Poonam Desai

Poonam is a practicing emergency medicine attending and the current Emergency Ultrasound Division and Fellowship Director at New York Presbyterian Queens (NYPQ).

She is also teaching faculty for the emergency medicine residency program at NYPQ and Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College NYPQ.

Poonam has a special interest in international emergency medicine.

As a resident she did a one month elective at Sir Sayajirao General Hospital in Baroda, India.

She was part of the ultrasound faculty at Developing EM 2015 in Havana, Cuba.

She co-hosted an ultrasound workshop at the Congress of Pan African Thoracic Society in Nairobi, Kenya in April 2016.

She was also a presenter at the 2014 Pan Pacific Emergency Medicine Conference in South Korea.

Along with her international educational endeavors,  Poonam has also helped host and/or teach at many regional and local emergency ultrasound workshops.