Department of Surgery Faculty
Craig Sisson, MD
Assistant Professor / Clinical
Division: Emergency Medicine
Email: sisson@uthscsa.edu
Board Certifications:
American Board of Emergency Medicine
American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography (ARDMS)
Education:
MD, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, 2003
Fellowship, Rhode Island Hospital/University Emergency Medicine Foundation, Providence, Rhode Island, Emergency Ultrasound, 2008
Residency, The Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 2007
Research interests: Clinical application of ultrasound in the emergency department
Clinical interests: Ultrasound education and application to improve patient care in the emergency department
Publications:
Sisson, C. (2010).
Electrical Alternans: An Echocardiographic Visual Reference.
Accepted and pending publication Acad Em Med
Stone, M., Murphy, M., & Nagdev, A., Sisson, C. (2010). Ultrasound for the detection of guidewire placement during central venous cannulation. Am J Emerg Med. 2010 Jan;28(1):82-4.
Nagdev, A. N., Merchant, R. C. , Tirado-Gonzalez, A., Sisson, C., & Murphy, M. C. (2009). Emergency Department Bedside Ultrasonographic Measurement of the Caval Index for Noninvasive Determination of Low Central Venous Pressure. Annals of Emergency Medicine. Ann Emerg Med. 55(3):290-295
Sisson, C., Nagdev, A., Tirado, A., Murphy, M., & Suner, S. (2009). Ultrasound diagnosis of traumatic partial triceps tendon tear in the emergency department. J Emerg Med. Accepted March 25, 2008, in press, available online.
Nagdev, MD, A., Murphy, MD, M., & Sisson, MD, C. (2008). Bedside ultrasound for the detection of diabetic myonecrosis. Am J Emerg Med, 26, 969.e3-969.e4.
Nagdev, A., Murphy, M., & Sisson, C. (2008). Lack of lung sliding on ultrasound does not always indicate a pneumothorax. Resuscitation, 77, 270.
Sisson, MD, C. & Nagdev, MD, A. (2007). Ultrasound guided central venous access of the internal jugular vein. ACEP News,12-14.
Chapters:
Nagdev A, Sisson C. (2010). "Central Venous Access.," Emergency Medicine
Procedures. McGraw Hill (submitted, awaiting publication)
Kroll K, Smulowitz P, Sisson C. (2010). "Mesenteric Ischemia.," Essential Emergency Imaging. Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins (submitted for editing)
Sisson, C. (2006). "Explosions: Fireworks.," Disaster Medicine, (pp. 749-753). Mosby Elsevier.
Presentations:
Sisson, C. A. (2007). The Impact of a Portable Data Monitor on Ultrasound-Guided
Vascular Access. World Congress on Ultrasound in Emergency and Critical Care
Medicine, Paris, France.
Sisson, C. A. (2007). The Impact of a Portable Data Monitor on Ultrasound-Guided Vascular Access. New England Regional SAEM Conference, Worcester, Massachusetts.
Biosketch: Dr. Craig A. Sisson, MD graduated from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor with a Bachelor of Science in Cellular and Molecular Biology in 1999. He attended Wayne State University School of Medicine, earning his MD in 2003. Following medical school, Dr. Sisson completed an Emergency Medicine residency at the Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University in Providence, RI in 2007 and a Fellowship in Emergency Medicine Ultrasound at Rhode Island Hospital in 2008. He is an American College of Emergency Physicians Fellow and joined the UTHSCSA staff in August 2011.
Honors and Awards:
2010-Present, Fellow, American College of Emergency Physicians
2009-2010, Faculty Teaching Award, East Carolina University Department of Emergency Medicine
2008-2009, Faculty Teaching Award, East Carolina University Department of Emergency Medicine
2008-Present, Reviewer, Journal of Emergency Medicine
2006, Chief Resident, The Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University Emergency Medicine Residency
2003, Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society Induction
1999, High Honors, Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Michigan Honors College
Professional societies:
Society of Academic Emergency Medicine
American College of Emergency Physicians
American College of Emergency Physicians, Ultrasound Section
American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine
