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Elias Wan, MD, FAAEM
Critical Care Track Director
Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine - SUNY Downstate
Medical School: Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University
Residency: Mount Sinai Beth Israel - Icahn School of Medicine
Fellowship - Internal Medicine Critical Care: Albert Einstein School of Medicine - Montefiore
Professional Interests: Critical Care, Resuscitation, ECMO, LVAD, Post-cardiac surgery care
Twitter: @Ewanemmd
Elias Wan, MD, FAAEM is a board-certified Emergency Medicine and Critical Care physician. He completed his Emergency Medicine Residency at Icahn School of Medicine – Beth Israel in Manhattan and Internal Medicine Critical Care Fellowship at Albert Einstein School of Medicine – Montefiore Medical Center in Bronx, New York where he also served as the Chief Academic Fellow in his senior year. Dr. Wan staffs the Cardiothoracic ICU at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn while also working in the Emergency Department. Dr. Wan previously served as a MDCalc Fellow and Councilor for the Critical Care Medicine Section Council at AAEM. He is passionate about educating about ECMO, LVAD and resuscitation, especially regarding the dynamic care in post-cardiac patients. He also loves to lecture on topics regarding hemodynamic management for critically ill patients.
Selected Scholarly Activity:
Kangas-Dick AW, Swearingen B, Wan E, Chawla K, Wiesel O. Safe extubation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Respir Med. 2020 Aug-Sep;170:106038. doi: 10.1016/j.rmed.2020.106038. Epub 2020 May 23. PMID: 32469731; PMCID: PMC7245251.
Kangas-Dick A, Prien C, Rojas K, Pu Q, Hamshow M, Wan E, Chawla K, Wiesel O. Gastrointestinal perforation in a critically ill patient with COVID-19 pneumonia. SAGE Open Med Case Rep. 2020 Jul 16;8:2050313X20940570. doi: 10.1177/2050313X20940570. PMID: 32728444; PMCID: PMC7366399.
Shin-Kim J, Zapolsky N, Wan E, Steinberg E, Heller M, Jacoby JL. Left ventricular perforation with catheter decompression. Am J Emerg Med. 2019 Feb;37(2):377.e5-377.e6. doi: 10.1016/j.ajem.2018.10.055. Epub 2018 Oct 26. PMID: 30413368.
Frank DS, Heller M, Sedor J, Kedia N, Shulman A, Wan E. Bowel in the pericardium: Spontaneous herniation mimicking acute aortic dissection. Am J Emerg Med. 2016 Oct;34(10):2053.e1-2053.e2. doi: 10.1016/j.ajem.2016.03.012. Epub 2016 Mar 8. PMID: 27113128.
Wan EE, Zapolsky N, Nembhard N, Rose J, Heller M, Hsu C. Platypnea-orthodeoxia syndrome: a simple clinical observation that heralds critical but treatable disease. Am J Emerg Med. 2016 Oct;34(10):2053.e3-2053.e4. doi: 10.1016/j.ajem.2016.03.011. Epub 2016 Mar 5. PMID: 27037131.