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Mike Secko, MD
Division Director of Emergency Ultrasound
Michael Secko is a Clinical Associate Professor, Ultrasound Division, and Advanced EM Ultrasound Fellowship Director at Stony Brook University Hospital. He completed his medical school (2004) and residency training (2008) at SUNY Downstate/Kings County Hospital. He finished a one-year emergency ultrasound fellowship under leadership of Dr. Michael Stone in 2009. He was the ultrasound division and fellowship director at Kings County/SUNY Downstate from 2012-2016 before becoming coming to Stony Brook to be the Ultrasound Division Director and Fellowship Director. He is board-certified in Emergency Medicine and obtained his Focus Practice Designation in Advanced Emergency Medicine Ultrasound. He has multiple publications on various US applications in prestigious EM journals and has lectured across four different continents in his career. He loves all applications of POCUS but has keen interest in musculoskeletal and cardiac ultrasound. Hobbies and interests include travel, particularly to Italy and the Caribbean, soccer, golf and skiing.
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Daniel D. Singer, MD
Ultrasound Fellowship Director
Daniel Singer is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Emergency Ultrasound Division. After completing medical school in Tel Aviv, Israel (2017), and residency training at Stony Brook (2020), Dr. Singer finished a one-year Emergency Ultrasound fellowship under the leadership of Michael Secko in 2021. He became the Inaugural Ultrasound Director for the Guthrie Medical Group Emergency Medicine Residency program and was a core faculty, helping to establish their residency training for Ultrasound. In 2022, Dr. Singer returned to Stony Brook, where he has helped teach fellows, residents and medical students, and internationally in St. Lucia. His interests are medical education, resuscitative TEE and procedural analgesia nerve blocks in the ED. Additionally, he plays electric guitar and bass and performs from time to time at gigs on Long Island.
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Kingsley Boateng, MD
Kingsley Boateng is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Emergency Ultrasound Division. He completed medical school at New York Medical College (2019) and residency training at Stony Brook (2022). After completing a one-year Emergency Ultrasound fellowship at Northwell University Hospital at Manhasset, Dr. Boateng returned to Stony Brook, where he focuses on ultrasound education for residents and helps to teach medical students and residents. His interests include musculoskeletal ultrasound, regional anesthesia with nerve blocks and medical education through simulation. During his downtime, Dr. Boateng loves being active, going to the gym and playing basketball and pickleball. He is also a self- proclaimed foodie, enjoys his afro-beats music and loves exploring all Long Island has to offer with his family.
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Simran Buttar, MD
Simran Buttar is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Stony Brook University Hospital. An American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) certified physician, Dr. Buttar was fellowship trained in Ultrasound at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, and she completed her medical education at Jefferson University in Philadelphia. A native of Queens, New York, Dr. Buttar is happy to be a part of the Stony Brook faculty that mentored her.
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Benjamin Fombonne, MD, DTMH
Dr. Benjamin Fombonne is an Assistant Professor Emergency Medicine at Stony Brook University Hospital. He obtained his MD from the Renaissance School of Medicine before completing his residency in Emergency Medicine at Stony Brook University Hospital, where he served as Academic Chief Resident during his final year. He is board certified in Emergency Medicine. Dr. Fombonne’s interests including developing the field of Emergency Medicine globally, the role of point of care ultrasound in low-resource settings, and the interface of emergency medicine with social determinants of health and at-risk populations.
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