Jim Tsung

Dr. Jim Tsung is Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics at Mount Sinai Hospital/Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City.

He trained in combined Internal Medicine-Pediatrics residency, followed by a Pediatric Emergency Medicine fellowship.

Dr. Tsung was a pediatric emergency medicine faculty member in the Departments of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics at New York University School of Medicine/Bellevue Hospital Center and Tisch Hospital, serving as co-Director of Emergency Ultrasound, in addition to being site-PI/co-investigator for the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) from 2002-2009.

He completed a MPH degree at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health.  He has mentored fellows and residents to multiple presentations and research awards at national pediatric and emergency medicine meetings.

He has over 90 peer-reviewed publications in the areas of emergency ultrasound and pediatric emergency medicine; pioneering multi-center research in pediatric emergency care, as well as the use of point-of-care ultrasound in pediatric ED patients at Mt. Sinai and in limited resource settings such as South Sudan.

Dr. Tsung has served as pediatric content expert and author on nearly all point-of-care ultrasound guidelines or position statements by the American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Emergency Physicians and WINFOCUS where he has served as committee chair or member.