Thank you, SAEMF Donors, from Denise N. Fraga, MD
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Denise N. Fraga, MD
Atrium Health - Carolinas Medical Center - Wake Forest Baptist
"Pediatric Cranial Ultrasound for Point-of-Care Intracranial Pathology Detection"
Dr. Fraga
is a clinical assistant professor of emergency medicine and the ultrasound fellowship director with the Carolinas Emergency Medicine Residency Program at Atrium Health - CMC - Wake Forest University School of Medicine (Charlotte Campus). She completed her residency at the University of Maryland (UMEM) in Baltimore and an ultrasound fellowship at Vanderbilt Medical Center. Dr. Fraga works at a Level 1 adult and pediatric trauma center. Her scholarly interests include teaching point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) in Guatemala with the pediatric and EM residency programs, ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia, and musculoskeletal ultrasound. Her grant project, Cranial Ultrasound for Point of Care Intracranial Pathology Detection in Pediatrics (CUPID-Peds), is an exploratory pilot project using B-mode cranial POCUS (cPOCUS) through the temporal bone window in children to detect intracranial pathology due to blunt head trauma. The results of this innovative protocol could be used in resource-limited emergency departments in the U.S. and/or abroad.