Beth Israel Medical Center, the Manhattan campus for the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, is a major 745-bed acute care teaching hospital in Manhattan with a 100-year history of community service. More than 350 house officers and 85 fellows receive training in all major specialties and subspecialties. The department of emergency medicine provides emergency care to more than 110,000 adult patients each year, over 12,000 of whom are critically ill and arrive by ambulance. Twenty-five percent of the emergency department patients are admitted to the hospital, indicating a remarkably high acuity rate. Emergency department patients represent the cultural and socioeconomic diversity of Beth Israel's metropolitan location. The Medical Center is a designated 911 receiving hospital and a psychiatric receiving hospital.
Beth Israel Medical Center
Resident Leaders

Okechukwu Echezona, MD
Web Manager/ Electronic informatics

Shenequa McLeod, MD
EMRA Representative
ACEP Representative

Shirley Cortes, MD
ACEP Representative

Chris Gelabert, MD
House Staff Committee Co-Chair

Tiffany R. Cohen, MD
House Staff Committee
EM Representative

Ritu Sarin, MD
House Staff Committee
EM Representative

Christina Tran, MD
House Staff Committee
EM Representative













