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Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Harvard EUS Fellowship Director
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Dr. Shokoohi is the Director of the Harvard Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship Program and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is a nationally and internationally known leader in the training of emergency ultrasound who travels internationally to provide educational sessions on the use of ultrasound in emergency medicine and critical care setting. He is a top researcher in the field of Emergency and critical care ultrasound who has authored more than 140 peer-reviewed publications. His research interests include the use of ultrasound in critical care, hypotension and shock, medical education, and procedural applications of point-of-care ultrasound. For his accomplishments in ultrasound research he won the Academic Excellence Awards from the AEUS- SAEM on 2013 and 2019, and the most prolific researcher of the year 2021.
For the past 15 years, Dr Shokoohi devoted a large portion of his time to teaching emergency ultrasonography in the United States and abroad, both for physicians and for non-physician clinicians. As the fellowship director, he has led the efforts toward a successful expansion of the fellowship programs at GW and MGH with more than 32 fellow graduates, several of whom have gone on to significant roles in their new institutions. His fellowship program was honored and awarded the National Inaugural Stellar Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship Program by the Society of Clinical Ultrasound in 2020. This award recognizes the most impactful fellowship program nationwide.
He receives invitations to speak on the topic of ultrasound at local, regional, and national meetings including the American College of Physicians (ACP) and Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM). In the past couple of years, he has worked extensively in Africa and he is excited to continue his work to train the Peace Corp volunteers associated with the Seed Global Health at MGH.