Saadia Akhtar
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Emergency Medicine
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Saadia Akhtar is the Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education and the Program Director for the Emergency Medicine Residency at Mount Sinai Beth Israel at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She completed a five year, Combined Residency in Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center. Dr. Akhtar is nationally recognized for her work with several organizations and activities. She is the President for the Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors (CORD), the national organization for Emergency Medicine Program Directors. Dr. Akhtar also is an Oral Board Examiner for the American Board of Emergency Medicine.
Research Interest
Emergency Medicine
Publications
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Moreno-Walton L, Brunett P, Akhtar S, DeBlieux PM (2009) Teaching across the generation gap: a consensus from the Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors 2009 academic assembly. Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.
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Akhtar S, Hwang U, Dickman E, Nelson BP, Morrison RS, etal (2013) A brief educational intervention is effective in teaching the femoral nerve block procedure to first-year emergency medicine residents. The Journal of emergency medicine Vol: 45
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Akhtar S, Theodoro D, Gaspari R, Tayal V, Sierzenski P, etal (2009) Resident training in emergency ultrasound: consensus recommendations from the 2008 Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors Conference. Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.
