Graduates from our Emergency Medicine Training Program.

1989-1992
  • Gina Greco-Angelopoulos, MD - Winthrop, Long Island
  • Michael Bellino, MD - Chicago
  • John Buccellato, MD - TBHC
  • William Kirksey, MD
  • Paul Luparello, MD
  • David Wasserman, MD - New Jersey

    • 1989-1993
  • Karyn Cole, MD - Atlanta, GA
  • Sylvie DeSouza, MD - TBHC
  • Joseph Feldman, MD - Hackensack Medical Center
  • Kevin Hewitt, MD - Hackensack Med. Ctr.
  • Gary Kaplan, MD - Staten Island
  • Pamela Murphy, MD - Westchester

    • 1990-1994
  • Diane Batt, MD
  • Patricia Lawrence, MD-Florida
  • Daniel Lopez, MD-Westchester
  • Timothy McNamee, MD-Tampa, FL
  • David Negron, MD-Hackensack Med. Ctr.
  • Toni Wright, MD - Harlem Hospital

    • 1991-1995
  • Phillip Hew, MD -Roosevelt, NYC
  • Mohammed Malik, MD-Maryland
  • Madhu Saxena, MD-Queens
  • Theodore Toerne, MD
  • Sal Varano, MD

    • 1992-1996
  • David Cheng, MD
  • Lamberto Paragas, MD-South Carolina
  • Tracey Rico, MD - Maimondes Med. Ctr.
  • Selwyn Waterton, MD-Kings County Hosp.
  • Melissa Weintraub, MD - Westchester
  • Anton Wray, MD -TBHC

    • 1993-1997
  • Sharona Byrant, MD
  • Francis Chuidian, MD - MCY/VCU-Richmond, VA
  • Brian Cohen, MD
  • John Culbertson, MD - Atlanta, GA
  • Collie Oudkerk, MD - Brookdale Medical Center
  • James Yates, MD - California

    • 1994-1998
  • Glenn Asaeda, MD - NYC Fire Dept.
  • Piergiogio Pisani, MD
  • Kerry Powell, MD
  • Vicki Rogove, MD - LICH. NYC
  • Anthony Yang, MD

    • 1995-1999
  • Dahlia England, MD - NYC
  • Andrew Lawrence, MD
  • Yat Leung, MD
  • Ian Munro, MD - Wisconsin
  • Naveen Reddy, MD - California
  • Julio Vializ, MD - Philadelphia, PA

    • 1996-2000
  • Robert Bayer, MD - Columbia University
  • Shaun Chun, MD - UMDNJ
  • Barry Diner, MD - Emory, Asst. Research Dir
  • Gabriel Munoz, MD - California
  • Brian Stubitsch, MD - Chicago
  • Arasi Thangavelu-Veluswamy, MD - NYC EMS

    • 1997-2001
  • Michael Ameres, MD - Long Island
  • Steven Guggino, MD - Florida
  • Mark Harris,MD - Pennsylvania
  • Ethan Heit, MD - University of Rochester, NY
  • Paul Henning, MD
  • Raquel Mora, MD - Pediatric Emergency Med, Philadelphia, PA

    • 1998-2002
  • Marc Mendes,MD - Los Angeles, CA
  • Meika Neblett, MD - Mt Sinai, Queens, NY
  • Tuan Nguyen, MD - Pediatric Emergency Medicine, San Diego, California
  • David Solomon, MD - University Arkansas
  • Luis Varela, MD - UMDNJ
  • Scott Whitlow, DO - CDC Toxicology, Atlanta, GA

    • 1999-2003
  • Arun Jagoo, MD - Northshore/LIJ
  • Rumm Morag, MD - Emory, Atlanta, GA
  • Linette Murdock, MD - California
  • Thinh Nguyen, MD - Hawaii
  • Ashraf Salem, MD - Downstate(SUNY)
  • Jason Shevetz, MD - Northshore/LIJ

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    The Brooklyn Hospital Center

