Our Department of Emergency Medicine located at the University Hospital of Brooklyn at Downstate, is a top-of-the-line acute care center, available 24 hours a day for both adult and pediatric patients. It is a 911 receiving facility providing services to our community regardless of disability, insurance coverage, or language spoken (language translators are available 24 hours a day). We are part of a healthcare institution that offers amenities unique to Brooklyn. The hospital has a multitude of services such as our transplantation services, high-risk obstetrics, interventional cardiology, multi-specialty orthopedics, stroke center, interventional radiology and a new Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. We offer continuous availability for your patient’s radiology needs such as MRI’s, Cat Scans, and X-rays.

Specially trained staff are available 24 hours a day to care for adult and pediatric patients with urgent and emergent medical issues. The emergency department has multiple subspecialties in emergency medicine such as trauma, bedside ultrasound, disaster medicine, toxicology, pediatrics, and geriatrics, to name a few.  Additional specialty faculty are available to assist in treating patients, for example cardiologists, orthopedic subspecialists, pediatric subspecialists, psychiatrists, pulmonary medicine specialists, neurologists, infectious diseases specialists, OB/GYNs, surgeons, hematology/oncologists, to name a few.

As an academic medical center, Downstate provides a rich learning environment for medical students, physician assistant students, and residents who rotate from different specialties through emergency medicine. All our faculty members participate in teaching, mentoring, and evaluation.

Our emergency department enjoys an excellent reputation among the community physicians and referring facilities. Referring physicians are encouraged to call our referral line at 718-270-4580 to provide information about their patients.

We welcome your collaboration to assist your patients in an emergency, and look forward to working with you to provide the finest emergency care available in Brooklyn for our community.

For further information, please do not hesitate to contact our Emergency Team. We would be happy to provide you with any feedback or information regarding your patients care in the Emergency Department here at your request.

Ninfa Mehta, MD, MPH
Clinical Professor Medical Director Emergency Department
University Hospital of Brooklyn, SUNY Downstate
Vice Chair of Education and Faculty Development
Department of Emergency Medicine
Kings County Hospital Center/SUNY Downstate
Cell: 917-642-6139
Office: 718-270-8296
E-mail: Ninfa.Mehta@downstate.edu

Nooruddin Tejani, MD, FAAP
Director, Pediatric Emergency Medicine
University Hospital of Brooklyn at Downstate
Office: 718-270-8241
Beeper: 917-760-0800
Email: Nooruddin.Tejani@downstate.edu