Ultrasound

Academic Practice Track

By successfully completing the ultrasound advanced practice track, residents will develop expertise in emergency ultrasound going beyond the core foundation of skills and knowledge acquired during emergency medicine residency. In doing so, they will develop an academic niche in point-of-care ultrasound which will prepare them to become ultrasound faculty or continue on to ultrasound fellowship after residency.

Goals of the Ultrasound Advanced Practice Track:

1) Clinical – develop exceptional skills in core emergency ultrasound applications and proficiency in advanced/emerging applications

2) Research – produce one emergency ultrasound-relevant scholarly work

3) Education – gain experience in teaching bedside ultrasound at all levels of training

4) Administrative – achieve a solid understanding of ultrasound QA, credentialing, policy and infrastructure development/maintenance

Track Directors

Dr. Nicholas Avitabile

Dr Avitabile is an emergency medicine physician who has been practicing emergency medicine for 12 years. He began his emergency medicine/family practice dual residency at St Barnabas Health Systems in the Bronx, New York in 2008. After serving as chief resident of both emergency medicine and family practice, he finished residency in 2013. While in residency he went to Port-au-Prince, Haiti to work in the Bernard Mevs emergency department several months after the earthquake in 2010. He then went on to complete an emergency ultrasound fellowship at Mount Sinai West 2013-2014. During that time he traveled to Kigali, Rwanda with PURE (Point of Care Ultrasound in Resource Limited Environments). He then returned to St Barnabas Health Systems where he served as emergency ultrasound director 2014-2018. In August, 2018 he joined the team at Columbia University Medical Center and Columbia Presbyterian and GME Ultrasound Director and then became co-chair of the LGBTQ+ EM Affinity Group in 2019.

Dr. Sophia Lin

After completing pediatrics and emergency medicine residencies, Dr. Lin obtained her registered diagnostic medical sonographer credential and joined the ultrasound faculty of the NYP Emergency Medicine residency. Currently, She attends in both the adult and pediatric emergency departments and is the Director of Emergency Ultrasound at Weill Cornell Medicine. She is especially invested in ultrasound education and have developed and directed bedside ultrasound courses at all training levels.

Outside of the institution, she is an alumni mentor for the Academic Life in Emergency Medicine Faculty Incubator and serves on the NY ACEP Education Committee and the ACEP Pediatric Emergency Medicine Committee.