Emergency Medicine

Chairman / Lewis W. Marshall, Jr. MS, MD, JD

The Department of Emergency Medicine provides Attending and Resident staffs with some of the most complex and stimulating experiences in medicine and surgery. Consultations with all clinical services allow for care that is sophisticated and timely. Residents rotating from Medicine and Pediatrics share patient care.

The Emergency Department is one of the busiest in the city with close to 100,000 visits a year. This ED is also the only designated Level I Trauma Center in a voluntary, non-profit Brooklyn hospital, with all the trauma-trained personnel and support services necessary to supply round-the-clock lifesaving care. The department recently underwent a $2.6 million renovation to redesign the facility's layout to more efficiently serve patients. Lifesaving and state-of-the-art technology was also upgraded. The department is divided into sections for adult patients, pediatrics and psychiatry, with supervision in all areas provided by full-time or part-time preceptors. There is also a "Fast Track" section to handle non-emergency walk-in patients staffed by Physician's Assistants. A supervising physician who is board-certified or board-eligible in a primary care specialty is present and nursing care is provided 24 hours a day.