Atim Ekpenyong

Dr. Atim Ekpenyong, M.D.

Dr. Atim Ekpenyong is an Associate professor in the department of Pediatrics at the University of California-San Diego, California. She is the Point-of-Care Ultrasound director in the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine and the Associate Program director- Diversity for UC- San Diego Pediatric residency program. She completed her residency in Pediatrics at the St. Joseph’s hospital(Mount Sinai school of Medicine program) in Paterson,New Jersey. and her fellowship in Pediatric Emergency Medicine at the University of Texas-Southwestern program in Dallas,Texas.From there, she moved to the university of Texas-Houston where she completed an Emergency Ultrasound fellowship and served as the assistant director of the Emergency Ultrasound division. Her research interests are Point-of- care Ultrasound,Emergency airway and Global health. She is also interested in Medical education and completed the American College of Emergency Physicians’ Teaching Fellowship in 2013.She enjoys travelling and sleeping.