Maimonides Medical Center

Thanks for your interest in our program! Our advanced emergency ultrasound fellowship was fully accredited by Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship Accreditation Council (EUFAC) for 3 years in April 2021. Our fellows will graduate eligible to take the Focused Practice Designation (FPD) exam offered by ABEM. Maimonides is the biggest hospital in Brooklyn. We are a busy tertiary care, teaching medical center with 120,000 ED visits per year. We are a level 1 adult and pediatric trauma center, a stroke center, a cardiac institute (STEMI center), a cancer center, and we have the only children's hospital in Brooklyn. We deliver more babies annually than any hospital in New York State. Maimonides is one of only 3 hospitals in NYC that was named by Health Grades as a distinguished hospital for clinical excellence. Our Emergency Department also offers fellowships in Pediatric EM, in Simulation and in EM Education.

For more information:
https://www.maimonidesem.org/fellowship/ultrasound

2008. At the end of this year we will have graduated 35 fellows.

The Division of Emergency Ultrasonography functions within the Department of Emergency Medicine.

13 ultrasound fellowship trained faculty. All non-fellowship trained EM Attendings have been credentialed in performing and billing for ultrasounds.

Eitan Dickman- FPD AEMUS. Vice Chair and Medical Director. Dr. Dickman founded the Maimonides Ultrasound Division and Fellowship. He has lectured nationally and internationally; multiple publications related to EUS; recipient of NIH grant funding for US-guided nerve block study. Past AIUM President.

Lawrence Haines- FPD AEMUS. Former chief resident at Maimonides; first EUS fellow at Maimonides. Former Ultrasound Fellowship Director. Now Ultrasound Director.

Alex Arroyo- Director of our Pediatric ED and PEM ultrasound. Pediatric EM as well as EUS fellowship trained at Northshore LIJ.

Leily Naraghi - FPD AEMUS. EUS Fellowship Director. Former chief resident at Maimonides. Fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School

Kay Odashima- Director of Resident Education in Emergency Ultrasound. Residency and fellowship at Maimonides.

Laura Gonzalez- Triple boarded in IM/Peds and PEM. EUS fellowship trained at Maimo. Now co-director of PEM Ultrasound.

Amy Sanghvi- FPD AEMUS. Director of Medical Student Emergency Ultrasound Educations. Residency and EUS fellowship at Mt. Sinai, NY.

Errel Khordipour- FPD AEMUS. Bay State for residency. Mt. Sinai for EUS fellowship. EUS Research Director.

Jeanette Kurbedin- Residency and fellowship at Maimonides. Also is the Director of Medical Student Education.


Alyssa Nguyen - Residency at St. Lukes-Roosevelt, EUS Fellowship at Maimonides.

Aaron Ryoo- Residency at Maimonides, EUS Fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Matt Chang - Residency and EUS Fellowship at Maimonides. A noctournist at Maimonides.

During the course of the year, the fellow will receive individualized training in:
1. Image acquisition, both basic and advanced applications.
2. Image interpretation both from still and video images.
3. Education of medical students, residents, and attendings.
4. QA of an EUS program.
5. Billing for EUS.
5. Credentialing attending.
6. Administration of an EUS Division, which will prepare the graduate to be an EUS Director.

Yes!

Not for credentialed attendings and all attendings in the ED are credentialed in all the ACEP applications.

We have 6 Mindray/Zonare Machines, Multiple Butterfly hand-held devices, a TEE probe, a wireless workflow with archival of images in Q Path and PACS. We have robust research support. All of our faculty are credentialed in all the ACEP ultrasound applications. We run a city wide PEM Fellows Ultrasound Conference Annually, We participate in the annual Trip-State Fellows Conference and we held our first city wide nerve block conference in January 2020 and we are planning for the second one.