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Kaweah Health, Department of Emergency Medicine

Fellowship Director Requirements

1) If not fellowship trained, does the EUS fellowship director have at least 3 years of experience using EUS in clinical practice after residency?

Yes - Fellowship trained.

2) If fellowship trained, did the EUS fellowship director complete fellowship more than 1 year ago?

Yes

3) Has the EUS fellowship director published at least three peer reviewed emergency ultrasound articles in Medline indexed journals?

Yes - Cervical Plexus Block (PMID 32491314) 2020\\r\\n\\r\\nLeft-ventricular Outflow Compression During Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Is Associated With Lower Return Of Spontaneous Circulation In Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest”, Teran F, Sands N, Wray T, Hanna W, Kraai E, White J, Venkataramani R, Hipskind JE, et al. Circulation (Vol146, Issue Suppl_1, Page A200, 11/08/2022)\\r\\n\\r\\nMulticenter Prospective Evaluation of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Patients Using Transesophageal Echocardiography: A Preliminary Analysis from The Resuscitative TEE Collaborative Registry”, Teran F, Sands N, Hipskind J, et al. Annals of Emergency Medicine (Volume 80, Issue 4, Page S105, 10/01/2022)\\r\\n

4) Are at least two of the above mentioned publications original ultrasound research with the EUS fellowship director as first author on one of them?

No - The EUS fellowship director is the principal site investigator for two, large multi-center studies currently in progress.

5) Does the fellowship director have a record of excellence in teaching? (This ability can be demonstrated by teaching awards, consistently favorable evaluations by residents and/or fellows, or the like.)

Yes - Emergency Medicine Faculty of the Year, 2016

6) Does the EUS fellowship director have at least four regional and national abstract research presentations at meetings conducted by organizations such as ACEP, SAEM, AIUM or similar meetings over a three-year period

No - Work in progress (COVID 19 induced challenges)

7) Is the EUS fellowship director involved in advancing emergency ultrasound by active participation or leadership in one of the previously mentioned nationally recognized organizations?

Yes - Membership in multiple ACEP US committees