    Emergency Medicine Training Program

    Program Philosophy
    and Goals    		 Personalized and
    Graded Responsbility    		 Didactic
    Program    		 Research and
    Resources    		 Program
    Format    		 Faculty

    Dr. Varela in conference Salutations! The Emergency Medicine Training Program at The Brooklyn Hospital Center is the first EM residency in Brooklyn. Our training program has been accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education since 1989. Our four year training program has a long tradition of excellence in both clinical and academic medicine. Our graduates have gone on to become leaders in Emergency Medicine-indeed, many of our graduates have pursued either fellowship training or academic positions throughout the nation.

    The training program offers many outstanding opportunities for residents. First and most importantly, the patient population is culturally, ethnically, and socio-economically diverse. Situated in downtown Brooklyn, we are at the epicenter of commuter rails, subways, and the destination of thousands of people daily. Our proximity to Manhattan makes us a major receiving center in the event of a mass casualty-the Emergency Department attended many victims on Sept. 11, 2003. Today, the Department of Emergency Medicine continues its disaster preparedness. Dr. Lisandro Irizarry, the Chairman of Emergency Medicine, is an instructor for the Department of Homeland Security's Healthcare Leadership and administraive Decision-Making in Response to WMD Incidents and routinely trains hospital administrators and physicians on disaster preparedness.

    The research environment within our Department is cutting edge. Dr. CK Hsu, the Department Research Director, has extensive sonographic and procedural skills lab experience. His pioneering work in research lead to many firsts in Emergency Medicine, including the use of sonography in depressed skull fractures as well as modules for resident procedure competencies. Our procedure lab is offered monthly and allows our residents to hone their skills on rare procedures like lateral canthotomy, retrograde intubations, pericardiocentesis, venous cut-downs, cricothyrotomy and thoracotomy. Recently, Dr. Hsu has been working with National ACEP meeting 2004 to develop a "Heroic procedures lab." Dr. Hsu's procedure lab has received international notoriety, and may become the ATLS equivalent in the Japanese Emergency Medicine society and is being considered as a training module for the Israeli Defense Forces.

    Our training program incorporates evidence based medicine as a major teaching venue. The Program Director, Dr. Benson Yeh, tutors evidence based medicine at the national level. He is the co-course director for the New York Academy of Medicine's Evidence Based Emergency Medicine Workshop-participants to this workshop usually are faculty from both Pediatric Emergency Medicine fellowships as well as Emergency Medcince training programs.




    Applications

    Applications to the Residency Training Program in Emergency Medicine are accepted only through the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS) from the NRMP. If interested in applying, you should contact your medical school Dean’s office regarding the appropriate procedure.

    All scores and evaluations must be sent through the ERAS system-rarely and only upon our request, will we accept direct correspondence from your medical schools. We do not accept grades and/or evaluations directly from applicants. The decision to accept other material independent of the ERAS system is at the sole discretion of the program director.


    Application Timeline

    Applications are reviewed in the autumn of each academic year and interview notification is sent via email through the ERAS system. We only accept applicants through the NRMP for our EM1 positions. While the dates vary each year, our program usually adheres to the following timeline:

    Sept-JanApplication Review and Issue Interview Requests
    Oct-JanInterviews
    FebRank Order List Compiled
    MarchNRMP Match



    Application Requirements
    Application Requirements are:
    • USMLE 1 and 2 scores
    • Medical School Transcript
    • 3 Letters of Recommendation (Academic Emergency Medicine Physicians recommended)
    • Dean's Letter



    Contact
    Further inquiries via can be made to

    You may also reach Ms. Shelton at 718-250-8369.

    Correspondence via snail mail should be directed to:
    Ms. Diane Shelton
    Dept. Emergency Medicine
    121 Dekalb Ave
    Brooklyn, NY 11201


    Contracts and Benefits

    As per the NRMP rules and regulations regarding contract and benefits disclosure, we have made them available at http://www.tbh.org/HealthProfessionals.htm.

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