University of California-San Francisco (Pediatric Ultrasound)
Program Description
Type of Program
Pediatric Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship
Year Fellowship Started
2019
Ultrasound Program Status
Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine
Number of Ultrasound Faculty
9
Notable Faculty
Our PEM ultrasound faculty include:
Maytal Firnberg, MD
Pediatric Ultrasound Fellowship Director
Margaret Lin-Martore, MD
PEM Ultrasound Director for UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals- Mission Bay
Ashkon Shaahinfar, MD
Pediatric Ultrasound Fellowship Site Director, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals- Oakland
PEM Ultrasound Director for UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals- Oakland
Aaron Kornblith, MD
co-HEDA PI for the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) and an affiliated faculty member of the UCSF Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute & Center for Intelligent Imaging
Our Emergency Ultrasound faculty include Drs. Nancy Anaya, Kavita Gandhi, Sally Graglia, Starr Knight, and Ralph Wang, who are all ultrasound trained.
Ultrasound Fellowship Education
Our fellowship is a one-year experience for Pediatric Emergency Medicine fellowship-trained physicians. We aim to train leaders in PEM ultrasound education, research, and management. The fellow's curriculum will consist of scanning shifts supervised by ultrasound faculty at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals (San Francisco and Oakland), and at our other clinical sites (UCSF Medical Center and Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital [ZSFG] emergency departments), as well as individualized video review, didactic sessions and opportunities for rotations in other departments.
Do you bill for ultrasounds?
Yes
Do you require follow up imaging for patients who get ultrasounds?
Case dependent
Other Information
https://emergency.ucsf.edu/pediatric-emergency-ultrasound
Our planned interview dates for 2024 are 9/23/24 and 9/26/24.
Prior to the start of the fellowship, fellows must:
Be a graduate of an ACGME-approved Pediatric Emergency Medicine fellowship program (can be EM or Pediatrics residency trained).
Be board eligible or board certified in Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Possess a California Medical License and a valid DEA license in order to begin the training program
We unfortunately cannot sponsor H1B or J1 visas.
