Amy Sanghvi, MD, FPD-AEMUS

Director, Medical Student Ultrasound Education

Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine - SUNY Downstate

Medical School: Wayne State University

Residency: Mount Sinai Hospital/Icahn School of Medicine

Fellowship - Ultrasound: Emergency Ultrasound, Mount Sinai Hospital/Icahn School of Medicine

Professional Interests: Point of Care Ultrasound, Transesophageal Echo, Education, Curriculum Development

Dr. Sanghvi completed her emergency medicine residency at Wayne State University and went on to complete an emergency ultrasound fellowship at Mount Sinai Hospital. She currently serves as Director of the Resident Ultrasound Rotation at Maimonides Medical Center and Director of Medical Student Education at SUNY Downstate.

Selected Scholarly Activity:

BlockCamp: A One-Day Boot Camp to Teach Ultrasound Guided Nerve Blocks

Tinkham, M., & Sanghvi, A. (2023). Lung point rapidly identified in a traumatic pneumothorax. Visual Journal of Emergency Medicine, 33, 101832.

Di, W. T., Grbic, M., & Sanghvi, A. (2020). Ultrasound-guided serratus anterior plane block performed for rib fractures. Visual Journal of Emergency Medicine, 21, 100814.

Nelson BP, Sanghvi A. Out of hospital point of care ultrasound: current use models and future directions. Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg. 2016 Apr;42(2):139-50. doi: 10.1007/s00068-015-0494-z. Epub 2015 Feb 10. PMID: 26038015.

Youn, F., & Sanghvi, A. (2015). 2088402 An Early Start to Echocardiography: Does A First Year Medical Student Cardiac Ultrasound Workshop Help Students’ Self-Assessed Understanding of The Cardiac Physical Exam?. Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, 41(4), S141.

Huang JV, Sanghvi A, Tsung JW, Nelson BP. A woman in her 70s presented to the ED complaining of worsening shortness of breath. Chest. 2014 Dec;146(6):e195-e197. doi: 10.1378/chest.14-0265. PMID: 25451361.

Nelson BP, Sanghvi A. Point-of-Care Cardiac Ultrasound: Feasibility of Performance by Noncardiologists. Glob Heart. 2013 Dec;8(4):293-7. doi: 10.1016/j.gheart.2013.12.001. PMID: 25690629.