Erica Sopah Peethumnongsin

Erica Peethumnongsin, MD, PhD, FPD-AEMUS leads the Emergency Ultrasound program in the Department of Emergency Medicine and has been the Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship director since the program’s inception in 2017. She completed her combined MD/PhD at the Medical Scientist Training Program at Baylor College of Medicine, having conducted her dissertation research on the molecular mechanisms of Alzheimer’s Disease in the Interdepartmental Program in Cell and Molecular Biology. Her clinical interests led her to an Emergency Medicine residency at the University of Wisconsin, followed by her Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship training at Georgetown/Washington Hospital Center. She came to Duke in 2016 to lead the Emergency Ultrasound Program and established a new ultrasound fellowship the following year. The fellowship program has since achieved national accreditation with 4 of its former graduates currently serving as ultrasound faculty at Duke.

Dr. Peethumnongsin is deeply committed to ultrasound education at all levels of training and received the Duke Emergency Medicine Faculty Teacher of the Year Award in 2019 in recognition of her efforts. Although no longer involved in basic science research, she has served as an investigator on multiple scholarly projects related to ultrasound training with the goal of developing better tools for skill acquisition and retention.