Emergency Medicine Residency Program at:
Aventura Hospital
Aventura, FL
Program Director: Todd Slesinger, MD, FACEP, FCCM, FCCP, FAAEM
ACGME Accredited: 2016
Total Resident Positions: 36
Fall 2023: HCA Florida Aventura Hospital
We are excited to provide some updates from HCA Aventura for this amazing Fall season. HCA Florida Aventura was recently recognized as being #12 on the list of top 15 major teaching hospitals in the United States by Fortune Magazine/PINC AI, as well as an Everest...
Spring 2022: HCA Aventura
Where the Class of 2022 is Going Next: Fayez Ajib, DOBusiness Administrative Fellowship, Vituity Los Angeles, CA Leeran Baraness, MDUniv. HospitalPlantation, FL Jared Culp, MDCleveland Clinic Hospital Indian River Vero Beach, FL Amir Hashemi, MDPiedmont...
Aventura: Summer 2021
Aventura congratulated its third graduating class on June 15 with a lovely graduation dinner planned by our residency program coordinator, Angie Taylor, and hosted at Piazza Italia in Fort Lauderdale. We are so proud of them and look forward to seeing their careers...
Spring 2021: Aventura
We would like to congratulate our assistant program director, Dr. Andre Pennardt, regarding his new appointment as the new CMO of FEMA. He will be staying on part-time as core faculty with Aventura, so we are lucky enough to not lose him completely! Dr. Annalee Baker...
Aventura EM Residency: Winter 2021
Our faculty has had a productive quarter, with APD Dr. Andy Pennardt publishing a chapter titled “Blast Injury” in Emergency Medical Services: Clinical Practice and Systems Oversight, and “Riot Medicine: Civil disturbance Applications of the National Tactical...
CPC 2020: Quick Fire Winners
Wednesday, August 26 Winners Best Presenter: Joshua Goldstein, MD, PGY-1 (University of Miami – Jackson Memorial Hospital) Best Discussant: Andrea Alvarado, MD, PGY-2 (University of Miami – Jackson Memorial Hospital) Best Overall: University of Miami – Jackson...
SBS 2020: 12th Annual Emergency Medicine Research Poster Awards
Winners: Outstanding Medical Student Poster Evaluation of European Society of Cardiology 0/1-H Algorithm in the Early Diagnosis of MI at UF Health By Justin Raman, MS [2,19], Jacob Sammon, BS [19], Elizabeth Warren, RN [19], Brandon Allen, MD [19] Outstanding Resident...
Fall 2020: Aventura
We have been busy preparing for the unchartered territory of virtual medical student interview season by participating in online meet and greets through the EMRA Residency Program Fair at the end of September. Dr. Kristina Eastman, PGY-3 compiled several video...
Summer 2020: Aventura
Although the coronavirus pandemic drastically affected the practice of both clinical and academic medicine, Aventura residents and faculty continued to contribute in many ways. The CEME Scientific Research Competition was transmitted to booklet form, and ultrasound...
Spring 2020: Aventura
After a busy interview season, we’re already preparing for the next academic year. We are excited to welcome students from the new Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Allopathic Medicine, who will be joining osteopathic students from the existing program at Nova...