Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Sinai:
Five Mindray TE-7 systems, including TEE probe
Two Mindray TE7 Max systems
Two Mindray TE X systems
SonoSite S-Cath
Philips Lumify systems
GE Vscan systems
Butterfly systems (SIM lab)

Elmhurst:
Multiple Mindray M-7 systems
One Sonosite Edge II
One SonoSite S-2

All machines available 24/7 under full departmental control

Curved array, phased array, linear array, and endocavitary probes in use throughout the departments
TEE probe available at Mount Sinai

Digital image archival (still image and video)
Wireless image transmission to server

Full-time sonographer in emergency department
Off-service experiences include:

• vascular laboratory
  
• echocardiography suite
  
• general abdominal sonography
  
• anesthesia (nerve blocks)
  

High-fidelity simulation lab including ultrasound simulators from SonoSim and SimuLab, Blue Phantom, and access to Transesophageal echo simulators
Website:
www.SinaiEM.us

Two ultrasound faculty (Bret Nelson and Jim Tsung) are full professors in Emergency Medicine.
Mount Sinai's Department of Emergency Medicine is among the top five research programs in the United States based on federal research funding.
Our research director has won several NIH R-01 grants, and a strong ongoing clinical research program exists in the department, including:

• Full-time grant writer, statistician
  
• EM research fellowship
  
• Research associate program
  

We have an ongoing Research Associate program as well as an annual summer research program which involves medical and college students in research projects in the department

A nationally recognized medical informatics department (including an EM Informatics fellowship) and 'paperless' electronic charting system supports many types of research. The system facilitates prospective patient enrollment as well as chart review