Virginia Commonwealth University

The Medical College of Virginia at VCU was established in 1837 to serve the needs of Virginia and surrounding states. It is classified as having "very high research activity" by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. The VCU emergency department is a level 1 trauma center and regional referring center that sees greater than 110,000 visits a year. The ED sits at the base of the state's only critical care hospital, a 15 story 232 bed hospital dedicated to critical care medicine.

2013

Division within the Department of Emergency Medicine

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David P. Evans, MD, FACEP, AEMUS-FPD
VCUHS System-Wide Ultrasound Director
Chair, Division of Clinical Ultrasound
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Radiology
- Area of Interest: Resuscitative Ultrasound, TEE

Michael Joseph Vitto, DO, MS, RDMS, RDCS, FACEP
Assistant Director of Clinical Ultrasound
Associate Medical Director, Center for Human Simulation
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
- Area of Interest: pre-hospital ultrasound, patient safety, simulation, TEE

Michael Joyce, MD, FACEP, RDMS, RDCS, AEMUS-FPD
VCUHS Ultrasound Informatics Medical Director
UME Ultrasound Course Director
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Radiology
- Area of Interest: TEE, DICOM, medical student education, MSK

Jordan Tozer, MD, MS, FACEP, RDMS, RDCS, RVT
Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship Co-Director
Ultrasound Elective Director
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
- Area of Interest: Vascular Ultrasound, Medical student education, TEE

Lindsay Taylor, MD, FACEP, AEMUS-FPD
Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship Co-Director
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
- Area of Interest: Resuscitative, Trauma, Pediatric, Global Health & Education in Ultrasound

Jason Jennings, MD, AEMUS-FPD
Combined US and Resuscitation Fellowship Director
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
- Area of Interest: Resuscitative Ultrasound, TEE

Jessica Gertz MD RDMS RDCS , AEMUS-FPD
- Assistant Professor
- Area of Interest: Research, echocardiography

The Fellows will be required to complete one year of training in which they will accomplish over 1000 ultrasounds. Fellows will be given the option to sit for both the Registered Diagnostic Medical Sonographer exam and the Registered Diagnostic Cardiac Sonographer exam to help test their knowledge. In addition to these certifications the Fellows will have the ability to take other specialty certifications including NBE CCEexam, ASE, RVT, and MSK.

During the fellowship the Fellows will receive advanced training in tranesophogeal echosonography (TEE), stress echo, advanced doppler, and contrast enhanced sonography. They will have the ability to participate in a number of ongoing research trials in the fields of education, pediatrics, trauma, ENT, critical care, and emergency medicine.

Throughout the year the Fellows will be allotted a travel stipend to attend conferences as well as training seminars both regionally and nationally.

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VCU is an EUFAC accredited Clinical Ultrasound Fellowship. Please visit our site http://vcuultrasound.com for more information