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About Andrea Dreyfuss, MD, MPH
At a glance
Gender: Female
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Languages: English
Age groups treated: Adult
Commitment to patient-centered care
"It is my honor to serve and take care of patients in the community. I provide information, counseling, and guidance to patients as they make their own decisions about their health care."
Clinical expertise
Dr. Dreyfuss is board-certified in Emergency Medicine and has a passion for caring for the diversity of patients that present with acute medical problems. She has a special interest in medical education with a particular focus in point of care ultrasound. Her international work is focused throughout Latin America, where she created the first emergency medicine ultrasound fellowship in her home country of Peru, founding the organization Ondas de Latinoamérica along the way. She has worked in developing sustainable ultrasound educational models in Peru, Costa Rica, Mexico, Ecuador and Argentina.
Credentials
Training & education
Medical school
Stanford University Medical School, Palo Alto, CA, USA
Residency
Emergency Medicine, Highland Hospital-Alameda Health Systems Oakland, CA, USA
Fellowship
Ultrasound, Highland Hospital-Alameda Health Systems, Oakland, CA, USA
Awards and honors
Ambassador Citizenship Award- International Emergency Medicine Section of the American College of Emergency Physicians, 2023
AWAEM SAEM resident travel award winner, 2019
Highland Emergency Department Ultrasound Resident of the Year Award, 2017
National Hispanic Medical Association- Resident of the Year Award 2017
My experiences & interests
Publications
- Dreyfuss, A., KreiderCarlson, G. (2023). Defibrillation in the Cardiac Arrest Patient. Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America (in print) ISSN 0733-8627.
- Burl,T., Latshaw, P., & Dreyfuss, A. (2022). Ultrasound-guided Posterior Tibial Nerve Block for Frostbite of the Plantar Surfaces. Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine, 6(4).
- Addepalli, A., Guillen, M., Dreyfuss, A., Mantuani, D., Nagdev, A., & Martin,D. A. (2022). Point-of-care Ultrasound Diagnosis of Tetralogy of Fallot Causing Cyanosis: A Case Report. Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine, 6(4).
- Martin, D.A., Guillen, M., Farro, A., Condori, M., Dreyfuss, A., & Nagdev, A. (2022). Role of Tele-ultrasound for Teaching Ultrasound-guided Nerve Blocks in the Emergency Department: A Case Series from Peru. Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine, 6(3).
- Hill, A., Guillén, M., Martin,D., & Dreyfuss, A. (2021). Point-of-careultrasound diagnosis of pulmonary hydatid cyst disease causing shock: a case report. Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine, 5(4), 403.
- Luftig, J., Dreyfuss, A., Mantuani, D., Howell, K.,White, A., & Nagdev,A. (2020). A new frontier in pelvic fracture pain control in the ED: successful use of the pericapsular nerve group (PENG) block. The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, 38(12), 2761-e5.
- Rider, A.C., Dreyfuss, A., & Inga, R. (2020). Image to Fit the Clinical Picture: Point-of-care Ultrasound Assessment of Ebstein’s Anomaly in Peru. Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine, 4(2), 222.
- Dreyfuss, A., Martin,D.A., Farro, A., Inga, R., Enríquez, S., Mantuani, D., & Nagdev, A. (2020). A novel multimodal approach to point-of-care ultrasound education in low-resource settings. Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, 21(4), 1017.
- Nagdev, A., Dreyfuss, A., Martin, D., & Mantuani, D.(2019). Principles of safety for ultrasound-guided single injection blocks in the emergency department. The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, 37(6), 1160-1164.
- Mantuani, D., Luftig, J., Herring, A., Dreyfuss, A., & Nagdev, A. (2019). A novel technique to reduce reliance on opioids for analgesia from acute appendicitis: the ultrasound-guided erector spinae plane block. Clinical practice and cases in emergency medicine, 3(3), 248.
- Khan, A., Mahadevan, S. V., Dreyfuss, A., Quinn, J., Woods, J., Somontha, K., & Strehlow, M. (2016). One-two-triage: validation and reliability of a novel triage system for low-resource settings. Emergency Medicine Journal, 33(10), 709-715.
Professional affiliations
- American College of Emergency Medicine
- Ultrasound section Co-chair of Global Ultrasound and ACEP Ambassador to Peru
- Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
- American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine
- Society for Clinical Ultrasound Fellowships
- Federación Latinoamericana de Medicina de Emergencias
Media, newsletters and videos
- Founder, Ondas, Advancing point-of-care ultrasound in Latin America
Personal
"In my free time, you will find me dancing and traveling with my family."