Alfredo Tirado, MD

Original from Puerto Rico, he finished his Medical School and Emergency Medicine Residency Program in the University of Puerto Rico, where he served as Academic Chief Resident on his Senior year. After completion of his Emergency Medicine Residency Program, he went to Providence, Rhode Island, and finished an Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship with the University Emergency Foundation associated with The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. He originally started his career as Ultrasound Director for FL Hospital (current Advent Health) EM Residency Program from its inception in 2007 and practice there until 2018. Within this time he helped implement a robust Ultrasound Curriculum for Residents and Faculty, as well as a Credentialing Process. He also founded the FL Hospital (Advent Health) Ultrasound Fellowship and was Fellowship Director from 2013-2018. From 2009-2018, Dr. Tirado, served as Associate Professor for the College of Medicine of the University of Central Florida, where he helped develop and implement an Ultrasound curriculum for Medical Students for all four years of education. In 2018, he was offered the opportunity, to once again help start a New EM Residency program, with HCA Healthcare sponsored by USF Morsani College of Medicine, and he currently serves as Program Director for this program. He has been appointed Associate Professor for the College of Medicine HCA Healthcare/ USF Morsani College of Medicine GME for which he practices.

Dr. Tirado, has presented in the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM), American College of Emergency Physicians Scientific Assembly (ACEP), American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM) and the World Congress on Ultrasound in Emergency Medicine and Critical Care. He has also contributed to the specialty with research on Bedside Ultrasound for the Non-Invasive Estimation of Central Venous Pressure in Critically Ill Adult ED Patients, as well as has a passion for ultrasound procedures in emergency medicine and Ultrasound Management. Dr. Tirado is also an active member at AIUM, AAEM, SAEM and ACEP, where he has served in different Committees at the Ultrasound Section such as the EUS reporting guidelines and former Committee Chair and Course Director for the Emergency Ultrasound Management Course (EUMC).