Interim Ultrasound Division Director
Kingsley Boateng is a Clinical Assistant Professor,Ìýinterim Emergency Ultrasound Division Chief, and Assistant Director of the Emergency Medicine Office of Health Equity & Inclusion. He completed medical school at New York Medical College (2019)Ìýand residency training at Stony Brook (2022). After completingÌýa one-year Emergency Ultrasound fellowship at Northwell University Hospital at Manhasset, Dr. Boateng returned to Stony Brook, where he focuses on ultrasound education for residents and helps to teach medical students and residents. His interests include musculoskeletal ultrasound, regional anesthesia with nerve blocks and medical education through simulation. During his downtime, Dr. Boateng loves being active, going to the gym andÌýplaying basketball and pickleball. He is also a self- proclaimed foodie, enjoys his afro-beats musicÌýand loves exploring all Long Island has to offer with his family.
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Ultrasound Fellowship Director
Daniel Singer is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Emergency Ultrasound Division. After completing medical school in Tel Aviv, Israel (2017), and residency training at Stony Brook (2020), Dr. SingerÌýfinished a one-year Emergency Ultrasound fellowship under the leadership of Michael Secko in 2021. He became the Inaugural Ultrasound Director for the Guthrie Medical Group Emergency Medicine Residency program and was a core faculty, helping to establish their residency training for Ultrasound. In 2022, Dr. Singer returned to Stony Brook, where he has helped teach fellows, residents andÌýmedical students, and internationally in St. Lucia. His interests are medical education, resuscitative TEEÌýand procedural analgesia nerve blocks in the ED. Additionally, he plays electric guitar and bass and performs from time to time at gigs on Long Island.
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Simran Buttar is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Stony Brook University Hospital. An American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM)Ìýcertified physician, Dr. Buttar was fellowship trained in Ultrasound at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, and she completed her medical education at Jefferson University in Philadelphia. AÌýnative of Queens, New York, Dr. Buttar is happy to be a part of the Stony Brook faculty that mentored her.
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Mike Secko, MD
Vice Chair of Faculty Affairs, former Ultrasound Division Director
Michael Secko is a Clinical Associate Professor, former Director of the Ultrasound Division, and Vice Chair of Faculty AffairsÌýat Stony Brook University Hospital. He completed his medical school (2004) and residency training (2008) at SUNY Downstate/Kings County Hospital. He finished a one-year emergency ultrasound fellowship under leadership of Dr. Michael Stone in 2009. He was the ultrasound division and fellowship director at Kings County/SUNY Downstate from 2012-2016 before becoming coming to Stony Brook to be the Ultrasound Division Director and Fellowship Director. He is board-certified in Emergency Medicine and obtained his Focus Practice Designation in Advanced Emergency Medicine Ultrasound. He has multiple publications on various US applications in prestigious EM journals and has lectured across four different continents in his career. He loves all applications of POCUS but has keen interest in musculoskeletal and cardiac ultrasound. Hobbies and interests include travel, particularly to Italy and the Caribbean, soccer, golf and skiing.
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