Vivek Tayal, MD FACEP, FAEMUS

Dr. Tayal is a graduate of the University of Virginia (BA), Medical College of Virginia-VCU (MD) and the Emergency Medicine Residency at Carolinas Medical Center/Charlotte Memorial in 1989. Vivek served as chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Wilford Hall Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas, where he was involved with EM education as a faculty member of the Joint Military Medical Centers Emergency Medicine Residency (1989-92), research director and ultrasound program initiation with an ATL Ultramark 4. Dr. Tayal joined the CMC faculty in the fall of 1993, and he serves as Chief of the Division of Emergency (Point-of-Care) Ultrasound in the CMC. He is a Professor of Emergency Medicine in the Department of Emergency Medicine with faculty appointment in the Department of Surgery/Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care.

In addition to the being Chief of the Ultrasound division, he directs departmental quality assessment activities for the CMC EM department. He has been active nationally in the ACEP Emergency Ultrasound Section (Chair 2000-2001, 2007-2008), SAEM Ultrasound Interest Group/Academy, AIUM Emergency Ultrasound Section and contributed to the majority of Ultrasound Guidelines and Policies in Emergency Medicine during the last 20 years. He was the lead author of the ACEP Emergency Ultrasound Guidelines (2001, 2008, 2016). He contributed to the ACEP US Imaging Compendium, the ACEP Standard Reporting Guidelines, AIUM FAST guideline, ASE-ACEP Focused Cardiac guideline and multiple other statements and policies. He served on the ABEM Clinical Ultrasonography Task Force establishing Emergency US subspecialty development. He served on the AIUM Board (2017-2019), and he serves on the Clinical Ultrasound Accreditation Program board as Chair. He teaches nationally for the Emergency Ultrasound Course. He has also served for 10 years on the NCCEP Board, serving as President in 2006. He also completed a Health Policy Fellowship in the office of Emergency Care Coordination Center in HHS in 2009-2010. He is author of the textbook Ultrasound Program Management published by Springer in 2018. He is a reviewer for over 10 national medical journals, and published over 50 refereed articles, letters, and chapters. His academic interests include new avenues in ultrasonography, resuscitation, quality improvement and health policy. He leads a division that provides medical direction, undergraduate, graduate, post-graduate, APP, nursing, and system-wide Ultrasound issues.