UCSD Emergency Medicine & Ultrasound Faculty

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Board certified emergency medicine physician in active clinical practice in California, holding the academic appointment of Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. Subspecialty expertise in point-of-care ultrasound and procedural emergency medicine. Serves as Fellowship Director of Advanced Emergency Ultrasonography at UCSD, leading a competitive post-residency fellowship that trains board-eligible and board-certified emergency medicine physicians in advanced diagnostic and procedural point-of-care ultrasound techniques. Also serves as the inaugural Director of Emergency Ultrasound at UCSD East Campus Medical Center, where responsibilities include hospital-wide quality assurance, case review, credentialing oversight, and ultrasound education across clinical departments. Completed residency training at The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City and fellowship training in Advanced Clinical Bedside Ultrasound at Highland Hospital in Oakland, California. Board Certified in Emergency Medicine by the American Board of Emergency Medicine (2023) and holds the Focused Practice Designation in Advanced Emergency Ultrasonography (2024). Serves on multiple UCSD institutional committees, including the Department of Emergency Medicine Education Committee, the Department of Emergency Medicine Clinical Competency Committee, the UCSD Medical Ethics Committee, and serves as Chair of both the Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship Program Evaluation Committee and the Fellow Clinical Competence Committee. Also a participant in the UCSD Leading the Way to Wellness Faculty Leadership Program. Serves as a faculty instructor at national meetings for the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) and the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM), with prior sessions covering ultrasound applications for community emergency physicians and ultrasound-guided nerve block workshops. Contributing editor to the 2022 American Board of Emergency Medicine EM Model, which defines the official training standards for emergency medicine residency programs across the United States. Former Chair of the Emergency Medicine Residents' Association (EMRA) Ultrasound Committee and former Vice Chair of the EMRA International Committee. Published author and invited contributor on topics including health care power of attorney, novel coronavirus overview for emergency clinicians, point-of-care ultrasound in cardiac arrest resuscitation, ultrasound-guided nerve block program development, and emergency ultrasound case series. Areas of clinical expertise include point-of-care ultrasound applications (echocardiography, respiratory, biliary, renal, vascular, procedural, and nerve block guidance), resuscitation, penetrating and blunt trauma, airway management, electrocardiogram interpretation, respiratory failure, diabetic emergencies, stroke, seizure, vascular emergencies, arterial embolism, aortic dissection, cardiac emergencies, acute organ failure, and complications arising from procedures including nerve blocks, arterial and central venous catheter placement, paracentesis, laceration repair, chest thoracostomy, incision and drainage, lumbar puncture, dislocation reduction, and endotracheal intubation.