Faculty and Staff

Dr. Fox is an ultrasound fellowship-trained emergency physician who has been training emergency medicine residents and fellows at UC Irvine Medical Center since 2001. He has received numerous teaching awards from medical students and has published over 40 articles and three textbooks on the topic of bedside ultrasound. He has given talks on ultrasound in 47 states and 11 countries and is a proud Fellow of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine. In 2003 he started a medical student rotation in ultrasound and the enthusiasm of his students inspired him to expand the program into the entire four years of medical school. With a generous gift from SonoSite, Inc. in 2010, and a grant from UniHealth in 2011, this curriculum is now fully engrained into the UC Irvine School of Medicine.

Stacy has graduated from University of California, Irvine in June 2011 with a Bachelors of Science Degree in Biological Sciences. She has worked with the Emergency Medicine Research Associates Program (EMRAP) from 2008-2011 and was coordinator from 2010-2011, where she has been a part of over a dozen emergency medicine related projects, including bedside ultrasound projects under Dr. Fox. In her role of Coordinator of Ultrasound in Medical Education, she takes great pride in providing guidance to students interested in research, community access to this technology, and outreach to underserved students for the promotion of health careers through the use of ultrasound technology.

Alan Chiem, MD
Ultrasound Fellow

I am an alumnus of UC Irvine, having studied Applied Ecology and English. Prior to medical school, I was a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Gambia, West Africa, where I engaged in HIV behavioral research and prevention with the Gambian Health Ministry. I obtained my medical degree from the University of California, Davis, and completed residency in emergency medicine at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. I have had an excellent time teaching medical students and conducting research during my Ultrasound Fellowship at UC Irvine. Starting July 2012, I will be full-time ultrasound faculty at Olive View UCLA; but I will maintain a faculty appointment at UCI to help spread the ultrasound gospel. I am interested in promoting ultrasound in medical education, as well as conducting research that will help to improve the quality of patient care, while reducing unnecessary costs.

Elizabeth Turner, MD
Director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit

As the director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit at UC Irvine, Dr. Turner trains residents, students, attendings, and fellows in bedside ultrasound on a daily basis. Dr. Turner has taught critical care ultrasound on the national level for the Society of Critical Care Medicine and has upcoming engagements to speak for SCCM, CAE Healthcare, and the Society of Hospital Medicine in Houston, Portland, and San Diego. Her focus lies in the training and education of the housestaff at the UC Irvine Medical Center where she has been named the Director of Simulation Education and Bedside Ultrasound for the Department of Medicine. Recently, Dr. Turner was awarded a UC Center for Healthcare Quality and Innovation grant for validating a curriculum in bedside ultrasound training for the Pulmonary & Critical Care Fellows at UC Irvine.

Mark A Rosen. MD
Volunteer Clinical Faculty

He serves as an Associate Clinical Professor in Intensive Care Medicine at UC Irvine Medical Center since 1998, following faculty positions at the Medical Intensive Care Unit Memorial Medical Center of Long Beach and the UCLA Medical Center Department of Emergency Medicine. He received the Clinical Instructor of the Year Award from Memorial Medical Center of Long Beach Department of Family Practice in 1999 and in 2002. He was also nominated for the Association of American Medical Colleges' National Award for Humanism in 1999 and the UCI Medical Center's Teacher of the Year Award in 1999. His ultrasound interests are in critical care ultrasound and promoting ultrasound education in primary care and resource poor settings