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Ultrasound Fellowship

Faculty

Matthew Kessel, DO - Director of Ultrasound Division and Fellowship

  • Founded EUS Fellowship at Brookdale in 2021

  • Areas of Interest: advanced echo, pelvic ultrasound, nerve blocks, ultrasound physics, gamification, and workflow efficiency

Aluko Gift, MD - Medical Director 

  • Areas of Interest: transcranial doppler, TEE, airway ultrasound, and ED ultrasound operations

Jenya Kaminski, MD - Ultrasound Faculty

  • Fellowship Graduate 2024

  • Areas of Interest: foreign body model creation and resident education

Victor Bernal, MD - Ultrasound Faculty

  • Areas of Interest: TEE and nerve blocks

Devin Peuser, MD - Assistant Program Director of EM Residency

  • Areas of Interest: Nerve blocks and pelvic ultrasound

Nazey Gulec, MD - Director of Quality

Curriculum

Our curriculum is geared toward giving you the academic foundations necessary to ace the ABEM FPD exam and gain a proficiency regarding the principles required to run an ultrasound division.

 

Unique Educational Opportunities:

  • Become credentialed in performing resuscitative transesophageal echo.

  • Learn the intricacies behind the various aspects of building an ultrasound workflow.

  • Gain experience in advanced modalities including nerve blocks, endocavitary ultrasound, advanced echo, and more. Fellows receive free access to resources including Ma & Mateer's Emergency Ultrasound, Edelman Ultrasound Physics, Fox Atlas of Emergency Ultrasound, Emergency and Clinical Ultrasound Board Review, and more.

Incoming fellows receive training during fellowship in:

  1.  Image Acquisition (Basic & Advanced)

  2. Image Interpretation (Basic & Advanced)

  3. Education - Medical students, Residents, and Attendings

  4. Midlevel Management + Nursing Teaching Directives

  5. Quality Assurance

  6. Ultrasound Billing Requirements

  7. Attending Physician Credentialing Requirements

  8. Division Administration + Operations

  9. US Workflow

  10. Biomed + Hardware/Software Skills

  11. Research

Equipment

  • Mindray TEX

  • Mindray TE7 Max

  • (2) Mindray TE7

  • (2) Sonosite Edge

  • Butterfly hand-held with iPad

  • (2) endocavitary ultrasound transducers

  • Trophon device for high level disinfection

  • Mindray TEE transducer with CleanShield TEE transducer storage cabinet with HEPA filtration

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Brookdale Hospital Medical Center

Department of Emergency Medicine

One Brookdale Plaza

Brooklyn, NY 11212

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