Ian DeSouza, MD

Dr. DeSouza, M.D. is a Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine in the Department of Emergency Medicine at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University and Kings County Hospital. Dr. deSouza earned his medical degree at New York University School of Medicine in 1999 and completed his residency training in Emergency Medicine at Bellevue Hospital Center/New York University School of Medicine in 2003.

Following graduation, he joined the Emergency Medicine faculty, where he now serves as a core faculty member. His scholarly and administrative activities focus on the emergency medicine aspects of resuscitation, critical care, and cardiology. He has published several peer-reviewed articles and continues to be a clinical research investigator in the department and a peer reviewer for major medical journals.

In recent years, Dr. DeSouza has been a research mentor for the EM residents, closely supervising them through the manuscript development and submission process which has culminated in numerous publications. He has lectured in the areas of emergency electrocardiography, emergency cardiology, and sepsis within the department and academic conferences abroad. He is a primary consultant within the department for reviewing lectures and providing expert, evidence-based opinion for conferences in resuscitation, EM-critical care, emergency cardiology.

Dr. DeSouza is editor-in-chief of the EM department academic blog and edited numerous house staff-authored Free Open Access Medical Education articles, some of which have gone on to be formally published in medical journals. For over 12 years, he served as Chair of the Resuscitation Committee in the University Hospital of Brooklyn to improve performance and teamwork and develop protocols to improve the treatment of patients who experience sudden clinical deterioration or cardiac arrest.

For over 15 years, Dr. DeSouza was medical director of the EM department-affiliated American Heart Association training center which trained house staff and other healthcare professionals in Basic Life Support, Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support, and Pediatric Advanced Life Support.

Education

Undergraduate: Cornell University

Medical School: New York University School of Medicine

Internship: Bellevue Hospital Center/New York University School of Medicine

Residency: Bellevue Hospital Center/New York University School of Medicine

• Search Dr. deSouza's Publications on PubMed.
• 2007 Marill KA, deSouza IS, Nishijima DK, et al. A Comparison of Amiodarone and Procainamide for the Termination of Spontaneous Sustained Ventricular Tachycardia. Acad Emerg Med 2007 14: S129-a
• 2006 Marill KA, deSouza IS, Nishijima DK, et al. Amiodarone, as Currently Administered, Infrequently Terminates Sustained Monomorphic Ventricular Tachycardia. Ann Emerg Med 2006:47(3):217-24.
• 2005 Greenberg MI, Hendrickson RG, Silverberg M (ed.). Greenberg's Atlas of Emergency Medicine. Contributing author: "Flexion Teardrop Fracture" and "Clay Shoveler's Fracture". Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Williams, 2005.
• 2002 Gill JR, Hayes JA, deSouza IS, Marker E, Stajic, M. Ecstasy (MDMA) Deaths in New York City: A Case Series and Review of the Literature. J Forensic Sci 2002;47(1):121-6.
• 2001 Prolonged QT Segment and Syncope With Loratidine Use.[abstract].Hoffman
  RJ, deSouza I, Stetz JE, Chu J, Nelson LS, Hoffman RS. Journal of
  Toxicology/Clinical Toxicology 2001;39:505.