: Michigan State University- COM
Residency: McLaren-Macomb, Mount Clemens, MI

Rebecca Loney, MD (2022)

Medical School: University of Queensland, Australia
Residency: University of Queensland, Australia

Jordan Johnson, MD (2022)

Medical School: University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Residency: Spectrum Health, Grand Rapids, MI

Kyle Doughty, DO (2022)

Medical School: Michigan State University COM
Residency: Henry Ford Allegiance, Jackson, MI

Drew Wechsler (2023)
Medical School: Wright State
Residency: Spectrum Health, Grand Rapids, MI

10

Matthew Flannigan, DO, AEMUS FDP (Fellowship Director)
Residency: Spectrum Health
Fellowship: Palmetto Health

Charles Draznin, MD, RDMS (Pediatric US Director)
Residency: Brown University
Fellowship: Spectrum Health

Melisa Gagrica, MD, FACEP (Residency US Director)
Residency: Detroit Receiving
Fellowship: Parkland

Mariah Barnes, MD (Residency US Director)
Residency
Fellowship: Spectrum Health

Blake Kluger, MD (Co- Attending US Director)
Residency: Allegheny General
Fellowship: Maimonides

Nate Panzlau, DO (US Faculty and Co-Attending US Director)
Residency: NY Presbyterian
Fellowship: NY Presbyterian

Becky Loney, MD (US Faculty)
Residency: Queensland
Fellowship: Spectrum Health

Alexander Latosinsky, MD (US Faculty)
Residency: St. John's Hospital, Detroit, MI
Fellowship: Sinai Grace, Detroit, MI

Jordan Johnson, MD (2022)

Medical School: University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Residency: Spectrum Health, Grand Rapids, MI

Kyle Doughty, DO (2022)

Medical School: Michigan State University COM
Residency: Henry Ford Allegiance, Jackson, MI

Jeffrey Jones, MD, FACEP (US Research Director)

Michael Brown, MD, FACEP (Michigan State University- College of Human Medicine Emergency Medicine Department Chair)

There are a total of 16 ultrasound machines at our 11 emergency departments (15 Zonare Pro and 1 Butterfly) that are all wirelessly connected by QPathE.

Our program owns several Blue Phantom trainers: thoracentesis, paracentesis, endovaginal, nerve block, and several central and peripheral line phantoms.

We have access to a high fidelity Simbionix TEE trainer at a newly created Michigan State University- Medical Innovation Building. Fellows learn to perform standard views and log simulated cases with representative pathology and have an option of completing a new cardiac anesthesia elective to perform TEE in a controlled setting.

Standardized patient models are used for nearly all resident and attending ultrasound labs.

Yes

Not required, but encouraged for high-risk or uncommon diagnoses.

The fellow will be employed by Emergency Care Specialists, P.C. (ECS), a private physician group with 15 sites and 150+ equal shareholders, that has been established for over 35 years.

ECS staffs eleven of Corewell Health- West's emergency departments with a combined total of > 350,000 annual visits.